Meningkat Tiga Metode DEFINISI Metode Tiga Naik Pola bullish candlestick yang digunakan untuk memprediksi kelanjutan dari tren naik saat ini. Pola ini terbentuk saat candlesticks memenuhi karakteristik berikut: 1. Lilin pertama dalam pola adalah candlestick putih panjang dalam uptrend yang ditentukan. 2. Serangkaian lilin bertubuh kecil bertubuh kecil yang berdagang dalam kisaran candlestick pertama. 3. Sebuah candlestick putih panjang menciptakan tinggi baru, yang menunjukkan bahwa bullish kembali mengendalikan arah. BREAKING DOWN Rising Three Methods Serangkaian candlestick bertubuh kecil dianggap sebagai periode konsolidasi sebelum uptrend mampu melanjutkan. Pola ini penting karena menunjukkan pedagang bahwa penjual masih belum memiliki keyakinan yang cukup untuk membalikkan tren dan digunakan oleh beberapa trader aktif sebagai sinyal untuk menambah posisi mereka. Lagu ini adalah komentar ketenaran. Dengan garis, Ketika semua orang mencintaiku, saya tidak akan pernah kesepian, penandatangan utama Adam Duritz menyatakan - dengan lebih dari sekedar sentuhan sarkasme - ketenaran itu akan membuat segalanya lebih baik (tidak pernah sepi diulang untuk mengantarkan pesan: Orang ini Adalah delusional). Ketika menjadi hit pertama bagi band ini, Duritz tiba-tiba dikenali di seantero Amerika, yang ia temukan tidak nyaman. Ketenaran yang baru ditemukan mengirimnya ke dalam funk yang berkepanjangan tiba-tiba dia mendapati dirinya menyanyikan sebuah lagu tentang memimpikan ketenaran saat dia sangat pahit tentang hal itu. Dengan lagu yang beresonansi, dia menjadi enggan menyanyikannya. Duritz berhenti menulis lebih dari setahun, dan album kedua Counting Crows, Recovering the Satellites. Bukankah dirilis sampai tiga tahun setelah debut mereka. Melihat kembali lagu tersebut dalam wawancara kami tahun 2013 dengan Adam Duritz. Dia menjelaskan bahwa meskipun bodoh jika menganggap ketenaran akan memecahkan masalah Anda, sulit untuk ditolak. Kata Duritz: Seharusnya kau melihat pria itu: Ketika semua orang mencintaiku, aku tidak akan pernah kesepian. Anda seharusnya tahu itu tidak benar. Untuk satu hal, tidak ada yang namanya semua orang mencintaiku. Tidak ada yang tahu Anda dalam kasus itu. Jadi aku tahu itu tidak akan terjadi seperti itu. Tapi Anda tetap menginginkannya: Anda ingin kehidupan menjadi lebih mudah, Anda ingin menjadi bintang rock sehingga lebih mudah untuk berbicara dengan seorang gadis. Orang gila yang sama duduk di sana bersama gadis itu nanti. Jadi tidak memperbaiki semuanya. Jones adalah Marty Jones, teman vokalis Adam Duritz. Sebelum Duritz bergabung dengan Counting Crows, mereka berada di sebuah band yang disebut The Himalayans. Ini ditulis oleh vokalis Adam Duritz dan gitaris David Bryson (tiga anggota band lainnya juga mendapat kredit komposer). Pada sebuah episode dari Pendongeng VH1. Adam menjelaskan: Ini benar-benar lagu tentang temanku Marty dan aku. Suatu malam kami pergi untuk menyaksikan ayahnya bermain, ayahnya adalah seorang pemain gitar Flamenco yang tinggal di Spanyol (David Serva), dan dia berada di San Francisco dalam misi tersebut. Bermain dengan rombongan Flamenco lamanya. Dan setelah pertunjukan, kami semua pergi ke bar ini yang disebut New Amsterdam di San Francisco di Columbus dan kami benar-benar mabuk. Dan Marty dan aku duduk di bar sambil menatap kedua gadis itu, berharap ada jalan lain untuk bisa berbicara dengan mereka, tapi kami terlalu pemalu. Kami terus bercanda satu sama lain bahwa jika kita adalah bintang rock besar, bukan pecundang, musisi beranggaran rendah, ini akan mudah. Saya pulang malam itu dan saya menulis lagu tentang hal itu. Aku bercanda tentang apa tentang, cerita itu. Tapi itu benar-benar sebuah lagu tentang semua impian dan semua hal yang membuat Anda ingin melakukan apa pun yang merebut hati Anda, entah itu bintang rock atau menjadi dokter atau apalah. Hal-hal berjalan dari semua hal ini yang telah saya sembunyikan dalam diri saya hingga saya ingin bertemu dengan anak perempuan karena saya bosan tidak dapat melakukannya. Ini adalah banyak hal, tentang semua mimpi itu, tapi juga semacam peringatan karena tentang betapa sesat Anda mungkin tentang beberapa hal itu dan betapa berongganya mereka juga. Seperti karakter dalam lagu yang terus berkata, Ketika semua orang mencintaiku, aku tidak akan pernah kesepian, dan kamu seharusnya tahu bahwa itu bukan jalannya. Aku tahu itu saat itu juga. Dan ini adalah lagu tentang mimpiku. Duritz kemudian mengungkapkan bahwa pria di bar yang mendapatkan gadis-gadis itu adalah Kenney Dale Johnson, yang merupakan drummer Chris Isaaks. Banyak orang mengira Mr. Jones adalah referensi karakter Bob Dylan dalam lagu Ballad of Thin Man. Dylan mengatakan bahwa saya ingin menjadi Bob Dylan, Mr. Jones berharap dia adalah seseorang yang sedikit lebih funky. The Beatles memang menyebut karakter Bob Dylans dalam lagu mereka Yer Blues. Garis itu Merasa sangat bunuh diri, sama seperti Dylans Mr. Jones. Adam Duritz: Ini adalah lagu yang telah disalahartikan sangat, untuk sedikitnya. Saya pikir orang terlalu sering mencari simbolisme dalam lagu saat mereka lebih sederhana dari penampilan mereka. Ini, khususnya, jauh lebih sederhana daripada yang harus