Mothballs: Quantum Poems is the long awaited new collection by the internationally acclaimed poet Seb Doubinsky. "The whole collection. . . reads as one long poem with pauses in between (the white noise of daily life) and then these snapshots of sheer magic that radiate with a synaesthesia of all the senses intermingling- words, breath, the ticking of the clock. There is such a pulse in these lines. . ." Cynthia Atkins Seb Doubinsky was born in Paris and spent part of his childhood in the USA, an experience that indelibly marked him for life. He currently lives in Denmark with his wife and children. He writes fluently in both French and English and has published more than a dozen novels that blur the boundaries between literary fiction, science fiction and crime fiction, and a volume of short stories. His poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim and has been collected into at least seven stand-alone volumes. He edits the bi-lingual online literary magazine Le Zaporogue, publishes books under his Les Editions du Zaporogue imprint and is at work on at least one new novel.

Mothballs: Quantum Poems

Literature & Fiction

Doubinsky, Seb

Poetry

Leaky Boot Press

Inter-racial. Inter-gender. Into drugs. What is it... this thing called Sly &amp; The Family Stone? It's about time. It's about space. It's about the ups and downs of Funk, Psychedelic Soul and R&amp;B. But more than anything else, it's about music and it's about people who are obsessed by music. In this first-ever full-length biography of Sylvester 'Sly Stone' Stewart, music-writer Andrew Darlington ('I Was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-Child') exhaustively details the story, while adding intriguing new slants. Relating the hits-"Dance To The Music", "Stand", "Family Affair" and the seismic album There's A Riot Goin' On, to the Civil Rights protests, the Black Power radicals and the insurrectionary counter-culture politics of their turbulent time. This is the true story of a music legend and the events that shaped the music that defines the moment. Andrew Darlington is a renowned music journalist and critic whose work has been widely published in newspapers and magazines. He also writes fiction-particularly science fiction-and poetry. He lives in West Yorkshire, England. He is a dedicated blogger and maintains a blog at http://andrewdarlington.blogspot.co.uk/ where he writes on books, music and anything else that appeals to him.

'Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey': Sly Stone & Black Power

Biographies & Memoirs

Darlington, Andrew

Arts & Literature

In 2005, at the age of 42, Lenora Lapidus was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that had spread to her bones. She wrote the poems included in Diagnosis during the three months following the discovery of her disease. Writing these poems was cathartic, helping her process the fear and pain with which she was overcome. Lenora is currently working on a documentary film about the correlation between fertility hormone drugs and breast cancer, again using art to explore her illness and share her healing with others. This is possibly the very first time that a collection of poetry has been titled Diagnosis. It is not a poetical title per se, but in this particular case it is a beautiful title. Lenora Lapidus' deeply moving, sensitive and far reaching poems give this word all its dark vibration and devastating strength. Cancer is literally countered by words, turned into striking images, and defused through metaphors. Diagnosis is a collection about pain and hope, about the possibility of death and the strength of life. It is based on the Buddha's first truth: "All is suffering," but is fueled by the Buddha's antidote-compassion. This is an important collection, which will help readers come to grips with the unthinkable and walk through it, as it is, finally, but a (painful) illusion-yes, an impermanent illusion-just as life is. Seb Doubinsky Author of Spontaneous Combustions and Mothballs Few poets have recorded the journey of cancer while trying to live fully as a mother and spouse as unflinchingly and movingly as Lenora M. Lapidus. At once elegiac and forward-looking, Diagnosis is replete with honesty and resonant with hope despite the heavy uncertainties of its author's life. In her poems Lapidus weaves the ordinary and extraordinary, everyday domestic and oncological details, and never looks away from the toughest emotions-for, as she writes about fear, "Like a bear in the woods / Or a snake in the grass / If we run away they will run toward us." These generous poems inspired me very much. Jennifer O'Grady Author of White

Diagnosis

Lapidus, Lenora M.

