Before the Flood & After

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by Stephen Tuttle

A portrait of grief and brotherhood that reimagines the foundational narratives of the Old Testament, exploring what these ancient stories can still reveal about contemporary life.

The prose poems in Before the Flood & After draw on Old Testament narratives, telling and retelling familiar stories while looking for contemporary insights and understanding. Beginning with Adam and Eve in the garden and ending with Daniel in a den of lions, these pieces explore familiar narratives while looking for gaps or cracks that allow a twenty-first-century reader to approach them with new eyes and in a new context.

by Stephen Tuttle

A portrait of grief and brotherhood that reimagines the foundational narratives of the Old Testament, exploring what these ancient stories can still reveal about contemporary life.

The prose poems in Before the Flood & After draw on Old Testament narratives, telling and retelling familiar stories while looking for contemporary insights and understanding. Beginning with Adam and Eve in the garden and ending with Daniel in a den of lions, these pieces explore familiar narratives while looking for gaps or cracks that allow a twenty-first-century reader to approach them with new eyes and in a new context.

Winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award

About the Author

Stephen Tuttle’s poetry has appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a writing fellowship from The Ragdale Foundation, and his work has been a finalist for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the Moon City Press Poetry Award. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, and he is the author of the forthcoming story collection We Should Be Somewhere by Now (Cornerstone Press). He is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses in creative writing and American literature. He also serves as a mentor with the PEN Prison and Justice Writing Program.

Format: Paperback
Published: June 2027

ISBN: 9781961209862