dilihat banyak orang. Saya telah mendengar semuanya dari sini tentang beberapa pria blues kuno yang mengajari saya untuk bermain musik, yang sama sekali menggelikan, tapi seperti fantasi film somebodys. Saya juga pernah mendengar tentang penisku, yang bahkan lebih menggelikan. Saat kami melakukan wawancara untuk Rolling Stone. Aku berjalan dengan David Wilde ke Musee dOrsay di Paris suatu hari dan hal pertama yang terjadi adalah kedua anak ini berlari menghampiri kami dan berkata, Hei Youre orang dari Counting Crows, benar Dan aku berkata, yeah. Dan dia berkata, Apakah Tuan Jones tentang penis Anda, saya ingin membunuh orang itu karena saya tahu di mana itu akan berakhir, yang merupakan paragraf pertama artikel di Rolling Stone. Ini adalah single pertama yang dirilis oleh Counting Crows dan juga hit terbesar mereka. Nama band mengacu pada frase Counting Crows yang berarti tidak ada gunanya, seperti dalam, Itu sama berharganya dengan menghitung gagak. Saran kredit: Robb - Pittsburgh, PA Semua anggota band adalah penggemar besar grup Big Star. Saat membawakan lagu ini di Saturday Night Live. Duritz mengubah garis Saya Ingin menjadi Bob Dylan untuk Saya Ingin Menjadi Alex Chilton. Alex Chilton adalah vokalis Big Star, dan Alex Chilton adalah nama lagu The Replacements. Dalam lagu Replacements mereka menyebutnya sebagai An tak terlihat dengan suara yang sangat terlihat. Saran pujian: Steve - Chino Hills, CA Lagu ini mengacu pada seorang wanita menari bernama Maria: Potong Maria, tunjukkan salah satu dari mereka tarian Spanyol. Karakter ini muncul dalam banyak lagu mereka. Dia adalah subjek utama single kedua mereka, Round Here: Maria mengatakan bahwa dia sekarat, melalui pintu depan saya melihat dia menangis, dan Maria datang dari Nashville dengan sebuah koper di tangannya. Di Mrs. Potters Lullabye, Duritz bernyanyi, ada sepotong Maria dalam setiap lagu yang saya nyanyikan. Dia juga disebutkan di latar belakang menulis di sampul Agustus Dan Segalanya Sesudahnya. Identitas Maria tidak pernah terungkap, yang membuat banyak orang percaya bahwa dia bukan orang sungguhan, tapi simbol untuk kesepian, keinginan, atau sesuatu yang serupa. Saran pujian: Alden - College Park, MD Seperti beberapa hit besar pada pertengahan 90an, lagu ini tidak dirilis sebagai single di Amerika, yang menyimpannya dari chart Billboard Hot 100, namun berarti bahwa penggemar harus membeli keseluruhan Album untuk mendengarnya Taktiknya berhasil, dengan penjualan Agustus dan Segalanya Setelah mencapai 7 juta. Lagu ini mencapai 5 di tangga lagu Billboard's Airplay, yang diintegrasikan ke dalam Hot 100 pada tahun 1998. Lagu hit lainnya dari era yang dirilis dengan nada sebagai single antara lain Dont Speak oleh No Doubt and Torn oleh Natalie Imbruglia. Duritz dituduh mengangkat sha-la-la-la-la dari klasik Van Morrisons Brown Eyed Girl. Yang jauh dari kebenaran, dia mengatakan kepada Entertainment Weekly. Saya sudah mendapat banyak flack ini, katanya. Saya melemparkan satu sha la la sebagai lelucon yang tercatat. Hal berikutnya yang saya ketahui adalah kedatangan kedua Cowboy Belfast sebagai julukan Morrison. Saya tidak mengerti Saya bisa melihat dari mana saya belajar dari nyanyiannya. Tapi semua penulis lain melompat ke sana sebagai referensi yang mudah. Komentar: 59 Saya selalu menganggap Mr. Jones sebagai tipe yang jahat. Anda tahu siapa yang menjadi sahabat terbaik dan memiliki apa yang Anda sebut sebagai niat terbaik namun membantu atau memungkinkan Anda untuk menyesatkan dengan benar Secara lisan, ini memiliki pengertian spiritual atau metafisik dengan lirik Mr. Jones dan saya menatap ke masa depan dan saling memberi tahu dongeng. Sebagian besar seperti perjalanan yang menyenangkan tentang dewa dan makna Ricky Nelson yang saya yakini. Ketika semua orang mencintaiku, aku tidak akan pernah kesepian dengan baik bagaimana dengan kalian mencintai dirimu sendiri cukup untuk menyadari tidak ada yang akan kesepian. Ketakutan rahasia semua adalah sendirian. Seperti lagu gliserin dari periode waktu yang sama dengan semak. Kita hidup di roda di mana semua orang mencuri saat Anda menyadari seperti Strawberry Fields. Tidak ada yang bisa digantungi dengan benar Hidup itu mudah dengan mata setengah tertutup, salah paham dengan semua yang Anda lihat. Menjadi sulit untuk menjadi seseorang tapi semuanya berhasil. John Doe - Tulsa, Ok Apakah ada yang tahu tentang penyanyi back-up yang bisa didengar di paruh terakhir lagu Great susunan vokal mereka. Lagu abadi Bocknobby - Toronto, On Biarkan saya mengawali komentar ini dengan pernyataan berikut: Saya mengerti bahwa ini bukan maksud yang dimaksudkan oleh penulis, hanya bagaimana nyanyiannya berbicara kepada saya. Yang mengatakan, here goes nothing. Saya baru saja mencari iman, dan menyadari bahwa keyakinan saya sendiri paling lemah. Saya berusaha keras untuk menemukan kebenaran namun terus-menerus terganggu oleh keinginan duniawi saya dan meskipun saya sering merasa bahwa Tuhan berbicara kepada saya, dalam keangkuhan saya, saya akhirnya berusaha untuk memuji kemuliaan-Nya. Lagu ini terasa seperti cerita itu bagiku. Saya sedang duduk di sebuah bar sambil minum dan berkabung setelah seorang wanita, ketika semangat