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Journey into the lyrical world of Under a Gathering Sky, a compelling poetry collection that weaves together a narrative of exploration, introspection, and the timeless act of questing. In a masterful arrangement of five sections, these poems beckon readers to traverse a landscape marked by personal reckonings and the enduring legacies of literary greats. Opening with "Auguries, " this collection gracefully dances across facial and temporal bo...

When a desperate midnight call from the juvenile detention Center's Chief Jeff Deputy Felipe "Fee Lo" Hernandez, rouses the tenacious attorney Alexandra "Shadow" McLoud, the stage is set for a gripping drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Young Phoebe Sunshine MacPhearson, granddaughter of the powerful local commissioner, finds herself in an unthinkable situation after a betrayal leads to a shocking act of violence. With a distri...

Where one secret can change everything. When the former Detention Center Deputy, Fee Lo Hernandez, mysteriously vanishes after starting a new job at the globally influential Rudder Industries, everyone is puzzled, especially when Fee Lo's connection to Sharon Donaldson, a key executive, suddenly seems non-existent. Yet, Attorney Shadow McCloud remembers their secret midnight rendezvous and can't shake off the feeling that something darker is i...

Built Around the Fire delves into notions of place, the enveloping wonder and plight of our environment, and the complexities of rural culture: an examination of hierarchies, conservatism, generational religion, and the perpetuation of patriarchal norms. Such concepts are juxtaposed with a personal narrative: the rise and failure of a relationship, the deafening silence that arrives within any new vacancy, and the eventual need to learn to ada...

SFA: 100 Years of Excellence chronicles the century-long journey of dedication, growth, and triumph, capturing the institution's remarkable transformation decade by decade. Within the pages of this rich tapestry, readers navigate 100 years of SFA's history, each chapter dedicated to a specific decade, painting an evocative picture of the university's evolution, from its foundational years to its present-day prominence. Captivating photographs ...

Now and Then, Poems for Eustress represent experience, insight, ideas, introspection, and impression. Some of the poems contain historical content, while others contain contemporary or current trends. Written to provide inspiration, the book is divided into five parts: Historical, Philosophical, Humor, Mythic, and Social Commentary. Consider campus unrest in the '60s, mythical beasts, rat ranches, cryptids, and coronavirus. In each section, th...

The aging process is a sneaky son-of-a-gun. It begins by lurking around the edges of one's life and occasionally darting into your person to take a bite out of your well-being. It then zips back into the shadows and waits for the next opportunity to reappear and take another bite out of your youth, your appearance, your confidence, and/or your already fragile self-concept. You'd like to grab it and strangle it, but it's always out of sight and...

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In Crosshairs of the Ordinary World, the author, Dixie Salazar explores social justice issues such as the pervasive violence in our modern society, incarceration and homelessness filtered through the author's experiential lens. Salazar has taught art in the prisons and currently volunteers on two boards dedicated to solving the local homeless crisis. Avoiding negativity and cynicism, the author searches for and finds elements of hope and redem...

Set in Nazi Germany's only all-female concentration camp, Across the Lake is a story of survival amid overwhelming brutality. With a keen eye towards historical accuracy, this is an unflinching portrayal of how prisoners supported each other while holding onto their humanity. This is also a story of the female guards--the Aufseherin--who were every bit as vicious as the SS in Buchenwald, Dachau, and Auschwitz. What did it mean to be a woman in...

The Big Sandy is a Joycean-like sojourn concerning the perpetual vicissitudes of life as encountered by Flammidy 'Flexxy' O'Shea and Jody 'Pullin'Up' Stakes while they await deliverance from their (Michael) Dodge Fury, after having landed topsy-turvy in the square center of a large, Sandhills-of-Nebraska blow out.

Waking Past Midnight collects elements of the rough South and life as a teenager on the Delta, tinged with threat and violence. In my late teens a pewter flask Rode my hip and I tucked in my right boot An eight-inch blade crafted in dimpled bone. I didn't court trouble, but knew cemeteries Were full of coffins, their rubber gaskets > In Greenwood, Mississippi, my maternal Grandfather primed his rage with bonded Whiskey. He loved to roll the bo...

In his thirteenth book, acclaimed poet, critic, and memoirist David Biespiel turns to the novel to tell a story about Houston that has few, if any, parallels in Texas literature. It's the first year of the Reagan era. Jon "Duke" Wain, a charmed 18-year-old growing up in Meyerland, Houston's historic Jewish section, who is the heir apparent to his family's generations of rabbis, finds a companion for drinking, drugs, and living wildly in Manolo...

Harmonia explores the psychic distance and damage created by loss as it considers art, physics, geology, and literature. These poems offer an intimate look at how grief can sink us, forever changing how we see our closest relationships and the spaces we share.

Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of To the Cypress Again and Again is a supple translation of Espriu's first book, Sinera Cemetery, along with selections from other collections. A reader will come away with a poignant sense of Espriu's beloved seaside landscape as well as, in Espriu's ...

In Below Zero, her fourth poetry collection, Carol V. Davis explores Siberia, an area in Russia largely unknown to Americans. Flying into Ulan-Ude, capital of Buryatia Republic, where she had never been, she mutters a prayer that her plane will be met. On a trip to Lake Baikal, she and her colleagues drive past trees strung with Tibetan prayer flags and stop to drop rubles in the lap of a Buddha. In Irkutsk, when her host dips a finger in a gl...

Fight or Flight artifacts the trauma of McFadyen-Ketchum's divorce and the journey he took across the wilds of America (living in a tent on the California coast, getting intentionally lost in the Utah desert, tracking wild animals in the bitter cold of Indiana winters) in search of healing that led to the greatest discovery of all: his indigenous wife and her three children he now calls his own.

Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of To the Cypress Again and Again is a supple translation of Espriu's first book, Sinera Cemetery, along with selections from other collections. A reader will come away with a poignant sense of Espriu's beloved seaside landscape as well as, in Espriu's ...

For the Love of God looks at the humorous, the serious, and, at times, tragic experiences owners share with their dogs. Lyrical and metaphorical, many poems in this collection recount the experiences Harrison has shared with the dogs he's had the pleasure and honor of knowing through the years. His three Drahthaars were consecutive companions for over forty years of hunting, fishing, and canoeing adventures in some of the wilder parts of Nebra...

Gerry LaFemina is not so much a presence in contemporary poetry as a blur of movement, a quick phrase of enlightenment, a dharma bum of punk and junk. He watches nuns getting drunk in a bar, hears Leonard Cohen on the juke, drinks the blaze of light in every glass. Like Whitman, who inspired both Kinnell and Kerouac, LaFemina understands the body's demands, "Its sweat, toils, & passions. It's holy vigor." LaFemina rides the rapids of contempor...