{"product_id":"midnight-at-the-chevron-station-michael-malan-9781421835723","title":"Midnight at the Chevron Station","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Malan is editor of \u003cem\u003eCloudbank\u003c\/em\u003e (cloudbankbooks.com), a literary journal in Corvallis, Oregon. He is the winner of Meridian's 2024 Editors' Prize for Fiction. He is also the author of three books from Blue Light Press: \u003cem\u003eOverland Park \u003c\/em\u003e(2017, poetry and flash fiction), \u003cem\u003eTarzan's Jungle Plane\u003c\/em\u003e (2019, flash fiction), and \u003cem\u003eDeep Territory\u003c\/em\u003e (2021, poetry). His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eEpoch, Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, Lake Effect, New American Writing, \u003c\/em\u003e and many other journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake's ambition-\"To see a World in a Grain of Sand\" and hold \"Eternity in an hour\"-is Michael Malan's achievement in Midnight at the Chevron Station. Malan makes his midnight hold Eternity, and his Chevron station show a whole World. This visionary collection is intimate, taking place \"here, in the land of you and me only,\" but also vast, a full report on \"what I saw when I looked inside the book of stars.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -H. L. Hix, author of \u003cem\u003eConstellation\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new volume, Michael Malan's lyrics and flash fiction perform acrobatic marvels wherein the real, magical, and surreal collide, yet they dance together in a harmonious and winning tango. These richly imaginative poems are musically alive and replete with small moments of grace and wonder, as when the poet notices \"a parachute opening like a flower in the sky,\" and that \"[i]t's not easy to stand up in a stiff wind and wear your hair like heaven.\" I love his touches of irreverent humor and his moments of Zen profundity that amalgamate fact and fancy, memory and longing: \"Everything you desire has its place in your \/ favorite mirage.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Maurya Simon, author of \u003cem\u003eLa Sirena: A Novella in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I find most intriguing about Michael Malan's Midnight at the Chevron Station is his use of day-to-day details that bridge to the historical, and trail from there into the deeply imagined, preserving a time and place and energy for us all. As he writes in \"The Vanishing Prairie\" \"Everything \/ is alive, even the pepperoni pizza in the oven. Each piece leads to the visionary and the edge of the metaphysical where \"We are all drifting in the language of summer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Christopher Buckley, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Far Republics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Malan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142183572X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421835723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blue Light Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Michael Malan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906752336127,"sku":"9781421835723","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c337eee-a119-4655-88c1-580f76adc0a2.jpg?v=1748771321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/midnight-at-the-chevron-station-michael-malan-9781421835723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}