Aspects of a Southern Story

Sargent, Robert

Word Works

This book deals with events that occurred in eighth century France - the marriage of Princess Berta of Hungary to Pepin the Short of France.  The story concerns an evil servant who orders that Berta be slain in the woods and then substitutes her own daughter in the bridal bed. However, Berta escapes and the heart of a wild boar is brought back as proof of Berta's death.  The two girls resemble each other, save for the size of their feet.  Here are the roots of two fairytales, Cinderella and Snow White, eleven hundred years before the Brothers Grimm.  Pepin and Berta (known historically as Berta Broadfoot), eventually become the parents of Charlemgne.

Berta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short: A Merovingian Romance

Barbara Goldberg

The Way Water Rubs Stone

Bursk, Christopher

Bad Names for Women (Word Works capital collection)

Tham, Hilary

Poetry. Introduction by Nick Flynn. With his deft and timeless blend of the lyrical and narrative, Fred Marchant explores the wars inside us and the ones we wage in the world: spiritual, familial, political. "In the spirit of Wilfred Owen, TIPPING POINT is a book seared by personal and historical fact. Many artists are eager to assume the mantle of 'witness,' as if will or ambition could do the work of experience and imagination. In contrast, the gravity, modesty, and moral questioning in Marchant's poems reveal a mind committed to a version of history that is resolutely human scale."—Tom Sleigh "Explicit in its detailing, subtly graded in its responsiveness, TIPPING POINT is also a kind of latter-day metaphysics of morals. Marchant searches out the hidden springs of action and yet never loses sight of the larger contexts in which our deeds and gestures come to matter. An honest, earned book."—Sven Birkerts

Tipping Point

Literature & Fiction

Marchant, Fred.

Poetry

The Cutoff

Rogoff, Jay

Book by Young, George, Blackmore, Richard

Spinoza's Mouse

Blackmore, Richard

YOUNG, GEORGE

Pinecrest Rest Haven is a sequence of prose poems depicting the lives of the elderly living in a nursing home.

Pinecrest rest haven (Word Works capital collection)

Cavalieri, Grace

Winners: A Retrospective of the Washington Prize

History & Criticism

One long poem threaded with personal, evocative poetry constantly moving. A Zen journey. A journey of love. The Absence of Zen. Becoming Jewish. The Kaddish. Blessings. A very readable work of what was known before and what is known now. From "The world is a hard place": 
We look at our empty hands and feel shadows and shade, sky drying where water has bee, and are left with wind, know them only by their absence. Water. Wind. -- Melissa Bell review in VISIONS-International 2001

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