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mummer: a person acting in a masked mimeprisoner: a person trapped by a set of circumstancesscavenger: a person who collects abandoned itemsthief: a person who takes things by stealth, without force or violenceThis collection begins in the realm of the mummer whose masked performance conceals the self and transforms language to better evoke what is too risky to speak overtly. Ransick's poems ply this tension between knowing and speaking in cad...

A Colorado Book Award finalist, "A Return to Emptiness" is a collection of short stories about life, loss, and love. In Ransick's words, "Loss is common to us all, yet multifarious in individual experience. I wrote these stories not primarily to describe loss but to circumscribe it--which is to say that I drew a circle of narratives round the experience to both locate and limit it. I was vaguely aware of this at the time of the writing. It's q...

Winner of the Colorado Book Award, Never Summer speaks tenderly...layered so the perception of reality becomes almost super-real.

The voice of these poems lives in myth and dream, and therefore holds the secrets of our deepest hopes and desires.

Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006, is the author of five books: Language for the Living and the Dead, Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air (Winner of the Colorado Book Award), A Return to Emptiness: Stories (Colorado Book Award finalist), Lost Songs & Last Chances, and Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams.

This collection pulses with surprising turns and playful language. The complex weave of individual, highly readable pieces presents an invitation to the reader to absorb the book as greater than the sum of its parts.