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Robert Gipe on the Canard County Trilogy, Arts Activism, and Paying Attention
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Robert Gipe on the Canard County Trilogy, Arts Activism, and Paying Attention

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Bloom • Leave a comment

by Lisa Peet

“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading →

“The River Out of Which the Water is Dipped”: A Conversation With Robert Gipe
Audio / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews

“The River Out of Which the Water is Dipped”: A Conversation With Robert Gipe

Posted on March 18, 2015 by editor • 3 Comments

by Julia Mahony

“Just come visit, and I’ll introduce you to her all day long” — Rob Gipe on the origins of Dawn, the young protagonist of Trampoline. Continue reading →

An Excerpt from Robert Gipe’s <i>Trampoline</i>
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An Excerpt from Robert Gipe’s Trampoline

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Bloom • 2 Comments

by Robert Gipe

There was a spot of color on my mother’s cheek…seeping through like blood seeping through a rag. I wanted to wring my real mother out from the rag her body had become. I wanted to wring that rag out over a bucket, pour what I wrung out into some kind of mold, like a jello mold of my old momma, my good momma, and make her back into what she was. Continue reading →

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