Reading Paula Friedman's poetry is an adventure. We follow a sharp mind as it cuts paths through rough terrain: inhospitable landscapes, memories, myths and dreams. Friedman's terse, witty, unsparing voice guides us through these strange, dangerous places, in which we will recognize the scenery of our own lives. -Melissa Monroe, Machine Language (Aleph Books, New York) In poet Paula Friedman's Undreaming Landscapes, physical landscapes set the scenes for emotional explorations. Friedman contemplates in beautifully chiseled language grief, death, meaning, and connection. Her philosophical musings, grounded in the physical world, evoke Elizabeth Bishop; in "Salton Sea and Points West" Friedman locates her meditations in evocative descriptions such as "Vast, / silvery, dense with selenium, / a sudden sea appeared." In this poem, she asks what many of her poems wonder: "where to from here?" It is well worth following her on her journey to answer this question. -Laura Fine, Chair English Department Meredith College, North Carolina I've had the pleasure of watching Paula Friedman develop her gift from a yearning to an accomplished poetic instrument. She focuses on immediate things, sharply observed and inhabited moments, that light up much larger ideas; in this book Friedman builds up a world of these moments, bright with empathy and generosity. She gives proof that poetry is as alive and important as ever. -Cecilia Holland, The Great Maria, Two Ravens, Railroad Schemes and more (Knopf, New York)

Undreaming Landscapes

Literature & Fiction

Friedman, Paula

Poetry

Aldrich Press

The Future Is Short: Science Fiction in a Flash Here is flash science fiction at its finest -- swift to read but long remembered. 57 amazing speculative fiction capsules that transport you into thrilling worlds of imagination and ideas, suggesting that everything is possible -- aliens, time travel, other worlds, and the mysteries of Earth—in breathtakingly fresh combinations. This is the perfect book companion for a quick break or a relaxing afternoon. The Future Is Short: Science Fiction in a Flash presents 57 micro stories by talented authors. Relish each story in tiny bites of speculative fiction entertainment and adventure, catching glimpses of miniature worlds of the future in breathtakingly fresh flights of science fiction imaginings. As you step across the border of reality and escape into this fascinating collection of 725-word stories, you are instantly immersed in the dazzling visions of 31 talented science fiction authors—ranging from writers with published books and many publication credits, to others new to the writing world. In this sparkling collection, you will wander into realms where imagination rules and time is conquered. Discover tales of alien love and hate, inspiration, and revenge. Visit time’s ghosts on Mars and wonder, with aliens, at human lifestyles, reproduction, and actions. Explore a universe of heaven and hell redefined—where the wonders and horrors of science thrill and amuse. Paula Friedman, Jot Russell, and Carrol Fix bring together stories by an international group of authors who share their stories in the LinkedIn group, “Science Fiction readers, writers, collectors, and artists.” Jot Russell, creator/director of the Science Fiction Microstories Contest and executive director of this contest’s anthology, says, “From themes of green or blue, future or past, animal or mineral or alien, a catalyst is formed that sets creativity in motion. By the random nature of synapse, a story forms from thin air, like magic. Bounds that Einstein placed upon light itself cannot hold back a thought. For, imagination is beyond the bars of time and space. Within the mind, and with fewer words than those needed to paint a picture, a full science fiction work is derived in micro-scale.” New members are always welcome to join the monthly contest. Submissions must follow the monthly theme and are limited to a single LinkedIn post, roughly 650 words. The Future Is Short Anthology Authors: J.J. Alleson, Sam Bellotto Jr., Mike Boggia, Richard Bunning, Lars Carlson, Kalifer Deil, Carrol Fix, W.A. Fix, Paula Friedman, Andrew Gurcak, Ami L. Hart, Gene Hilgreen, Thaddeus Howze, S.M. Kraftchak, Helmuth Kump, Andy Lake, Joanna Lamprey, Jeremy Lichtman, Andy McKell, D C Mills, JD Mitchell, Karl J. Morgan, J.R. O’Neill, Amos Parker, Marianne G. Petrino, Jon Ricson, Jot Russell, Tom Tinney, Nonen Titi, Allen Quintana, J.F. Williams.

The Future Is Short: Science Fiction In A Flash

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Russell, Jot

Fix, Carrol

W.A. Fix

Science Fiction

Lillicat Publishers

The Change Chronicles: A Novel of the Sixties Antiwar Movement

Paula Friedman

Of Elegant Time: 22 Stories

Literary

Pnf Books

Product Description Profoundly emotional, conceptually acute, yet grounded in the grit and bravery of daily life, these 22 carefully crafted tales probe life's crisis moments and its ordinary hours. Among the stories: an encounter on a mountain trail wakens a veteran's numbed emotions; two French Resistance fighters balance desperate action and shy new love; a 1960s peace activist finds personal and political identity; to protect her baby, a single mother must fight her own terrors; a dying woman seeks a final shred of meaning; a "detained" immigrant child can no longer recall normal life; in 2460, an elegant alien and a human woman too briefly find love; Davey and Danly had, until now, outwitted each pandemic. Review "Exquisite tales, deeply personal tales, moments of both sublime beauty and grave peril in the lives of Friedman's protagonists"--Jeremy Lichtman, Alien Puzzle Boxes: 20 Stories"Damn well writtten. These are sharp stories: they pierce one's heart"--Helen Chuckrow, Interpreting the Bible with Chutzpah"Sometimes fiction can profoundly expose the author's soul. Dancing close to autobiography, these well-written tales burn from the page"--Richard Bunning, Spider World and Other Fictions About the Author Author; editor; former director, international Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience; founding editor, The Open Cell literary review and collective; Pushcart Prize nominations, Soapstone and Centrum residencies, awards and honors from New Millennium Writing, Oregon State Poetry Association, other competitions; short fiction and poetry in over 60 literary journals and anthologies. Two published novels: The Rescuer's Path; The Change Chronicles.

In the Sixty's predawn of the Women’s Liberation Movement, young Nora Seikh, full of self-doubts after an abusive relationship and a failed subsequent attempt at love, searches amid Berkeley’s budding antiwar movement for new ways to live and love, even while she struggles to find new paths to peace. Reporting antiwar news for the Berkeley Barb, she meets a flamboyant activist and, after a brief affair, is left pregnant and alone. She flings herself into the nonviolent vigil and demonstrations at the gates of Port Chicago, West Coast shipping point for weapons to the Vietnam War. There, she comes to share the demonstrators’ mutual caring and to quietly love Ted, a vigil leader. On the night Ted races forward to stop a weapons truck that will not halt, she must confront her old self-doubts and fears, and risk all—life and freedom and even the child she bears—to reach him. Taking this step, she comes to see her own, and others’, deepest need is to give love. Months later, Nora gives birth. No longer so self-doubting, still she cannot—in those years of the “baby-scoop era”—break through the overweening concept “a child needs a home with two parents,” and gives up her baby in adoption, “for his sake.” Then Nora must go on, trying to balance sorrows and hope—and to continue the struggle for a better world.

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