Yesus (Mr. Jones) mulai berbicara kepada hati seorang wanita bernama Maria (Mary). Dia mulai menari saat ayah Mr. Jones (Tuhan) memainkan musik (gitar) untuknya, dan tiba-tiba saya menyadari betapa cantiknya dirinya - dan saya berharap bisa menjadi cantik itu. Jadi saya berjuang dengan kesunyian dalam pikiran saya sendiri (tidak adanya roh kudus dalam hidup saya) melalui malam metaforis sampai fajar (kesadaran bahwa saya membutuhkan Kristus dalam hidup saya). Jadi saya meminta Maria untuk terus menari untuk saya, sehingga saya dapat belajar bagaimana meniru pengabdiannya yang menyenangkan di dalam Tuhan - dan meminta Yesus untuk memberi saya botol (isi saya dengan Roh Kudus). Saya memohon kepada Tuhan untuk percaya kepada saya, karena saya menyadari bahwa saya tidak benar-benar mempercayai apapun (termasuk saya sendiri), dan saya ingin menjadi seseorang yang percaya. Yesus dan saya berjalan bersama dan berbicara tentang hal-hal yang saya pikir saya percaya (dongeng), dan kita menatap wanita cantik, Dia dengan semangat mereka, saya di tubuh mereka. Naluri saya mengatakan kepada saya bahwa mereka melihat Dia, tapi kesombongan saya mengatakan tidak, tidak, mereka menatap saya. Saya menatap ke dalam cahaya yang datang dari dua arah yang berbeda (lampu fisik dari benda-benda duniawi, dan cahaya spiritual dari Kebenaran Allah), saya tahu bahwa ketika semua orang mengasihi Anda (Kristus) tidak akan pernah ada yang kesepian lagi. Saya melukis gambar hidup saya, saya melukis diri saya dengan warna biru (sedih) dan merah (marah) dan hitam (kegelapan, potensi jahat) dan abu-abu (berpotensi untuk kebaikan, cacat oleh sifat berdosa saya). Saya tahu bahwa semua hal itu diperlukan untuk pertumbuhan hidup saya, dan karena itu bermakna dan indah, tapi kelabu (potensi saya untuk kebaikan) adalah aspek favorit saya dari diri saya sendiri. Saya tahu bahwa jika saya berdiri di hadapan orang-orang dan berbicara, bahwa saya akan menjadi simbol bagi mereka, namun saya belum dapat melakukan apa yang benar. Jika bisa, saya akan menemukan seseorang yang bisa melihat keindahan ciptaan melalui kekacauan realitas dan belajar dari mereka (seperti Picasso), jika saya dapat melakukan itu, saya akan berdiri di hadapan Tuhan dan setiap orang dan bermainlah Gitar, sambil tetap mengingat ketidaksempurnaan saya sendiri. Yesus dan saya, melihat masa depan hidup saya, kita menatap wanita cantik (sama seperti di atas) dan sekali lagi saya mencoba untuk memuji kemuliaanNya. Saya berdiri di depan kerumunan (dalam sorotan), akhirnya saya tahu bagaimana cara berbicara dengan benar (gitar abu-abu saya), tapi saya gagal lagi karena saya mencoba untuk menerima pujian lagi dengan mengatakan bahwa ketika semua orang mencintai AKU, saya tidak akan pernah menjadi Kesepian saya tidak akan pernah kesepian tidak saya tidak akan pernah, kesepian Semakin saya mencoba meyakinkan diri sendiri bahwa saya akan menjadi orang yang membuat diri saya bahagia, semakin saya menjadi sadar bahwa itu hanya akan datang melalui Tuhan. Saya ingin sekali berbicara tentang Kebenaran dengan otoritas sejati (seperti singa), sepertinya semua orang di sekitar saya puas lulus sebagai kucing (hanya kemunculan otoritas), kita semua ingin menjadi hebat - adalah sifat kita untuk mencari kebesaran. - Tapi kita semua memiliki alasan yang berbeda (beberapa untuk membantu diri mereka sendiri, beberapa untuk membantu orang lain, beberapa untuk melayani Tuhan). Sekali lagi saya memohon kepada Tuhan untuk percaya kepada saya, karena saya masih tidak benar-benar percaya akan kebebasan Kristus (sebagaimana dibuktikan dengan kegagalan saya yang terus-menerus untuk memberi dia pujian atas berkat saya), dan saya ingin menjadi seseorang yang dapat dipercaya orang. Yesus dan saya melewati jalan-jalan kotor bario bersama-sama, kita masih menatap wanita cantik, tapi sekarang akhirnya saya mengerti bahwa mereka sempurna untuk Kristus, dan saya tahu bahwa harus ada seseorang yang tepat untuk saya. Saya ingin menjadi seorang pendongeng yang menyentuh kehidupan masyarakat (seperti bob Dylan), Kristus berharap Dia adalah seseorang yang sedikit lebih funky (begitu banyak orang membayangkan Kristus tegang, tapi Dia berjalan bersama kita bahkan melalui rintangan kehidupan kita), Tuhan berkata Dia (ah, Nak) bahwa Dia sama asyiknya, karena setiap orang mengasihi Dia. Kristus dan saya melihat video hidup saya bersama, ketika saya menontonnya bersama Dia, saya ingin bisa melihat langsung ke mata saya sendiri sambil menatap tanpa malu-malu. Kita semua ingin menjadi hebat - kita hanya tidak tahu bagaimana mendapatkannya, atau bahkan mengapa kita menginginkannya, tapi ketika saya menjadi seperti Kristus, dan semua orang mencintaiku, akhirnya aku akan bahagia seperti saya. Yesus dan saya, akan menjadi bintang besar. Saya harap penafsiran ini tidak menyinggung siapapun - saya tidak bermaksud demikian. Saya berharap jika Anda mencari seperti saya bahwa lagu ini berbicara kepada Anda sedalam yang saya lakukan dan membantu Anda dalam perjalanan Anda. Keith - Goose Creek, Sc Saya selalu melihat lagu ini memiliki makna yang lebih dalam dan bahwa penulis membenci hal itu sedikit mengecewakan. Apapun, saya rasa para seniman tidak harus