The Number of Missing

In the months after 9/11 David and Mel meet to drink, give each other comfort and reminisce about Paul--Mel's husband and David's best friend.   The memories are not all good for David.  Before Paul died in the north tower, the two friends fought, brutally questioning each other's lives.  Fueled by anger and grief and too much alcohol, David stumbles through the city while holding onto a silent promise made to a dead friend: he will wait for Mel to fall so he can catch her. 

Literature & Fiction

Berlin, Adam

Contemporary

Spuyten Duyvil

Poetry. "Interesting and readable info, sources and legends and researches&mdash;in poetry form! The Archons of Investigative Poetry are pleased with Mark Spitzer's CRYPTO-ARKANSAS."&mdash;Ed Sanders "Mark Spitzer's work is as boundlessly inclusive as the journal he edits, The Toad Suck Review. Both are proof that the more interests and influences are incorporated, the more original the creation may become. This example of 'investigative poetics' into 'mythological crypto-zoological creatures' is in one sense pure Ozark-Arkansan, but is also a veritable cioppino-paella-bouillabaise-gumbo cum kitchen sink of Twain, Ed Sanders, dada, tall frontier tale-telling, Paterson, Gerald Haslam, and scholarly-journalistic research or the spoofing of it. It is Americana, archetypalism ... There is a formidable mind at work here, and a seemingly limitless creativity."&mdash;Gerald Locklin

Crypto-Arkansas

Spitzer, Mark

Poetry

Poetry. Produced for the Jewish Women's Resource Center. Gabriel Preil said of Stiller's earlier work: "Notes of a Jewish Nun shows Nikki Stiller as intelligent, feeling, and original." Indeed, this odyssey of domestic seas shows a determined woman as part of a determining life force. The universal nature of lyric poetry is brought to bear upon memory and the small articulations of the present. "Nikki Stiller is one helluca poet..."--Helen Pappell.

Burial Ship

Stiller, Nikki

Chris Glomski lived and worked for a year in Pisa, Italy before returning to Chicago. He is the author of a chapbook, IL LA, published by Noemi Press, and is at work on translations of various contemporary Italian poets. His poetry is variously informed by Mallarme and the great Italian masters he teaches, studies, and translates.

Transparencies Lifted from Noon

Glomski, Chris

Collection of Poetry by distinguished Romanian Poet Adrian Sangeorzan.

Over The Lifeline

Sangeorzan, Adrian

Jackpot is part of a trilogy, a psychological triptych that takes on the moral and social conflicts women often face in contemporary American life. Jackpot is the first novel to tell the story of a female casino gambler. In her pursuit of success and the good life, Maggie, the 26-year old protagonist, pivots on a fulcrum of despair as she struggles to gain entry into the world of the powerful and brutal. Abandoned by her elusive friend, Robin, Maggie succumbs to ultimate self-abnegation in the false paradise of a Caribbean resort, while her intelligence grasps all too clearly the ever-closing trap.

Jackpot

Keller, Tsipi

United States

The wild is always unprecedented, but never inconsistent. This is the knowledge that makes American scholarship American. Norman Finkelstein offers unprecedented insights here whose facts consist of one Soul purpose: Friendship. Here the imagination of poetry is Friendship on the line. And driving that line are energies of the inevitable (if we are to live, Friendship is inevitable): motions outward; an outstretched hand; a goddamn big car bought and paid for lovingly. These energies speak simply, and doing so, they accomplish new simplicities which Finkelstein boldly proposes as the most radical virtues of poetic art. Read and see.--from the introduction by Donald Revell

Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics

Finkelstein, Norman

History & Criticism

Poetry. Incretion is the process by which a substance is secreted internally and, in turn,comes to control organic processes elsewhere within its own system. Thus dothe poems of this collection function, creating landscape within anatomy andvice versa until a world emerges on the body's page and confronts the reader. "Brian Strang's INCRETION is a probe into the genuine state of things, seeking definitionand measure amidst the blood-and-circus reversals of regime, market, vestigial culture.Where the first world hits the last wish--this is the challenged territory he would haveus know, and face"--George Albon.

Incretion

Strang, Brian

Long Fall acts as a primer for the art of poetic translation, a touchstone for students of Russian-American Letters as well as a beginner's guide for those interested in probing the arc of literary historical projection.

Long Fall: Poems, Texts & Essays

Gritsman, Andrey

You, Me, and the Insects is a heartening, bittersweet story of a spiritual struggle and transformation, told in parallel universes of mother, writer, wife in secular USA and dedicated struggling western yogini in luminously detailed India. The writing is marvelously rich, layered, the narrative is compelling. The phenomenal world is the source of terrific insight, delight and surprise. This is not a pretentious New Age memoir but an ageless picaresque and imaginative voyage. A major accomplishment for this extremely salient, charged writer. Anne Waldman

You, Me, and the Insects

Henning, Barbara

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