In Ghostlight: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Wilson, Ryan

Poetry

LSU Press

STORIES: Ryan Wilson – “American Trash” Stuart Gibbel – “Break on Through” Craig Clevenger – “Obsolescence” Nik Korpon - "South of Thirteen" Dennis Cruz – “Smile Now, Cry Later” Pela Via – “Bathhouse” Stephen Conley – "Don't Feed the Animals" Grigori Black – “This Was Heaven” Doc O’Donnell – “Your Personal Apocalypse” Nikki Guerlain – “Sick Ticket” Patrick Verhagen – “Swim” Craig Wallwork – “El Bordello Alexandra” Nicholas Merlin Karpuk – “Ahm’s Bay” Nik Houser – “Subtitles for a Silent Film” H.R. Tardiff – “Walls in the Sand” Richard Thomas – “The Jenny Store” Bob Pastorella – “Alexandra” Simon West-Bulford – “Project Asmodeus” Jay Slayton-Joslin – “The Fantasy of California vs. The Reality of London” Amanda Gowin – “Gilded Bones” Chris Deal – “Padre Nuestro” Boden Steiner – “Here” Gordon Highland – "Fry Girl" edward j rathke – “All the Dreams You Dreamt Retold” Michael Paul Gonzalez – “Tidal” Victor Bengtsson – “Venice, Forever” ABOUT THE BOOK: Los Angeles is whatever you want it to be, and nothing like you think. I gave these photos to a group of authors and asked them for precisely 1,000 words about what they saw. They didn't disappoint. Dreams, drugs, drama. Fame, famine, and fading glory. Few of the authors in this book have stepped foot in L.A., yet the soul of this city is so invasive and pervasive that the collection embodies everything that makes up this sprawling metropolitan mess. There’s everyday life in Los Angeles, from the shiny dreams of the Hills to the hard realities of life in the Valley and out to the Inland Empire, and even more stories that are purely the stuff of dreams and fantasies, the kinds of worlds that exist only behind giant creaking doors on backlots scattered throughout the Southland. Whether you live here or just want to visit for a few moments, you’re in for one hell of a ride.

In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words

Clevenger, Craig

Gowin, Amanda

Gonzalez, Michael Paul

Korpon, Nik

Slayton-Joslin, Jay

Cruz, Dennis

Pastorella, Bob

West-Bulford, Simon

Gibbel, Stuart

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Capri is a small but upmarket Italian island of great natural beauty in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Situated off the coast of Naples, Capri is rich in history and the island has become one of main tourist destinations in Italy. Nearby, the Amalfi Coast is a series of cliffside Italian fishing towns including Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Ravello and Salerno. The region to the south of Naples on the Mediterranean has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Capri & Amalfi Coast Travel Guide: Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay

Travel

Europe

The lovely holiday town of Sorrento has beautiful architecture and a scenic main square with quaint cafes, restaurants and shops. On the Circumvesuviana rail line it can be easily reached from Naples. It is also an ideal base for visiting Pompeii, Herculaneum and the island of Capri. On August 24, 79 AD, the city of Pompeii located near Naples was destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 16,000 people were killed. Lava and ash blanketed the city but preserved its buildings which can be seen by visitors today. Pompeii offers a unique glimpse into the past and is like nowhere else on earth.

Sorrento & Pompeii Travel Guide: Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay

Florence (Firenze) is Tuscany’s capital and was once Italy’s capital. The city is known for its importance during the Renaissance between the 14th and 17th centuries. Today Florence offers stunning artwork, galleries, manicured gardens, winding streets and delightful waterfront shops. Pisa is best known for the world famous Leaning Tower of Pisa but it offers much more. In addition to its magnificent buildings and ancient monuments, Pisa provides some of the most beautiful views in all of Tuscany and is just a short drive away from the scenic hill towns and villages of Tuscany including Siena and Lucca.

Florence & Pisa Travel Guide: Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay

The medieval, walled city of Lucca is a treasure and full of 16th century charm. With beautiful well-preserved buildings, Lucca is a city that is ideal to explore on foot or by bike. Slow down to best experience it all. Siena is a beautiful ancient city in Tuscany, seventy kilometres to the south of Florence. It is famous for its colourful horse race, Il Palio that is held twice each summer.

Lucca & Siena Travel Guide: Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay

The translations - or "conversions" - in this book make available to contemporary readers of English-language poetry a wealth of poems that belong to what T.S. Eliot called "the tradition." From Homer, Sappho, and Archilochus to Catullus, Horace, and Virgil; from Dante, Villon, and Lope de Vega to Baudelaire, Rilke, and Pessoa; this book presents fresh versions of many of the best-loved poems in the Western European tradition in strikingly new versions, allowing readers without access to the originals the opportunity to possess, in some measure, both the sense and style of these monumental works.\nRyan Wilson's first book of poems, The Stranger World - winner of the prestigious Donald Justice Poetry Prize - explored the ways in which human beings may discover themselves in life's unforseen and unpredictable phenomena. That book, described by poet and professor James Matthew Wilson as "a most astonishing debut" and "maybe the best first book by a poet I've ever read," lays the groundwork for Proteus Bound, in which the author's practice of xenia, or "hospitality," welcomes poems from more than a half dozen languages, spanning nearly three millennia, into English.

Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020

Franciscan University Press

“Ryan Wilson’s unsettling debut collection The Stranger World is filled with poems of menace and promise, surprise and sorrow, tempered by gentle humor and always tuned to a fine music. The long poem ‘Authority’ reads like a masterpiece of modern horror. The deeply psychological ‘Xenia’ is a minor miracle of a poem. These pages contain ‘real shores across imagined seas . . . where black suns set,’ where the poet meditates on ‘that present unity / of absences the living move among.’ Each page of The Stranger World yields a new delight. Wilson proves himself a worthy heir to Anthony Hecht with this remarkable, disarming, and genuinely moving book. Seek it out.” — Ernest Hilbert

The Stranger World

Measure Press Inc.

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