Remembering Lela & CharlieThe Blue Springs Years
Follow Lela & Charlie as they begin the closing chapter of their wonderful life together, as told by their daughter, Mable Gates, who lovingly cared for her parents on her Blue Springs property in those emotional final years. The responsibilities of grown children caring for their aging parents are less often talked about, joy-filled, and sometimes painful, but no less an important part of the human experience. It is our sincere hope that you enjoy these delightfully written short stories and that publishing them in this collection preserves not only each story and Mable's talent, but also provides a snapshot of life in 20th Century rural Mississippi.
ForsakenA Brother's Best Friend Romance
First Love - Final Chance: A childhood crush romance with a zest of brother's best friend and a watefall of heartbreak but with a HEA after all. ★★★★★ "A breathtakingly emotional read! I loved every minute!" The MommaBookClubWhen you're consumed by grief, can love find a way to heal you? For as long as she can remember, Salom矇 Gritt has been in love with her Brother's best friend but because of their age gap, she never was old enough or brave enough to act on it.So, when Chris falls in love with her best friend, and she loses them both, she tries to move on.But one tragic night changes everything and as Salom矇 and Chris try to survive their loss, they discover one another without escaping the guilt they feel for falling in love while grieving. ♥ An emotional love story touching the subject of bisexuality and true love. Please be aware this book is not an easy romance. Subjects such as grief and sudden death are addressed.
The Los Angeles Review No. 23TheLos Angeles Review No. 23
Issue 23 features work from Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Oliver de la Paz, Pete Hsu, and more.
Hard Sayings
Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction by Thomas F. Haddox examines the work of six avowedly Christian writers of fiction in the period from World War II to the present. This period is often characterized in western societies by such catchphrases as "postmodernism" and "secularization," with the frequent implication that orthodox belief in the dogmas of Christianity has become untenable among educated readers. How, then, do we account for the continued existence of writers of self-consciously literary fiction who attempt to persuade readers of the truth, desirability, and utility of the dogmas of Christianity? Is it possible to take these writers' efforts on their own terms and to understand and evaluate the rhetorical strategies that this kind of persuasion might entail? Informed by the school of rhetorical narratology that includes such critics as Wayne Booth, James Phelan, and Richard Walsh, Hard Sayings offers fresh new readings of fictive works by Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, John Updike, Walker Percy, Mary Gordon, and Marilynne Robinson. In its argument that orthodox Christianity, as represented in fiction, still has the power to persuade and to trouble, it contributes to ongoing debates about the nature and scope of modernity, postmodernity, and secularization.
American Literary Cultures
American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors--particularly those of Texas and the Southwest--and includes readings representative of a broad array of American social, religious, racial, and ethnic groups from first contact to early twentieth-century Modernism. Tracing the diverse heritages and global impulses that shaped America, this reader engages undergraduate students by offering a unique collection of texts that comprise American literary cultures.The selections showcase a culturally rich and heterogeneous tradition--indigenous, Latinx, European, and African American. The narratives and counternarratives offered here introduce students to a diversity of voices--near and far, familiar and foreign, present and historical. Through ballads, lyrical poems, tall tales, short stories, speeches, sermons, memoirs, and discourses on language and literature, students encounter diverse and often challenging works of American literary culture. The texts within and the vast panoply of worldviews and personalities they reflect challenge students to critical, contextual, creative, and empathetic engagement with the past. Through such engagement, students will better appreciate the present as they prepare to become citizens of an increasingly globalized world.
Sex and Vanity: A Novel
The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with. On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can't stand him. She can't stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have the view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can't stand that he knows more about Curzio Malaparte than she does, and she really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin, Charlotte. "Your mother is Chinese so it's no surprise you'd be attracted to someone like him," Charlotte teases. Daughter of an American-born-Chinese mother and blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton where Lucie is weekending with her new fianc矇, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucy is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fianc矇, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment, and ultimately herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world--and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.
Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies and Others Pieces
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Essential Clarence Major
Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his many accolades, he was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Fulbright scholar and received the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. His work has been featured in many literary journals, newspapers, and magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Ploughshares.Whether you've known Major's work for decades or are new to his singular style, The Essential Clarence Major offers a thrilling overview of an exceptional career, from his early groundbreaking fiction to his most recent poems. Included here are excerpts from Major's best novels, a selection of his finest short stories and poetry, more than a dozen thought-provoking essays, a taste of his autobiography. Award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Kia Corthron introduces the collection, artfully illuminating Major's importance as one of the foremost and original voices in contemporary American literature.
The Rebirth of African CivilizationTheRebirth of African Civilization
The book is an affirmation of education and an espousal of cooperative democracy as a way of life for the new Africa. It contains as well a report on social studies of African life. It also expounds on the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of African life and its prospects for the future. Amidst the current debates concerning multiculturalism and political correctness, this publication moves the discussion beyond the vagueness of ethnicity to the reality of African empowerment.
The Rebirth of African CivilizationTheRebirth of African Civilization
The book is an affirmation of education and an espousal of cooperative democracy as a way of life for the new Africa. It contains as well a report on social studies of African life. It also expounds on the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of African life and its prospects for the future. Amidst the current debates concerning multiculturalism and political correctness, this publication moves the discussion beyond the vagueness of ethnicity to the reality of African empowerment.
Junior Murray’s Camp Wicket
Join Junior Murray, the first Grenadian to play test cricket for the West Indies Cricket team, as he coaches young boys and girls to take their game into full swing.They all have skills, but can they come together as a team when it really matters? Find out all the lessons they learn in Junior Murray's Camp Wicket!
On the ContraryArticles of Belief, 1946-1961
Strikingly relevant and shrewdly observed, Mary McCarthy's On the Contrary collects articles, talks, reviews, travel notes, a short story, and a personal reminiscence by the legendary writer and contrarian. Included is her review of Hannah Arendt's seminal book, The Human Condition, a bitingly funny take on Simone de Beauvoir's account of her visit to the United States in 1947, a candid essay addressing her experience with communism, and her no-holds-barred review of the Kinsey Report. McCarthy brings her deeply informed literary insights, provocative political arguments, and prescient cultural investigations to bear on everything from fiction to fashion, religion, sex, and politics.
Cock-Eyed Voice
Collected short stories representing nearly fifty years of publication by author Barry Grills, including 'A Game With Adonis' ..."so successful the reader squirms in self-recognition" (Books in Canada, 1980).A past chair of the Writers' Union of Canada, Barry Grills is an experienced journalist, biographer and novelist who has been writing with uninterrupted dedication for more than fifty-five years. This short story collection is a concoction of anecdotal memoir and nine short stories published during the 1970s, 1980s and in the first decade of the new millennium. Let's face it-fifty years is half a century. Barry has written a great deal since then. And a great deal has happened to the writing business during that period. The brief introductory anecdotes catalogue the adversity of the writing business, what has been lost, what has been gained, and the choice a writer has in getting into print. The need to write does not guarantee the economic success of writing as a profession. With 10 books to his credit, including 4 bestselling musical biographies on the lives of Celine Dion (A New Day Dawns (with Jim Brown) and Falling Into You), Alanis Morissette (Ironic), and Anne Murray (Snowbird; all by Quarry Press), Barry Grills has done all right. He's met some interesting people along the way, and fifty years of published writing means fifty years of editors, publishers and other writers--W.J. Barnes, Al Purdy, Caroline Heath, George Bowering, Gail Fox, Myrna and John Metcalf, Clark Blaise, Alistair MacLeod--all of whom had a role in the changing nature of how writing got published then or gets published now. The writing process probably hasn't changed much, historically speaking, but getting it into print has changed a great deal. Barry's introductions to the stories in this volume offer a personal and historic view of how the writing business has changed, and his nine finely-crafted stories appeared alongside accomplished authors such as Matt Cohen, John Newlove, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Joyce Carol Oates, Kent Thompson, Elizabeth Spencer, Hugh Garner, Mordecai Richler, Morley Callaghan, Andreas Schroeder, Dave Godfrey, David Helwig, and others. Also by Barry Grills: Too Late the Hunter - "Psychological thriller about the interweaving of the lives of three men ... Grills writes masterful description! His phrases gave me goosebumps more than once ... a bingeworthy novel!" (Author Marla J. Hayes).I And You, And Me And Her - "Stories about men in love with women they can't have ... very detailed and vivid" (BookLife Prize, 2018).Roadkill - "Set in a compelling dystopian future ... the story develops greater urgency as it progresses. Writing in fluid, lyrical sentences, Grills demonstrates a clear facility with language and tone ... alluring descriptions ... striking prose and an enticing premise allow this novel to stand out within the larger category of dystopian fiction" (BookLife Prize, 2018).Shortlisted for the 2018 Whistler Independent Book Awards; 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards FinalistEvery Wolf's Howl - "An accomplished author of stories, ... Barry Grills ... in his first memoir ... [writes] a moving story of friendship and transformation, and anyone who has ever longed to companionate with wild creatures will be transfixed" (Winnipeg Free Press, 2012).
