Gary Stein is a poet in the spirit of Blake, Frost, and William Carlos Williams. In Stein's poetry, the ideas are always in little things that touch larger things, and the world is revealed in a squirrel dying, a car being washed, a clock falling from a wall. To read poems such as "The Cremationist's Day Off," "Travels in Time," and "On My 50th Birthday" is to know you are in the presence of a poet who is a master of language. TOURING THE SHADOW FACTORY is a magnificent book.--Miles David Moore, author of THE BEARS OF PARIS AND ROLLERCOASTERWhat tours, what shadows in what factory are here, in these haunting poems of memory, love, and legend? Stein's poems focus on the father, now a shade, a gifted, patient carver and craftsman who "knew the soul of wood" and long ago brought his young son into his workshop. The poet-son, now grown, pursues the craft of words, of story-making, of would not wood, with kindred, altered skills. And wonders and blesses, in his turn, what shadows and what skills, what callings, his own now-grown sons will now pursue.--Judith McCombs, author of THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED & NEWGary Stein's TOURING THE SHADOW FACTORY is a meditation on time, memory, and loss--from the ghosts of the past to "the soft blur of the] future." In poems both precise and masterfully understated, Stein explores the human condition of being in many times at once, carrying our childhoods with us as we age, expectant about what might be coming: "Each night the next miracle." --Maggie Smith, author of THE WELL SPEAKS OF ITS OWN POISON & GOOD BONES

Touring the Shadow Factory

Literature & Fiction

Stein, Gary

Poetry

Brick Road Poetry Press, Inc.

Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States after the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, and was nearly appointed to that august body in 1922. Yet his story has never been told in book-length form before, and never with the benefit of such exhaustive research. More than just a biography, Justice for Sale examines Manton’s misconduct in the context of the culture of corruption and organized crime that permeated New York City in the first part of the twentieth century. Dozens of others—prominent business executives, leading Wall Street lawyers, accountants, bankers, fixers, con men, another federal judge—participated in Manton’s crimes. The book profiles these unscrupulous and often colorful characters as well. It wasn’t until Manhattan D.A. and future presidential candidate Thomas Dewey’s successful pursuit of Manton, a federal grand jury investigation, and a sensational prosecution and trial in federal court that shocked the nation that Manton and his corrupt schemes were finally brought down.

Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

LYONS PRESS+

Finally, creating a great Web page is as easy as drag and drop. Using Pagemill's point and click interface and the in-depth tutorials in this book, you can publish on the Web without HTML coding! Written by two of the leading Web authorities, The PageMill Handbook takes you step-by-step through the process of creating your page - from formatting text to adding backgrounds. The hands-on tutorials, together with the professionally designed templates on the CD ROM, will have you easily creating eye catching Web pages in no time.

The Adobe Pagemill Handbook

Computers & Technology

Kent, Paul

Mactivity, Inc.

Networking & Cloud Computing

Hayden Books

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