From lasting childhood images to current life situations, Hewins draws from these experiences for insipration in his writing. "Poems drawing from childhood are not a living in the past. Dried flowers have their own beauty, but can't compare with the living bloom connected to its roots."

Rattapallax : A Journal of Contemporary Literature, No. 1

Rattapallax Press

In most ways Cicada is an astounding book, nearly a new species of poetry. This book should be widely read because it announces the arrival of a poet who has a good shot at being major. Jim Harrison, Author of Legends of the Fall and The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems

Cicada

Literature & Fiction

Nickels, Mark

Poetry

Poetry. "This book is the work of a keen, observant mind still blessedly open to every intellectual, emotional and aesthetic temptation: metaphysics, speculations on history and art, the accidents of travel, random observations of daily life, memory, formal experimentation, personal experience. Nothing escapes Michael T. Young's notice, from the cosmic to the microscopic, and in the best of these challenging, sometimes difficult poems, that notice is transformed into images so arresting and beautiful that they stop the heart for a moment and enter into the reader's memory for good" -Rhina P. Espaillat.

Transcriptions of Daylight

Young, Michael

Lost Days

Poetry. Includes CD. Stephanos Papadopoulos is a Greek/American who grew up in Athens and Paris. He has published in many journals including Yale Review, Stand Magazine, Southfields, etc. He has translated poems by Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos. In 1998 he attended Derek Walcott's Rat Island Foundation. Critic Bengt Jangfeldt states, "Stephanos Papadopoulos has several qualities as a poet, one of the most conspicuous being his talent for the elegiac, his ability to bring to life memories and artifacts from times past..." This book was co-published with Leviathan in the UK.

Papadopoulos, Stephanos

Violento Placer aparece, espléndidamente publicado por The Latino Press, con el respaldo de la editorial Rattapallax y de una beca del departamento de Asuntos Culturales de Nueva York, como el mejor libro de poesía en español publicado en Los Estados Unidos en 2001. 
Violento Placer nos ofrece tres libros de poesía en uno. Cada libro, alcanza el clímax de una historia que se cuenta poema tras poema, como si se tratara de capítulos. 
En el primer libro que consta de las primeras cinco secciones, Villamil nos interna en un diálogo con la tradición poética que la antecede. 
El segundo libro, que consta de cuatro secciones, nos arroja en brazos de una historia que va desde la contemplación y excitación, pasando por la seducción, la consumación, el desencanto, y la evasiva, hasta la reconciliación y la reincidencia del amor. 
La última sección que contiene 21 poemas, nos devuelve al comienzo del libro, un epígrafe del poeta José Emilio Pacheco que expresa su Arte Poética: "Escribe lo que quieras. Di lo que se te antoje. De todas formas vas a ser condenado." 
Las diez secciones del libro están acompañadas por viñetas de Ricardo Allemán, inspiradas en los poemas.

Violento Placer

Villamil, Antonieta

Short Fuse is the first major global collection of poetry from the 21st-century featuring many of the poets who are defining world literature and culture. Over 175 innovative poets from around the world are represented in this remarkable 400-page volume, ebook &amp; CD. The fusion poets define these complex times through new forms of performance and text by mixing the best of the oral and written traditions. The hundreds of poems in this eclectic and powerful gathering are ferocious, funny, erotic, elegiac, and always grounded in the real experiences and voices of our startling present. Included with this collection is a free ebook with additional poems not available in the book and a full-length CD featuring recordings by the poets. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to UNICEF. Major figures are presented alongside the most exciting younger voices. Some of the prominent poets featured in the collection are Simon Armitage, Billy Collins, Todd Colby, Patricia Smith, Bob Holman, Glyn Maxwell, Eileen Tabios, Robert Priest, Andrea Thompson, Wednesday Kennedy, Willie Perdomo, Tug Dumbly, Lucy English, Charles Bernstein, Penn Kemp, Regie Cabico, Edwin Torres, John Kinsella, Ron Silliman, Peter Finch, Guillermo Castro, Michael Hulse, Robert Priest, Nicole Blackman, David McGimpsey, Louise Bak, Golda Fried and many more. Short Fuse is the global, contemporary, and expanded extension of Poetry Nation.

Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry

Norton, Phillip

The first book in English on a little known cinema from a key part of the Middle East. This timely collection offers critical essays and historical overview of film production in Syria, as well as brings together words and texts from several of Syria's most critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated masters of cinema.

Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays & Conversations with Contemporary Filmmakers

Arts & Photography

Salti, Rasha

History & Criticism

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