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Things That Never Happened by Gordon Osing
Fictions of Family Eros
ISBN  1-933132-04-3     $14.00  US   |   $17.95 CAN       296 pages



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Gordon Osing’s new book Things That Never Happened is brilliant,
soul-deep, questing, and fun. One thinks of Wordsworth’s Prelude
done with a great jazz beat, and then one thinks of all the good books
wrung from a writer’s experience, from a life. The book has the force
of a train rumbling through a vibrant city. Its observations are startling
and pleasurable even as they disturb. Read it and see.    
         Richard Bausch, author of Wives and Lovers
Each of the little ones in the house must find his and her way out,
must face the ordeals of trying to love, must find and enact a self
who is not blindsided by the simplest blandishments of assimilation
in town.             Tom Russell, author of Travelling with the Magi
Gordon Osing

Gordon Osing has taught at the University of Memphis since 1973. He founded there The River City Writers
Series, now in its twenty-second year. He is the author of From the Boundary Waters and A Town Down-River.
He has also translated widely from the Chinese. His travels to China inform his other verse and journal
collection, The Water Radical. “The Center is everywhere attention gathers,” he has said of his work in verse, prose,
and translation.