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Manikanetish
Par Naomi Fontaine. 2021
What You Want
Par Constantine Phipps. 2014
Patrick is still in love with his separated wife. Returning with their son after a trip to an amusement park,…
he begs, one last time, to reconcile with her. When she refuses, he is driven to thoughtless desperation: a bottle of sleeping pills, a bottle of whisky. And in his dying dream, he revisits that theme park of childish desire. There he finds the landscape - still garish and indulgent - has evolved. The attractions are religion, money and sex. The characters - costumed and acted - are transformed into Jefferson, Xunzi, Aristotle. And their purpose is to instruct Patrick in the pursuit of happiness throughout human history. But Patrick can only answer with his own story. He remembers falling in love with Louise. Recalls the enlightenment of their youth and the banality of their family life. He tells of their marriage, how it came under strain after the birth of his son; how he cheated; the unravelling of all his joy. Yet still his love persists. Beginning with the first line of Dante's Divine Comedy and taking in Disneyworld, the Declaration of Independence and the canon of philosophy in its stride, What You Want is a literary feat: a novel written entirely in verse, depicting life in all its ordinariness. It gives voice to a new Everyman and brings forth an unparallelled modern epic.Here Come the Moonbathers
Par Patricia Young. 2008
Here Come the Moonbathers, is more dark, difficult and tragic than Patricia Young's earlier work. The poems in this collection…
have wild freedom, exploring the themes of love, longing and loss with grace, playfulness, and occasionally anger. There's a surreal edge to these poems, a personal, political and ecological vision, an incantatory vernacular and rhythm that makes these poems unforgettable.Lost Luggage
Par Salvatore Ala. 2011
Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and…
his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore Ala's new collection of poems -- his third. Lost luggage and the efforts to find the things of this world retrieved and redeemed are central to Ala's poems.Jane Again
Par Wayne Clifford. 2009
In his sixties, Yeats published the half-dozen poems that drew Crazy Jane out from his imagination to act as a…
profane voice against the strictures of the Church and the mores of his age. Wayne Clifford, in his sixties, has let Jane free to speak once more. We learn why Jane is crazy, if indeed she is.Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman
Par Goran Simic. 2012
Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure…
as it is a continuance. In this book, we find the world-renowned poet visiting familiar themes in fresh ways.All This Could Be Yours
Par Joshua Trotter. 2011
Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection…
is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows.Pause for Breath
Par Robyn Sarah. 2009
Diverse in subject, style and mood and rich in contrasts - from the lyrical to the rhetorical, from the public…
and collective to the personal and private - the poems in Pause for Breath are a meditation on the times and on time itself, sounding the human condition at a moment of world-change.The Pangborn Defence
Par Norm Sibum. 2008
The Pangborn Defence, a departure from Sibum's previous verse, will be something of a surprise for those who have followed…
his career. Poems written as letters to personages both real and imagined, there are political undertones to many rarely seen in Sibum's ouevre. But there is still the same attention to detail, the same craftsmanship, humour, love and originality.Groundwork
Par Amanda Jernigan. 2011
Amanda Jernigan's Groundwork is epic in ambition and scope, a collection of poetic sequences, both intensely personal and mythopoetic, representing…
stages in the poet's thinking about language and place. They form a series of parallel meditations on the past, present, and the mythological constructs with which we seek to join them.Amanda Jernigan, American and Canadian, lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario.Jailbreaks
Par Zachariah Wells. 2008
In 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was…
high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gathered 99 of his favourite sonnets written by Canadians, from the 19th century to the present day.Time's Covenant
Par Eric Ormsby. 2007
Guernica
Par Nick Flynn. 2014
Included are conversations with Nicole Aragi, Lesley Hazleton, and George Packer, and features and poetry from Tomaž Šalamun, Kiese Laymon,…
Ann Neumann, J. Malcolm Garcia, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, and many more of Guernica's esteemed contributors.Book of Haikus
Par Jack Kerouac. 2003
Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the…
three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form’s essence. He incorporated his 'American’ haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this edition, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac’s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haikus, from both published and unpublished sources. The result is a compact collection of more than five hundred poems that reveal a lesser known but important side of Jack Kerouac’s literary legacy.I Wrote Stone: The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapuscinski
Par Ryszard Kapuscinski, Diana Kuprel, Marek Kusiba. 2007
Bringing together for the first time in English a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, Kapuscinski offers…
up a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone and structure, that is engaged politically, morally, and viscerally with the world around him. Translated from the Polish.Literary Pasadena
Par David Ebershoff, Jervey Tervalon, Michelle Huneven, Victoria Patterson, Patricia O'Sullivan. 2013
The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts &…
Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven (Blame), Victoria Patterson (This Vacant Paradise), Jervey Tervalon (Understand This), Naomi Hirahara (Snakeskin Shamisen), Lian Dolan (Helen of Pasadena), Ron Koertge (The Arizona Kid), Dianne Emley (the Nan Vining mysteries), and Jim Krusoe (Parsifal).Produced as a companion to LitFest Pasadena (May 2013), Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition is the first in an annual series that will move on to include editions in poetry, essays, humor, and more.Odd Girl Out
Par Ann Bannon. 1957
Soar High
Par Phil Ray Jack. 2015
Soar High is a collection of essays and poems addressing the complexities of life's experiences. The topics range from dealing…
with grief and anger to finding the love that is at the base of our being.Anna and the Ice Troll
Par C. L. Clickard. 2017
Twilight Girl
Par Della Martin. 2006
The swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes of this 1961 lesbian pulp novel experience the guilt, thrills, and wonder of forbidden…
love."She knew why they danced with such gay desperation."A budding butch in the Brylcreem era, Lorraine "Lon" Harris fantasizes about a South Pacific island full of women, where everyone will be free and accepting, and she'll never have to wear an eyelet blouse again. Spurned by her high school English teacher, Lon turns to a new friend, the brash, purple-haired Violet, who draws Lon into the lesbian underworld of suburban Los Angeles, to the sordid 28 Percent Club, a private bar where those with "contaminated passions" cling to each other. Here, among the swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes, Lon will discover herself. And here she will first lay eyes on brilliant, lovely Mavis, a black jazz pianist and the girlfriend of wealthy Sassy Gregg, whose heavy bracelets may as well be brass knuckles where Lon is concerned.