Fuck IsolationA Tribute to the COVID-19 Experience
This tribute to the poets was born in March 2020, during the beginning weeks of California's stay-at-home orders for the COVID-19 pandemic. Poets Underground, a community of poets who perform weekly at Amplified Ale Works Acid Vault room in San Diego, continued to meet online, expressing their raw emotions and hardships in lockdown. The intense missing of in-person connections led to the coining of the catch phrase and title of this anthology. Divided into five sections, each dealing with different phases of the challenges the pandemic created, this volume features 134 poems from 72 poets. With shifts in the political and the emotional since April, these poems reflect only the first month of lockdown, and life in the world post-COVID-19.
Retrato de una mujer perdida
"Una mujer empieza el d穩a con su futuro empa簽ado. Nunca se sabe qu矇 va a pasar, sin embargo, lucha: bajar la cabeza no es com繳n en su especie. Y es que la historia, en muchos casos, la ubica en lugares dif穩ciles, en situaciones humillantes, de indiferencia y desamor. Pero es ella, la 繳nica capaz de poblar el mundo a trav矇s de su dolor, quien retoma las p獺ginas del libro, renuncia a toda clase de prejuicios, empu簽a las letras y lanza un Retrato de una mujer perdida, de una madre, una ilusa, una amante; una mujer que dice "esta vez ser獺 distinto", cuando en el fondo sabe que no es cierto, pero que vale la pena seguir intent獺ndolo.En este libro, que se comenz籀 a gestar en 1989, Xinia Marie Estrada escarba su propio ser, se da a la tarea de traducir su sensibilidad materna en bofetones al alma, porque no permite la indolencia, porque sabe que no es justo callar. Los relatos que aqu穩 se muestran son fragmentos de realidad, mililitros de l獺grimas que se derraman a diario en el mundo. "Este seguramente ser穩a el lenguaje en que muchas mujeres contar穩an su historia" afirma la autora, pues su contenido tiene una fuerte dosis de cotidianeidad. La voz expresada en las descripciones es muy sencilla, lo que hace que el lector inmediatamente quede atrapado en la trama. Son precisamente estos esfuerzos, estas palabras que se conjugan para denunciar, quienes traer獺n la esperanza para que ellas dejen de identificarse con estos relatos. Y si se identifican, es hora de cambiar, de oponerse rotundamente a la agresi籀n, de saberse hermosas, aunque el indicador de modas diga lo contrario. Retrato de una mujer perdida es el espejo donde Xinia Marie Estrada se reencuentra y comienza a parecerse, cada vez m獺s, a todas las mujeres que habitan este libro. Es valiente por mostrarse de esta forma, abrirse de mar a mar y legarnos el secreto, que cuesta tanto voltear a mirar. " -Paola Valverde Alier -.Costa Rica
The Cardboard House by Mart穩n Ad獺nTheCardboard House by Mart穩n Ad獺nA new translation by Jo
"He is so eclectic and heretical, that he reconciles us all in a theosophically cosmic and monistic synthesis" - Jos矇 Carlos Mari獺tegui.Originally published in Per繳 in 1928 to great acclaim, The Cardboard House was clearly destined to become a classic. Written during Mart穩n Ad獺n's prodigious adolescence in Barranco -a peaceful sea resort in the coast of Lima-, The Cardboard House is a novel of visionary excursion through the crevices of sensation and memory, moving in a fluid poetic exploration that traverses swiftly from the social to the cosmic. Mart穩n Ad獺n's experimental style has been admired and celebrated by authors as diverse as Mario Vargas Llosa, Allen Ginsberg and Roberto Bola簽o; and The Cardboard House stands out in history as a major statement of the avant-garde movements in Latin America.This new English translation strives to preserve the experimental style of The Cardboard House in its original Spanish language, and