blackbirdan online journal of literature and the artsSpring 2012 v11n1
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Norman Lock
NORMAN LOCK

   from Alphabets of Desire and Sorrow: A Book of Imaginary
    Colophons

   Alphabet of Barbed Wire
   Alphabet of the Peacock’s Eyes
   Alphabet of Stones

Norman Lock is the author of plays, novels, and fiction, most recently, the story collection Love Among the Particles (Bellevue Literary Press, 2013). He is also the author of a collection of poems, Alphabets of Desire & Sorrow (forthcoming from Pear Noir!, 2014). His play The House of Correction (Broadway Play Pub, 1988) was performed in Istanbul in 2013. Lock is the recipient of the Aga Kahn Prize from The Paris Review, as well as fellowships and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.  end

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