lebih valid daripada pendengar sehingga saya tidak bisa memberikannya: Lagunya sederhana, hanya tentang aspirasi, dan kesadaran bahwa hidup lebih dari sekedar kesuksesan profesional. Tapi saya juga mendapatkan getaran yang mengomentari Tuhan melalui Mr. Jones. Saya tidak bisa memilih mengapa, begitulah cara saya menafsirkannya. Kyle - St. Louis, Il um. Maria adalah nama spanyol Menari flamenco adalah spanyol. Jadi kalau maria selalu ada di lagu mereka kenapa tidak menjadikannya nama penari. Dan ayahnya yang bermain gitar adalah teman bermain Adams sambil bermain sambil minum. Duhhhh Liv - Long Island, Ny Great song. Seluruh album ini hebat. Saya pertama kali masuk ke dalam gagak sekitar tahun 1996. Bertahun-tahun sebelum saya mengambil beberapa pelajaran gitar tapi saya tidak pernah benar-benar terjebak dengannya. Saya mengambil gitar saya lagi. Pada musim panas tahun 96 dan satu lagu yang akan saya dengar banyak adalah Mr. Jones. Saya menyadari bahwa itu telah dirilis 3 tahun sebelumnya, tetapi karena saya sekarang kembali bermain gitar, saya melihatnya lebih banyak setiap kali radio tersebut masuk. Saya mencintai Rythm dari lagu ini Pada musim gugur itulah aku telah mempelajari akord-akord. Ini adalah satu dari beberapa lagu yang pernah saya pelajari hanya dengan mendengarkannya. Begitu saya mengetahui akordnya, irama itulah yang paling saya latih. Saya sekarang telah melihat pelajaran untuk lagu ini di internet dan sering kali mereka memainkannya dengan gitar akustik. Lagu ini terdengar oke pada akustik tapi kedengarannya terbaik saat dimainkan seperti itu. Ada di album dengan gitar listrik yang menggunakan nada bersih. Ini adalah salah satu lagu terbaik dari 90s. What sebuah album yang hebat juga. Brian - Boston, Ma Dont tahu apakah ini telah diposting, tapi quotNew Amsterdamquot sekarang disebut quotInternational Sports Clubquot dan terletak di 1000 Columbus Avenue (titik temu dengan Taylor Street) di San Francisco. CA. Rupanya mereka melakukan happy hour dengan bir murah. Duduk di kursi Adam Duritz adalah opsional. Gazza - Buenos Aires, Argentina Orang, satu pertanyaan dalam kalimat: quotShe menari saat ayahnya bermain gitar. quot - Ayah siapa mereka berbicara tentang Bukankah seharusnya menjadi momok yang baik? Awalnya saya pikir penari Flamenco bisa menjadi anak dari ini. Quothis fatherquot, tapi kemudian Mr Jones tidak akan berbicara dengan seorang pria, benar SO penari flamenco adalah seorang gadis (juga karena tarian dia. Dia bertanya-tanya). Dapatkah seseorang membantu saya memahami ayah siapa lagu yang berbicara tentang ayah Tuan Jones. Heloisa Argentina - Crdoba, Argentina Tuhan lagu ini menjadi sangat tua sangat cepat Clay - Henagar, Al Saya pikir Mr. Jones adalah minuman dalam lagu tersebut. Xavier - Schenectady, Ny Nah, apapun yang Anda pilih, namanya, Mr. Jones adalah nama umum - bukan siapa-siapa. Nama yang umum akan berubah sewaktu seseorang mencapai ketenaran dan musik itu sendiri terkadang mengubah namanya saat pria itu menjadi seorang musisi terkenal. Terkadang musisi akan menyimpan namanya sendiri, tapi cukup sering berubah setelah heshe mencapai ketenaran. Atau jarang ada nama masing-masing nama band yang diketahui. Misalnya, kita tahu grup yang memainkan lagu tersebut sebagai quotCounting Crowsquot, tapi saya masih tidak bisa memberi tahu Anda masing-masing nama anggota band indvidual.- Semoga bisa membantu. Chad - Wilmington, De Untuk waktu yang lama, saya pikir Mr. Jones adalah sebuah metafora untuk kesepian. Masih lagu yang hebat Brad - Topeka, Ks Heres sebuah blog abou the New Amsterdam fitur dalam lagu: frazing. wordpress20081217google-streeview Fraser - Stirling, Inggris Saya pikir jelas bahwa lagu ini adalah tentang saat-saat ketika berpikir bahwa jika Anda akan menjadi Kaya dan terkenal, Anda akan mendapatkan semua yang Anda inginkan. Semua orang yang mengaku sebagai penggemar Counting Crows tahu bahwa penyanyi tersebut segera menyadari bahwa ini bukan kasusnya. Itulah mengapa, dalam versi live, liriknya berubah setiap saat, menghilangkan keadaan moodnya. Jan - Antwerp, - Saya sedikit kecewa karena Mr. Jones hanyalah teman yang diminumnya di bar. Saya selalu mengira Tuan Jones adalah seorang yang pintar karena iri hati dan keinginan seperti Im Jones untuk sesuatu atau mengikuti Jones. Di Jr. High School saya mempunyai teman bahwa saya akan menyelinap pergi dan merokok bersama dan dia akan selalu mengatakan Im Jones untuk orang yang merokok, Mr. Jones Today. Untuk menjawab posting lain, ada beberapa lagu bagus tentang heroin meski ini bukan satu. Bunga Mati oleh Batu adalah favorit saya tapi CCKMP oleh Steve Earle, White Freight Liner oleh Townes Van Zandt dan The Needle dan Damage Done oleh Neil Young adalah beberapa yang lain. Steve - Charlotte, Sc Maria adalah Adam Duritz seperti Mary kepada Bruce Springsteen. Ekristheh - Halath, Amerika Serikat Stuart, saya tidak tahu lagu Nazaret yang Anda maksudkan, jadi mungkin saja garisnya jadi Anda ingin menjadi bintang rocknroll. Dengarkan saja apa yang saya katakan Dapatkan gitar listrik dan luangkan waktu dan belajarlah Bermain muncul di dalamnya, tapi garis itu berasal dari lagu Jadi Anda Ingin Menjadi Bintang Rock and Roll oleh