Poetry. Art. Retrazos is a Spanish term used to describe the stenciled remnants that a seamstress leaves on the floor after making garments. Carlos M. Luis gathered such defiled 'retraces,' along with magazine clippings and other found materials and repurposed them into a series of two dozen or so of the renderings that appear in this chapbook. Inspired by these images and also the Popol Vuh, Derek White weaves together textual fragments into associative personal myths that deal with cornhusks, geometry, puberty, roosters, quantum basketball, court trials, genetics, dirty laundry, brick making, fish and graduating as a foreigner from a polluted lake in Mexico. "ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos calls up the etymological meaning of the word "text," a piece of weaving; not only does the narrative fray and reknit itself, but word and image have equal weight in weaving the text as a whole"--Joyelle McSweeney.

ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos

Literature & Fiction

WHITE, DEREK

Luis, Carlos

Poetry

Calamari Press

Sleepingfish, Issue 0.875

Lopez, Robert (eds.)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fiction. "Whenever I dream about 'home,' it's never where I am residing at the time. For that matter, whenever I dream of a place, it's never the place but an idealized concept of one, perhaps amalgamated with other places, including ones I have never been to or that might not even exist. The same is true of people...These nocturnal histories were written in the dark, in the wake of sleep when I couldn't always see what in fact I was writing...POSTE RESTANTE (literally, `post remaining' or `residual mail') is an ad hoc destination for mail sent to people who are just passing through a place they do not permanently reside. It's what you say when you don't have a place you call 'home.'"--from the For/Word to POSTE RESTANTE.

Poste Restante

Contemporary

<p>Fiction. Derek White's latest novel is called MARSUPIAL: OUR MOTHER FOR THE TIME BEING. "The meta-novel is more or less told from the perspective of a young Southern boy who shows up in Paris in order to be a stand-in for his brother in a pretentious low-rent scifi B-movie about junkies addicted to 'bug juice.' Slipping in and out of bodies, names, and identities, the narrator is hardly reliable. He may be dreaming; he may be a figment of his brother's imagination. This instability is mirrored in the episodic structure of the book, as we pass, quick-cut style, back and forth through a number of narrative frames-childhood memoir, dream sequences, dictionary definitions, screenplay, film shoot, forensic documents, erotic fantasies. These are presented in different typefaces and genres of documents, and are interspersed with lots of White's gnarly and evocative dada-punk collages" - Erik Davis.</p>

Marsupial: Our Mother for the Time Being

The inhabitants of the fourth planet of one of the last solar systems found before leaving this galaxy know their world as Refuge. They know only that a race referred to as the Old Ones brought their ancestors to it, and still, at the rate of twenty or thirty per year, continue to do so.From childhood, all are able to mentally call for small items such as food and it will come to their hand. Some have more power and are able to change the nature of things. They refer to their ability as magic.For the last ten years, groups of people have been wakening to discover that they have lost their powers.World President Merlin recruits an eighteen-year-old girl to investigate. Why does he think she may succeed where he has failed? She is the only witch to have a unicorn as a familiar!

Unicorn Witch

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Publishamerica Inc

In Unicorn Witch, Tyana Counter and her husband Marcus, an ex- Chicago Detective Sergeant discover that Godhe criminals are stealing theurgen, the hormone which gives the Refuge inhabitants their powers, and selling it to alleviate the pain the Godhe males suffer because of a genetic abnormality. Seven years later, in Unicorn Witches Krast returns to 'milk' the entire world. She has her advanced weapons: the inhabitants of Refuge have their 'magic'.

Unicorn Witches: The Vengeance of the Godhe

<p>Diligence is a story about a young black boy, Lamont, and his rise from poverty to prosperity. His story reveals how his father saved him from the generational cycle and trap of poverty by the desperate pursuit of worthless materialistic possessions, like expensive tennis shoes. Instead, his father teaches him how to start investing one hundred dollars a month from his tennis shoe budget, at thirteen years of age. Leading him to become a multi-millionaire by the age of 35. Diligence highlights the importance of a father's presence and guidance in a young boy's life, regarding breaking the cycle of poverty and building generational wealth and prosperity. DILIGENCE is the key to rising from poverty to prosperity in life!</p>

Diligence From Poverty to Prosperity

Business & Money

Personal Finance

BK Royston Publishing

HYDROPONICS FOR MARIJUANA: Guide to Set Hydroponics for Marijuana

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Independently published

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