The Village on Horseback, (Milkweed Editions), The Curfew (Vintage Originals)
Tales of romance and adventure inspire Jesse Ball's novellas and prose poems. It's sort of a Robert Louis Stevenson kind of thing, maybe even a J.R.R. Tolkien kind of thing. To accomplish this, he's learned the techniques of lucid dreaming which allows him to write as if he's in a living fairy tale.