Byrds. Mungkin saja Nazaret mengutip lagu itu. Michael - Pittsburgh, Pa ok, jadi bagaimana sih lagu ini bisa jadi tentang hing dong hello jesus thats hanya aneh, ive tahu lagu ini selamanya dan cara saya menafsirkannya begini: cowok punya teman yang lebih waspada daripada dia dan keduanya Ingin menjadi terkenal dan mendapatkan anak perempuan, saya tahu ada lebih banyak cara untuk menafsirkan lagu, tapi serius, penis Sierra - Grand Forks, Nd saya benar-benar bertemu Marty Jones saat menulis artikel majalah tentang pencarian Maria. Dia adalah orang yang sangat keren yang menceritakan latar belakang Mr. Jones dalam cerita: 801mag. orgcsContentServerchildpagename801Mag2FJRNContentC2FArticleDetailcJRNContentCp1165270039399pagenameJRN2F801Wrappercid1175372067481 Steve - New York, Ny Suara vokalis Counting Crows Adam Duritz adalah instrumen yang luar biasa. Mr Jones memperkenalkan penggemar musik ke fasilitas luar biasa Duritz dalam mendongeng dalam konteks sebuah lagu. Hanya mencoba untuk bernyanyi bersama pada Mr Jones dan setelah Anda selesai terengah-engah, Anda menyadari betapa fenomenal ini kinerja. Bertrand - Paris, Prancis Saya baru mendaftar hanya untuk memprotes sebuah komentar yang ditulis CARA di atas: Lagu tidak perlu rumit untuk menjadi baik. Lihat saja Rick Nelsons Garden Party. Sederhana dan murni, tapi flippin rock n roll yang hebat. - Tony, Boston, MA Penulis poinnya adalah untuk mengatakan bagaimana tidak ada arti yang lebih dalam untuk sebuah lagu agar bagus (yang saya setujui, karena saya menyukai lirik yang berarti) tapi sayangnya contoh pesta kebun tidak berhasil. - Pesta kebun dikemas dengan makna tersembunyi. Its semua tentang bagaimana kecewa Rick Nelson ketika ia bermain di sebuah konser dan tidak ada yang tertarik pada materi barunya, yang tidak SEBENARNYA tentang pergi ke pesta kebun sama sekali Its dikemas dengan metafora dan referensi Tapi kembali ke Mr. Jones, cinta lagu itu , Sebuah pukulan di seluruh dunia, saya pernah mendengarnya sesekali di klub-klub di Spanyol ketika saya tinggal di sana, dan itu adalah 2001-2005 Tidak percaya ppl berpikir tentang penisnya, saya bahkan tidak mengerti bagaimana hal itu akan berhasil. Charlie - Durham, Inggris Lagu ini tidak dihapus karena banyak orang masih menyukai lagu ini. Saya tahu saya melakukannya dari Counting Crows. Natalie - Chiago, Il Saya tidak tahu tentang Anda orang tapi saya suka lagu ini. J - Jackson, Ga aku tidak percaya lagu isnt tentang nya (dihapus). Saya benar-benar berpikir selama 13 tahun terakhir ini. Cory - Morden, Kanada Meskipun ini tentang Marty Jones dalam lagu ini, Bob Dylans Mr Jones dikabarkan akan menjadi Brian Jones dari Rolling Stones Ty - Indianapolis, In Jika Anda mendengarkan versi di Across A Wire - Live in New York album, lagu dimulai dengan lirik Jadi Anda ingin menjadi bintang rocknroll Hanya mendengarkan sekarang untuk apa yang saya katakan Dapatkan gitar listrik dan ambil beberapa waktu dan belajar bermain. Lirik ini dipinjam langsung dari lagu Nazaret Telegram. Stuart - Liverpool Inggris Semua orang terus tentang Maria menjadi orang yang nyata, tapi Adam Duritz cukup jelas mengatakan bahwa Shes bukan Shes yang bermaksud mewakili gadis. Tapi dia tampil dalam banyak lagu, dan lirik di sampul album adalah lagu Agustus dan Everything After yang hanya diputar secara live. Nicole xx Nicole - Derby, Inggris aw lagu ini sangat imut dan liriknya tumpul jadi berhenti mencoba menafsirkannya Kayla - Cary, Nc lagu ini juga dinyanyikan oleh Hidden In Plain View namun tidak di salah satu cd mereka yang mereka miliki. terbuat. Stephanie - Moreno Valley, Ca Ini hanyalah salah satu lagu hebat yang akan selalu dibawa keluar dari konteks. Adam Duritz menulis lagu ini sebagai kenangan akan percakapan yang menyenangkan dia dan temannya, Marty (Mr.) Jones pernah berada di sebuah bar. Sederhana seperti itu. Tidak lebih, tidak kurang. Sebuah lagu tidak perlu rumit untuk menjadi baik. Lihat saja Rick Nelsons Garden Party. Sederhana dan murni, tapi flippin rock n roll yang hebat. Tony - Boston, Ma Untuk mengatur ini lurus, idenya adalah untuk mendapatkan banyak anak ayam dan teman atau apapun dengan menjadi terkenal, seperti berada di band rock atau sejenisnya. Lagu yang bagus dengan lirik yang bagus, mudah dimainkan di band. Jo-c - Lima, Peru Saya pikir komentar heroin berulang ini adalah sebuah lelucon. Ini muncul di kolom komentar hampir setiap lagu yang telah saya teliti di Songfacts. Jika seseorang memposting songfact untuk Veni, Creator Spiritus atau Sister Janet Meads The Lords Prayer, seseorang pasti akan berkomentar Benar-benar sebuah lagu heroin. Paling tidak, begitulah menurut saya. Ekristheh - Halath, Amerika Serikat Saya merekomendasikan agar semua orang yang menikmati musik yang dinyanyikan oleh Adam dan didukung oleh tempramen band yang indah, paling baik didengar melalui Across A Wire - Live In New York City. Seperti yang dikatakan Adam paling baik di antara lagu-lagu yang memainkan beberapa lagu listrik ini karena mereka telah berubah banyak dan karena saya pikir kita benar-benar tahu bagaimana cara memainkannya sekarang. Jadi jika Anda ingin mendengar arti dari lagu yang Anda cintai (terutama Mr Jones), album ini