intends to reestablish its importance as one of the crucial texts of the Latin American literary avant-garde.Mart穩n Ad獺n (Lima, 1908 - 1985), pseudonym of Ram籀n Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a Peruvian poet and writer whose body of work is notable for its experimentalism and metaphysical depth. His breakthrough novel, The Cardboard House, redefined the possibilities of narrative for his contemporaries and has remained a substantial influence for several generations of Latin American writers. He is one of the most celebrated Peruvian poets of the 20th century. His work in poetry was twice awarded the National Poetry Prize (Per繳, 1946, 1961) and the Peruvian National Literature Prize in 1976.Jos矇 Garay Boszeta (Lima, 1985) is a writer, translator and language laborer, born and raised in Lima, Per繳. He studied programs in Economics and Philosophy at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. His work in translation aims to reevaluate Latin American narratives and restore their historical content for English speaking audiences around the world. His current projects include the translation of the works of Jos矇 Mar穩a Eguren and Mart穩n Ad獺n, among others. He currently lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, Erin and their dog, Willow.
Zyzzyva #118
ZYZZYVA #118 THE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: Including fiction from Bryan Washington, Lysley Tenorio, Elizabeth Reichert, Santiago Jos矇 S獺nchez, Mark Chiusano. Plus new stories by Peter Orner and Kristen Iskandrian. Nonfiction from Lauren Markham and Dave Madden. Poetry by Meg Hurtado Bloom, Lisa Higgs, Troy Jollimore, Debora Kuan, Jennifer Richter, Dujie Tahat, John Sibley Williams, and Emma Windsor Wood. Art by Anne Siems.ZYZZYVA was founded in 1985 in San Francisco with the goal of publishing a superb literary journal shining a spotlight on West Coast poets, writers, and artists from a wide range of backgrounds, many of whom were otherwise overlooked by established publications, and providing them with a much needed platform.Since then, the journal has evolved into a nationally distributed, widely acclaimed publication showcasing contributors from across the country and around the world. As the journal marks 35 years of continuous publishing in 2020, we celebrate more than three decades of enriching contemporary literature and supporting literary communities in the Bay Area and beyond.
Dormir con aguacero
Una l穩nea delicada y sensual atraviesa con intensa pasi籀n los entrenudos de la palabra en estos poemas de Xinia Marie Estrada que invitan al reposo y al desorden profundo de una l籀gica propia, de un esbozado atrevimiento er籀tico que pone al descubierto el deseo de la entrega plena. Este desorden, meramente simb籀lico, es un elemento unificador del sentimiento de reposo y del cambio adecuado, ambos tambi矇n simb籀licos de ver e ir m獺s all獺 de lo real.Jos矇 Alejandro Pe簽a
Nosotros, los que huimos.
'Nosotros, los que huimos' es un poemario cuya misi籀n m獺s inminente es homenajear a Reinaldo Arenas y mantener viva su memoria. Estos poemas recogen la 繳ltima y triste etapa de las emociones y pensamientos del autor, de los perseguidos como 矇l; y reflejan los temas que en su vida tuvieron mayor relevancia: la amistad, el amor, la homosexualidad, el odio al enemigo, la pasi籀n por la literatura, la patria, la madre, el ansia de libertad, el desenmascaramiento del r矇gimen comunista. La autora usa su inmenso poder po矇tico para acercarnos a las penurias que enfrent籀 este gran y perseguido escritor; nos acerca a un Reinaldo profundo, adolorido, desesperanzado y logra, de una manera muy conmovedora, que nos identifiquemos con ese nosotros que agrupa a los inmigrantes, disidentes y oprimidos de todo el mundo.
