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Nona Caspers’ Little Book of Days
accretes like a pearl, layer upon layer, around her
evocation of experience through language. The perfect beauty of her
record of daily
living will call out to you, and make you want to write back, to
cohabit the form she
has so radiantly informed. Seize the day—Nona Caspers has, and
transformed it
into music. Cooley Windsor
Nona
Caspers gives us a refreshingly honest and poignant slice of truth
in her Book of Days.
Observing cars, neighbors, ground squirrels, desire
and death, Book of Days is a
contemporary take on Montaigne’s famous
Essays, so alive that every page feels as if it’s
breathing. Maxine Chernoff
I like how she falls through the present into prehistory (of this or that specific thing) in
a blink. Supported by a rhythm of the claws of love, a hand on the back of your head,
the warmth inside of coldness of the daily fading world—an avalanche of quiet risk-taking,
this book sings. Eileen Myles
Nona
Caspers
She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State
University. Her book of stories Heavier Than Air (University of Massachusetts Press) won the
Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
Her stories have been published in journals and anthologies such as the Iowa Review, Ontario
Review, Cimarron Review, Voyages Out 2 (Seal Press), Women on Women (Plume), and the
Hers series (Faber and Faber). Her work has been honored with a National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowship, Iowa Review Fiction Award, Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award,
Barbara Deming Memorial Grant and Award and LAMBDA nomination. Little Book of Days
started as a project to track her days, which she did for four hundred days. She teaches an
MFA Dailiness course at San Francisco State University. www.nonacaspers.com