An Outline of Ecclesiastical History from the Caesars to the Great Occidental Schism including the Great Schism between the Greek Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Hundred Years War.
Five and Ten, by a prize-winning poet and novelist, includes a fairy tale, a few poems, and a fable for children illustrated by the author's young daughters.
"The Golden Squirrel" was originally published in "Modern Day Fairy Tales."
"A Fable, " first appeared in "ELM: Eureka Literary Magazine" and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and subsequently in "The World of English, " China, with Chinese translation.
The poems originally appeared...
A Portable Chaos opens with a stream-of-consciousness flashback to a childhood incidents that resemble James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, " which gains significance as the novel unfolds. The main character, Jimmy Whistler, is a decent guy overflowing with untapped potential, who walks away from opportunities and the wrong sort of success and follows his bliss as a poet. Whistler and his friend Marsayas, a Zoroastrian hipp...
A Portable Chaos is an historical novel that brings to life the transformation of the United States from the conforming Fifties to the volcanic social eruptions of the "swinging Sixties"-from the private chaos of Jimmy Whistler's childhood to the public chaos of his youth, the former shaping himself, the latter shaping all Americans.
Transit: Tales of Mystery, History, and Crime is a collection of stories, from novel-length to the very brief, in which fictional and historical characters struggle with good and evil, from a prize-winning story teller.
Schorb's poetry has won numerous awards in many categories from a wide range of competitions over recent decades-from the formal, to prose poems and free verse. The poems collected here are in all styles, unpredictable and intriguing in subject matter, and reprinted from literary journals from around the world.
What is most striking about the collected poems of E.M. Schorb is their subtle musicality and intellectual range. They demonstrate that Mr Schorb is a poet of great skill and keen wit. His work hearkens back to the great poems of the first half of the twentieth century, to the masterpieces of Robert Frost, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden and William Dickey. They bespeak the presence of a major American poet, one whose mastery of...
Schorb's poetry has won a number of awards in many categories from a wide range of competitions over recent decades-from the formal, to prose poems and free verse. The poems collected here are free verse in style, unpredictable and intriguing in subject matter.
Dates and Dreams is a collection of over a hundred prose poems, all originally published in literary magazines and quarterlies from England, Austria, Canada, Germany, China, Australia, India, and America, from Oxford Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review, The North American Review, to Envoi, The Outrider and the University of Windsor Review, among many others. Dates and Dreams also includes a generous selection of Schorb's unique drawings and an intr...
Dates and Dreams is a collection of over a hundred prose poems, all originally published in literary magazines and quarterlies from England, Austria, Canada, Germany, China, Australia, India, and America, from Oxford Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review, The North American Review, to Envoi, The Outrider and the University of Windsor Review, among many others. Dates and Dreams also includes a generous selection of Schorb's unique drawings and an intr...
To be a first-class poet requires a fluency of language, mastery of a vocabulary sufficient to express seminal, original thoughts set down with rhythm, with imagery, and with descriptive evocation that communicates flawlessly with the recipient of the poetry of verse. Such is the case with the poetry of E.M. Schorb. -The Midwest Book Review
