NEWS
Soul, Ghost, My Absolute now available as an ebook.
April 1, 2025
Link to ebook
Soul, Ghost, My Absolute reviewed by g emil reutter
North of Oxford
September 1, 2024
“Rosalind Palermo Stevenson’s recent release, Soul, Ghost, My Absolute, brings the reader into the authors streaming world of words rounding bends, straits, splashing outcrops in imagery, metaphor and poetics… Palermo Stevenson is a master of imagery laced with metaphor bound in a surrealist casing.”
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Soul, Ghost, My Absolute reviewed by Walter Cummins
California Review of Books – Featured Review
July 22, 2024
“These are language pieces that access realms beyond that of most fiction. The “My Absolute” aspect of the title suggests the philosophical context of the “absolute” that refers to ultimate reality or truth that exists independently of human perception or understanding. Stevenson seeks language to convey such a reality.”
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Reading from The Absent on FUMFA Poets & Writers Live
(Reading Series of the Fairfield University Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing)
August 15, 2021
Hosts: Chris Belden and Katie Schneider
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Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson at the Jefferson Market Library
In conversation: Writing Through Icons: Franz Kafka & Jean Seberg
February 29, 2020
West View News
February 2, 2020
Authors Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson converse about writing through the personas of Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg in their books Kafka At Rudolf Steiner’s and Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg.
By Amy Geduldig
“To engage in conversation and explore some aspect of the vast world of literature brings readers together in the spirit of community, and transforms what is generally the private experience of reading into one that is shared. It is in this spirit, and with audience participation in the form of questions and answers, that we will converse about those two cultural giants, Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg, and discuss what it was like to write through their voices and personas.”
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With Stephanie Dickinson in Empty Mirror
December 5, 2019
Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg
“That close distance of the first person, to some extent a dissolving of distance, seemed to direct the flow of language. The intimacy of the first person seemed to give me sufficient distance to place the real person in a fictional context.”
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With Sofia Samatar, Carmen Maria Machado, and Matthew Cheney in Electric Lit
February 22, 2018
Sofia Samatar’s Roundtable on Speculative Memoir:
Why Adding Monsters and Fairies to a Memoir Can Make It Even More Real
“What excites me is the ability to give play to the imagination and through that to arrive at a place of emotional truth… I love the concept of the imagined becoming or being a vehicle of emotional reality.”
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With Stephanie Dickinson
Interview: The Absent
2018
“Your question makes me think of Ariadne and her thread which enabled Theseus to find his way out of the Minotaur’s Labyrinth… My interest in whatever piece I’m writing usually begins with something elusive and that becomes a kind of thread that I follow ‘into’ rather than out of the labyrinth…”
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Launch for Kafka At Rudolf Steiner’s
Jefferson Market Library – Willa Cather Room
September 3, 2014
BOOK SIGNING
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LAUNCH PARTY
WIPs Conversation: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson on Her Work in Progress
December 3, 2012
“I have a real fixation on what a photograph does to the idea of time. The way it captures time, especially the way it captures a life in time. The way we can look at the dead in a photograph. The way the dead look back at us from a photograph…”
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Trampoline Interview
July 2009
“The white space accommodates the compression — allows for the breath and silence.”
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