Short Circuits Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies

Following up on the success of their first anthology of aphorisms, Short Flights, editors James Lough and Alex Stein have returned with a new volume that expands on the theme of aphorisms to include other short form writing and concrete poetry and prose from several of the world's leading, award-winning, and bestsellling writers in the genre, including Charles Simic, Lydia Davis, Sarah Manguso, Jane Hirschfield, Joy Harjo, Yahia Labadidi, Claudia Rankine, and Stephen Dobyns.

James Lough is the author of This Ain't No Holiday Inn and Sites of Insight, which won the Publications Prize from the Colorado Endowment of the Humanities. His stories have won the 2011 America's Got Stories Award and the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction. Alex Stein is the co-editor with James Lough of Short Flights and the author of The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi and a book of aphorisms, Weird Emptiness.