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Ideologues
E. M. Schorb's The Ideologues is a captivating collection of free-verse poems in disparate styles, touching on subjects that run the gamut from a revisionist view of the Trojan War to the wartime death of a brother to the New York Draft Riots of 1863. The book's title poem is a profoundly bitter indictment of those writers who prostitute their art to support fanatical revolutionary politics. Schorb has the capacity to speak in several voices: a poor widow in a trailer home, a tough drill sergeant on Parris Island, 1960s flower children, a pedantic psychology professor. Schorb's new book demonstrates a versatility in free verse that matches his proven ability as a formal poet. ~Joseph S. Salemi Editor, TRINACRIA
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Paradise Square
?A crackling good story told in the compelling, precise prose of a poet. Imaginative. Evocative. Wander the streets of New York with Edgar Allan Poe, who, dear reader, must solve a murder to save a friend. The Frankfurt eBook Grand Prize in Fiction goes to E.M. Schorb for Paradise Square...' ?Award Citation, Walter Anderson, Chairman, Parade Publications ?By mixing elements of the historical novel and the conventional mystery with a speculative reconstruction of Poe's final days, Schorb has crafted a fascinating tale. He does great honor to Poe's memory and fame.' ?Gregory Harris, BookPage.com ?A modern blend of literary history and spunky humor that deserves its Frankfurt nod.' ?Publishers Weekly
The Journey and Related Poems
"The Journey," together with some fine ancillary poems, is a major work by one ofour most challenging and surprising poets: a profound exploration of dream that seeksto fathom the nature of reality. Stunningly beautiful passages of verbal music seem toleap off the page. In all his long career, E. M. Schorb has never given us anything moreambitious, more likely to last.-X.J. Kennedy, author of IN A PROMINENT BAR IN SECAUCUS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: 1955-2007 E. M. Schorb's "The Journey" navigates among dreams, déjà vu, premonitions, acarefully observed, scrupulously interrogated present and "a touch of the old moonglow."Sometimes, he even seems to bring dispatches from "the undiscover'd cou...
Murderer's Day
This collection of poetry reflects on life on the mosquito coasts, the plains and foothills of Parnassus. There is less magic down here than there is up there, and the poet seems certain, as all poets must be, that there is even more magic beyond.
Time and Fevers
Winner of the 16th Annual Writers Digest Self-Published Award for Poetry, 2008 An Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner, 2007 I am always happy to drop everything--pretty nearly--when I make the acquaintance of a new poet as good as E.M. Schorb. James Dickey The poems of E.M. Schorb shine calmly even as they buzz with energy; are connaissant with the world and yet transcendent of it; make something deeply funny and yet highly sad--given a world and a time and a good minds eye. This is the work of a mature intelligence, its ironies unadulterated by cynicism, and its swells informed by understatement. Heather McHugh Schorbs poetry is rich with humor and an almost gestaltic sense of clarity; this uniqu...
A Portable Chaos
More than half a century ago, trying to find his way out of the chaos of a dysfunctional family that suffers from a dark secret, eighteen-year-old Jimmy Whistler joins the Marines and is sent to Hawaii, not yet a state, where he meets a fifteen-year-old girl, Leilani Kona, who turns out to be the love of his life, his own Sweet Leilani; but, due to her age and his sense of honor, their love remains unconsummated. Later, shipped back to the mainland and discharged from the Marine Corps, Jimmy makes a false start in New York City as an actor, falling in with a show business crowd, and, still later, with a band of hippies, all the while trying to perfect his true calling as a writer who is atte...
Stories, Etc.
These previously published stories and short fictions, whether realistic or surreal, are always imaginative and sometimes startling. On the opening page, we meet a man who takes a walk at Coney Island, writes an open letter of confession in the sand, believing it will vanish with the tide, but shockingly discovers that his secrets have been revealed to the world. We find a man who buys a living room carpet that becomes a terrifying jungle and a man who just missed becoming a movie star. There is also the manager of a shop in Harlem whose salesmen peddle portraits of Christ whose eyes seem to follow the viewer and who unconsciously overcomes his racial bias, back in the Sixties. In Bad Trip, ...
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Chariton Review 32.1
Chariton Review Spring 2009
