Ragged Lion: A Tribute to Jack Micheline

Vagabond Press

Bestseller

Cronin, M.T.C.

"I was having lunch with Dexter DeWitt. This in itself was a questionable activity on my part." So begins Code Green, whose anti-hero Chip Stone engages in quite a few questionable activities. Stone works as a male nurse in a psychiatric hospital and has almost as many behavioral issues as the residents he cares for. These include DeWitt, a cultural critic gone bonkers; Tim Valentine, who snacks on light bulbs; Philip Nolan, who contends (correctly) that he's a character in a book; and Glinda Moon, an anorexic witch. As the violence at his workplace intensifies, the confused Stone sets out on a desperate but comical odyssey to find his estranged wife - and himself. His wanderings take him through a netherworld where he meets old friends, new enemies and one very unusual sister-in-law. He discovers that the line between the sane and the not-so-sane is more gossamer than even he had suspected. With wild characters and gaudy, entertaining prose, this engaging work offers a bumptious blend of humor and pathos well-suited to the new millenium.

Code Green

Literature & Fiction

Jenkins, Greg

Contemporary

Poetry. LIVES is a lyrical, passionate, and occasionally ironical account of life in a modern world of infinite possibility. Filled with vivid imagery of work, love, dreams, and death, these poems celebrate the phenomenal aspects of existence while acknowledging the futility of our continual search for meaning. They confront both reality and the beyond, communicating powerful truths about eternal situations. Lucas Hunt has won a John Steinbeck Award for poetry. His poems have been published in Confrontation, The Iconoclast, Hidden Oaks, Proteus, Mad Poets Review, and Meet the Writers. "There is a kind of Keatsian ardor underlying his Eliotesque grapplings with the existential void...Lucas Hunt's LIVES marks the debut of a very fine poet"--Southhampton Press. "...insights into the uniqueness of not only individual life, but also the seemingly commonplace phenomena that affect it"--Midwest Book Review.

Lives

Hunt, Lucas

Poetry

<p>Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Based on the author's experiences of traveling between two unique cultures on different continents, and of living under both democratic and totalitarian regimes, THE ROOM WITH CLOSETS is a fascinating and innovative volume of short stories. These tales, all tied together by common threads, travel the literary landscape from grim political reality to joyous flights of fantasy and humor. Join Ignacio Jose Conti, his extended family, and his friends to obtain a deeper understanding of life, love, and human nature. A. Pablo Iannone, born and raised in Argentina, left his homeland as a result of political upheaval while a university student. He teaches philosophy at Central Connecticut State University, and has published several books including Philosophy as Diplomacy and Dictionary of World Philosophy. THE ROOM WITH CLOSETS was awarded the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction. "An unforgettable portrait of human struggle, survival, and wry insight"--Midwest Book Review.</p>

The Room with Closets

Pablo A. Iannone

<p>Fiction. Watt, the eldest son in a rural family of five, has tracked a buck for the past six months. Following the kill, he teaches his kid brother the proper way to dress a deer . . . but the blood ritual has just begun. DRIVEN OR FORCED ONWARD BY OR AS IF BY WIND OR WATER leads us into a feral, yet calculated, labyrinth of consciousness, language and structure. Mysterious forces propel this imploding text, pregnant with meaning, through a cacophony of slaughter, sacrifices, and rites of initiation. Mollere weaves a tapestry of dream and wakefulness in this paean to violence, this mythical search for harmony. "Into a literary firmament where innovation is extremely rare comes this audaciously imagined, artistically executed, remarkable, remarkable fiction"--David Madden, author of The Suicide's Wife. "Mollere writes from the dead zones on the radio dial, where there are no stations"--Chris Pusateri, author of ANON & Berserker Alphabetics.</p>

Driven or Forced Onward by or As If by Wind or Water

Mollere, Edgar

Suite for Percy Granger

Wilkinson, Jessica L.

'Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future)' is the most recent collection from Australia's foremost experimental and political poet and one of the best known contemporary Aboriginal Australian writers, Lionel G. Fogarty.  "Sometimes angry, defiant, sometimes sad, and always in love with people and country, Lionel Fogarty is cosmically off the scales, holds multitudes, is wise, riddling, and funny too. Like all romantics the word is energy, wilderness and invention, but the modern is where he's going. If these poems were dice, they're all loaded. There's no voice comes close to this intensity. And if you want something predictable and 'correct' (in terms of language and rhetoric) go elsewhere. 'Here comes the tranquility incarnation.'" -Adam Aitken  "Once again Lionel Fogarty presents a collection of poems unique in the telling. From bar room brawls to constitutional referendums, past loves and hopes for the future, these new poems obliterate the landscape, holding the reader in a place of Aboriginal contemplation." -Ali Cobby Eckermann

Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future)

Fogarty, Lionel G.

The Crocodile Fury

Beth Yahp

Translated by Jiyoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, Jake Levine and Johannes GOransson. This collection brings together three of the most exciting voices in contemporary Korean poetry to the English language in translation. These three women poets shock and delight, entertain and de-familiarize, corrupt and contaminate traditional readings and stereotypical definitions of Asian women, Asian poetry, Asian-ness. While K-pop girl groups sell cuteness, marketing the female body as an object to be consumed by the male gaze, poems by these three women reveal how that manufactured cuteness is a state of acute deformity. If the male gaze strips the female body of significant social agency through a loss of authenticity or aura, these poets give us a world that shuts down the power behind that gaze.  This tenth volume in the Asia Pacific Series from Vagabond Press presents three essential women's voices in contemporary world literature with a selection of work from Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook & Kim Min Jeong and gives English-language readers new access to the hybridity of genre and style representative of Korea's ("Future Wave") poets. Kim Min-Jeong was born in Inchon in 1976, received a B.A. in creative writing from Chung'ang University and studied at the graduate school of the same university. She made her literary debut in 1999 by winning the Munye chung'ang Rookie Writer's Award. Her publications include Flying Porcupine Maiden (2005) and She Began to Feel - for the First Time(2009). She is the recipient of the 2007 Pak In-hwan Literary Award. Kim Yi-Deum has published five books of poetry - A Stain in the Shape of a Star (2005), Cheer up, Femme Fatale (2007), The Unspeakable Lover (2011), Song of Berlin, Dahlem (2013), and Hysteria (2014) - and the novel Blood Sisters (2011). Her work has been adapted into a play (The Metamorphosis, 2014) and a film (After School, 2015). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Poetry & the World Literary Award (2010), the Kim Daljin Changwon Award (2011), the 22nd Century Literary Award (2015) and the Kim Chunsoo Award (2015). She read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des PoEtes en Val-de-Marne in 2015. Having received her PhD for a thesis on Korean feminist poetics, she teaches at Gyeongsang National University. She is also a newspaper columnist and hosts a poetry-themed radio program. In 2012, she held a residency at the Free University of Berlin as part of the Writer-in-Residence Abroad Program of the Arts Council Korea (ARKO). Kim is currently finalizing her book of interviews with homeless people in Paris, as well as writing a new book of poems and essays, while in residence at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Kim Haeng-sook (born in Seoul - 1970) is a Korean poet and professor. Her debut poem appeared in the quarterly Contemporary Literature in 1999. In 2000, she was named the recipient of the Daesan Creative Writing Fund. Her poetry collections include Adolescence (2003), The Ability to Part (2007), and she has also published book of prose including What Was Literature (2005), Traversing Creations and Ruins (2005). She also received the Solmoe Creative Writing Fund in 2007. Currently she is professor of Korean literature at Kangnam University.

Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook & Kim Min Jeong (Asia Pacific)

Kim, Min-Jeong

Kim, Yi-Deum

Kim, Haeng-Sook

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