merangkum begitu banyak niat saat ini. Anda benar-benar bisa merasakan suaranya bergetar karena emosi dan memperdalam dengan perasaan, itu mungkin hanya imajinasi saya tapi saya benar-benar bisa mendengar semua yang ingin mereka katakan. Saya ingin melihat lebih banyak album seperti ini. Sehubungan dengan Mr Jones, mengapa Anda memasukkan sebuah lagu ke detramen dengan menjelaskannya melalui dia yang menamai penisnya atau memberi kreativitas besar pada obat-obatan terlarang, biar menjadi seperti apa dan temukan keindahan dalam gambar yang diciptakannya. Pada akhir hari saya pikir intepretasi mengatakan lebih banyak tentang orang yang menafsirkannya daripada orang yang benar-benar lagu itu sebenarnya. Lisa - Perth, Australia Saya selalu mengira lagu itu tentang penisnya. Cherie - Ny, Ny saya setuju dengan siapapun yang mengatakan bahwa ini adalah salah satu lagu yang hebat karena Anda dapat menempatkan diri dan pengalaman Anda ke dalam lagu. Saya harus mengatakan bahwa mengatakan lagu ini adalah tentang heroin sedikit peregangan - terutama karena tidak ada bukti dalam lagu untuk mendukungnya. Tentu, ini berbicara tentang gitarnya, tapi itulah satu-satunya koneksi yang bisa saya buat antara argumen dan lagunya. Beth - Livonia, Mi Lagu yang bagus dengan lirik yang bagus favorit saya. Saya akan melukis gambar saya, Cat sendiri dengan warna biru dan merah dan hitam dan abu-abu Semua warna yang indah sangat sangat berarti. Dan - Columbia, Md Lucu, lagu ini membuatku teringat teman baikku saat masih muda. Pada saat kita benar-benar mulai mendengarkannya, banyak lirik menunjukkan kehidupan nyata kita. Empat baris pertama menunjuk pada pacar berambut pirangku (saat itu) dan juga gadis berambut hitam temanku berkencan, yang juga seorang penari. Dan garis Dia menari sementara ayahnya bermain gitar juga membuat kita memikirkan fakta bahwa ada familes yang dalam bisnis untuk waktu yang singkat. Aku benar-benar bisa masuk, tapi lagu yang bagus yang pastinya akan menjadi favoritku untuk sementara. John - Cleveland, Tn Lagu ini sangat dalam bagi saya. Ini mengingatkan saya pada perasaan saya saat anak perempuan dan saya putus, pada saat bersamaan gadis paman saya juga meninggalkannya. Kami berdua hanya berkumpul bersama untuk mabuk dan berbicara tinggi tentang wanita kami. Lagu ini adalah tentang dua orang yang merasa sendirian dan hanya membutuhkan seseorang untuk peduli dengan mereka. Untung pamanku dan aku berdua kembali bersama gadis-gadis kami. Lagu ini memungkinkan saya melihat betapa sepinya kita bisa berakhir. Dante - Di sini, Cina ini sebenarnya lagu yang sangat bagus. Sementara semua orang di sekitar mereka melompat ke kereta pop pop komersial, orang-orang ini memiliki keberanian untuk keluar dengan sebuah lagu yang benar-benar bermakna pada liriknya. Untuk ini, saya bertepuk tangan. Matt - Millbrae, Ca Saya pikir Mr Jones adalah Duritz mengubah ego dan ketika dia benar-benar mabuk atau tinggi atau apapun yang diungkapkan, itulah intepretasi saya untuk lagu itu. Fabian - Nogales, Meksiko lagu tersebut sepertinya juga bisa ikut bersamaan dengan drama kematian seorang salesman. Ben - Weymouth, Ma saya mengerti bagaimana lagu ini seharusnya tentang teman adams, tapi saya memiliki interperitasi yang berbeda. Aku tahu itu bukan apa yang adam dimaksudkan, tapi saya pikir itu sebagian mengapa mr. Jones adalah lagu yang luar biasa: setiap orang dapat menemukan cara untuk membuat lagu ini sangat pribadi bagi diri mereka sendiri. Namun lumpuh beberapa interperatations, jika mereka berarti sesuatu untuk orang itu, maka jadilah aku berharap ini dipertimbangkan Michelle - Montreal, Amerika Serikat saya dulu berpikir lagu ini adalah tentang seorang skizofrenia, yang menjadi orang lain saat dia kurang percaya diri. , Dan akhirnya percaya semua orang menyukai alter ego ini lebih dari dia. Ada versi akustik yang luar biasa dari ini, adalah untuk mati, kecuali kenyataan bahwa mereka menyingkirkan garis kesukaan saya: Mr. Jones dan mr, menatap videonya saat melihat televisi yang ingin saya lihat, menatapiku kembali. padaku. Pat - Montreal, Kanada Saya ingin tahu mengapa obat yang selalu dimiliki oleh lagu rock adalah pahlawan wanita. Ini bukan tentang pahlawan wanita. Saya sangat meragukan bahwa ada banyak lagu bagus tentang tokoh wanita. Brittany - Waverly, Ny Saya bertemu dengan Adam Duritiz pada tahun 200 ketika saya sedang bekerja di sebuah stasiun radio lokal, saya bertanya kepadanya tentang inspirasi untuk lagu ini dan Omaha. Ini tidak ada hubungannya dengan narkoba. MENGAPA, mengapa semua orang mengira Heroin adalah bassis untuk lagu ALL ROCK. Serriously, ketika seseorang mengatakan lagu ini adalah tentang heroin saya mengabaikan posting. Hei kamu tahu lagu itu, Selamat ulang tahun nya tentang Heroin. Ya mereka menulis tentang mengambil smack untuk pertama kalinya, Anda tahu ulang tahun Anda sebagai dan adict. Se betapa bodohnya suara Monty - Omaha, Ne aku mendengar satu teori dari seseorang yang menganggap Mr. Jones adalah merek minuman keras. Jadi jika Anda mendapatkan lirik itu sedikit salah, mungkin saya akan memberi saya sebotol Mr. Jones - dan kemudian ketika dia menyanyikan Mr. Jones untuk mengobrol dengan penari flamenco