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Eye for an Eye Makes The Whole World Blind Poets on 9/11 edited by: Allen Cohen & Clive Matson foreword by: Michael Parenti ISBN: 1-58790-034-3 $18.00 • 306 pages • paperback This anthology features poems by over 100 poets from all over America, including the former Poet Laureate of the United States. This important book creates an alternative poetic response to the din of collective madness that has characterized our national dialogue since 9/11/2001. Many of the poets have projected themselves into the minds and bodies of the victims of 9/11, the firemen and policemen who were searching the wreckage of the buildings and even the hijackers. They express deep emotions and profound thoughts with the severe attention to detail that makes poems revelatory. Upon reading these poems written by so many diverse poets one sees a deepening of perception, of renewed seriousness about the human predicament and about the necessity to evolve into our full humanity. We hope the poems will help readers feel more deeply, and think about our future, and ultimately act to achieve a more peaceful and just world. Poets included in the anthology: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane DiPrima, Robert Creeley, Opal Palmer Adisa, Robert Pinsky, Michael McClure, devorah major, Nellie Wong, Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer Neeli Cherkovski, Lyn Lifshin, Antler, John Sinclair, Allen Cohen, Clive Matson, Al Young, Steve Kowit, Gerald Nicosia, Q.R. Hand, Ira Cohen, Julia Vinograd, Jack Foley, Janine Pommy Vega, A.D. Winans, Shepherd Bliss, S.A. Griifin, Coleman Barks, Claire Burch, Gail Ford... and many more. |
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Domino by J. Lea Koretsky ISBN: 1-58790-068-8 $14.95 • 238 pages • paperback In this second Dalton Keys thriller, U.S. Marshal Keys sets out to avenge a fellow DEA officer who is killed in the line of duty. Isaiah Du Bois is the first African American gay cop to be reassigned to highway 395 after an inner city corruption case in San Bernardino blows sky high. In Domino, Marshal Keys tracks a highjacking crime ring, methamphetamine labs and stolen equipment designated for various law enforcement agencies through the lonely stretches of desert. A gripping tale of suspense, author Lea Koretsky paints the sadistic activities of cargo robbers who will stop at nothing to go after what they want. In her professional career J. Lea Koretsky investigates crimes of lethality, compiles forensic evidence for behavioral and motivational studies and provides expert testimony on substance abuse, criminality of teens, drug dungeons and meth labs. Dubbed a fiction journalist, she is the author of two novels featuring cult in mystery noir. In Wall of Darkness, set in the verdant Hawaiian wilderness, skin peddlers kidnap young teen boys for barbaric sexual rites and in the second novel The Eternity Look Dalton Keys shadows a deadly bone master whose vendetta against World War II sailors culminates in torture in exotic graveyards. “Thirty years in this work has frequently allowed me to witness extraordinary situations. What I write comes from these.” |
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Calabrian
Tales A Memoir of 19th Century Southern Italy by Peter Chiarella ISBN: 1-58790-030-0 $20.00 • xiv + 377 pages • paperback Calabrian Tales is a unique story of inexplicable injustice and poverty, avarice and survival based on true family incidents that were revealed to the author in his youth. The book’s chief character is the author’s great aunt, Marianna, who became the mistress of a wealthy noble. The life-style she adopted repeatedly shamed her relatives until living in Italy became unbearable for them. Eventually, the author’s father, Raffaele, fled his beloved Italy in the face of constant shame, and settled in the U.S. His son, author Peter Chiarella, grew up in Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. There, he heard the stories about life in Calabria from his grandmother, a principal character in the book. After her death, the stories kept coming, both from his father, also a character in Calabrian Tales, and from his mother, who had listened in on Nonna’s recollections over a period of fifteen years. The stories of people who lived in what may have been Italy’s poorest region, blend with the historical struggles of the times, in a combination reminiscent of certain aspects of The Godfather and the ignoble humanity of Angela’s Ashes. Peter Chiarella started life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in 1932. He was educated in the public school system and at St. John’s University. Retired from the corporate world, Peter lives in Napa, California and enjoys the life of a gentleman farmer as a wine grape grower and vintner. He is married and has four children. Despite the shame and disgrace brought upon his family by his great aunt’s improprieties and his grandfather’s two prison sentences, his grandmother’s steadfast choices and enormous integrity placed a stamp of honor on the family that has been passed on to subsequent generations. It has allowed them to succeed as Americans and has endowed them with the courage to reveal the past. |
