James Claffey

This is a stunning collection of ... words? Frankly, it's hard to know quite what to call these beautiful pieces -- part flash fiction, part vignette, part poetry, each little piece in the collection is a Van Gogh painting of words, lush and vibrant and dense with emotion. And while it's sometimes hard to know what to call any given piece, and some can leave you staring at the page in abject confusion, it's the kind of confusion wrought of the deepest mysteries, the vertigo of a language show more lofted high -- the way Claffey crafts each perfect sentence will have you tilting your head and circling the piece for days, trying to figure it out the way you would try to decipher a sculpture.

Blood a Cold Blue is a masterwork of the English language, and it should hold a place of honor on any wordsmith's bookshelf. show less