Death, Child and Love: Poems, 1980-2000 is the odyssey of a poet journeying from darkness to light. Chronicling a long and harrowing series of deaths and personal disappointments, the early poems in this volume serve as an antidote to dispair, expounding the difficulties of life and giving articulation to the many people who suffer. Yet, it is Francisco's focus on children in the later poems that provides healing, redemption, and arrival at a juncture where love is finally possible. Displaying a wide range of styles, the poems are, by turn, lyrical, narrative, and meditative.

Death, Child, and Love : Poems, 1980-2000

Literature & Fiction

FRANCISCO, EDWARD

Poetry

Wp Books

Viola Sykes is an unlikely heroine. Her son Harold, a shell-shocked veteran of World War II, has been murdered for threatening to expose key figures in a bootlegging and political conspiracy. Poorly educated and with few resources, Viola must match wits with the suspected culprit, Loather Parrish, a notorious political boss whose intelligence is equaled only by his capacity for evil. In her efforts at retribution, Viola struggles to prevent her daughter from becoming another pawn in Loather Parrish's political machinations. To secure their freedom, Viola pursues a daring tactic: she commits herself to an infamous mental hospital. The Dealmaker, set in 1940s and 1950s Appalachia, presents an unusual cast of characters who aid Viola as she seeks to avenge her son's death: Isabel Williams, playwright Tennessee Williams' aunt, another inmate at the asylum; Nadine, an idiot savant, who has memorized all the telephone numbers and addresses in the Knoxville, Tennessee, phone directory; and Burdette Webb, a courageous reporter who risks his life to obtain crucial evidence. In Mr. Francisco's fast-paced narrative, these characters draw the reader into an intriguing tale of murder, rampant ambition, prefontal lobotomies, and a mother's unflappable courage.

The Dealmaker

In the tradition of alchemists in the Middle Ages, this title searches for the precise words that can transmute common experience into the golden language that sheds light on why we live the way we do.

The Alchemy of Words: Letterpress Edition

Birch Brook Pr

What happens when a prize-winning poet and a dazzlingly gifted nine-year-old illustrator collaborate on a children's book? Mallory's World from A to Z is a collection of smart and appealing alphabet poems illustrated by the poet's great niece, a blond-haired ball of energy and art student, named Mallory.Inspired by poet laureate Richard Wilbur's Opposites series, sometimes Ed worked from Mallory's drawings, but usually Mallory drew from Ed's poems.Because Mallory lives on a farm and because the zoo is one of Ed's favorite haunts, a good portion of the poems feature animals. The mnemonic qualities of the poems and the whimsical nature of the illustrations should make this collection memorable for children and their parents and caregivers alike. Mallory and Ed would love for readers of all ages to enjoy the magic and spirit of Mallory's World from A to Z.

Mallory's World from A to Z

Children's Books

Dillon, Mallory

Celtic Cat Publishing

Fragments is a collection of 73 poems, stories and epic narratives about how our possibilities, experiences and choices are defined by the arc of past and present human history and ideas. The vital struggles between knowledge and unexamined belief, modesty and pretence, beauty and brutality, individual freedom and collective power, rationality and ideology and excellence and banality are key themes that run throughout these insightful, lyrical and evocative compositions. You will find compelling word craft with depth, color, immediacy and lingering latency as the forces that shape us in pivotal and amplified moments are depicted and considered. Momentous events such as the signing of the Magna Carta, the victories of Alfred the Great and the struggles of the American Revolution as well as achievements of great minds such as those of Aristotle, DaVinci, Mozart and Russell appear here. Taken together, these compositions suggest that we are at our best and most authentic when we commit to living as consciously as possible, as a project towards evolving understanding and enlarging personal freedom. The major sections of this book are: "Love, As Measured"; "Perhaps Truth, Perhaps Beauty"; "A Boy, Once Becoming"; "Past Voices, Present Echoes"; and "In England, A Center Found". Key Words and Themes: Love, Friendship, Kindness, Truth, Rationality, Paradox, Beauty, Youth, Self, Knowing, Believing, Thinking, Power, Freedom, History, and England.

Fragments: Poems and Narratives

lulu.com

The best in Short Mystery Fiction At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world's best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty. Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery. In this issue... Gem Collector by George GarnetA jewelry thief gets his revenge on dirty cops while helping an abused street walker. These Little Things That Lead Us Down Dark Alleys by Michael McGladeCory Moss is suspected of foul play after in the sudden death of his fiancée in a nightclub. He must follow the seedy trail that leads to her killer. The Farmer And His Wife by Earl StaggsA private investigator reluctantly agrees to look for a weeping mother's son who was last heard from while working on a Texas farm. Beyond the Grave by Edward FranciscoIn typical Poe style, Edgar Allan Poe must discover the motive, means and opportunity after the death of his child-bride, Virginia Clemm. The Exquisite Agony of the Interrogator by Peter HochsteinA dark yet humorous caper involving kidnappings, interrogations, tortures and bumbling goons. A Fair Trade by Ben OrlandoTwo career kidnappers approach their last grab, but their loss of nerve may cost them everything.

Mystery Weekly Magazine: March 2017 (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues)

Staggs, Earl

Hochstein, Peter

Orlando, Ben David

McGlade, Michael

Garnet, George

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Resource Publications

The Ever Changing Sky

Resource Publications (CA)

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