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Tales
of Young Urban Squatters plus How to Squat by Claire Burch ISBN: 1-58790-014-9 $14.95 • 179 pages • paperback Tales of Young Urban Squatters takes a close look at the lives and hopes of a group of young people who have left their homes all over America to come to Berkeley, California, a town which seems to give a measure of entitlement to the homeless of assorted ages. These runaways are all different but they share a rebellious nature, messed up families, a tendency to get into trouble with the law and a combination of innocence and weary cynicism. Since there are more homeless people now than during the Great Depression of the 1930’s, squatting in abandoned buildings isn’t going to go away. This book, incorporating direct talk from kids at risk, presents the intense story of squatters who can‘t be lumped under one heading and dismissed. Some of their histories are gentle and rational, others exist as our window to the minds of young people bent on murder. Maybe by knowing in advance we could do something about it. Tales of Young Urban Squatters breaks stereotypes. Some of the squatters are idealistic and put intense “sweat equity” into improving their squat. Others are anarchists with a fixed set of beliefs. Some are just plain mad, trashing the places where they squat. Most of the squatters have had brushes with the law; and some have been discharged from psychiatric units with no place to go. Trust Me tells of having to work at a sex club to support her baby after welfare cuts. Shadow describes her desire to die. Homegirl tells of her years in an abandoned building with a group of other runaway kids. Some tales will shock and scare you, others are warm and funny. Filmmaker/writer Claire Burch knows them well, having documented their lives and been their friend long before starting this book. |
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You Have to Wear a Collar?” by Bart Sarjeant ISBN: 1-58790-035-1 $21.95 • 209 pages • hardbound Twentieth Century humorist Robert Benchley once said: “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe that there are two kinds of people and those who don’t!” Bart Sarjeant has said: “There are two kinds of people in the world: there are linear people and there are circular people. Linear people when asked to help solve a problem respond: ‘Well, to get to the solution you start at Point A, then proceed to Point B, then on to C and D and E and so on until you come to the answer’. Whereas, the circular person when asked to help with a problem says: ‘Let me tell you a story!’” Bart Sarjeant is a circular person. He’d love to tell you a story. Indeed, in this book Bart would love to tell you more than two hundred stories. Some of Bart’s stories will likely make you laugh, while others might well bring a tear to your eye. All of Bart’s stories come from his own personal experiences as a priest in the Episcopal Church for more than thirty-five years. His stories range from the very personal to the very pastoral, from his work with teenagers to his preparation of hundreds of couples for marriage, and from having to face a diagnosis of potentially terminal cancer to his long time, avid fascination with cars and motorcycles. As Bart quotes Muriel Rukeysser in the general introduction to this book: “The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.” To quote Bart: “I could not agree more. Humbly, I add these my own stories to all the others.” |
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Didn’t Know God Made Honky Tonk Communists A memoir about Draft Card Burning, Whichcraft, and the Sexual Meaning of Ballgames by David Miller ISBN: 1-58790-009-2 $18.95 • 331 pages • paperback The framed photo on the cover is on display at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It shows the author burning his draft card in New York City on October 15, 1965, the first person to do so after a law was passed prohibiting the destruction of draft cards. Follow David Miller as he climbs the ladder of the sound truck to speak at an early anti-Vietnam War rally. At that time a Catholic pacifist and recent college ballplayer, the author reveals the spiritual/political motivation behind his act of defiance, then describes his trial, the Supreme Court decision, and eventual imprisonment. Years after his release from prison, David Miller developed an interest in feminist spirituality, Travel with Mr. Miller on his transformative journey to ecofeminist witchcraft and to the ritual and political life of his San Francisco which community. Later, in another turn of life occasioned by a trip to ancient Mayan ruins in Guatemala,, the combination of a ballplaying life, the practice of whichcraft, and the Mayan sacred ballgame conspire to reveal the underlying sexual symbolism and political meaning of ballgame cultures. Just as the blood ball and other creation symbols in the Mayan game show a patriarchal system of control over the generative energies of women and nature, our ballgames also reveal an underlying sexual mythology of control over the creation power of women and nature. Football, basketball, and baseball move the seasons of the year along in the context of a sexually charged, competitive ballgame mythology that is the nation’s religion. Our challenge will be to weave a new ballgame dance from the shell of the sacrificial, warrior ballgame dance that our culture presently endures. We can dance in balance with the earth, sun, moon, stars, and one another. Watch our footwork. It’s real pretty. |
