Burn & Learn, Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era (Paperback)
Description
Burn & Learn is a wild tale of five friends attending college, drinking coffee at the Frontier Restaurant, and learning the wisdom of the ages, the era, and the street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This episodic novel begins where Laurence Sterne and Richard Brautigan left off, introducing a truly amusing and alluring wilderness of words through which readers can blaze their own glorious trials. The novel reveals all in thirteen modes ranging from mythology, science-fiction fables, American koans, Coyote tales, BookMovie chapters, missing lists, realistic narrative, encyclopedic entries enumerating the details of the Century of Technological Disaster, a love story, a lost-love story, and parables of four monkish brothers residing in a cabin on the Continental Divide. The novel encompasses all time from the beginning to the end of the universe and examines everything through the brief, flickering frames of 167 short chapters.
About the Author
Eric Paul Shaffer is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Lahaina Noon: Na Mele O Maui, which received an Award of Excellence in the Hawai'i Book Publishers Association's 2006 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Awards. More than 250 of his poems have been published in local, national, and international magazines, and in the anthologies 100 Poets Against the War and The Soul Unearthed. His short fiction appeared in Bamboo Ridge, Bakunin, Prose Ax, and Natural Bridge, and in two chapbooks of fiction selected from Burn & Learn: You Are Here and The Felony Stick. Shaffer received the 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, and was a 2006 Fellow at the annual Summer Fishtrap Writers Workshop and Retreat at Wallowa Lake near Enterprise, Oregon. He teaches composition and literature at Honolulu Community College.
