Fiction. Gay & Lesbian Studies. DRAWN FROM LIFE traces the erotic and aesthetic development of a Midwestern painter--from a childhood fascination with both 1940s cars and the bodies of other boys, through an unhappily extended sojourn on the East Coast, to the inheriting of his grandmother's farm by the Mississippi River where he collects a barnful of Nashes, DeSotos and Kaisers, along with a reclusive ex-convict of a boyfriend in the painter's happily settled middle age.

Drawn from Life

Literature & Fiction

Strong, Jonathan

Contemporary

Quale Press

Poetry. Beginning and ending with pieces titled Home, and moving through, among many other places, Key West, Cairo, Fiesole, Istanbul, Tex-Mex and Sarajevo, this collection of 30 prose-poems, which are at times happily indistinguishable from short-short stories, chronicles a love affair with Gigi through astonishingly wide-ranging world travels. LOVE POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM is a poet's atlas. And as coincidence would have it, it happens to be exactly the right tour guide. (--Russell Edson) In Paris, a white poodle named Gigi begs for a bone; in Greenland we learn that in Notre Dame Gigi made a pass at her wrist with a razo; in Berlin we are privy to the cry, Heal me, Doctor Gigi! As changeable as the landscape, as chameleon-like as Gigi herself, these poems are a delight of wanderlust and wit. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Love Poems for the Millennium

peter, Johnson

Poetry

Using her observations on growing up, falling into love, visiting friends — even on the “discovery” of the New World and an invasion of bears, Liz Brennan does some amazing things with language in her collection of 22 prose poems. No one pushes syntax to its limit better.

Sewing Her Hand to the Face of the Fleeting

Brennan, Liz

United States

Poetry. From one direction Ed Barrett's PRACTICAL LULLABIES FOR JOE, from the other Joseph Torra's THE LETTERS TO ED, with gorgeous collages by Gian Lombardo, these poems literally collide on the page, encounter each other as the authors encounter each other's work and ideas in the poems themselves. Torra's LETTERS is a numbered series of prose poems that infuse daily life with a quiet and questioning desire to know. What were the four virtues of the true woman? What is duality of the text? A secured loan, title to property and large house close to the river reconcile community, family, emotional crisis and writing's role. Why do men do what they do outside the normal spleen? Barrett's PRACTICAL LULLABIES range from lyrical to cynical, from verse to prose, bemused, musing, exploratory. Love/and an outdoor movie in daytime/would be different depending on how powerful/the projector is: either you could only/hear the sound without a picture,/a funny kind of unrelated story booming out,/surround

Watteau Sky: Letters to Ed/Practical Lullabies for Joe

Torra, Joseph

Barrett, Ed

Weaving through sleep, dream and sleeplessness, Koncel’s prose poems do bring us, with each reading, a little bit “closer to day.” There’s always an attentive eye on the folk who live close to the earth, the earth’s animals as well as close to fellow humans. Read these pieces and to appreciate lyricism merged with humor and sadness.

Closer to Day

Koncel, Mary A.

Poetry. Translated from the French by Gian Lombardo. This book includes the first half of Bertrand's Gaspard of the Night: Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot (published in 1842), which is considered to be the first Western example of the modern prose poem. His work has been important for many French writers, from Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarmé to the Surrealists and writers of the present day. Constructed almost like a hall of mirrors, Bertrand used the character of Gaspard to render these vignettes. Written in the early 19th century, but mimicking life two, three and even four centuries before, the modern reader is presented with what a mirror does best: presenting both "sides" of an image--ugliness and beauty.

Flemish School, Old Paris, & Night & Its Spells

Bertrand, Aloysius

All in All, by Laura Chester, is the second in Quale Press’s edition key satch(el) quarterly series of chapbooks of prose poetry. All in All is a collection of prose poem memoirs of growing up on a Midwest lakeside combined with period photographs. Recalling a “past that can’t crumble,” the prose poems and images create a haunting collage of a childhood and the memories “that they stir up . . . recollections of other incantations.

All in All

Chester, Laura

Poetry. The 20 prose poems of SELF-PORTRAIT comprise a tour of a psyche that is alternately hopeful, despairing, restless, nostalgic, and grandiose. The portrait that emerges is a combination of autobiography and literary invention. Personal memories mingle with fables, prayers, pastoral lyrics, and movie stills to reveal a self with many pasts and many guises. Ranging from childhood fantasies of terrestrial and sexual exploration to adult recognitions of failure, SELF-PORTRAIT bears witness to one person's search for clarity and fulfillment. Part of the Key Satch(el) quarterly chapbbook series from Quale Press.

Self-Portrait

JOHNSON, BRIAN

Hands-On Saints, by Holly Iglesias, is the fourth in Quale Press’s edition key satch(el) quarterly series of chapbooks of prose poetry. The twenty-three prose poems of Hands-On Saints create a revisionist hagiography. A chalice crafted of lesser metals, a taste of redemption in an unlikely mixture of sacred and profane. Saints outside the canon, unbeatified and bruised, coarse and clueless, deserving of heaven for their very flaws; as well as authorized saints, who offer dubious rewards at a terrible cost. An occasion of grace manifest in sacraments of rupture and awe.

Hands-On Saints

Iglesias, Holly

Prose Poetry. Translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lau++anno, Nicholas Altenbernd, Patricia Pruitt and Gian Lombardo. WHEN THE TIME COMES is part of Quale Press's edition key satch(el) series of publications of prose poetry, and features the work of nine poets, translated from the French and Flemish. The poets include Michel Delville, Gaspard Hons, Karel Logist, Leonard Nolens, Carl Norac, Hughes C. Pernath, EugSne Savitzkaya, Erik Spinoy, and Dirk van Bastalaere. Many of these poets appear here in English for the first time.

When the Time Comes: A Selection of Contemporary Belgian Prose Poetry

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