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O & Y Bookies by Roberts Blossom HOW IT IS WE POETIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY RIVER OF WINE boxed set of 3 “bookies”— ISBN: 1-58790-033-5 • $21.00 HOW IT IS WE — ISBN: 1-587990-025-4 • $9.00 • 62 pages POETIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY — ISBN: 1-58790-023-8 • $5.00 • 17 pages RIVER OF WINE — ISBN: 1-58790-024-6 • $7.00 • 37 pages Roberts Blossom is a well known character actor who has appeared in many films, television, and Broadway productions during his 50 year career. He is also prolific poet who has been writing for the past 60 years. Roberts’s first book of poetry, Excusology of the Ocean, (1964) was well received by the London Times. He went on to publish five more books of poetry over the years. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and his article on the nature of perception in film appeared in the Tulane Drama Review. J O & Y is his sixth book publication and this time Roberts has presented three “bookies” each with a distinct flavor of their own. Poetic Philosophy in the 21st Century was written in 1975 after a stroll through Colombia University in NYC during which Roberts found his mind entering different departments of the University. As a result he wrote what is essentially a prediction of new types of action and thinking in the 21st century. River of Wine is a collection of poems written during the 60’s and 70’s and reflects a more romantic side of Roberts’ work, before he got involved with reading Noam Chomski’s writings about American terrorism. The title was given to him by Jack Micheline in New York City years ago when they were roommates. How It Is We, in part, shows Roberts as a political poet concerned with the fact that money has become more important than life. The title reflects his conviction that we have become we-less today and challenges us to conceive of a new human we. Roberts’s main interest as a writer and as an artist is to provoke people to think about the state of our human society, specifically in terms of what can be done to create a more sustainable living in our world community. |
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Tracking Through Paris A Guide to Black Paris by Kat St. Thomas ISBN: 1-58790-017-3 $19.95 • 78 pages • paperback “For years I would give my clients traveling to Paris a loose-leaf booklet which was entitled, “I Have The Address, But How do I Get There?” In 1998 during my “April in Paris” tour, a client, P.A. Aguirre, was singing praises on how helpful he found the booklet. He went on to say that I should call it “Cat Tracks” as in the ski term which means tracks made in the snow so that one can easily find their way back to their point of origin. Finding that explanation to be very apropos, it was at that time I began to add to my list of places of interest in Black Paris and more importantly — how to get there.” (Kat Tracking Through Paris pg. 10) "Kat St. Thomas has been traveling to Paris for YEARS. That means she knows all the best places to go. We LOVE being part of her tour schedule and know anyone who decides to be part of her group will have a good time. Now that she has published this travel guide, you don't have to wait for Kat to make "traxx" in Paris." Sharon Morgan, Owner—BOJANGLES - Paris, France African American Restaurant • Soulfood***Jazz***Bon Temps “Kat's tours are exquisite! The tours encompass the full beauty of the City of Light and are enhanced by specially selected dinners at black owned restaurants. My excitement peaked as I followed Kat's guide to getting around Paris and making it to my destination or being personally escorted by my versed-in-French guide, Kat. Tracking with Kat in Paris is an intriguing experience everyone owes themselves!” June Winston-Hill • Oakland, California |
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Eternity Look by J. Lea Koretsky ISBN: 1-58790-052-1 $14.95 • 231 pages • paperback It’s a one way trip to the bone – No sooner is U.S. Marshal Dalton Keys called out to the scene of the death of a navy captain and his developmentally disabled minor son, he quickly finds himself caught up in intrigue and suspense as a deadly killer bent on murdering naval officers who served during World War II comes after him. This novel introduces Deputy Dalton Keys from Morongo Basin in Joshua Tree, California. In an investigation that takes him from the lonely reaches of the high desert to the coastal cities of Santa Barbara and San Diego, Keys doggedly hunts down a ruthless suspect to corner and expose him. Superbly crafted, a thriller any lover of mystery won’t be able to put down. About The Author: J. Lea Koretsky, was born in San Francisco in 1949. In 1986 she was awarded best short story by Northern California Mystery Writers of America and was published frequently under her pseudonym Lea Cash-Domingo