berambut hitam ini, dia benar-benar mabuk dan hanya minuman keras yang dibicarakannya. Hehe, tidak akan terlalu banyak memasukkannya ke dalam teori itu. Torbjrn - Trondheim, Norwegia apakah ada diantara kalian yang mendengar film wanita cantik. I dont kno ketika film atau lagu keluar tapi setelah saya melihat film saya yakin bahwa itu terhubung. Untuk satu, bar di mana mereka nongkrong adalah mr joness. Ketika mereka duduk di gedung itu, mereka berbicara tentang pria yang sedang jatuh cinta pada gadis itu dan dia bilang kita semua ingin somthing cantik. Nama filmnya adalah wanita cantik. Dan i dont kno persis di mana amsterdam baru tapi im cukup yakin yang di yankee teritory sehingga mungkin juga setting film. Ada lebih banyak hal tapi saya tidak melihat film ini dalam beberapa saat, ada orang lain yang melihat hubungan Katie - Royston, Ga Duritz juga mengganti Dave Lowery dari Cracker untuk Bob Dylan dalam pertunjukan TV lain, Duritz juga mengenakan kaos Cracker selama pertunjukan ini. Nick - Arlington Heights, saya tidak peduli dengan siapa dia mengatakannya. Mr Jones adalah Lester Bangs. Matt - Durham, Nh Adam tahu dia menatapku. Dan saya pergi dan berbicara (dan membuat diri saya sangat bodoh) dengan yang saya perhatikan. Tapi mungkin kalau aku jadi bintang rock. Marty - Eugene, atau ive membawa pasangan ini david yang percaya bahwa lagu Mr Jones oleh Counting Crows adalah sampul yang aneh demi crist. Saya harap ini dan entri lainnya di internet dan tvpublications sama akan membuatnya lurus. SONG yang BAIK dan ditulis oleh Adam Duritz dan Counting Crows Rod - Ipswich, Australia Saya menyukai gagasan Mr. Jones sebagai Adams alter ego. Saya pikir itu benar-benar menunjukkan perbedaan antara orang yang sadar, dan orang yang tinggi atau mabuk (Mr. Jones). Either way sebuah lagu yang bagus yang tidak pernah mendapat penghargaan yang pantas. Matt - St Charles, Mo jeffq yang diposting komentar pertama adalah obviosly bingung. Saya ingin tahu di mana Anda mendengar bahwa Adam memiliki kecanduan herion dan menggadaikan gitarnya sebelum pertunjukan. Anda tahu betapa konyolnya suara Anda Katy - Eden Prairie, Mn Ini tentang kecanduan heroin selebriti Adam Duritz. Jones adalah agennya, dan kesulitan menjadi pecandu heroin. Band ini diberi nama setelah hobi favoritnya saat terbang tinggi dari heroin yang menghitung gagak. Dia biasanya akan pion dari gitarnya untuk mendapatkan uang obat bius dan anggota band lainnya harus membelinya kembali sebelum setiap pertunjukan. Jeffq - Nekoosa, Wi Adam Duritz mengatakan pada VH1 Storytellers bahwa lagunya ditulis saat dia dan seorang teman sedang mendengarkan teman temannya (yang adalah pemain gitar flamenco) bermain di sebuah bar bernama New Amsterdam. Ada semua gadis cantik di bar ini, dan menari mengikuti musik. Jones dan Adam sedang minum dan berbicara tentang bagaimana mereka berani berbicara dengan wanita-wanita ini jika mereka terkenal. Mereka kemudian terus bermimpi tentang bagaimana semua masalah mereka akan terpecahkan jika mereka terkenal. Jeremy - Gonzales, La bisa menjadi apa yang dia inginkan tapi takut untuk mencoba Jaffa - Auckland, Selandia Baru Jones bisa berarti gairah, keasyikan, kecanduan atau keinginan. Mr Jones adalah penyanyi alt-ego. Siapa yang mendambakan ketenaran itu akan memberinya cinta dan kebahagiaan. Penyanyi ini tidak yakin bagaimana orang melihat dia, apakah mereka melihat dia yang sebenarnya atau ketenarannya. Shes melihatmu, kurasa tidak. Shes menatapku. Terima kasih kepada Bill karena telah menjelaskan hal ini kepada saya, sebuah lagu yang bagus Karen :-) Karen - Virginia Beach, Va Mr. Jones tidak terinspirasi oleh Mr. Jones dalam lagu Dylan. Its about Marty Jones one of Adams friends from the Bay Area. Check any Crows press ever to back this up. Richard - Nederland, Tx Could Mr. Jones be what the singer turns into when hes drunk. somebody check it. Pass me the bottle Mr. Jones. Live Freak - Beirut, Other see more commentsBLESSINGS GALORE, stories ISBN: 978-1-877655-91-3, LCN: 2016931968 First Trade Paperback, 6.0 X 9.0, 166 pgs. 153.50 sh Cover design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Cover art by Lindsey Stern Author Photo by Michelle Kyoto Crowson quotThe writing in these startling stories by Nate Liederbach is vivid and innovative and perfect for the wild and unexpected events. The scope ranges from the apocalyptically large to the intimately small, and all of it is interesting and moving. Chances are taken, and they pay off. Yes, there is a high jumping economist and witches and outlaws and a tongue to be shaved, but also a candy bar from the past and roadkill, and you get to take your daughter to heaven for a little vacation. I love finding rare writers who are telling the stories only they can tell. Settle in and be ready to be surprised by Blessings Galore. -- Ray Vukcevich, author of Boarding Instructions and Meet Me in the Moonroom quotNate Liederbach deftly combines slipstream literaray fiction and visionary dialogue to pioneer a futuristic territory saturated with intoxicating language. Eloquent, yet tight, Blessings Galore is a heady mixture of stunning story and thoughtful philosophy. quot --Stephanie Freele, author