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Contents
Deathmasks of Xo -- The electric dress -- Retour du Sahara -- Big blues -- Jade -- In the remains of her speech -- Every man should have an Asian wife -- Resurrection at Hanauma Bay -- Sports Illustrated -- The gift... Bihar, India -- Tooth -- A short apocryphal tale of the sea my father would deny anyway -- The black velvet girl
Abstract
C. E. Poverman has traveled extensively and has worked many job–bartender, dynamiter, housepainter, family counselor and others. He was born in New Haven and received a B.A. degree with honors from Yale in 1966. He taught in Ahmedabad, India, at St. Xavier College on a Fulbright. He then taught briefly at Tham-masat College in Bangkok. Poverman received an M.F.A. degree from The University of Iowa (1969). He taught at the University of Hawaii in 1969-70, then stayed in Honolulu to write and do assorted jobs. He began teaching fiction writing at Yale in 1973. His stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Playboy, and Fiction International. He just completed a full-length fiction manuscript.—Back cover.
Series Title
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Award Date
1976
Judge
Barthelme, Donald
Publication Date
1976
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
City
Iowa City
Total Pages
264
ISBN of Print Version
9780877450689
Rights
Copyright © 1976 by The University of Iowa. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Recommended Citation
Poverman, C. E.. The Black Velvet Girl. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1976.
https://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_isfa/22