In a Moscow prison cell, Vladimir Ippolitovich Vetrov awaits his execution. A cockroach keeps him company, along with a pestering voice accusing him of being a traitor to the Party, the Motherland and the People-for having succumbed to the delusions of the West, to the sirens of Paris, and to the importance of discourse. As the process of awaiting death unfolds nothing happens in the cell, but what takes place inside Vetrov's mind is the intimate and merciless assessment of the man who wanted to destabilize the totalitarian regime of the USSR-and who will answer for it-as he considers his current predicament and his former, deeply-held convictions. In 1985, Russian double agent, Vladimir Vetrov, who delivered to French secret services an impressive quantity of key documents about KGB infiltration activities in the West, was executed by firing squad. His extraordinary destiny captured Michel Louyot's imagination. This spellbinding text is not a biographical novel, but an attempt to understand the personal drama that unfolded a few hours before Vetrov's death. It is a condensed and poetic story that takes the reader inside the psyche of a man whose political ideals were shattered when he realized the monstrosity of the system he was defending. More than paying homage to unsung heroes, this text is a denunciation of all totalitarian ideologies. Michel Louyot began his career as a professor of literature in Moselle and over more than thirty years has worked in central and eastern Europe and Japan in various positions including cultural attach and advisor. Gentle humour and poetic prose pervade his novels which include Roumanie, Lorraine (nominated for the 1988 Prix Goncourt), La Main aux algues (nominated for the 1992 Prix Goncourt), La lettre de Cor e, Nuit de Meuse and M moires d'un chapeau. He has also published books of short stories, poetry and non-fiction as well as contributing to many print and online periodicals.

The Snow Violin

Louyot, Michel

Contemporary

A Warding Circle

Marbrook, Djelloul

Short Stories & Anthologies

These alchemical poems challenge our compulsion to categorize and pigeonhole. They inquire deeply into the passion for containment symbolized by classical Greek vessels. The poems seek to define the idea of ennobling elixirs. The image of galleys sailing on the winds and laden with Greek amphorae tied to each other by their necks haunts this collection. The poet concludes that names inevitably mislead us. He urges us to transcend them, not revel in them.. . . the energy of a young poet with the wisdom of long experience. Edward Hirsch, Guggenheim FoundationDjelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and editor (Providence Journal, Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, among others). His awards include the Wick Poetry Prize (2007), the Literal Latté fiction prize (2008), and the International Book Award in Poetry (2010). His poetry has been published in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Taos Poetry Journal, Orbis (UK), Le Zaporogue (Denmark), Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Poets Against the War and Poemeleon. He lives in New York's mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn and maintains a lively presence on Facebook, Twitter and at djelloulmarbrook.com.

Nothing True Has a Name

. . . the energy of a young poet with the wisdom of long experience. Edward Hirsch, Guggenheim Foundation Air Tea With Dolores explores a six-year-old boy’s hurt and confusion at being sent away to a school with strangers where he is molested. He eventually finds friends and protectors, loves Dolores and bonds with two draft horses, Daisy and Dolly. Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and editor (Providence Journal, Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, among others). His awards include the Wick Poetry Prize (2007), the Literal Latté fiction prize (2008), and the International Book Award in Poetry (2010). His poetry has been published in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Taos Poetry Journal, Orbis (UK), Le Zaporogue (Denmark), Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Poets Against the War and Poemeleon. He lives in New York's mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn and maintains a lively presence on Facebook and Twitter, and at djelloulmarbrook.com.

Air Tea With Dolores

Even now the embers is a singular, sustained act of recollection, a kind of learning to walk on hot coals.Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and editor (Providence Journal, Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, among others). His awards include the Wick Poetry Prize (2007), the Literal Latté fiction prize (2008), and the International Book Award in Poetry (2010). His poetry has been published in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Taos Poetry Journal, Orbis (UK), Le Zaporogue (Denmark), Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Poets Against the War and Poemeleon. He lives in New York's mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn and maintains a lively presence on Facebook, Twitter and at djelloulmarbrook.com.

Even Now the Embers

Ice & Autumn Glass

Dillon, Mark Fuller

Djelloul Marbrook, a prize-winning poet and novelist, celebrates 15 years of research and writing in this epic trilogy, which recalls The Odyssey and The Seven Voyages of Sindbad. He builds a bridge between Arab and Western civilization in this suspenseful and searching adventure at a time when such a bridge is needed most. Marbrook is the author of ten books of poems and ten of fiction. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. He is a U.S. Navy veteran, a civilian sailor, a retired newspaper reporter and editor, and an admired photographer.

The Gold Factory: Book 3 of the Light Piercing Water Trilogy

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