A mesmerizing novella about perception and longing...He says it's gone. They say it never existed. Daniel Hale is The Man Who Remembered the Moon."Thoroughly satisfying." - The Globe and MailWhen the moon disappears, Daniel Hale is shocked to find that he's the only person who remembers it. He is quickly committed. As he struggles to comprehend what might have happened to the moon - and to himself - only his doctor, the tenacious Marvin Pallister, holds out hope that Daniel might be cured of his delusion - now dubbed Hale-Pallister's Lunacy.A virtuoso vanishing act, a puzzle in die-cut pieces, and an unexpected meditation on loss. The Man Who Remembered the Moon is a cerebral, witty novella, baffling, enigmatic and haunting."A superb story... an ongoing series of surprising revelations/suppositions -- surprising, yet satisfying within the rollercoaster logic of its world." - Matthew Sharpe, author of The Sleeping Father, Jamestown

The Man Who Remembered the Moon

Literature & Fiction

Hull, David

Literary

Dumagrad Books

Svetlana Lilova's Metaphysical Dictionary is a compendium of oblique definitions; a taxonomy of gists. Psychological and emotional in content, yet pared down to the bare minimum and presented with complete lexical discipline, the Metaphysical Dictionary shows us an author grappling to explain the world to herself. Maybe this is something you do too - in fragments of thought in a journal, or in a sketchbook of brief impressions. As poems, these are reductions, or Pound's gists and piths in extremis. They are beyond spare: all payload, no bulkhead. Sometimes an entry is simply the germ from which another poet might have grown a conventional poem. For example, witness: shoulders the natural uniform The real reward comes as the definitions accumulate. They fold back on themselves; elusive shapes crystallize and dissolve like transient origami. Psychologically acute, suffused with feeling, with a personal narrative slipping between the lines, this book invites total immersion in the private language of its creator, and conveys (us to) the heart of a playful, enigmatic, whimsical, sometimes pained but always hopeful interior. Profusely illustrated with 65 drawings by Graham Falk, whose charming cartoons, melancholy flowers, and effervescent still-lifes perfectly echo the tonal variety of Lilova's words.

Metaphysical Dictionary

Lilova, Svetlana

Poetry

Lives of girls and women, Prairie edition "Because no matter how far away we were, you and I, we could never shake the prairie dust, this puritan prairie dust which blows and blows and blinds us to all that is real and happy." A very young girl expresses her anger on the piano when her gravely ill sister commands all of her mother's love. A caustic teenager observes the ladies of town as her former music teacher reappears with an exotic new husband in tow. An unmarried woman is desperate to keep the niece she has raised since infancy when her brother returns from the city to claim her. Bitter truths, illicit yearnings, and doomed dreams emerge during the final summer gathering at a couple's beloved home. Written in the early fifties, when the author was barely 20, these stories offer exquisite depictions of the very young, pitch-perfect snapshots of eternal teenage cynicism, the sorrows of mothers who foresee the lives of their daughters in a flash, and the muffled private heartbreak of women life has swept aside.

You Call This Home

Lane, Joan

Genre Fiction

Stories from the road, the tavern - and the motel room too. Dave Green's Personal is a book of raw, vivid, immediate and sometimes witty photos that transport you to the road, the street, the tavern - and sometimes the motel room too. These photos are atmospheric with cracked concrete and the sizzle of streetlamps, but just as compelling are the people: caught in moments of contemplation or joy, with a directness that shines on the page. 128 pages with 102 plates, offset printed on 100# HannoArt Silk, plus personal notes by the photographer. Content note: possibly NSFW, mild nudity.

Personal

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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