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With quiet surety, Naomi Myles cultivates a contemplative wordscape allowing that " . . . some roots be hidden and some exposed." And in this crafted world we are asked to think of windows framing the past, some inhabitants in sharp focus, others, "lights that flicker and go out."-Julie Suk "Naomi Myles creates on aura of possibility in PAINTING TREES . Reading her poems is like taking a familiar road to sources where music, dance, words-a...

Have you been dissed by dust? Does the thought of cooking dinner turn your stomach instead of turn you on? Are you uncertain as to which is the functional end of a broom? Have you been told that you're short on housekeeping skills? Well, don't just stand there - get TALL! MOPPING TALL! - THE HUBBY'S GUIDE TO HOUSEWORK AND OTHER DANGEROUS JOBS is just what you need to transform yourself from a domestic doormat into a He-man of Home Manageme...

I had a great time reading Flunky ...a good, ribald academic comedy." Tony Award winner Mark Medoff, author of Children of a Lessor God and The Homage. "Money is oil to dignity's water." So muses John Deyme, the eager bumbler of FLUNKY . Fully ambitious and fully talentless, John is determined to impress West Central College president Don Boyle, a savvy practitioner of rough-and-tumble, Chicago-style patronage and politics. As ass...

SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they¿ve always wanted or what they¿ve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serverance¿s, forms the spine of the book, ...

The dead too have hopes...?? And among the hopeful dead is Alex Resartus: obtuse professor, obscure novelist, schizophrenic...and vampire.??As an obtuse professor, he bewilders and frustrates his bored students, as an obscure novelist with a once-promising reputation, he desires to recover his creative powers, but his shattered mind stands in the way. As a schizophrenic, Alex's mind is "broken", and in this most unusual novel, A SELF-MADE M...