Gift
GIFT is the aptly named new volume by Duane Vorhees. Unlike his previous book, THE MANY LOVES OF DUANE VORHEES, the new one is not monothematic. It explores the subjects that are the basis of great poetry -- self, life, politics, place, faith, philosophy, and art among them -- in a variety of styles and moods. Throughout, the poems employs wit, creativity, and erudition in an approachable manner. Anyone who enjoys meaningful poetry should look forward to reading and re-reading this remarkable tome. As Duane writes in his opener, Medicine men summon the sacred smokeof sage sweetgrass and cedar.They unrein the Dream.And poets compose.They unmine the mindfield, inciteinsight. A book of poetry by "one of our most important poets." (see review below) What Reviewers Think... a delightful collection of poems! At times playful, at times sober and reflective [on the topics of] friendship, envy, lust, the philosophy of existence, [written] in a voice that is sincere, original, captivating. The reader becomes an explorer, and the exploration brings great joy and value.- Peter Wodarz, Professor, Okinawa Christian University I always have approached a Vorhees book with a smile on my face, knowing that soon I would chuckle at his politely naughty sense of humor and delightful word play. [...][His] respect for language and the beauty in which it can take multiple directions takes on the tone of a blues number [...]He understands the beauty of our frailties, the lost and found and lost yet again inevitable pattern of the human experience. [...][T]his collection of poems embraces the elusiveness of life's beauty [...]. Everything has its moment.- Dave NorrisAssociate Professor of English, University of Maryland Global Campus [V]isionary and eclectic [...] [The author's] metaphorical poetry speaks directly to the reader, challenging [...] us to concentrate on lexical progression and his astonishing rhythmic, galloping rhyming scheme, [following] an unknown but intriguing poetic path, passing distant lands and meeting an array of people, cultures and beliefs [...] This is indeed a cinematic journey through the eyes of a world travelling word weaver, who has tasted life's feast and who now throws existential crumbs our way; satisfying our global palette [...] whilst at the same time closing our eyes and bravely attempt to savour unknown poetic flavours.- Don Beukes, Author of The Salamander Chronicles I kept thinking that I had encountered what could have happened had e.e. cummings and Franz Wright collaborated on a project. Vorhees is a wordsmith who unlocks the subtle meanings - entendres, double and triple - and makes us marvel at the power of language. This is a collection of brilliant poems. [...] [It] is poetry that intends to open the eyes, inform the intellect, and tangle the reader in the intricacies of words. It succeeds. [...] Duane Vorhees emerges as one of our most important poets.- Charlie Brice, Author of Mnemosyne's Hand
The Afternoon of the Elephant and Other PoemsTheAfternoon of the Elephant and Other Poems
How lucky we are to have this volume of Luis Benitez's poems in English! A major figure in contemporary Spanish-language literature, Benitez does not merely make poems; he thinks in poetry. The poems in The Afternoon of the Elephant are a way of reflecting on the physical and social world at the same time as they make that world real by considering animals, oceans, friends and lovers, the sabretooth tiger, the heron, the salmon, the trout, the skunk, even the escaped elephant who interrupts our mundane conversations and eats fruit from the caf矇 table. The Afternoon of the Elephant and Other Poems destroy the habitual and ask us to consider the way thought enriches experience and restores our awareness of the breadth of the world outside ourselves. Benitez is a voice in these pages, a passionate reason that rejects the meanness that walks through our everyday lives, that celebrates what is overlooked.George Franklin (poet)
Poet in a Pin-stripe Suit
A sweeping foray-127 poems in 10 sections across several real and imaginary worlds, exploring a vast range of mental states, from clear-sighted judgment from a lifetime in the business, teaching and consulting professions to the muddle of minds affected by bipolar whirlwinds.
