"Reading this book will enable you to sit still for extended periods of time while your fruit paints you. It is recommended you wear your least favorite hat while reading this. Even if you don't read this yourself (for men) lending this book to women is an almost guaranteed way to make them fall in love with you. (for women) If you're not already in love with yourself, find out why."

Still Life in Motion

Literature & Fiction

Brijbasi, Sean

Contemporary

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Strom, Dean

<p>Poetry, once only the domain of the upper class and educated caste, is now a way for everyday people to see the world, to interpret the mundane into something deeper, perhaps even a universal identification of the human experience. The poet Elias Miller has the ability to compress meaning, create word play, soundscapes and generate insights in a small space. Belt Loops Bird Food establishes a context of common experience that anchors meaning and builds an identification with the reader in ways that are moving and often stunning.</p>

Belt Loops & Bird Food, Collected Poems 2002 - 2009

Miller, Elias

Poetry

<p>An explanation of the title of this work provides the best introduction: The Baltimore Years. J. Tyler Blue never uses these words in this particular order in any of his works and indeed some might consider the words pleonastic (whatever that means), but the title hints of Baltimore and of Years. And also of The. In The Baltimore Years we find that Blue brushes the dust from Charm City and immerses himself in it. He never lets the dust settle, however, but freezes it in time around him with haunting and silent prose that allows him to explore his world as a lost astronaut floating amongst the stars might.</p>

The Baltimore Years

Biographies & Memoirs

Blue, J Tyler

Memoirs

This story collection carries us like an outgoing tide, on a wave retreating from the underworld of 21st century London to a Dublin hinterland in the 1970's and beyond, to the time of coalmen, tenements, and bicycles. "They're all here, the charmers, the snakes, the innocent, the complaisant, the guilt-ridden and the guilty, the Brothers, the whores, the poor and the young, the invulnerable, the jailed and the dead, the green and the truant, the music box and the p.a, the skaters, the crooners, and the pink neon sign that blinks all night, saying keys, keys, keys..."

The London Silence

Moran, Stephen

It's not easy to put yourself into the tattered loafers of a contemporary poet. He isn't much read - not on this continent at least. He doesn't represent any kind of iconic allusion. He isn't quoted by politicians except on inauguration day or when they're reaching for what they hope is sublime, most likely in a speech they instinctively know will be too long. I can imagine Senator Throb screaming at his speech writers later to not give him the kind of material that causes the voters' eyes to glaze over. "It's the last goddam time we're quoting any goddam poetry." So what could possibly be said about the poets in this anthology that they might not have already lied about to their mothers? Instead I'll talk about you. I try to visualize you reading this introduction and then the entire book. I can't exactly picture you, obviously, but know you're not the average reader or you wouldn't have selected this book - while I admit the cover is attractive. You either have a thirst for knowledge or, at least, elevated diversion. You're not necessarily highly educated but you ain't no dumb ass. I love you. I want to crawl up your leg a homing finger but I'm not after your libido. It's your spine from about mid-lower back up into your brain stem that I want to straighten with the gentlest of tingling. Your head should raise and your chin should point. And you should feel it in your ears. The poets in this book share that wish. I doubt that any one of them hopes for the sentences they've crafted to be in all senses useless. They've set out to touch something, somehow, with only words at their disposal. Words can thrill, still, in this day and age, if only for a moment. There are still moments a book can energize a latent or near forgotten purpose to our lives. Maybe that is too much to hope for with this volume, but maybe hoping for an initiative sparked by one or two of these writers leading to future moments in which that is attained, isn't.

Last Night's Dream Corrected

The Muse and the Mechanism: Love, sex, drugs, death, life, comedy, dreams, pop culture, racism, class, religion, 9/11, crime, failure, and epiphany, but not necessarily in that order.  Old tongues blend with new actions as the modern hipsinisters vie to create a new language of the literary lost.  At the Center is Charlie Fell, a twenty-something who can't make up his mind on his medium, his lovers, and his position in life.

The muse and the mechanism

Davis, Josh

Babble On to Babylon

Politics & Social Sciences

Vide, Blem

Philosophy

Dancing the Maze by Kenneth Dawson is the first collection of the author's writings and an odd mix of verse, prose, and travel journalism. The author considers his writing a continuing work in progress as he explores his life, the nation's recent history and the state of the world as he finds it

Dancing the Maze

Dawson, Kenneth

The Unknowed Things

Literary

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