Two Little Red Chapbooks and Two Bright Stars is a unique, rollicking, and groundbreaking collection of poetry and short stories by James Harold Storbakken, a new and vibrant voice on the contemporary literary scene.
Two Little Red Chapbooks and Two Bright Stars is the story of Sam Rivers Church, an aspiring writer, an American abroad. Storbakken’s collection displays an impressive combination of retro narrative techniques, a faultless lyricism, and a starry-eyed, rhythmic prose. Two Little Red Chapbooks and Two Bright Stars is a story within a story: it is a modern love story: two red chapbooks, one full of poetry, the other full of prose, written and published by a 30-something-year-old Sam Rivers Church: it is an erudite and intensely thorough tour of a modern-day (picaresque) Hero’s Journey. It is a journey filled with love, adventure, redemptive highs, harrowing lows, traumatic failures, and unforgettable passions; it is a journey which examples the fact that all great modern literature stands on the shoulders of giants― and genius.
