Thaisa Frank's Writings
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Feb.18.2010
A novel--from Pheonix Books
Prologue, from the novel: Heidegger's glasses
In the ordinary winter of 1920, the philosopher Martin Heidegger saw his glasses and fell out of the familiar world. He was in his study at Freiburg, over one hundred and sixty kilometers south of Berlin, looking out the window at the thick bare branches of an elm tree. His wife was standing next to him, pouring a...
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Short Story
Sep.23.2009
Black Sparrow Press
Kiss
Whenever I think of my first kiss, I think of the lie I told my mother; and whenever I think of the lie I always think that I didn't grow up in this country at all, but in some barren, eastern-European country after the war. I see dingy curtains, dim lights. Lace curtains in the kitchen and a hunk of black bread on a wooden table. I also see...
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Sep.23.2009
A Brief History of Camouflage--Black Sparrow Press (reprinted in Oxford Magazine 2009)
The New Thieves
One night my husband said: You must learn to be like one of the new thieves--they never steal, they add. They enter rooms without force and leave hairpins, envelopes, roses. Later they leave larger things like pianos; no one ever notices. You must learn to be like that woman in the bar who dropped her glove so softly I...
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Short Story
Jul.07.2009
from Sleeping in Velvet -Black Sparrow Press (a collection of short stories and a novella-in-stories)
He didn't want his kids to know that he was going to see a woman who channeled angels, so he took them to school early, and went home to put on clothes that would disguise him, since--in a small way-- he was known around town. He decided to keep it simple: a long coat he didn't usually wear; a scarf he could put over his face. When...
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Jul.05.2009
Several
Morning Argument
I see an old newspaper floating in a mountain stream;
the text on the last page has bled through to the text
on the first page, so the newspaper looks like it's been
read by the water and the water's reading of the news
has transformed it into something blurred, multi-layered
and beautiful. If I look I can make out phrases and these
phrases...
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Short Story
Jun.20.2009
Sleeping in Velvet/Black Sparrow Press-A collection of short fiction and a novella-in-stories/by Thaisa Frank
An example of a prose poem
The Cat Lover
When a door opens and you can't see who's coming, it's almost always a cat who would like to be your lover. All cats are small, so the opening door looks like an accident. It's not an accident, though. These cats take great care until one paw hooks and the door swings open
When the door opens, the cat sits at a...
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About Thaisa
Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction, (her sixth book) and includes two semi-autobiographical novellas as well as thirty-three stories. Her most recent novel, Heidegger’s Glasses, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground...
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