Gilbert L. Gigliotti's 'SINATRA ...but buddy I'm a kind of poem' offers both fans of Old Blue Eyes and fans of poetry a rich anthology of verse referencing Sinatra in every possible way.

Sinatra: . . . but buddy, I'm a kind of poem

Literature & Fiction

Gigliotti, Gilbert L.

Poetry

Entasis Press

McCallum-Smith creates vivid portraits of individuals who bear the scars of failed relationships, misunderstood intentions, sexual and physical abuse, and spiritual isolation. These stories move from the 19th to the 21st centuries, taking readers to a Mexican colonial city, visitors’ day at a Glasgow prison, Belle Epoch New York, the contemporary art scene of London, villages of Scotland’s rugged coast, and to Montreal, where a hockey fan’s interest leads to a dilemma. McCallum-Smith’s ability to give a comic and wry edge to a dark scene, to capture the patois of high and low society, to navigate the turbulent waters of dysfunctional families, and to pull her readers through the emotional undertow of these stories attests to the power of her voice. Her masterful use of syntax and figurative language and her talent for finding the right images to convey mood and setting give her work its immediacy and its keen sense of place, creating elements of lasting beauty and transcendent insight.

Slipping the Moorings

Susan McCallum-Smith

Woodsia

Kelly McGuinness

The poems in this collection include pastoral lyrics, narrative accounts of rural and urban odysseys, mystical meditations on loss and the passage of time, and philosophical inquiries into the nature of experience and how experience shapes who we are and who we will become. Peter Bethanis was raised in rural Maine and earned his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has won the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Prize and has been a finalist in the National Poetry Series, and he has been a featured poet on Poetry Magazine's web-site. He is the co-author of Dada and Surrealism for Beginners, and currently teaches at Ball State University.

American Future

Peter Bethanis

Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Poetry. This anthology of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Ava Gardner includes work by Margaret Atwood, Robert Graves, Allan Gurganus, Pere Gimferrer, Mario Cabré, Peg Boyers, Margaret Meyers, David Lloyd, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Vega, Kirpal Singh, Virgil Suarez, Alton Rivers, Jim Harrison, Michael S. Harper, and Clarence Major.

Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus

History & Criticism

Poetry. "If Edna Millay had been born half a century or so later, she might have penned something like these witty, irreverent, self-knowing poems."—Kim Addonizio "Moira Egan can retain the sonnet structure and adapt it to the speech and behavior of our own day. That is impressive, not least because her writing communicates pleasure even to the untutored reader."—David Lehman

Spin

Egan, Moira

Poetry. HOT SONNETS offers proof positive that rumors of the death of the sonnet have been greatly exagggerated. In fact, in the warm and capable hands of these practitioners, it's clear that the sonnet is still as relevant as a poem can be. Contributors include Kim Addonizio, Tony Barnstone, Sandra Beasley, John Berryman, Rafael Campo, Michael Cantor, Hayden Carruth, Grace Cavalieri, Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, H.L. Hix, Julie Kane, Rose Kelleher, David Landrum, David Lehman, Quincy Lehr, Amy Lemmon, Laura Maffei, Leslie Monsour, Molly Peacock, Jessica Piazza, David Rothman, Michael Salcman, A.E. Stallings, Julie Stoner, Marilyn Taylor, David Trinidad, Katherine Varnes, Leley Wheeler, Terri Witek, and twenty-five others.

Hot Sonnets

Poetry. "What impresses one first about David J. Rothman is his immense imaginative and intellectual range, but the more one reads his striking and exuberant poetry the more deeply one feels its emotional force and quiet but genuine ferocity. He is an Apollonian touched by the divine madness of Dionysus. Diverse, demanding, and delightful, his poems abundantly reward the reader's attention."—Dana Gioia "You've never read a book like this one, crackling with comedy and drama, colloquial, breezy and bitingly Byronic. Here we find characters including God, a Demon, a Muse, and a hero, an ordinary modern man. We have a vital panoply of good and evil served up by a poet of cultivated earthiness, 'mud mixed with wonder.' Even in the face of suffering, David Rothman dares us to 'live large. Go big. Get tough.' Here is an abundance and energy rarely seen in contemporary poetry."—David Mason

Part of the Darkness

Rothman, David J.

Fiction. The New York Times praised "Margaret Meyers's impressionistic and lovely first collection of stories, Swimming in the Congo, where life along the banks of the Congo River means confronting many disquieting realities." The review notes that "Ms. Meyers, who spent much of her own youth in what is now Zaire, relates... [these stories] with intelligence and restraint, while dipping knowingly into equatorial Africa's political and racial divides." Those same divides underscore the tensions many of the characters in the stories of DISLOCATION experience. In this new collection, Meyers moves effortlessly from Africa, where she revisits some of the themes of her earlier collection, to Renaissance Florence and the contemporary settings of Chicago and an east coast seminary. For those readers who savor the beauty of a well-crafted sentence, Meyers's prose offers endless delights. These stories and characters in all their diversity and subtlety plumb the depths of the heart.

Dislocation

Meyers, Margaret

Contemporary

Poetry. Art. Poems by Scott Slaby with drawings by Walter Gurbo. Scot Slaby's poems accompany Walter Gurbo's whimsical drawings of insects, and both the poems and the drawings are sure to delight readers who may have a dread of the little beasts and those who may have a fondness for them. Gurbo's drawings appeared for more than twelve years on the back page of New York's Village Voice, and Slaby's poems have appeared in numerous journals and in the chapbook The Cards We've Drawn.

Bugs Us All

Slaby, Scot

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