Jerred Metz takes us back to the war that opened the deadliest century in human history. A battalion of angels, mystical intercessors, and a cast of engaging humans ranges from British machine gunners to Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, and W.B. Yeats. The Angel of Mons is a meditative and transcendent journey into a war we can never learn too much about, or from. Kevin Coyne, author of Marching Home This is the starting point for Metz’s wide-ranging, original book: St. George, the Angel of Mons, appears out of an unfurling cloud over the Mons-Conté canal, saving Lt. Dease’s Vickers machine-gun crew. The saint attacks the Germans and saves the BEF from annihilation. A few days, later Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s and W.B. Yeats’ experiences confirm this to be so. Historical characters rub shoulders with men and women of the author's creation.Steeped in the Edwardian Age’s beliefs about the psychic phenomena and spiritualism, the novel shows that success in the battle is more than a matter of well-sited machine guns and resolute crews; in The Angel of Mons St. George determines the fate of the “Golden Arrows of God,” and the British Expeditionary Force. Antony Bird author of Gentlemen, We will Stand and Fight: Le Cateau 1914.Long after the war is over, and the facts of it have been recorded in histories, one of the most widely known events will be the appearance of St. George and angel-warriors fighting in defense of the British during the retreat from Mons. The papers are full of it and testimony pours in from all sides. Harold Bigbie “On the Side of the Angels” 1915.That was the Battle of Mons. As the opening British engagement of what was to become the Great War, it became endowed in retrospect with every quality of greatness and was given a place in the British pantheon equal to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it.Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August

The Angel of Mons: A World War I Legend

Literature & Fiction

Metz, Jerred

Genre Fiction

Singing Bone Press

HOW THINGS STACK UP is Castro’s fifteenth book, which include collections of his own poetry, translations of modern Hungarian poets with Gabor G. Gyukics, and the prose work, Interpreting the Indian: Twentieth Century Poets and the Native American. Charles Guenther wrote of Castro in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Michael Castro is a legend on the St. Louis poetry scene, as an editor, arts activist, and radio host, and for his poems, which have been widely published. His voice is wide-ranging and versatile. Whether in long lines . . . or in terse measured syllables, his voice is original.” How Things Stack Up contains mostly new poems with a few older ones, like the celebrated “Man Who Looked Into Coltrane’s Horn,” sprinkled in. Each poem functions individually and as part of a longer sequence, and is marked by Castro’s characteristic evocative word music and vivid imagery. Jerred Metz wrote of the collection, “These are poems of substance. Each is a gem, a treat, a treasure, a treasury of verse and thought, and takes its rightful place in the collection.”

How Things Stack Up

Castro, Michael

Poetry

A book of fifty essays filled with wit and wisdom. Love, disappointment, family, ancestors, and miscellaneous topics come from the fertile mind of Uncle Duke, W.K. Haydon. A joy to read and ponder.

Uncle Duke Gathers his Wits: or, Truths and Heresies

Humor & Entertainment

Haydon, W. K.

Humor

Forty-eight poems translated from the Hebrew of twenty-eight Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Israeli poets on themes from the Bible.

Two Gardens: Modern Hebrew Poems of the Bible

poetry anthology

Almost ninety miles north of Bangkok lies Wat Phra Phutthabaht, the Temple of the Buddha's Footprint. In February 1807, four days before the Magha Puja holiday, members of Bangkok's royal courts set out on pilgrimage for the Footprint, an annual tradition already two centuries old at that time. Beautifully translated with commentary and insight by Noh Anothai

Poems from the Buddha's Footprint

Anothai, Noh

In Double Identity Allison Joseph achieves an astonishing multiplicity of voices: some the preacher/teacher poet, some the enraged and engaged citizen, some the erotic lover both committed and unbound. These voices seem deceptive because they can sound simplistic on first reading, but are far from it. When one realizes that they appear in such contrary manner and contexts, “identity” within them is more than doubled.

Double Identity

Joseph, Allison

Translated poetry and prose. 	Lyrical and passionate, her work stands apart from Song Dynasty women who chose to write stylized verse framed by imperial culture. At once intimate and universal, Li voices a timeless reality: Love, memory, and loss are integral to human experience. She wrote in the Twelfth Century.

Double Radiance: Poetry and Prose of Li Qingzhao

Qingzhao, Li

The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand, a True Crime/Western Graphic Novel Vic Carrabotta, legendary Marvel comic book artist, reads about Earl Durand, and brings the greatest crime spree of Wyoming's history-The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand-back to life and notoriety! What happens: March 13, 1939. Near Cody, Wyoming game wardens stop a car. Inside, Earl Durand, two teen-aged friends, and Emil Knopp, one of the boys' father-and a trunkful of poached elk meat. As the car slows down Durand jumps out, runs into the night, rifle in hand. Eleven days later, March 24, four men dead from Durand's rifle and Earl in a mountain lair where no one can get at him. Two dozen Montana National Guardsmen armed with howitzer and mortar, a dozen posse men-professional hunting guides-, and a plane loaded with dynamite bombs and fire tear-gas canisters-comb the mountain to flush Earl out. It's not over yet. From elk poach to the end. Woe to all who these events touched. Vic read the book when he was 91 and tells the story of what happened in pictures with words from the book. A true Western tragedy pictured by a legendary artist.

The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand: A Graphic Novel

Business & Money

International

Too Late to Turn Back

Bargen, Walter

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