Time
TIME: Essays, Poems, Short Fiction, & More collects twenty years of some of the best writing from Rashid Darden, including never-before published poems, favorite blog entries, the award-winning play Message from 'The Legba' and the short story "Smith & Jones: Young Americans." Time also includes "Negotiations: A Dark Nation Story."
Random Acts of Childhood
A nostalgic and irreverent look backwards at a poet's early childhood.
In the Bear’s House
"Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in trying to understand something about the spirit of wilderness, of which Bear is a very particular expression. . . . Bear is a template of the wilderness."--from the Introduction Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime. With transcendent dignity and gentleness, In the Bear's House celebrates Momaday's extraordinary creative vision and his evolution as one of our most gifted artists.
Cobra Lily
Cobra Lily is a review of art and literature, focusing on the cultural and natural environs of Southwest Oregon. We seek to promote voices from this region, as well as voices outside the area which speak to the natural rhythms and experience of life here. Why Cobra Lily? The carnivorous pitcher plant exists most abundantly in Southwest Oregon. This native plant has distinctively adapted to thrive in our region. We draw inspiration from this plant because we dare to be as unique, publishing the diverse writers and artists of Southwest Oregon's extraordinary landscape and culture. Issue One features the work of the following artists (in order of appearance): Gary Lark, Pepper Trail, Melissa Matthewson, Patty Wixon, Scott T. Starbuck, 'Buckwheat Bob' Harrison, John Noland, Rhonda Lynn, Lilyana Rain, Kindi Fahrnkopf, Kay Elaine Ekwall, Dave Dunbar, Kelly Waldin, Anita Savio, Rich Norman, David Lorenz Winston, Dallion McGregor, Summer Wolf, Juliette Wolf, Isaac Wolf, David Newell, Susan Gustafson, Angela Graves, Annette McGee Rasch, Michael Spring, Savanna G. S., Alan Laurie, Sara Backer, Scott Simpson, Rory Forsythe-Elder, Deborah Ann Dawson, Kathryn Velho, and Kailen Forsythe-Elder.
Just A Little Bit Crazy
Dr. Clinton Walsh has a new patient. A young beautiful woman who has puzzled her family and friends for years with her peculiar tastes and behavior. In a chivalrous attempt to understand and help her face her mental health challenges he unleashes his own. Their love takes them into a dark spiral of faith and forgiveness. With just a little bit of crazy.
Gerbert’s Book
Gerbert, a French monk educated in the sciences and literature of Muslim Spain, has risen to the Chair of St. Peter as Sylvester II, and for a brief while co-rules the Holy Roman Empire. His friend Zosimus has compiled his writings into a book at the behest of Pope Benedict VIII. An archbishop, Arnulf, jealous of Gerbert's prominence, hears of the book and wants it to expose him as an agent of Satan. Benedict has political reasons for preserving the book, but Zosimus must travel a dangerous road from Reims to Rome in order to present the manuscript to him. Gerbert's Book is a suspenseful imagining of Gerbert's brilliant but fated life during the tumultuous European era just prior to the year 1000.
Where Joy Resides
Best known for The Berlin Stories--the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret--Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. Where Joy Resides is the perfect introduction to the author's essential writings. This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet and A Single Man; episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin, Down There on a Visit, and Lions and Shadows; along with excerpts from Isherwood's nonfiction works, Exhumations, Kathleen and Frank, and My Guru and His Disciple.
Copper Nickel (30)
Issue 30 includes: Fiction by Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy contributor Helena Bell, Vincent Czyz, Maureen Langloss, and Lucas Southworth. Nonfiction by NEA and Camargo Foundation Fellow Don Bogen, death row inmate and essayist Lyle May, Bill Marsh, and Lesley Wheeler. Poetry by NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav, Bruce Bond, and Jenny Browne; PEN Discovery Award winner Andrea Cohen; Gregory O'Donogue International Prize winner Shangyang Fang; MacArthur "Genius" Edward Hirsch; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Troy Jollimore; Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock; Rilke Prize winner David Keplinger; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Erika Meitner; Iowa Prize winner Alicia Mountain; Best New Poets contributor Shakthi Shrima, and many others. Translation Folios featuring short fiction by Bangladeshi writer Ruma Modak (trans. Shabnam Nadiya), and poetry by Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch (trans. Donnna Spruijt-Metz), Polish poet Tomasz R籀życki (trans. Mira Rosenthal), and Israeli poet Maya Tevet Dayan (trans. Jane Medved). The cover features work by Denver-based artist Kate Petley, who has been featured in twenty-seven solo exhibitions and has received an NEA Rockefeller Foundation Grant (among other honors).
