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In today's world, actual money (i.e. cash) has become more of an existential concept. ¿¿"CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison offers a surreal cascade of archetypes from, among others, ancient Greece, the Bible, American Literature, and pop culture. Moving through it is the speaker's companion spirit and guru, Jim Morrison-Lizard King, Narcissus/Adonis. Set in a world where, in Albert Einstein's words, 'reality is merely an illusion, ' Lindsey Ma...

Donald Wolff's The Epistemology of Loss is a work of profound beauty and searing emotional power. Nature in many of the poems offers contrast-its beauty, its utter indifference, its tendency to silence-it can represent 'the muteness of the poet, ' as Larry Levis put it. Yet the power of the book is its excavation of the domestic, how lyric time is intricately layered in it."-M.L. Williams, Author of Game "There is much to admire in Donald Wol...

Often David Memmott's poems course like a "river of wind" to take us to where the world of the everyday meets the startling world of the strange with all its dangers. Allying himself with natural forces and animal spirits, he fashions a bridge between these two worlds to achieve a hard-won communion. A sturdy, detailed observer, and a faithful guide to the reader, Memmott becomes, in his own words, "a sound bowl of pure gold rung by thunder."-...

CADENZAS is a work of fiction that narrates a conversation between music and language, with walkins by Dorothy Parker, Dante, Edith Sitwell, J.S. Bach, Qiu Jin, Dmitri Shostakovich, June Jordan. It is Alex Kuo's accumulation of more than eighty years of living, listening and writing on several continents and breathing in the cadences of several languages, including three Chinese dialects.

Doddson Kooper-Boon doesn't see himself as a hero, but he does consider himself a genius at a few things: he can collect junk and create bricolage sculpture, bum free coffee and live in his defunct car. He's experienced at these tasks, he's been an outsider for thirty years. People think he's a misfit, no question, but they like the energetic omnipresence of the raconteur-about-town who spouts nonsense engagingly. A few of them worry about him...

How the hell did we become the way we are? Ask John Morrison. He won't tell you, because he doesn't know, but he will provide you exquisite examples with lyrical grace in poems that work like illustrations that accompany certain words in the dictionary. The ghost of God is here, and memory...that strange harbinger reminding us of what we will become. His poems are a little break from the wind, a pause from the chaos, a two-person picnic as we ...

The Armageddon Two-Step is a novel about reality and truth built for the Age of Trump, a comedic farce tinted with magical-realism about a young man named Shelby Albert Goddard who saves the world and then must live with the consequences.

Among the shelves of books that have been published on Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square incident-in Chinese and English, inside and outside China-Mao's Kisses: A Novel of June 4, 1989 is the first novel.Mao's Kisses is told from the point of view of Ge, the personal notetaker of China's paramount leader at the time, Deng Xiaoping, as well as his main bridge partner. It tracks the events in April and May that led first to the declaration of mart...

Based on the 2009 shooting of a Nez Perce man by an Idaho State Police officer, Stripland follows four characters whose lives were upended by this death. Reality bends and perceptions warp as each one travels the same route from the McDonald's at the base of 21st Street up the hill to Dave's Pawn Shop on Thain Road in the city of Lewiston, Idaho. The separate stories of a homeless man, a woman lawyer, a bereft photographer and an internet tric...

Based on the 2009 shooting of a Nez Perce man by an Idaho State Police officer, Stripland follows four characters whose lives were upended by this death. Reality bends and perceptions warp as each one travels the same route from the McDonald's at the base of 21st Street up the hill to Dave's Pawn Shop on Thain Road in the city of Lewiston, Idaho. The separate stories of a homeless man, a woman lawyer, a bereft photographer and an internet tric...

Among the shelves of books that have been published on Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square incident-in Chinese and English, inside and outside China-Mao's Kisses: A Novel of June 4, 1989 is the first novel.Mao's Kisses is told from the point of view of Ge, the personal notetaker of China's paramount leader at the time, Deng Xiaoping, as well as his main bridge partner. It tracks the events in April and May that led first to the declaration of mart...

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The tale of two young men transported and altered by a foreign conflict, strands of alternate past and future are posed in counterpoint to a fragile reality in Canned Tuna. Highland Vietnam, the Treasure Valley of Idaho and the mouth of the Columbia River provide the materials for a gripping fugue of hope and dread, of the collective wounds of war and the healing power of community.

The tale of two young men transported and altered by a foreign conflict, strands of alternate past and future are posed in counterpoint to a fragile reality in Canned Tuna. Highland Vietnam, the Treasure Valley of Idaho and the mouth of the Columbia River provide the materials for a gripping fugue of hope and dread, of the collective wounds of war and the healing power of community.