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Present Imperfect
This debut essay collection by Ona Gritz, NY Times-published writer and longtime columnist for Literary Mama, reads like a blockbuster movie. There is a heroine with cerebral palsy, likeable and indefatigable. There is family conflict, romance, and true crime. Ona writes on disability, family dynamics, and the murder of her sister's family with candor and passion. A critically acclaimed essayist, two Notable mentions by Robert Atwan in The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, among the recent accolades, Ms. Gritz has gathered the best of her work from the NY Times Disability series, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more for this fine and most riveting read.
The Pushcart Prize (2022) XLVI
The 46th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished staff contributing editors. Series Honors: The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Pushcart its 2020 recognition for “Distinguished Service to the Arts.” The National Book Critics Circle cited Bill Henderson for its Ivan Sandrof “Lifetime Achievement” award in 2006. In 2005 Poets &Writers / Barnes and Noble noted Pushcart for their Writers For Writers prize. And in 1978 Publishers Weekly’s Carey-Thomas Award went to the Pushcart Prize. Reviews of last year’s edition: Booklist - “Resplendent…A perennial must have.” Publishers Weekly - “A trove of fine writing.” Kirkus - ”Strong and wide ranging." Library Journal (starred) - "Fascinating ….A must have for all collections."
Two Naked Feet
"Two Naked Feet is brilliantly wired with the tension of paradox. It is about exile and the movement of peoples, the destruction and pastiche of cultures, the chasm between the idealized world and the colloquial one."--Stephanie Dickinson.
Divining Divas
Editor Michael Montlack has assembled an anthology of a hundred gay poets--award winners and fresh voices--in thrall with female icons throughout the ages ranging from Gloria Swanson to Mary J, Blige, from Edith Piaf to Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler to Lady Gaga. These are not merely appreciations of the gorgeous and daring but poems that are confessional to bittersweet to witty.
On Prejudice
A goundbreaking anthology of essays, memoirs, psychological revelations, polemics, short fiction, and poetry on the nature of prejudice and genocide, with commentary and criticism by American Book Award winner Daniela Gioseffi--whose goal is to inspire empathetic intercultural tolerance and understanding.
My Brother's Book
Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing. Pairing Sendak's poignant poetry with his exquisite and dramatic artwork, this book redefines what mature readers expect from Maurice Sendak while continuing the lasting legacy he created over his long, illustrious career. Sendak's tribute to his brother is an expression of both grief and love and will resonate with his lifelong fans who may have read his children's books and will be ecstatic to discover something for them now. Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic and Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt contributes a moving introduction.
Europa/Nippon/New York
"In 'Europa/Nippon/New York, ' Joel Allegretti reminds us that history tells the story of cultures, not just the story of political conflict, and that history itself, though not-poem, re-posits all the stuff - the cathedrals and gargoyles, the rubble and voices from the rubble, the traditions and innovators - that make poetry possible. Humming and shimmering through time, all that stuff waits patiently for the right collector to come along and provide the right vision to bring it into a particularly poignant focus. And look: Here he is." -- Brian Clements, Founding Editor, "Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics"; "Everything instructs, engages, and delights us through the wide-angle lens of t...
Payday Loans
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) presents the February 2000 consumer alert "Payday Loans=Costly Cash." The alert cautions consumers against using the small, short-term, high-rate loans known as payday loans. These types of loans are also called cash advance loans, check advance loans, post-dated check loans or deferred deposit check loans.
WAGING BEAUTY
Lifetime activist and American Book Award-winning author, founder/editor of Eco-Poetry.org, Daniela Gioseffi offers humanity -- children of Mother Gaia, fellow citizens of home planet Earth -- a wake-up call in the face of climate crisis emergency "because you still have some hours left."
Amores
Parallel latin & English texts.
