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Poetry. "THIS IS A GREAT BOOK! Jeff Wright has become the first human being to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Take that, Equines! He did it the poet's way—he crowned himself with sonnets, and gifted them to the world. Reciprocate his generosity by reading with your whole body. And they're off!"—Bob Holman" In TRIPLE CROWN, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright goes for the ultimate prize. He joins the ring for competition in one of the sport's deadliest events—the sonnet sequence. 'Look for me in the crosswalk smackdown,' he writes, aware of the pratfalls. First, the sonnet was declared dead, then alive, then surging. The 'innocent euphoria' Wright achieves is not so innocent, but it ...
The founder and CEO of Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione, tells the story of how he created the largest art dealer in the world.
poems and artwork by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
D. Foy's second novel is a tornado of brutal Americana. PATRICIDE is a heavy metal Huck Finn that whips up the haunted melancholy of Kerouac's Doctor Sax, a novel of introspection and youth in its corruption that seethes with the deadly obsession of Moby-Dick, and the darkness of Joy Williams' State of Grace. Beyond the story of a boy growing up in a family derailed by a hapless father, PATRICIDE is a search for meaning and identity within the strange secrecy of the family. This is an existential novel of wild power, of memories, and of mourning-in-life, softened, always, by the tenderness at its core. With it, Foy's place among the outstanding voices in American literature is guaranteed.
Poetry. "I emptied two magazines of my .380 PPK at Jeffrey C. Wright's bulletproof poems, and they didn't make a dent. A poet true to his word and the Word, Jeff takes himself as seriously as a threatened world of fragile humans will allow. He is lyrical, attentive, and gracious. He is also civilized: Sextus Propertius in NY."--Andrei Codrescu
A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in Troy, Unincorporated offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer’s tragedy Troilus and Criseyde. The tale’s unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted “historic” downtowns of south-central Wisconsin, including the real, and literally unincorporated, town of Troy. Allusive and often humorous, they retain an affinity with Chaucer, especially in terms of their roles: Troilus, the good courtly lover, suffers from the weeps, or, in more modern terms, depression. Pandarus, the hard-working catalyst who ...
"Barefoot in the Heart" is a collection of transcribed oral stories of the Indian saint Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji). It includes many anecdotes and first-person retellings of stories collected in India and the in the USA over a period of 9 years, by Keshav Das, including a small selection of unpublished stories originally intended for inclusion in "Miracle Of Love" by Ram Dass. "Barefoot In The Heart" is a divine raft to take us across the ocean of darkness to the glorious land of light. Every page is filled with Maharajji's nectar..... Profound gratitude to Keshav Das and his collaborators.... - Jai Uttal
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The rich, multitudinous voices in this anthology variously call for-having embarked on-the hard work of sobriety, sanity. Nathaniel Mackey