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Original poetry by an important contemporary poet.

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These are lyric poems set in China by a leading American poet, Steven Schroeder, who has lived, studied, and taught for many years in China.

Grappling with the challenge of Wallace Stevens' masterpiece, "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird, " Steve Schroeder and Sou Vai Keng combine the poet's craft, philosophical ways of thought and the practice of Sinology to reconfigure and metamorphose Laotse's wisdom book into a poem in totally natural English. The product speaks to our world today with its maddened consumerism, war as national habit, the eternal questions of death and cre...

Dr. Robert Rynearson describes Profile Self Confrontation, a counseling technique he developed over many years as head of the department of psychiatry at Scott and White Hospital. The process involves patients viewing on video screen the right and left profiles of their own faces and being led by a counselor into profound self-examination based on the play of emotions patients see on in each profile. TIME TO LISTEN also chronicles Dr. Rynearso...

Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin does new and vibrant things with narrative. Magical realism adds its rainbow colors to the twenty-two first person pieces that interweave to tell the story of a group of people living in Austin, Texas. The six main narrative threads overlap and entwine around the idea of love in its myriad forms. Aqua Vitae Caf, in turn of the millennium Austin, is the central connection-although the settings range from Aus...

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Hard living, missed opportunities, and dogged persistence in the pursuit of impossible dreams are themes that help unite the linked stories in Jim Sanderson's fine new story cycle Faded Love. The characters Sanderson weaves in and out of these sometimes side-splitting, sometimes gut-wrenching stories are people whose poignantly-rendered lives resonate long after the last page has been turned.

This youthful tale is not so much about fishing as it is about the discovery of values. It teaches without preaching. Here is a marvelously acute sense of what it is like to be on the cusp of adolesence: still innocent but now aware that deeper truths, like larger fish, swim beneath the surface and wait to be caught and revealed.