We Called Him Seth

Corrine Dzwil

Cobalt Press

A chronicle of the artist's travels to cities around the world. The Nostalgic Heart combines encounters with the people David Coggins met -- from artists and journalists to poets and opera singers -- with ruminations about place and restlessness and the changing nature of cities. Containing over 90 photographs and drawings, the book is a celebration of urban life. Coggins went to Lima, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Berlin, Prague, Cairo, and Istanbul among other cities. He contends that the beauty and humanity of "the old square" continue to offer a model for living in the digital age.

The Nostalgic Heart

David Coggins

A limited edition book of 90 collages containing images of flowers and plants, diary entries, drawings and photographs that chart the course of a summer in the artist s life. Coggins finds beauty and solace in the Edenesque gardens and woods of the longtime family country home. A complement to The Nostalgic Heart, his award-winning travel book about cities, Eden is about connection to place and nature, the camaraderie of family and friends, and the solitude of the studio.

Eden Summer Collages

Jonathan Travelstead's debut collection of poetry, HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD, follows a speaker who is coping with the death of his mother. He places himself in life-threatening and self-alienating situations in an effort to shield himself from grief. This collection takes the reader on Travelstead's journey as a volunteer in the National Guard in Kuwait, as a hitch-hiker in an Alaskan winter, and as a man returning home to confront the pressures of his life as a firefighter and the long-delayed acceptance of losing his mother. ADVANCE PRAISE: "Jonathan Travelstead maps the quest for his elemental "end points and beginnings." Doing so, he spans topography as various as Southern Illinois strip mines, automobile accident scenes, and Iraqi battle zones. What results are narratives that bare-knuckle gut-punch easy redemption. These poems honor the dead and the dying, refusing to avert the eye from certain explosion. It's no wonder the keenest offer "prayers" for hand tools that do something palpably useful, say, prying open the wrecked heart's flaming chariot of half-spoken desires." -Kevin Stein, author of Wrestling Li Po for the Remote "Jonathan Travelstead's fearless poems are about the other in each of us, those sudden illuminations of the self in which we realize we are not alone. The voices of the estranged, the willfully forgotten, and the restless dead inhabit us. In any given moment, a lover's face or gesture reveals a mother we've run toward and away from all our lives. An electrocuted man's last minutes tick away to reveal our need to both connect with and hide from one another, to rely on comforting fictions to soften the truth, to insure that we don't go into that anonymous dark alone. It's a startling, affirming collection that stares down our other selves, compels them to speak." -Scott Blackwood, author of See How Small "In HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD, Travelstead sings out a tortuous and indelicate elegy that singes the most remote edges of loneliness. ...These poems escape and embrace the grief of his mother's death in equal measure." -Travis Mossotti, author of About the Dead and Field Study

How We Bury Our Dead

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelstead, Jonathan

Leaders & Notable People

Heather Bell's poetry collection, A Horse Made of Fire, is packed with powerful stories and reflections on moments both large and small. This poetry is not to be missed. Heather Bell's work has been published in Cobalt Review, Rattle, Ampersand, Poets/Artists, NEON and many others. She was nominated for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Pushcart Prize from Rattle and also won the New Letters 2009 Poetry Prize. Heather has also published four books.

A Horse Made of Fire

Literature & Fiction

Bell, Formerly Rhodes Research Fellow Heather

Poetry

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Conflict Tours

How the Moon Works

Rowan, Matt

Short Stories & Anthologies

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