<p>Poetry. New to SPD. Barry Ballard's collection of lyrical blank verse sonnets inhabit contemporary settings and tell stories with precise imagery and metaphor. With a strong emphasis on environmental and social issues, Ballard's writing evolved and settled on the contemporary sonnet. In the past two years, over 200 of his sonnets have been published in literary journals across the country. He has received an award for literature fom the University of Alaska, and GREEN TOMBS TO JUPITER, Ballard's first collection, is the winner of the 2000 Snail's Pace Poetry Prize.</p>

Green Tombs To Jupiter

Literature & Fiction

Ballard, Barry

Poetry

Snail's Pace Press

Poetry. Gaylord Brewer's third book of poetry evokes all the senses through its use of metaphor, character, landscape and precise imagery with tough, memorable writing. Reviewing Brewer's Presently a Beast in the Asheville Poetry Review, M.A. Roberts writes, "I make the unlikely comparison between Muhammad Ali and Brewer in hopes of some semblance of how Gaylord Brewer approaches the world and how he poetically writes about it. That is, aggressively, unflinchingly, with fluidity and cadence, with playfulness and craft. Brewer's poems are persistent in probing the tough masks of civility, always sniffing out the beast that lurks behind our well-prepared lives."

Four Nails

Brewer, Gaylord

<p>Fiction. In these short stories, Garber blurs the margins between reality and fantasy to create an "eerie domain of magical ambiguity. the work of a grandly talented storyteller" -William Kennedy. Winner of numerous awards for fiction, and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Albany, Garber writes what Joyce Carol Oates once called "almost real" stories that are vivid, surprising and provocative. Brimming with both the quotidian and the transcendent, "underneath there is always a powerful story pumping and pumping, carrying everything with it" -Norman Lavers.</p>

Beasts in Their Wisdom: Stories

Eugene K. Garber

Contemporary

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