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The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder – and Other Riffs

Katrovas, Richard
The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder – and Other Riffs
The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder is a gathering of "punk formalist" lyrics that collectively are a meditation not on mortality so much as on the terror of extinction, how that terror is the reservoir of love. Katrovas declaims from the margins of faith, the cliff edge of doubt, seeking to measure the conductivity of private troubles to public issues. Katrovas' "riffs" are verse essays jotted in the antechambers of nightmares and erotic dre...

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Poets and the Fools Who Love Them

Katrovas, Richard
Poets and the Fools Who Love Them
Poets and the Fools Who Love Them blends autobiography with cultural commentary and meditates on creative writing as a cottage industry within humanities higher education. Celebrated poet and memoirist Richard Katrovas examines his picaresque early years with a criminal father, a beleaguered mother, and four siblings as state and federal authorities pursued the family across the highways of America. His freewheeling, wide-ranging essays consid...

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Mystic Pig

Katrovas, Richard
Mystic Pig
Mystic Pig, is as wild, dangerous and spicy as the city it celebrates." - Valerie MartinCould a secret destroy you?An old, all-consuming secret?One of love born in passion - but cemented in murder?In the kaleidoscopic melting-pot of New Orleans' French Quarter, Nat runs his restaurant, loves his family, struggles with his lost childhood and carries the secret that threatens to overwhelm him.Whip-smart Willie, skidding through adolescence with ...

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Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father

Katrovas, Richard
Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father
A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, Raising Girls in Bohemia chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dining, sexual epithets, gender identity, racism, poetry, and education, ...

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