Fiction. Short Stories. BALKAN GRIT explores the psychology of characters who are trying to shield their sanity and hope while coping with loss and bleakness in a post-war society. Neglected and abused, without a prospect for a normal life, they are...
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Poetry. A memoir in sonnets. "This is what history sounds like, a song that takes over us until we join the chants and become part of history. Thanks to John L. Stanizzi for showing us another path of walking into today."—Romeo Oriogun"These loose s...
Poetry. CAPTIVE IN THE HERE by Gary Metras presents forty poems that range from personal biography to social commentary in language that is direct, immediate, and accessible. Metras is a keen observer of nature and people, and how they interact, not...
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Poetry. Translated by H. L. Hix. "As, according to Aristotle, philosophy begins in wonder, so too do Talvet's poems. But Talvet's is not a youthful, naive wonder. Instead, it is the wonder that Elias Canetti speaks of in this way: 'The real creator ...
Poetry. "The poems in WHAT HAPPENS NEXT allow us to enter the patience and calm of a poet who expresses himself after long listening, creating a welcome intimacy and a sense of life considered and savored. Natural as their diction, unforced, these p...
Poetry. "This book is a poetic family memoir. It is roughly divided in three parts: 'Childhood - Youth,' 'Parents' and 'America.' Naturally, there is a significant overlap in terms of themes, moods and approach to the material. For the reader it wil...
Fiction. THE SUN EATERS unravels the story of two brothers in a small village of an Eastern European country just post World War II. The two boys and a handful of their colorful mates struggle to survive famine, desolation and destruction, as well a...
Poetry. Ekphrastic poetry is often written about encounters with paintings or sculpture. The poems in EK reference a wide variety of images, music and events, including such unconventional subjects as a book bound in human skin, a eucharistic wafer ...
Poetry. "'What are the strata / of pastness?' a poem in this fine book asks, and David Gullette responds with ghosts, dreams, daydreams, visions— 'questionable shapes' that live beneath the surface of richly lived and recorded experience, like 'wave...
Fiction. Short Stories. From the ever-fertile mind of acclaimed memoirist (The Next Better Place) and author of over a dozen short story collections comes a new and extraordinary cache of tales that frequently incite, often enlighten, and (on occasi...
Poetry. "In GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE AND EXILE, Susannah Simpson explores the deepest of human desires: to belong to this world. Through language translucent with longing, she introduces us to her many worlds. We walk with her through the bazaars of Kabul,...
Poetry. Translated from the Uzbek by Dennis Daly. "Dark-eyed ones come, revealing their inner selves. Alisher Navoiy, or Nizam-al-Din 'Ali-Shir, a fifteenth century poet, mystic and artist, is reawakened in Daly's sublime translations. True to their...
Poetry. MELANCOLÍA explores the emotional and psychological landscape of today's mad world. The poems wrestle with loss, despair, love, longing, the challenges of being a father and a husband, the search for identity, and the fight for one's soul. W...