Fiction. Just as Soylent Green is people, so THE CHINTZ AGE is now. Everything is cheaper and chintzier than in the past, from consumer products to culture itself. Our great cities, and, in particular
Poetry. "'What are the strata / of pastness?' a poem in this fine book asks, and David Gullette responds with ghosts, dreams, daydreams, visions— 'questionable shapes' that live beneath the surf
Fiction. THE SUN EATERS unravels the story of two brothers in a small village of an Eastern European country just post World War II. The two boys and a handful of their colorful mates struggle to surv
Poetry. Serea's poems instantiate with startling clarity and empathy what it means to be at once deeply rooted in the world and permanently dislocated, a cultural curator and translator, a juggler of
Poetry. "The poems in WHAT HAPPENS NEXT allow us to enter the patience and calm of a poet who expresses himself after long listening, creating a welcome intimacy and a sense of life considered and sav
Fiction. Short Stories. From the ever- fertile mind of acclaimed memoirist (The Next Better Place) and author of over a dozen short story collections comes a new and extraordinary cache of tales that
Poetry. "Poetry is the record of hidden things in commerce with one another, and only that mystery allows us to live. Stella Vinitchi Radulescu's poetry is an alchemy, a magic of restraint and ex
Poetry. "This book is a poetic family memoir. It is roughly divided in three parts: 'Childhood - Youth,' 'Parents' and 'America.' Naturally, there is a significant overlap in terms of themes, moods an
