"GOLD WINNER of the FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award." Somewhere in an ancient stand of timber comes a request from an aging lumberjack. "I need me a will," Paul Bunyan informs his camp's scribe and bean-counter. "But a will ain't just a will, Johnny. It's a testament, too. What a man wants folks to remember 'bout hisself." And so it begins, the story of Paul's life resurrecting characters like Sourdough Sam and Shot Gunderson along with members of the Potawatomi and Ojibwe tribes whose dreams predict the legend of Bunyan and his blue-hided ox. The deep woods are redolent with beauty and mystery, but also peril. Paul is forced into a dreadful contest with Swede Sturleson, a timber baron emblematic of The Gilded Age. Paul will not emerge unscathed in the course of that long encounter. But something gets born in the interim, something akin to myth or hope, and in that place Paul Bunyan stands without exaggeration. "What more is there to know about Paul Bunyan? Plenty, from the logging camps of the late 1800's to the start of mechanized tree harvesting--and the giant of a man who spanned it all. Darryl Wimberley's narrative is no mere tall tale but a full-fledged novel, with details so vivid, you can smell the wood shavings. Along the way are a band of colorful characters like Sourdough Sam and Shot Gunderson, and a bitter feud with a lumber magnate who wipes out (almost) anyone who crosses his path. "A logger's life is magnificent and obdurate and stark," Wimberley notes, but Paul's accom¬plishments are feats of true daring, and this account gets it all down on the page." - David Galef, author of My Date with Neanderthal Woman DARRYL WIMBERLEY has been recognized for both novels noir and literary work. A Tinker's Damn won the ForeWord Award for "Best Literary Novel" in 2001. The King of Colored Town was the first novel to garner the Willie Morris Award for Fiction in 2007. Darryl writes, works, and lives with his family in Austin.

PAUL BUNYAN

Literature & Fiction

Wimberley, Darryl

Literary

l'Aleph

Eine Biopsie der literarischen Gefährlichkeit (German Edition)

Vaseghi, Sam

Poetry

"Darryl Wimberley's A Seeping Wound takes the reader into the lawless, violent realm of Florida's turpentine camps of the 1920s. Captain Henry Riggs oversees the Blue Turtle camp, a place where forced labor, prostitution and punishment in "the box" define the lives of anyone unlucky enough to end up there. Scott Hampton risks his life searching for his missing sister, Sarah, and her husband, Franklin Breaux, both held prisoner by the vicious Riggs. The fate of Hampton, the Breauxs, and others depends on the courage and daring of Martha LongFoot, a Muscogee woman who has herself spent most of her life as a slave in Riggs's camp. In this meticulously researched narrative, Wimberley offers us not only a detailed view of a portion of Florida history, but also a carefully drawn and credible set of characters such as Martha who bring this past to life." - Catherine Rainwater, Professor of English literature at St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas

A Seeping Wound

This edition is an authentic reproduction of the 1936 edition of Israel Joshua Singer's novel YOSHE KALB, in original Yiddish language. "YOSHE KALB is the story of a lovable young mystic's fall from grace, of his sin and suffering, of his terrible meekness and resignation, of his silence (by way of penance) under false accusations, and the complications, including that of dual personality, which this gives rise to. All these and other strands are skillfully woven together into a gorgeous tapestry, hung against a background of Chassidic life with its turbulence, coarseness, and superstition relieved by felicitous touches of humor." - Maximilian Hurwitz Israel Joshua Singer (1893-1944) was an American novelist who wrote in Yiddish. He was the brother of author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916. In 1921, after Abraham Cahan noticed his story PEARLS, Singer became a correspondent for the American Yiddish newspaper THE FORWARD.

Yoshe Kalb (Yiddish Edition)

Israel J. Singer

“Gea – My Mirror, The Earth” is a transcript from the original poem in Farsi language (and the German translation of the poem, which was published by Edition l'Aleph), which unfortunately due to censorship in Iran has been never published in Farsi. The transcript is a masterpiece of translation by Jeanette Skirvin. Taking into account that until today never long modern poems (odes of a volume of a whole book) have been translated and published from Farsi to English, this transcript is absolutely unique in regard to the power of poetry language and raising serious attention of a world audience to modern Iranian poetry - rather isolated after 1990. Gea is an ode to the earth and life with a strong literary momentum, melting symbols, metaphors, archetypes, nature and culture… of East and West, Orient and Oxidant, in modern times of poetry. --- "If an image is worth one thousand words then that is why I reached for GEA - Blame the charming cover. The title, though scripted in a foreign tongue, did not discourage me from opening this slim little book. What met my gaze was a list of unfamiliar words tumbling down the left sides of otherwise blank pages. Words were capitalized at random. Punctuation appeared practically non-existent. There were no discernable hints as to beginnings and endings of phrases, sentences or even one paragraph. This will be easy, I thought. I’ll simply pay a visit to the local college language department and beseech an esteemed linguist to interpret the content for me. What happens when time runs ahead of schedule leaving no time for leisure’s chase-down of a college Professor with enough time on his hands willing to pause long enough between lectures to indulge in a translation of anything with me? I proceeded as an archeologist might when approaching a curious landscape. Armed with German-to-English dictionaries, I searched one word at a time… one page after another… until I had scratched together a pile of English words. One by one the words were sifted into ideas to reveal phrases suggesting metaphors… symbols… history… religion… regions… nature… mores and culture. By the last page I had come to learn GEA is a poet’s tribute-ode to Planet Earth. If one could sing what one hears in Sam Vaseghi’s GEA, The Earth My Mirror then this epic trilogy is a tapestry of literary opera." Jeanette Leone Skirvin is an award winning Canadian author [FACE, Snow Sizzling in Soleil, Jaguar Ravenz King, Rollins of Stone House] and co-editor of STARK, The Poetry Journal.

GEA - My Mirror the Earth

"Under the Shirttails of Albert Russo" is a unique meeting between two multi&shy;lingual authors living in self-imposed exile; both of whom can be described as literary nomads, and dangerously candid.

Under the Shirttails of Albert Russo: An Alternative Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Adam Donaldson Powell

Arts & Literature

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization. Lescot's French translation made the Blind Owl world-famous, while D.P. Costello's English translation made it largely accessible. Sadly, this work has yet to find its way into the English pantheon of Classics. This 75th anniversary edition, translated by award-winning writer Naveed Noori and published in conjunction with the Hedayat Foundation, aims to change this and is notable for a number of firsts: *The only translation endorsed by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation *The first translation to use the definitive Bombay edition (Hedayat's handwritten text) *The only available English translation by a native Persian and English speaker *The preface includes a detailed textual analysis of the Blind Owl Finally, by largely preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English reader into the world of the Hedayat's Blind Owl as never before. Extensive footnotes (explaining Persian words, phrases, and customs ignored in previous translations) provide deeper understanding of this work for both the causal reader and the serious student of literature. .."..There are indeed marked differences between Costello's and Noori's translations. As Noori indicates, his attempt to preserve the overabundance of dashes gives the reader a more immediate sense of the narrator's agitation...The first sentence flows on in Noori's translation, piling sensation upon sensation never allowing us to pause and catch our breath or separate out the images from the sensations. In his discussion of the relationship between his translation and Costello's, Noori also draws on translation theory and sees Costello's focus on the fluidity of the text in English as a "domestication" of Hedayat's original. Noori's new English translation and his preface are a welcome addition and will no doubt draw the attention of scholars interested in Hedayat's works. The close textual and comparative analysis of the type Noori offers marks a new and long-overdue critical approach to the translation of the most celebrated work of modern Persian prose." -Professor Nasrin Rahimieh in Middle Eastern Literatures

Blind Owl (Authorized by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation Into English Based on the Bombay Edition)

Hedayat, Sadegh

World Literature

Lilla Svarta Fisken (Swedish Edition)

Behrangi, Samad

Classics

Christophe's eyes behold whiteness everywhere he looks. Snowflakes falling from a white sky drift into brilliant banks covering lawn and field. Forest floors and mountain peaks slumber beneath snow deep as an eiderdown quilt. Rooftops silently uphold white bunting like royal heads bearing ermine-trimmed crowns. Smoky puffs escaping hearths' inferno billow through chimneys to find swift relief in snowfall's embrace. Frozen sidewalks winding onward escort streets lying-in-state wear their own shades of white. Even chevron tracks left by cars' winter tires differentiate contrasting high and low depths imprinted on roadways' snowy luster leaving behind impressions resembling long sterling silver chain-link necklaces winding through the frosty-white neighborhood that is Soleil. The horizon is probably white too, if I could only see it! Worldly bachelor, Hermes Thomas and his nephew, Christophe, orphan son of his brother and Madeleine (Hermes' secret obsession) are brought to vibrant new light by way of scintillating girl, Sheila whose gentle actions ravel the quiet side of Healing. The Canadian-born author was raised without television and educated across the provinces between Vancouver and Toronto in one-room schoolhouses and largest city campuses by an educator-mother possessed with a wanderlust spirit. Jeanette Skirvin, BSc. RDH resides by the seaside in California. By the same author, published by Elementá "Jaguar Ravenz King" and "Rollins of Stone House"

Snow Sizzling in Soleil

Skirvin, J. L.

Police are called to a dark home when neighbors spot an abandoned naked child banging his fists against the windowpane during a thunderstorm's lightning flash. The child known simply as Rollins by way of the police report is delivered to the stone fortress that is Holy Father's House of Lambs Found where he is settled into the shelter of young Sister Elizabeth's arms. The chief of police tries to reassure Monsignor Philippe the child's stay is only for the night until its parents are found and charged with child endangerment but Monsignor knows that closer to the truth is Rollins' stay will be far longer as he grows behind the walls among the orphans and salvaged abused discards until he comes of an age and is turned out... The Canadian-born author was raised without television and educated back and forth across the provinces between Vancouver and Toronto in tiny one-room schoolhouses and the largest city campuses by an educator-mother possessed with a wanderlust spirit. Jeanette Skirvin, BSc. RDH (Loma Linda University School of Dentistry) resides by the seaside in California.

Rollins of Stone House

Genre Fiction

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