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Secret Offices
Secret Offices, Anthony DiMatteo's knockout collection of new poems, brings the reader on a quest for "beauty no one ever courted." A poet of wide-ranging attentions and abilities, DiMatteo moves between the meditative lyric, narrative, ekphrastic wonderings in these supple poems. But his greatest gift is the way eternity gently offers itself in his lines: "this dream to return...and be held again in that gaze." Listen: DiMatteo's a poet I'll follow anywhere so that I too might drink from waters that "murmur our thirsty presence." -Al Maginnes, author of eight collections and the forthcoming Fellow Survivors: New and Selected Poems C.K. Williams wrote, "poetry's the most intimate art; it's t...
Fishing for Family
The tragedy of language is that "words harden us until we are not / the wondrous thing we are when born." It's this tragedy that animates Anthony DiMatteo's Fishing for Family, a gem of a book. It seeks the Grail of comprehending a life as and of family even if "dreams and poems butcher us all." In this well-sung sequence, the joys and burdens of human relationships resound to us in masterfully tuned sound and form. It shows how one may learn to survive those dear to us, to love them, and to remember them as-- whomever they are--the all that we have. -George Guida, Author of Zen of Pop, Pugilistic, and New York and Other Lovers; Co-editor, 2 Bridges Review Navigating the waters of life from ...
Beautiful Problems
How to account for beauty in these our difficult, cynical times, be it seductive, elevating, humbling, dangerous, or, too often nowadays, besmirched and downtrodden? The lyrical stories and speculations of Anthony DiMatteo's BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS - and who doesn't have these? - offer insights into experiences of beauty that we share with animals and in common. They move us now to stand up or sit down, shut up or shout out in a hunt and haunt of it. "BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS include those of suffering, death, bittersweet memory, surviving divorce, physical danger, and many others that entice and disturb equally. Reading, we find ourselves in various settings: classroom, county fair, hospital, prison, ...
A Rose From The Executioner
Nobody Kills Like This Anymore... Detective Philip Dorian of the 16th Chicago Precinct is called to investigate the serial killing and mutilation of retired, former pedophile priests in the Chicagoland area. It becomes later discovered that Monsignor Joseph Kilbane, chief of staff to the Cardinal, had previously approached his childhood friend, Anthony 'Little Tony' DiMatteo to lend him a "hit man' to commit the murders of these pedophile ex-priests for their insurance money. Although the plot sounds interesting, Little Tony isn't interested, and the Monsignor abandons the idea. During the reigns of prior Chicago bishops and cardinals over the last fifty years, many of these former pedophile...
The Medusa Reader
Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.
Contracts For Sale
Embrace your enemies. When their bodies are found, you won't be a suspect... How would you like to hire the services of an elite group of professional assassins, who will accept the assignment of deleting your most horrific adversary, performing the perfect murder, without a trace? Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Paul Crawford is asked to investigate a series of recent murders he eventually calls the 'Houdini Victims'. He begins with the investigation of a corporate executive who vanishes from a parking garage in the Chicago Loop, without a trace. The most unusual fact about this crime is that there is no body, no DNA evidence, no surveillance cameras, and no fingerprints. It is quite obvious tha...
LOVE NOTES: A Collection of Romantic Poetry
Love shared, love in secret, celebrated, exploded. Unrequited longing and love that's mellowed through the years. Love at long distance, across continents, so close there's no space to breathe, or never quite close enough. Love lost and love found. Love from the inside out and love from the outside in. Love Notes has it all: a collection of poetry as diverse as the experience of falling in love itself. A shared candied apple, a farewell at Paddington Station, a name scribbled in a notebook, a face that leaves us breathless, a single word that changes our life forever. Love Notes is a rich tapestry of verse woven from fragments of life and those moments that make falling in love so irresistible. And so inevitable. Love is unique, love is universal. Love is everywhere.
Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves. Narcissus so himself himself forsook, And died to kiss his shadow in the brook. In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self-absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative construction - 'himself himself' - that provides a keynote for this study of Renaissance reflexive subjectivity. Through close analysis of a number of Shakespearean texts - including Venus and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Othello - his book illustrates how radical self-reflection is expressed on the Renaissance page and stage, and how representations of the two seemingly extreme figures of the narcissist and...
Think Again
From one of America's most important cultural critics comes this collection of the best of his provocative New York Times essays, pieces that have generated passionate discussion and debate.
When A Rook Takes The Queen
Chicago Tribune Reporter Larry McKay has his hands full. He has been assigned to investigate the recent assassination of Chicago’s Mayor Janice Kollar in a tumultuous summer that has included riots, looting, and a city out of control. With Mayor Kollar’s long list of political enemies, McKay doesn’t know where to start. But he soon discovers a weekly gambit at St. Simeon’s Church Rectory on West 79th Street between two of Chicago’s most notable individuals; Former grand chess master and now Catholic priest, political activist Fr. Colin J. Fitzgerald, and organized crime boss Anthony ‘Little Tony’ DiMatteo. Their weekly chess matches have allowed ‘Fr. Fitz’ to become the new...
