A remake of the Psalms of the Bible but from a humanist point of view.

Songs for the Spirit

Literature & Fiction

Giron, Robert L.

Poetry

Gival Press

2009 National Best Book Award for Fiction &amp; Literature: Anthologies, sponsored by USA Book News--This anthology features Grace Cavalieri, Rita Dove, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, Peter Klappert, Philip Levine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gloria Vando, and many other fine poets in English, French, and Spanish.

Poetic Voices Without Borders 2

"All poets must juggle the sacred and profane and each must make some kind of peace with the paradox, fight it, or find a unique road in the up and down. Chip Livingston, in his first book, Museum of False Starts, makes a distinct trail of poems, through Mvskoke ancestral country, through the maze of American myths, through bars and parties at the edge, through disturbance and awe. What an auspicious beginning!" -Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet, musician and performer

Museum of False Starts

Livingston, Chip

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award, "The Cannibal of Guadalajara" is a refreshing dark comedy, with a range of characters who commingle between Mexico and Manhattan among their nightmares and dreams. Winner gives the reader surprises of sex and romance and paints a sympathetic and precise description of their world. Wildly imaginative, it paints a lush yet pointedly satirical portrait of New Yorkers in love and lust, baby boomers in mid-life misadventures, Gen-Xers in the grip of perennial childhood, and the aspirations that have led them all astray. The Brooklyn Rail: "The Cannibal of Guadalajara...is a powerful tale of unlikely menage-a-trois...[it] is above all a road trip through the nightmares and wet dreams of middle-aged disaffection, regret, and redemption."--Andrea Scrima "Families come in all shapes and sizes; sometimes they sneak up on us fully formed. This is what happens to Margaret Heller after her divorce.... Winner, who won the Gival Press Novel Award, writes with great cunning and precision... Winner transforms embarrassing moments into the briefest of epiphanies. Margaret, Dante and Alfred are as human as they possibly can be." - Andi Diehn, Debut Fiction ForeSight Feature in the May/June 2010 issue of ForeWord Reviews

The Cannibal of Guadalajara

Winner, David

Winner of the 2009 Gival Press Poetry Award "...This is a luscious and lustrous collection of poems, a delightful first book from a poet who demonstrates convincingly here both the gravity and the joy of her calling." -Gail Wronsky, author of Dying for Beauty "Opening this book to any of its poems will sweep the imagination into the poet's creation, and its reviewer's lips will burn for hundreds of kisses."-Rich Murphy, author of Voyeur and judge for the 2009 Gival Press Poetry Award

Psaltery and Serpentines: a book of poems

Martínez-Gil, Cecilia

This collection of poetry is translated from the Bulgarian into English by the poet with the assistance by Henry Taylor and Alicia Ostriker.   “Vladimir Levchev’s work has been for several decades an important poetic bridge between Bulgaria and the US. This book will surely strengthen that reach.” —Elizabeth Kostova “These spare, beautiful poems—so imaginatively rich and expertly distilled—vibrate with a restless brilliance, reminding us, as Levchev writes in The Refugee, that ‘every minute/ has its secret corridors/ leading to dark rooms.’ Reading them, I felt as if I could hear the silences from which they are made now begin to gather themselves into these true and necessary words.” —Richard McCann, author of “Mother of Sorrows” “Vladimir Levchev’s poetry: An original voice, wise beyond its years. A dark vision, but beautiful all the same.”—The late William Meredith “His poetry is a place you’ll never want to leave. We are in the presence of a large spirit who writes in the greatest tradition of European masters. The world of literature is lucky to have him.” —Grace Cavalieri, Prooducer/Host “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress”

The Refugee

Levchev, Vladimir

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award “'Gone by Sundown' is an extremely timely novel that traces the origins of a racist atrocity and its effects on residents from bottom-dwelling working class blacks and whites, to the ‘French colored’ and merchants higher up the social ladder, to union agitators and mine owners at the top of local society. Peter Leach has the story-teller’s heart of Harper Lee and the sociologist’s eye of Frank Norris.”—Tim W. Brown, author of Second Acts “Almost no other novel treats the creation of sundown towns. 'Gone by Sundown' thus amounts to a one-volume antidote to American amnesia. On top of that, it’s a good read.” —James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns "Gone by Sundown takes us into a world and sensibility that is fresh, resonant and provocative. Peter Leach writes of a great wrong done by ordinary people, and does so with quiet fervor, displaying sadness and pity for all."—Daniel Woodrell

Gone by Sundown

LEACH, Peter

Genre Fiction

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award. “Clifford Bernier’s 'The Silent Art' takes us on a journey through countries, landscapes, musical forms and states of mind. Rivers flow through these places to the beat of conga drums, the wail of an alto sax and the voice of a woman singing scat. To read these poems is to enter a work of expressionist art….”—Judith Valente, correspondent, PBS-TV; co-editor, Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul; author of Discovering Moons “Like musicians, poets strive for clarity, originality and perfect pitch. Clifford Bernier’s 'The Silent Art' provides us with a bumper crop of each.... --Reuben Jackson “Clifford Bernier is the consummate performance artist who harmonizes imagery with syncopated language to break through the silence of the page. Make no mistake, 'The Silent Art' is a fullblown concert.”—Karren L. Alenier, author of Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On "...Clifford Bernier's 'The Silent Art' is music as sung poetry; it is poetry arranged as a concerto...."--Cecilia Martinez-Gil, author of Psaltery and Serpentines

The Silent Art

Bernier, Clifford

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award--“What a stunning novel! Julia &amp; Rodrigo is ambitious, deeply felt, exquisitely written, masterfully structured, and informed by a wide-ranging knowledge of the culture and politics of Guatemala… In many ways as tragic as Romeo and Juliet, his novel follows its own poignant, yet unsentimental story line to an inevitable, sorrowful, and yet hope-filled end. I read this novel in one sitting late into the night; I could not put it down … An instructive book for readers of all ages and a perfect accompaniment to high school and university courses on Latin America, as well as a compelling book club choice.” —Marnie Mueller

Julia & Rodrigo

Brazaitis, Mark

Literary

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award--“Lisa Graley’s strange and beautiful book-length poem, Box of Blue Horses, is unlike any other poem I have read and unlike the work of any other poet I know. The richness of her language somewhat suggests Hart Crane’s voyages among the adagios of his islands. But her words are more than merely beautiful.…With each of my readings of this book, Lisa Graley’s Blue Horses grew richer and more powerful, which is exactly what we demand and expect of the finest poetry.”—John Wood For all the people who have ever closed off or tamped down some essential part of themselves—imagination, a talent, a passion—and then wished to have that aspect “unboxed,” this book is worth examination. Here, in a cycle of 44 poems about a herd of blue horses and the persona’s quest to track them, poet Lisa Graley explores the crippling effects of stifling creative impulses as well as the tensions, costs, and joys involved in living an unfettered life. "Box of Blue Horses" is a meditation on the fear of creativity. But it is a meditation in the form of a story about magnificent blue horses, inspired, in part, by the blue horse paintings of Franz Marc. Stylistically, the volume is an experimental blurring of genres, having at its heart the musicality of lyric poetry while incorporating the complex characterization and narrative story arc you might find in a novel.

Box of Blue Horses

Graley, Lisa

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