In Wolf Moon Blood Moon, Ed Falco considers love and the loss of love, what we have today and what we remember of yesterday, the promise of youth and the disappointments and pleasures of aging. By turns whimsical, meditative, and poignant, these poems examine the joys and sorrows of living.
The first section offers a meditation on loss, as the author explores bereavements both personal and remote. From an elderly mother and her stroke-impaired son struggling to have a simple conversation, to a man coping with the breakup of his marriage, to strangers caught in the public tragedies of a flood or an act of mass violence, these are poems acknowledging that loss is inevitable, infused with grief, and borne with courage. The second section explores the turbulence, sensuality, and mysteries within a particular life. Speakers in these poems contemplate aging while on their way to see a Broadway play, recall a father’s violence and a mother’s selflessness, and explore the complexity of a world that seems impossible to comprehend. Together, the two sections suggest a poet looking back in contemplation.

Wolf Moon Blood Moon: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Falco, Ed

Poetry

LSU Press

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather, as well as introduce it to a whole new generation.

The Family Corleone

Genre Fiction

Grand Central Publishing

Little, Brown Book Group

Windsor

Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, and Lucky Luciano. Tagged Mad Dog Coll” after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was the subject of a shoot-to-kill order issued by New York City Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, a $50,000 bounty offered by Dutch Shultz and Owen Madden, and $30,000 in reward money from by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the city’s newspapers. Loretto and Vince are bound to each other by years spent in an orphanage and on the streets, but in the summer of 1931, with Loretto in love with newly-divorced Gina Baronti, and Vince in thrall to the beautiful Lottie Kriesberger, their world of tough guys in tough times is hurtling toward disaster, and Loretto finds himself faced with impossible choices.

Toughs

United States

Unbridled Books

Tom T” Walker, a 57-year-old businessman, knows better than to pick up a beautiful young woman hitchhiking with her dangerous-looking boyfriend, but he stops for them anyway. He’s been living alone, his life ruinously off course, in such utter isolation from everyone he has ever loved that he welcomes the company and the excitement. But as T finds himself pulled into the chaos of their world in a way he will barely survive, he comes to see his personal history and experiences in an altered and troubling light. Edward Falco brings stunning emotional depth and tense action to unforgettable characters as they journey through the mundane world to places where illusions fail and they must face their hidden selves.

Wolf Point

Contemporary

Tom "T" Walker, a 57-year-old businessman, knows better than to pick up a beautiful young woman hitchhiking with her dangerous-looking boyfriend, but he stops for them anyway. He’s been living alone, his life ruinously off course, in such utter isolation from everyone he has ever loved that he welcomes the company and the excitement. But as T finds himself pulled into the chaos of their world in a way he will barely survive, he comes to see his personal history and experiences in an altered and troubling light.Author Edward Falco brings stunning emotional depth and tense action to unforgettable characters as they journey through the mundane world to places where illusions fail and they must face their hidden selves.

Transcendent Gardening

C&R Press

Volume 12 of the Heavy Feather Review literary annual. Featuring art from Russell Evans and anti-comics by Tex Gresham. Fiction by Tony Burgess, Christian TeBordo, Z.Z. Boone, Divya Maniar, David Leo Rice, and Ed Falco. Poetry by Anthony Robinson, Olena Jennings, Louis Armand, Sean Singer, Joe Milazzo, and Evan Williams. The 2021 Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship Winners. And much more.

Heavy Feather Review Vol. 12

Burgess, Tony

Armand, Louis

ROBINSON, ANTHONY

Jennings, Olena

Literary

Heavy Feather Review

Nueva York, 1933. La ciudad y la nacion estan sumidas en la Gran Depresion. Las familias del crimen han prosperado durante los ultimos anos, pero al acercarse el fin de la Prohibicion, se aproxima una guerra que determinara cuales organizaciones sobreviviran y cuales veran su final. Para Vito Corleone nada es mas importante que el futuro de su familia. Mientras sus tres hijos menores asisten al colegio, desconocedores de la verdadera ocupacion de su padre, y su hijo adoptivo Toma Hagen estudia en la Universidad, su gran preocupacion es Sonny, su primogenito. Vito quiere que Sonny se convierta en un respetable hombre de negocios, pero este, impaciente, y con tan solo diecisiete anos de edad, quiere algo mas; seguir los pasos de su padre y ser uno mas en los negocios de la familia. / For Vito Corleone nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children are unaware of their father's occupation, he worries about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow his father's footsteps and become a part of the family business.

La familia Corleone (Spanish Edition)

PUZO, MARIO

Roca Bolsillo

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