King of Evanston
Shaz Bostwick's personal views and business ethics collide when Camilla Gibson walks into his office, seeking his help. The treatment her daughter needs is available in Chicago, but Camilla is almost out of time and has several issues working against her. Raised as an immigrant, Shaz knows the heartache of family separation firsthand. In a race against the clock and the authorities, he calls in favors but receives a disturbing offer. Let baby Ayanna slip through the cracks in exchange for a handsome reward. Fed up with politicians and businessmen with too much money and too little scruples, Shaz and his fellow Kings of the Castle band together to stem the flow of illegal adoptions, while they solve the mystery of who wants their mentor dead.Camilla Gibson has traveled the world in her capacity as an adventurer, sometime model, and blogging celebrity. In her eyes, the charming, but tough lawyer is her last resort before deportation. Shaz is smart and tenacious, with renowned negotiating skills and a reputation for making a way when there seems to be none. If she can get past the biggest crisis in her life, then maybe the spark of attraction that sizzles between them will develop into something magical.
Salty Kisses & Starfish Wishes
The sea is the truest bestie, loyal and the best keeper of secrets ever.The sea never mocks, ridicules nor judge
Everything Old is New Again
This charming collection of poems, stories, and essays celebrates the thirty years that Writers on the Avenue has been supporting the literary arts and local writers in and around Muscatine, Iowa. Featuring work from founding members, long-time members who have built and sustained the group, and the fresh voices taking WOTA in new directions, this collection will move, inspire, and delight with the talent and variety on display. Contributors include WOTA founders Duffy De France and Dan Titus; past WOTA greats Aldeen Davis and Nadine Lord; QC poets David R. Collins and Dick Stahl; long-time members Anna Counter, Jason Liegois, Mike Bayles, and Gesene Oak; and newer members and published authors Dustin Joy, Misty Urban, and Rebecca Whitmore. All sales directly support WOTA activities and events.
The Moon Has its Secrets
Kofia, a young African girl, is kidnapped and taken to Jamaica to become a slave. Inspired and strengthened by the life lessons her mother gave her each full moon, she passes down the secret information to her children, one of whom becomes a legendary Jamaican heroine. The novel follows her generations from 16th Century Africa to 20th Century Jamaica.
Lost Island
LOST ISLAND was Barbara Follett's third and last novel. It tells the story of Jane Carey, a young woman from Maine whose character and philosophy bear a striking similarity to her creator's.A lover of woods and mountains, Jane finds herself working in a dusty New York office during the early years of the Great Depression. Her job is dull, her friends are in trouble, and she yearns for adventure. She finds it in a schooner anchored in the harbor, which soon whisks her away to... where? Jane doesn't know nor care. Jane and second mate Davidson fall in love; and when the ship is wrecked during a mighty storm, they find paradise on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Years pass, until the modern world resurfaces with its teeth bared, forcing the couple to deal with their new, heartbreaking reality.Barbara's earlier novels--THE HOUSE WITHOUT WINDOWS and THE VOYAGE OF THE NORMAN D.--were published by Alfred A. Knopf when she was twelve and thirteen. Her literary career looked bright, but after her father deserted his family in 1928 her world fell apart. A fearless girl, Barbara managed her grief by cutting a new path--one full of adventure, wisdom, and love.LOST ISLAND mirrors the lives of its author and Edward Anderson, a sailor she met at sea in 1929. Five years after finishing it, on December 7, 1939, Barbara walked out of her home in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was not heard from again. She was twenty-five.This expanded edition includes three other stories by Barbara--ROCKS, TRAVELS WITHOUT A DONKEY, AND WALKING THE MALLORCAN COAST--and an afterword by her half-nephew, Stefan Cooke, whose BARBARA NEWHALL FOLLETT: A LIFE IN LETTERS was published by Farksolia in 2015.
