John Blair

So this is how you think it is—hypocrisy and exhaltation, the rumble and rout of papier mache floats like river barges piled with double decks of bead-pitching drunks rolling porte-flambeaux from Tchoupitoulas Street clear to Canal, heads all John- the-Baptist on plate collars, and dancing- Salome spilling Vedic agni out in hot dribbles of burning […]

John Blair’s short story collection, American Standard, was the 2002 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He also has two books of poetry & two novels, as well as poems & stories in Poetry, The New York Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, The Antioch Review, New Letters, […]