Stingray Clapping

Paperback, reprint, 62 pages ISBN 13: 978-0-9961696-9-1Dimensions: 5" x 7" x 0.15"Cover price: $12   In 1999 I got a job working for Crain's Business Insurance magazine, proofreading entries in their Directory of Corporate Buyers of Insurance. I was primarily responsible for editing the half-sentence to one-sentence long descriptions of corporations. Never having been so intimately exposed to technical language before, I fell totally in love with the quality of the writing required to convey the much-vetted specificity of a corporate description. The fact that the words were crafted for the sake of clear legal and bureaucratic meanings, rather than for the sake of literature, encouraged me to read them as if they were both specific and evocative. Considering the glut of language we're inundated with, it's difficult for a writer sensitive to that inundation to want to generate more text to send out into the world. My writings here attempt to do what those corporate descriptions do: be e