Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Latino/Latina Studies. Often outsiders enter Third World communities with an agenda so pronounced that their vision is hindered by their mission. But Isaías Orozco-Lang's photographic tour of the Dominican Republic community La Yagüita del Pastor is a window into the soul of a community that allows not just a voyeur's glimpse, but an entry into its mysteries. "Orozco-Lang manages to photograph dire, absolute poverty with an artistic and perceptive eye that captures the sensitivity and hopeful spirit of the Dominican people. These are simply beautiful images of a people, trapped brilliantly and magically in time."—Ramona Hernandez

Glimpses of La Yaguita: Street Scenes and Portraits From the Dominican Republic

Arts & Photography

Orozco-Lang, Isaias

Photography & Video

El Leon Literary Arts

Poetry. The poems of Paul Smyth have appeared in magazines and journals including The Atlantic Monthly and Poetry (which awarded him the Dillon Memorial Prize). His first collection, Conversions, published in 1974 by the University of Georgia Press, was followed by two books of poems illustrated by artist Barry Moser and a collection of epigrams. Paul Smyth died in late 2006, just after completing last corrections on the manuscript for A PLAUSIBLE LIGHT."A PLAUSIBLE LIGHT is the last book of a strong and distinguished talent. Paul Smyth had an easy mastery of verse forms, a vivid narrative gift, a good acquaintance with fact and natural process, and a rare capacity for confronting what is painful in life. He had, for instance, a Frostian power to acknowledge fear—an emotion which he finds even in the sound of a hummingbird's wings. Whatever is strikingly said is to some extent disarmed, and for all its darkness Smyth's poetry has high morale. Of the many poems one might single out, it is "Erik Satie: 'Trois Gymnopedies'" which seems to me the gem of this selection; as an evocation both of music and of sad experience, it is a triumph of articulateness."—Richard Wilbur

A Plausible Light: New and Collected Poems

Literature & Fiction

SMYTH, Paul

Poetry

Frank Dituri is a photographer who transforms the everyday, the recognizable, and the obvious into images that border on the surreal. The photographs in this book mystically evoke a childhood memory of a bluebird outside a school window in New York.

Bluebird in my Window (English and Italian Edition)

Frank Dituri

Draite a u Meure (English and Italian Edition)

Fiction. In NOBODY'S BABY, Leo Litwak explores both the limits of compassion and the forms of malevolence. Writing with hard-won wisdom about the struggles of family life, Litwak takes us into the hearts of fathers and mothers, children and lovers, all in the throes of love, all yearning to achieve, or at least define, some kind of clarity. Both troubling and profoundly moving, the masterful stories of NOBODY'S BABY are by a writer at the height of his power. "Long after reading these stories, I find myself feeling for everybody—Lorrie, Paula, Shirley and Wesley, Alice and her son Emory, Heartless Willy. The people in Leo Litwak's fine stories make the reader laugh and cry. NOBODY'S BABY is at once fun and tragic. A most satisfying book."—Maxine Hong Kingston

Nobody's Baby and Other Stories

Litwak, Leo

Contemporary

Fiction. SYPTOMS OF TERMINAL PASSION is a wise and graceful collection of seven short stories of love from the Northern California-based Aaron. "I did not want these stories to end. I wish the collection were a long novel that I could settle down to read over the next few weeks.... If you ever wondered what mature love looks like, read these stories. In Chester Aaron's world, even when couples separate, love lives on, in fact, sometimes it thrives, and rarely have I read about the intimate lives of couples no longer together who yet come together in friendship and respect and even, yes, a new form of passion."—Dr. Jeffrey Masson

Symptoms of Terminal Passion

Aaron, Chester

The story of a Chinese immigrant town, Locke, on the Sacramento River in the early years of the 20th century. Main characters are Richard Fong, a gambling house manager; Poppy See, a brothel madam and seer; Chloe a white teenage prostitute favored by Richard Fong; Sofia, the minister's daughter and Chloe's friend; and Ming Wai, Richard Fong's wife who arrives unexpectedly from China.

Locke 1928

Ryan, Shawna Yang

United States

Fiction. "RED MOUNTAIN is a huge accomplishment. It perfectly captures a lost time, the early 1960s in Birmingham and on New York's lower east side. A gifted couple's struggle to nurture love and sanity, their personal story framed by racial violence and family bigotry, is portrayed with the authenticity of memoir, yet shaped through suspenseful, inventive fiction. I loved this novel."—Luke Wallin

Red Mountain: Birmingham, Alabama, 1965

Entrekin, Charles

Nonfiction. Literary History &amp; Criticism. Essayist for more than thirty years in Northern California's liveliest periodicals, Stephen Kessler here presents a selection of his deeply informed and informative writings on poets, poetry, and translation. Rooted in the literary culture of the west coast (Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski) and radiating outward across the United States (Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin, Frank O'Hara) to Latin America and beyond (Ernesto Cardenal, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yehuda Amichai), Kessler's articulately accessible vision in MOVING TARGETS speaks to both the knowledgeable and the newcomer. His concluding essays on the art of translation, "antiwarism," radio as a poetic medium, and inspiration also offer provocative insights into the process of writing, reading, and appreciating poetry.

Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation

Kessler, Stephen

History & Criticism

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Glimpses of La Yaguita: Street Scenes and Portraits From the Dominican Republic

A Plausible Light: New and Collected Poems

Bluebird in my Window (English and Italian Edition)

Draite a u Meure (English and Italian Edition)

Nobody's Baby and Other Stories

Nobody's Baby and Other Stories

Symptoms of Terminal Passion

Locke 1928

Red Mountain: Birmingham, Alabama, 1965

Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation