Poetry, with drawings by Lesley Heathcote. These 14 poems, many in rhyme and meter, are quirky, often salacious explorations which read almost like short fairy tales. Populated by animals, characters and body parts, the poems are witty, sexy, irreverent. Lesley Heathcote's drawings are kin to linocuts in their pleasingly clean black and white blockiness, and their whimsical quality complements these humorous poems excellently. Perfectbound chapbook.

Ding the Bell

Literature & Fiction

Garrison, Peggy

Heathcote, Lesley

Garrison, Peggy/ Heathcote, Lesley

Poetry

Meeting Eyes Bindery

DIARY OF A CLONE is a smart and moving collection of poems from Romanian poet Saviana Stanescu. Divided into chapters such as "Bad Girls' Bed-Time Stories" and "Barbed-Wire Silences," Stanescu's poems are sharp, sensual looks into everyday life. "Saviana Stanescu is for and of the 21st century. She is hot and cool, witty and brave, sexy and weird, politically knowing and cynical. But most of all, she is an extraordinary writer"-- Richard Schechner.

Diary of a Clone: Five Poems

Stanescu, Saviana

Poetry. "I LIFT UP MY VOICE IN SONG THAT NIGHT AND I LIVE / AND DEATH HAS DIED OF A LOVE SONG" -- from THE MAINE BOOK. This long awaited collection by underdog hero of American letters Joe Cardarelli is edited with an introduction by Anselm Hollo.

The Maine Book: Selected Poems

Cardarelli, Joe

Poetry. Mark DuCharme's poems are "thoroughly surreal, yet not bumptiously so. There's dignity in his `madness' and thereby a composition of new sense. One senses that the new sense, while playful, is also keenly expressive of a social view. DuCharme's poetry, with its pioneering juxtapositions, grows on you in humor, sense and poetic beauty. Featured amidship is a wild, 26-page alphabet zoo. And then there are the other poems: realistic, even deadly, like `Provisional Kiwi,' so that we wind up with a tough-mindedness that ranges, cinematically, from Brakhage to Bogart and back. Love of language's dynamics dominates all"--Jack Collom.

Infinity Subsections

Ducharme, Mark

What are lunacies? Strange moods, neurotic behaviors, a grating at the soul. Each of us, men or women, has such feelings. In this case, it's a woman, Ruxandra Cesereanu, the major young Romanian poet and novelist, who writes about and tries to tame her inner devils.

Lunacies

Cesereanu, Ruxandra

Poetry. In this compilation of poetry, Lombardo's succinct and meditative poems draw the reader into a world of philosophical inquiry. Divided into categories with titles such as "What For", "Objections" and "Double Take", these poems search for a subverted truth hidden amidst life's routines. Lombardo's poems have been published in FENCE, Dirigible, Double Room, VERSE and other literary magazines.

Of All the Corners To Forget

Lombardo, Gian

The years spent listening to and writing about jazz and Afro-Caribbean music have led to an awareness of the value of that music, and of poetry in alignment with it. The Cuban musicologist Fernando Ortiz wrote: "It isn't a music of 'entertainment' at the edge of daily life; it is a precise aesthetic version of all of Life in its transcendental moments."

No Wrong Notes

Weinstein, Norman

Many critical voices, in several languages, have praised the poet Vasyl Makhno. But in the case of this book such praise is only half of the golden apple. Without an excellent or, more precisely, a fully adequate translator, the poet’s name would be meaningless to most people, and a book of bad translations would distort his name. Makhno is very lucky to have found an adequate English-language translator. Orest Popovych, although (or, perhaps, because) he is a scientist by profession, is able to capture not only the text but also the subtext of this poetry. Never attempting, as some poet-translators do, to outsing the original song, Popovych attentively listens not only to he words but also to the melody and spirit of these poems long before putting pen to paper. As a result, those who do not have the Ukrainian language, may rest assured that they get the kernel of these powerful texts, and those who do will delight in the translator’s art. Bohdan Rubchak, Professor-Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, bilingual poet and literary critic

Thread: and Selected New York Poems

Makhno, Vasyl

John Lennon and the author’s father hover over a landscape of legacies, offering inspiration and admonition in Winter Letters, Vasyl Makhno’s new poetry collection. Beginning with what John Donne called “both the year’s and the day’s deep midnight,” Makhno contemplates the snow and despair of an alien and alienating New York, and carries us in a seasonal cycle across time and geography, across world culture, high and low. With stops in his native Ukraine, as well as Germany, Romania, the State of Maine, among others, Makhno introduces us to characters as diverse as old Volodya (the pensioner who came to church in pajamas), and Johnny Cash (who means moola). With a foundation in the international community of letters, Winter Letters reminds us of the universal power of art. Judith Baumel, Walt Whitman Award Winner, former director Poetry Society of America

Winter Letters: & Other Poems

“This is the story of Anselm.” A woman plans to set down a faithful portrait of her ex-lover, just days after he’s fled their one-room romance. But as she looks back on the crash-and-burn affair, her writing quickly reveals her own contempt for and obsession with moody, unpredictable Anselm. The 35-year-old narrator is an unpublished writer and retail clerk who spends her working hours shelving in a downtown bookstore, her days off laying low in a Brooklyn luncheonette. Anselm is a charming but hapless recent New Yorker, composer of music, and an Ivy League drop-out who hails from a disastrous Appalachian childhood. His storyline is heartbreaking, yet the fallible narrator goes in and out of sympathy for him as she vacillates between telling his story and theirs. In a voice that evokes the melancholy of Jean Rhys and the frankness of Annie Ernaux, Watch the Doors As They Close recounts the intense affair as it disintegrates--all the while painting vivid scenes of American rural poverty and New York bohemia at the turn of the Millennium.

Watch The Doors As They Close

Lillis, Karen

Literary

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