Endless: A Literate Passion

Open Endless and Drift Away to Exotic Ports...Turn the ivory pages of Endless: A Literate Passion and find yourself at the mysterious Red Sea, the exotic Mediterranean, rainy streets of Paris, Manhattan on lonely days--and pulled into the secret lives and loves of Anais Nin, Amelia Earhart, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Marilyn Monroe...

Romantic figures dance through the pages of these imaginary narratives. What happened to Anais Nin after she fled her Paris affair with Henry Miller? And Zelda Fitzgerald after she stepped out of the Golden Girl limelight and glitterati to struggle with a descent into madness? And Amelia Earhart on that final round-the-globe flight once she dipped her toes into the waters of mystery and discovered who she actually was...

With exquisite cover art by Eric Anfinson, Endless is a must for lovers of travel, of passion, of words, and of transformation...

Artist Eric Anfinson, creator of Anais and Henry, explains: "Anne's writing is intimate, tactile, rhythmic and vast...I found myself taken to many places and into different periods of time...The image is a sensual, intimate mirror of the way Endless moved me..."

About Anais & Henry, Anfinson shares: "Henry Miller is focused on the lady in red dress, a combination of Anne Tammel and Anais Nin...Passion corners us, and yet we yearn to be there...The balcony, the space of their relationship, is surrounded by beauty and perils...Miller is seated...with the silk red journal between them, 'and red silk journals are covered in sweat and secrets...' Water, sky, and land allow for the endless waves, sky, and travel, and also represent the emotions, conscious, and unconsciousness of our lives..."

Praise for Endless: A Literate Passion"ENDLESS reads like a love letter...I feel I'm inside a museum of daring sculptures, a Grecian sun glinting off the bone white marble. The collection--voluptuous, its rhythms searching, sensual, and authentic 'like a wife--an insatiable wife...a lover of silk...and words...and your breath,' finding the authentic voice within the poet's internal theater. I slipped easily into these literary shoes to stride confidently across the stage..."

~ Lois P. Jones, Kyoto Journal"ENDLESS is a mantic book, the handiwork of a sorceress and magicienne, of one whose gifts with language and perception transform the sublunary and timely into pictures of dynamic affect...to put the collection aside is suddenly to see a landscape in a new light where grey and white are perpetually moving but without invention or causality. It is refreshing and rare to read such flawless poetry. Hence, ENDLESS is an object I return to frequently and continue to keep with me."

~ Kevin McGrath, Harvard University

"Anne Tammel takes the reader on a journey through a historical and literary landscape so vibrant, so generously splashed with color and love that it could only be explored through poetry. Here is a woman, who, like the great artists about whom she writes, looks at the world with extraordinary, resplendent vision...(and)...has the courage and talent to offer that vision to the world."

~ Melissa Studdard, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast

"Lovely, lovely! A most impressive, artistic collection to be enjoyed by all and everyone..."

~Anders Dahlgren, Mediterranean Poetry