An anthology of new essays, fiction, poetry and criticism, as well as a look back at the writers whose original works have appeared in Confrontation magazine.  These include: Arthur Miller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, William Styron, Nadine Gordimer, Joseph Brodsky, Jerzy Kosinski, Cynthis Ozick, Iris Murdock, Eugene McCarthy, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lanford Wilson, and many others.

Confrontation Thirtieth Anniversary Anthology

McIntosh, Sandy

Tucker, Martin

Confrontation Press of Long Island University

Endless Staircase

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Poetry. "With a surrealist's touch, Sandy McIntosh wickedly maps out the psyche's contradictions and movingly explores family pain and grief. His clean, swift poems strike the reader's eye as well as heart as they rangle from hope to nightmare, from loss to social comedy"--Michael Heller.

Between Earth and Sky

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Marsh Hawk Press

Poetry. The poems in THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER involve the work of mourning. They come to terms with mortality and reparation for acute loss in surreal, dream-like encounters between the living and the departed. McIntosh confronts the constraints imposed by history on the present and loosens those strictures through the charms of his imagination. An elegantly crafted long poem, "Obsessional" records intriguing detective work on Tudor English literary history and assesses the nature of how art is created, by whom, and under what circumstances.

The After-Death History of My Mother

McIntosh, SandyForty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape DeathMarsh Hawk PressPoetry. "McIntosh spins a tantalizing web of tales-unlikely encounters with the famous; musical instruments invented not to be easily played, but rather to be beautiful objects themselves; and mega-lists, one of which is the sublime title poem. Constantly inventive, his poems are meta in their metamorphosis-one prose poem even becomes a review of his last book. He mythologizes terrorist threats and re-imagines Superman, zooming into Metropolis to scoop up Poetry and save it from the villains, Boredom and Pretense"-Denise Duhamel. Sandy McIntosh is the author of several previous collections of poetry and prose. His essays have been published by: The New York Times, The Nation, Newsday, the Wallstreet Journal and American Book Review. He is the managing editor of Marsh Hawk Press.

Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways To Escape Death

Contemporary

Poetry. "ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO, Sandy McIntosh's latest volume, bursts with brilliance and sizzles with sass. McIntosh's new poems are audacious, ravishing, syntactic marvels, clowning-around oddballs. The energy and wit in this book will make you want to whip out your fan, put on your non-skid sole shoes, and dance"--Denise Duhamel.

Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco

Poetry. "It really is gorgeous writing.... So much of it is just wonderfully lyrical and funny and moving. What a crazy/delicious world McIntosh invents."—Lanford Wilson

Cemetery Chess: Selected and New Poems

Obsessional: Poetry in Performance (Poetry for Performance)

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. This second collection of memoirs continues McIntosh's coming of age story set in Long Island's famous Hamptons arts colony. Included are stories of wild adventures in filmmaking with Norman Mailer and Ilya Bolotowsky, the discovery of Communists among the writers and painters, as well as encounters with Truman Capote, Jean Stafford, P. G. Wodehouse, and others. "LESSER LIGHTS is very funny. There's also an exquisitely fine sense of a special place and time."--Phillip Lopate "I love time travel stories--and this book offers a trip back to a time and place that seems almost like science-fiction today. Wonderful characters, great surprises, and a sly sense of humor that kept me eagerly turning the pages."--R.L. Stine "Hilarious....LESSER LIGHTS is a charming memoir written from that place where art and fact commingle to produce a swift, rollicking read."--The East Hampton Star

Lesser Lights: More Tales from a Hamptons' Apprenticeship (Chapter One)

History & Criticism

If you're a poet, how are you going to survive if you can't get a teaching job? 
In PLAN B: A POET'S SURVIVORS MANUAL, McIntosh offers the answer: you need a Plan B if you want to put food on the table, wear shoes without holes in the soles, and stop living with roommates before you turn sixty. Taking us on a witty, fascinating, no-holds barred romp through his own experiences in the world of commercial writing and publishing, McIntosh reassures us that it is possible to have a successful career as a poet while holding down day jobs that make us better writers. 
"PLAN B: A POET'S SURVIVORS MANUAL is a wonderful book, an important book, a book aspiring writers of fiction and poetry should read. On page 50: "The best day job for a poet involves writing. Writing anything. . .will make you a better writer." I have said these exact words to many students, many writers, and have lived my life by this credo... My entire career, which strikes even me as improbable, illustrates many of your 'survival tips.'" --David Lehman, Editor, The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Series Editor, The Best American Poetry 
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry.

Plan B: A Poet's Survivors Manual (Chapter One)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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