AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

C.E. Poverman has traveled extensively and has worked many jobs—bartender, dynamiter, housepainter, family counselor and others. He was born in New Haven and received a B.A. degree with honors from Yale in 1966. He taught in Ahmedabad, India, at St. Xavier College on a Fulbright. He then taught briefly at Thammasat College in Bangkok. Poverman received an M.F.A. degree from The University of Iowa (1969). He taught at the University of Hawaii in 1969-70, then stayed in Honolulu to write and do assorted jobs. He began teaching friction writing at Yale in 1973. His stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Playboy, and Fiction International. He just completed a full-length fiction manuscript.

REVIEWS

“Just when the literati are lamenting the death of short fiction along comes a writer like C. E. Poverman with both barrels blazing…There is not a lemon in the bunch, each story is well-defined and whole…each of the 13 displays a writer of well-honed style and deeply observant nature. Poverman is an original. Read him.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Poverman's eye is sharp, his imagination fertile, his mind full of unexpected quirks and depths.”—Library Journal

“These stories are multiform and imaginative, solidly written and seductive. Their plots deal primarily with men who yearn: to go someplace else, to do something else, to be someone else…13 tender stories, running the gamut from fantasy to reality, and doing so quite gloriously.”—Fiction International

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Deathmasks of Xo

The Electric Dress

Retour Du Sahara

Big Blues

Jade

In the Remains of Her Speech

Every Man Should Have an Asian Wife

Resurrection at Hanauma Bay

Sports Illustrated

The Gift: Bihar, India

Tooth

A Short Apocryphal Tale of the Sea My Father Would Deny Anyway

The Black Velvet Girl

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