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Seven years to zero, Amy Benson

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fiction

Seven years to zero

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Amy Benson

"A miniature city constructed entirely of trash. An Explorer's Club, where an artist transforms conquest to artifice through the striking use of color. A squirrel cage where dead and poisoned thoughts ricochet like Bingo balls. A forest growing inside a gallery, complete with a living raccoon. These are just a few of the modern art landscapes, real and imaged, in Amy Benson's Seven Years to Zero, a collection of linked vignettes that blurs the line between fiction and memoir. In a narrative divided into seven years, the collection traces on couple's move from the suburbs to the metropolis, and their struggle with the decision of having a child in a world of factories, earthquakes, pollution, extinction, nuclear fallout and uncertain future. Through the lens of one couple, one city, and one child, Benson explores how art shapes awareness, and how awareness shapes our understanding of our place in a changing world"--, Provided by publisher

The octagon room -- Claw inside the skull -- The last room -- Flash -- Ribcage -- A clear cut -- Walter shelter food and farm -- Ten years ago they were all so young -- Dead letter office -- Fairytale city -- Three sheep -- The forest floor -- Development -- Animal pollinator -- The frame around it -- Solitude -- Artifact -- We're coming for them -- Bounty -- Get your kit together -- Wake up, wake up -- The explorers club -- Come in, it's free -- Gone -- Without attribution -- Outlaws and citizens -- Back rooms -- Now, by which we mean Then, by which we mean Soon, and Again -- Crime is down all over -- Lamarckian evolution -- She came back -- The well -- Bird spikes -- Work in progress -- At sea -- First order of decay

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