A brutally honest exploration of love and dementia. DEATH, PLEASE WAIT etches a haunting life starting with teenage romance that leads to a long marriage that deteriorates with the husband's violent dementia and death in a nursing home. It is full ...
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A culminating extraordinary book exploring the country of old age with candor beyond Yeats. DEAR YIDDISH is a startlingly brave and candid rendering of life in the shadow of death. "Sex is over and death is soon to come." It is not chilling; it is ...
A first book from a poet in which each poem is a novel. An amazing book that effortlessly poem by poem adds up to a novel. Unsparing vision of all the characters in the poet's childhood and adulthood that is nevertheless suffused with a love of hum...
The long-awaited 2nd novel from Jill Hoffman Founding Editor of Mudfish/Box Turtle Press STONED is about Maud Diamond, a 40-year-old woman with two children who is getting a divorce. She has had a colossal disappointment (having been jilted by a fa...
Mudfish 23: poems so good you forget you're reading poetry. 'You tell me,' is the theme of MUDFISH 23. Honesty, emotion, shock, subtlety, poems whose reverberant language and intensity awaken more poems in the reader's mind. Poems that remind us of...
Poetry. LOSING IT is about growing old but the power of the poems suggests the opposite, finding it: the poignance of mature vision. As Edward Hirsch notes, "The modern Yiddish poets ('Glatshteyn, Sutzkever, Moyshe-Leyb— / show me your letters, word...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. MUDFISH 22 is bursting with poems, prose and art, that are revelations, that grab you by the lapels, that defy forgetting. They are before and after visions and celebrations of our world today. Gu...
Poetry. ARE YOU SOMEBODY I SHOULD KNOW? by Dell Lemmon is, according to Jason Koo, "one of the most important books of poetry you will ever read." John Yau writes, the poems "are about being alone and getting older and setting out each day. They are...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Often literary journals announce a theme ahead of time; MUDFISH announces its theme as the poems become one at publication—they create their own voice, in this issue celebrating youth from the vantage point of age, life fr...
Poetry. When E. J. Evans dives into the depths of his existence in CONVERSATIONS WITH THE HORIZON, he takes the reader with him for a surprising and wild ride. He plunges, and you are submerged. These short, dense, meditative, memoir prose poems don...
Poetry. In NOTES FOR A LOVE POEM we listen to the magnificent ruminations of an insomniac, the blue hours around 3 a.m. fermenting du Passage's sensuous Southerner imagination. Her nightscape of Mozart and La Traviata when the quiet is her companion...
Magazine. Poetry. Art. Fiction. Every year we say this is the best issue yet—and mean it—but MUDFISH 20 is exceptional in its intimate interconnectedness, accessibility, variety of voice and expression, and inevitable return to its themes of mother ...
Poetry. Decades in gestation, the riveting, poem-memoir THE GATES OF PEARL is woven together from a mother's Overeater's Anonymous journal written in the 1970s, mother-daughter telephone conversations, and the poet-daughter's exquisite verses... And...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Maybe the best issue yet of a cutting edge contemporary collection of art, poetry and fiction, starting with the winners of the poetry contest judged by Edward Hirsch and followed by a huge range of passionate, alive ...
Poetry. A first book of immense originality. Narrative poems that draw the reader in to a personal connection with the poet. Dell Lemmon displays the breezy urbanity of the New York School, the autobiographical fearlessness of the Confessional poets...