Finding Myself in Thee
"Finding Myself in Thee" is a book of short stories and poetry inspired by God with the help of many people who asked me to write and create for specific occasions. The short stories are practical revelations of the natural, correlating with the spiritual. Each day that I wrote a story, I consulted the Lord about what to write, and I asked for divine intervention. It not only touches the heart, but meant to move you into a new realm of life in him.
This Little Boy
Brandon takes you on a journey from victim to victor through the eyes of a boy growing up in a harsh world. If you, or someone you know, needs to be inspired to fight the lies that culture tells us about our boys, Brandon Allen is the one to inspire you.
Conversations With Dorothy Allison
Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known--as with Larry Brown and Lee Smith--as a purveyor of the working-class, contemporary South. Allison has frequently used her position, through passionate lectures and enthusiastic interviews, to give voice to issues dear to her: poverty, working-class life, domestic violence, feminism and women's relationships, the contemporary South, and gay/lesbian life. Often called a "writer-rock star" and a "cult icon," Allison is a true performer of the written word.At the same time, Allison also takes the craft of writing very seriously. In this collection, spanning almost two decades, Allison the performer and Allison the careful craftsperson both emerge, creating a portrait of a complex woman.In the absence of a biography of Allison's life, Conversations with Dorothy Allison presents Allison's perspectives on her life, literature, and her conflicted role as a public figure.
Aiiieeeee!
In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, "Aiiieeeee!" was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions--it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and obedient. In this anthology first published in 1974, Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong reclaimed that shout, outlining the history of Asian American literature and boldly drawing the boundaries for what was truly Asian American and what was white puppetry. Showcasing fourteen uncompromising works from authors such as Carlos Bulosan and John Okada, the editors introduced readers to a variety of daring voices.Forty-five years later the radical collection continues to spark controversy. While in the seventies it helped establish Asian American literature as a serious and distinct literary tradition, today the editors' forceful voices reverberate in contemporary discussions about American literary traditions. Now back in print with a new foreword by literary scholar Tara Fickle, this third edition reminds us how Asian Americans fought for--and seized--their place in the American literary canon.
Copper Nickel (29)
Issue 29 includes fiction by Berlin Prize winner and NEA Fellow V.V. Ganeshananthan, as well as relative newcomers Kimberly Garza, Maria Kuznetsova, Sam Simas, and Jennifer Wortman. Nonfiction by Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses contributor Paul Crenshaw and experimental lyric prose writer Debra Di Blasi. Poetry by Roethke Memorial Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow David Baker, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner Martha Collins, Rome Prize winner Mark Halliday, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Janice N. Harrington, Jake Adam York Prize winner Brooke Matson, NEA Fellows Kaveh Bassiri and Matt Morton, Cit矇 Internationale des Arts Fellow Jacques J. Rancourt, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner Natasha Saj矇, as well as Jan Beatty, TR Brady, Jenna Le, Samantha L礙, John A. Nieves, Roy White, and many others. Translation Folios featuring short fiction by Galician writer Xavier Queipo, translated by Jacob Rogers; and poetry by Catalan poet Gemma Gorga, translated by Sharon Dolin; Chinese dissident poet Shen Haobo, translated by Liang Yuing; and Slovenian poet Ales Steger, translated by Brian Henry. The cover features work by Denver-based artist Michael Gadlin, who was educated at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and whose work has been shown all over Denver, as well as in New York City and France. Gadlin is represented by K Contemporary Gallery in Denver.
Elevating Ourselves
"On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning," Thoreau wrote. J. Parker Huber is along for the climb, comparing what Thoreau say in his era to what we can see today.
Material Faith
Thoreau developed ideas fundamental to ecology fifty years before that word was coined. He called for a science that would join man and nature-a "conscience," a moral knowledge founded on material faith.
