<p>Here are four new voices in American poetry. Their poetry starts from the expectation that love and aging, work and family life will follow a clear and understandable path. But happiness is denied them as they discover cracks in the veneer of modern living. In these sometimes tender, sometimes sad, sometimes disquieting poems, they capture the texture of everyday life, the shifts of emotions, the desires, the hurt. First they made each other listen, now they will reach you.</p>

After I Fall

Literature & Fiction

Lee, Stellasue

Kulikov, Cynthia

Wilson, Ian Randall

Contemporary

Bombshelter Pr

Hunger and Other Stories

Hollyridge Press

In Ian Randall Wilson's first collection, HUNGER AND OTHER STORIES, his characters are driven by intense yearnings for the satisfaction of their most basic human desires. Some want intimacy, others acceptance, approval, security. All are thwarted by personal shortcomings, or the shortcomings of others, in their attempts to fulfill their longing. Here are stories of fathers and sons who cannot get along, people who use friendship merely as an avenue to career advancement, lovers for whom even sex isn't a way of communicating. Fourteen stories which "despite their restlessness," North American Review editor Robley Wilson says, "glitter with persistent hopes."

New poetry from third generation New York School poet Ian Randall Wilson.

Theme of the Parabola (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

Poetry

This second collection of short stories features works observing life as more than a bit off-center. Can a recent college graduate find his way to Absolute Knowledge? Is prison the best way for a struggling poet to get published? Do fat men make the best dancers? This is a world where desires are thwarted and love is just out of reach, but sometimes, people do get what they want though not in the way they expected.

Absolute Knowledge: Stories

First published in The Gettysburg Review, Wilson's novella takes us into an odd office world of the temporary employee where the work makes no sense, where catching up can bring about the end of an assignment but unemployment can come anyway in an instant with a wrong word or gesture, where tomorrow is never the same.

Great Things Are Coming

The Wilson Poems (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

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After I Fall

Hunger and Other Stories

Hunger and Other Stories

Theme of the Parabola (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

Absolute Knowledge: Stories

Great Things Are Coming

The Wilson Poems (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)