CHRISTIANS IN THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION: an Interview with Luis Carrion National Directorate FSLN

MARTA HARNECKER

New American Press

Farthest South

Unknown, Author

Suspension

Richard Spilman

One of Lee K. Abbott's most exciting selections from All Things, All at Once is now available in a handsome limited edition perfect-bound chapbook. The story follows Mr. DeWine, a high school civics teacher looking for the love that will bring meaning to his middle years, and the two alienated students who plot death, havoc, and woe. A lightning ride from start to finish, with Abbott's signature voice carrying the reader throughout.

One of Star Wars, One of Doom

Lee K. Abbott

<p>Father of the contemporary short story, Anton Chekhov is widely known as a master of the subtle and the quotidian. But many of the more than 500 stories Chekhov published during his lifetime are deeply grounded in the realities of war, poverty, and violence that shaped daily life in nineteenth-century Russia. This volume presents ten lesser-known masterpieces from this other Chekhov, each introduced by a contemporary author such as Pinckney Benedict, Fred Chappell, Christopher Coake, Jeff Parker, Benjamin Percy, or David R. Slavitt.</p>

The Other Chekhov

ANTON CHEKHOV

<p>Davenport takes you with him as he returns to the gasoline-soaked town where he grew up and the family murder that still haunts him.</p>

Murder on Gasoline Lake

Steve Davenport

Kennedy’s expatriate life in Denmark assures him of fresh, lucid vision on his return trips to the states, especially during his New York sojourns. He can be wry, confused, indignant, comic…but what declares itself most is his openness to the odd, the out-of-the-way, the down-and-out, the tawdry, the fading, the provincial in the midst of the glitz, recalling for us the photos of Weegee (or, in another slice of America, Walker Evans) and the prose of Studs Terkel. This book is a small swig of 100-proof empathy. ALBERT GOLDBARTH In these sculptured essays, Kennedy will win your heart and beguile your mind as he proves once again that everyone has an interesting story to tell. Kennedy's synesthesia allows him to listen with his eyes and give us an artist’s brilliantly-tuned nuance for the harmonious sound of words. Call Riding the Dog a literary guide to the kindness, the paranoia, the civility and incivility of New York City and environs south and southeast. Meet those whose experiences and attitudes are tattooed literally and figuratively on their bodies denoting the difficult, down-to-earth, humanistic (sometimes barely human, occasionally spiritual) lives they've lived. DUFF BRENNA As with Orwell, Dickens, Gellhorn, and many others, Thomas E. Kennedy has pushed the essay form to its brightest moments, in which fact can have its poetry, its narrative, its characters, its emotion, and its intellectual integrity….This is Kennedy’s gift: language not as an instrument of explanation but as reality itself….We read these essays expecting to learn less about how we might think than how we might live.

Riding the Dog: A Look Back at America

Arts & Photography

KENNEDY, THOMAS E.

Photography & Video

Most memorable among these beautifully modulated lyric poems are the evocations of tranced stillness-a world immobilized by a porcelain decorum, a hopeless enthrallment, and the intense loneliness of living in the company of another's indifference: "Over his body, her horizon / she watched the dawn alone." Written over the years, the poems reveal an inner history as a submerged life comes to the surface, moving from the spellbound to the elegiac. - Eleanor Wilner

Reclaiming the Dead

Literature & Fiction

Kotzin, Miriam N

Poetry

Merging elements of Frank Sinatra's public persona with Biblical and mythological representations of divinity, the poems in this collection weave a complex and engaging gospel narrating the life of an American icon. With wit and power, this sequence uses (and misuses) styles and forms from Greek mythology, the eighth-century Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge, the Welsh medieval tales of The Mabinogi, and the Old and New Testaments to construct a fresh portrait of The Chairman and the cosmos he still occupies.

The Gospel According to Frank

Lloyd, Dr David

Kathy Fagan, final judge of the New American Press Spring 2009 Chapbook Contest: "In Renee Ashley's poems, all parts of speech behave as verbs, each one freighted with desire. Hers is work abuzz with existence, action, and occurrence. I love the surprising textural variety here, the heady music. Via linguistic experiment and complex emotional investigation, Ashley has created a poetry possessing vivid, necessary knowledge."

The Verbs of Desiring

Ashley, Renée

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