in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and in Third WomanSleuth Anthology. In 1990 Learning Publications in Florida published Leading the Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics, a textbook developing out of her then private practice as a therapist specializing in substance treatment. She published a novella Sitting in the Dark in 2001 about a woman’s depression over a divorce and the World Trade Center. In 2002 Regent Press published Wall of Darkness, a novel about a journalist’s coverage of a series of kidnappings in Hawaii with flashbacks to war-torn Cambodia and oil drenched del Oro plants in Ecuador. In 2003 she was made a member of National Pen Association of Women Writers. Ms. Koretsky is known for her realism of the California high desert and coastal ranch lands and for people who live off the land. |
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The
Wholesome Oven Successful Baking without Dairy or Eggs Book One: Cookies, Cookies, Cookies by Patricia Leslie, M.S. ISBN: 1-58790-051-3 $16.00 • 150 pages • paperback There are plenty of vegan-cuisine books available these days, but most have only scanty sections on either desserts or baking. Ms. Leslie, a lifelong baker and longtime vegetarian, has made it her mission to fill this gap. With a background in anthropology, she understands that feelings about food are among the strongest cultural bonds. People may be willing to make many concessions to better health, but draw the line at saying farewell forever to that special “comfort treat” – be it gingerbread men, peach pie, or banana muffins. Cookies, Cookies, Cookies is the first of four books devoted to natural-ingredient baking. The popularity of natural foods is increasing exponentially these days, with good reason. Health risks including heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer have all been linked to ingredients such as butter, refined sugar and flour, and hydrogenated vegetable oils. A majority of people worldwide are lactose-intolerant. Children’s behavioral problems are linked to excessive sugar and artificial additives. The Wholesome Oven’s recipes – free of eggs, butter, and cream -- produce light, tender, flavorful results. Unrefined sugar and liquid canola oil are at a minimum. Leslie includes preparation techniques, a guide to natural ingredients, and a list of source companies. |
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Wholesome Oven Successful Baking without Dairy or Eggs Book Two: Muffins, Coffee Cakes & Other Quick Breads by Patricia Leslie, M.S. ISBN: 1-58790-059-9 $16.00 • 140 pages • paperback This is the second of a four book series dedicated to exploring baking without the use of dairy or eggs! The first book of the series concerned itself with cookies. This second volume focuses on muffins, coffee cakes and other quick breads. The author, Patricia Leslie, has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s in metaphysics. She has been a baker for most of her life and a vegetarian since 1974. After studying the links between diet and human health, she discovered for herself the benefits of eliminating dairy and eggs from her vegetarian diet. This motivated her to do something to help others make the same positive change. Since she personally found that the hardest change to make was in the area of desserts and other baked goods, Ms. Leslie began experimenting with alternative ingredients. Soon she was achieving incredible results without dairy products. Now she is sharing her successful recipes with others. The Wholesome Oven’s recipes – free of eggs, butter, cream or milk – produce light, tender, flavorful results. Unrefined sugar and liquid canola oil are at a minimum. Leslie includes preparation techniques, a guide to natural ingredients, and a list of source companies. |
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The
Wholesome Dog Biscuit A Barker's Dozen by Patricia Leslie, M.S. ISBN: 1-58790-104-8 $12.00 • 68 pages • paperback While the popularity of natural foods is increasing exponentially these days, and new vegan cookbooks seem to be hitting the shelves every month, there are not yet many options when it comes to providing truly healthy snacks for our canine companions. In The Wholesome Dog Biscuit (punningly subtitled “A Barker’s Dozen”), author Patricia Leslie provides thirteen tasty, natural-ingredient recipes for vegan, sugar-free, allergy-free dog biscuits and treats. Leslie includes all necessary preparation techniques and diagrams; even a first-time cook will feel well-guided thanks to clear, detailed language and straightforward steps. The book is rounded out with a wealth of information on “Food, Health, and Dogs.” The Wholesome Dog Biscuit doesn’t stop there. Each dog-named recipe (Maeve’s Faves; Toby’s Delight Carroty Bites) is adorned with an original drawing of the eponymous real-life dog. At the end of the book, short biographies of these mostly-rescued dogs provide both chuckles, and some food for thought. There is something innately heartwarming about the idea of baking healthy, homemade biscuits for your four-legged best friend, and this warm-hearted book resonates with a deep love for dogs from cover to cover. |
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