IN OUR BEST DEFENSE, David O’Connell brings tenderness and a wry attention to his exploration of fatherhood and childhood, movies and schoolrooms, ancient Rome and rainforests. While the perils of our times—including climate change, school violence,...
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TEMPORARY SHELTER is based on the life of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. It begins during during turbulent political times when Anna meets poet Nikolay Gumilev. Nikolay charms Anna into falling in love with him. He also creates a place for her in his ...
Poetry. GET UP SAID THE WORLD is a personal exploration of the profound and universal dualities of life. The book begins by stacking up evidence why someone would want to pull the covers over our heads—each poem illuminating a new reason: loneliness...
Poetry. Translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Ioana Ieronim. "Translating 'Eclogue' with the author as my co-translator became a further evolution of a partnership and friendship. Ioana Ieronim and I had previously translated five books of her poetry int...
Poetry. WINTER JOURNEY is translated from the Spanish by J. Kates and Stephen A. Sadow. This is a bilingual book in Spanish and English.
Poetry. "MOMENTARY TURBULENCE—a perfect name for this Brad Rose collection of prose poems. They take but a few moments to read and are filled with wondrous turbulence. Rose has an uncanny ability to write a sentence, fling it into space, and have it...
Fiction. Billy Bright, intelligent but undisciplined, is one in a group of dissolute high school seniors known as "the boys." During the mid-1960s, Billy struggles to come to grips with his anxiety and insomnia caused by his father's drinking and ve...
Poetry. As its title suggests, the poems in Hilary Sallick's ASKING THE FORM raise questions about and through form: If I place my trust in form, where will it take me and how can its meaning grow? What connections can I discover by asking the form?...
Poetry. "Memory, nostalgia, a changing America. The magic of the animal world and the fragility of all creatures. An eschewing of what is manmade and crowded and impersonal. Comradeship, sports, and competition. Beautiful unfulfilled mothers, the di...
Poetry. SECRET HISTORIES control the intersection of hagiography, memoir and fiction. SECRET HISTORIES reject the dictatorship of reality, the death of the spirit where everyone says the opposite because they are right. SECRET HISTORIES channel alte...
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...
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...