Tag Alder Tales by Charlie Smith
Enter the tag alders—you never know where you'll come out...
Charlie Smith is a natural-born storyteller. Readers have responded immediately to the narrative pulse and the beguiling voice of his two volumes of poetry published by YSP. Well...we have a treat for you!
As his publisher I've known for a while that Charlie was sitting on a cache of short stories. At Charlie's kitchen table, looking out over the fields to the tree-lined granite ridge in the middle distance, I've been treated to a bunch of them, to that beguiling voice weaving a world of farmers and hunters, ghosts and grifters, lovers and loners, animals and human beasts, dreams and myths. I've found that the boundary between domesticity and the wild, between what's normal and what's not, is an entangling swatch of tag alders—you know where you're going, but end up somewhere else; things you see everyday turn into something else when you shift your angle of vision.
YSP invites you to enter 17 of Charlie's Tag Alder Tales, just published in May 2005! Watch for them in an outlet near you, or ask your local bookseller to order some in. Of course you can order your copy right now. Just go to our Purchasing page.
Reader Reviews
"Half way through reading 'Watching Maudie Load' I was thinking how the world could use more girls like Maudie. When I finished and set the story aside, I realized the world could use more writers like Charlie Smith."
—Richard Buell, Editor, Highgrader Magazine, where "Watching Maudie Load" was first published in the Winter 2005 issue.
Book Details
May, 2005
ISBN 1-896350-15-1
143 pp. softcover
Interior pen and ink sketches by John Vary
$18.00 plus $2.00 s&h, from the publisher
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