of Surrounded by Water and Feeding Strays quot Blessings Galore bears the hallmarks of an experimental classic--it is at once lurid, zestfully grotesque, and utterly wondroous. Nate Liederbach punches not up or down in this wild collection, but straight at the readers chest, where all the blood and muscle converges--in other words, these stories are not even remotely for the faint of heart. quot --Matthew Derby, author of The Silent History and Super Flat Times ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nate Liederbach is the author of Doing a Bit of Bleeding, Negative Spaces and Beasts Youll Never See (winner of the 2014 Noemi Press Fiction Award). Among other honors, his writing has received the Academy of American Poets Larry Levis Prize. the Atlantic Monthly College Nonfiction Prize, a Best New Poets inclusion, and the Utah Original Writing Competitions Short Fictin Award. Helives in Olympia, Washington. December 1, 2015 BOOK TWO OF SEA-LEVEL NERVE, PROSE POEMS BY JAMES GRABILL SEA-LEVEL NERVE (BOOK TWO) Prose Poems by James Grabill ISBN: 978-1-877655-90-63, LCN: 2015950952 First Trade Paperback, 6 X 9, 104 pgs. 153.50 sh Cover Art by Miriam Nelson Cover Design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Author photo by Bill Siverly quotI know of no other poet who has addressed climate change as powerfully and persistently as James Grabill. In Sea-Level Nerve: Book One . the urgency of our greatest challenge is perhaps more audible. In Book Two, Grabill shatters every conceivable divide we have become so comfortable with. quot --Derek Sheffied, author of Through the Second Skin BUY BOOK ONE AND TWO FOR 33 DISCOUNT 20 plus 3.50 shipping DEBUT NOVEL BY TERRA BRIGANDO ROOMS FOR GHOSTS, a novel ISBN: 978-1-877655-93-7, LCN: 2015938562 First Trade Paperback, 5.5 X 8.5, 104 pgs. 123.50 sh Cover design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Author Photo by Brent Scharschmidt Terra Brigandos first novel, Rooms for Ghosts . chronicles the disintegration of a wealthy family while vacationing on an island one summer. The narrator, a young teenager, splits her time between caring for a drug-addicted mother and navigating her own desire for understanding. With no one to look after her, she finds herself enmeshed in her mothers lavish parties and becomes the object of affection of an older man. After discovering her father in an affair, she becomes obsessed with her fathers mistress. What follows is a sweet, but unseemly, relationship between the two females and a devastating tragedy that changes the family forever. Written in dark, lyrical prose, Rooms for Ghosts takes us on a journey that is rife with longing and confusion as the narrator searches for the love that seems to elude her. quotAuthor Terra Brigando plunges us into an experience where loneliness can result in going to the edge and wondering if there is a way back. The innocence of adolescence is demolished and the world turns in a very short time. Executed with graceful and memorable language, a textured and languid narrative, and compelling insight into the gnarly confusion of adolescence, Brigando layers the story delicately and deeply, plunging the reader into the truths and dares of this young girls search for love. quot --Elmaz Abinader, author of This House, My Bones quot Rooms for Ghosts is a riveting story about a fourteen-year-old girl undergoing unexpected rites of passage during a summer vacation that introduces her to drugs, alcohol, sex, and the inchoate longing that every teenager feels when she is not quite grownup, but no longer a child either. Brigando sets a blistering pace that never lets up. Her story is filled with glittering images and an envious sense of timing that belies the fact that this is her first novel. Ghosts is a dazzling coming of age narrative dense with stunning descriptions that are sometimes tender and loving, but sometimes shockingly brutal as well. Edgy, in your face, the author never holds back, never flinches, even though some timorous readers might wish she had. quot --Duff Brenna, AWP Novel Award winner for The Book of Mamie ABOUT THE AUTHOR Terra Brigando lives in Oakland, California. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in English and Creative Writing at Mills College in 2012. This is her first novel. 4 IN THE WORDCRAFT SERIES OF FABULIST NOVELLAS quotDeBiases exquisitely crafted debut novella straddles a line between magical realism and metaphorical truth in a story that explores ties among three generations of women, the persistence of innocence even in the most desperate of childhoods, and the transformative power of stories and dreams. DeBiases storytelling, both in the overall narrative and in the actual tales her characters tell, deftly excavates the beauty in brokenness and the strange sweetness in sorrow. quot --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (June 2015) MAMA amp THE HUNGRY HOLE Wordcraft Series of Fabulist Novellas 4 ISBN: 978-1-877655-85-2, LCN: 2015933291 First Trade Paperback, 5 X 8, 154 pgs. 123.50 sh Cover design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Author Photo by Judith DeBiase In a narrative interwoven with fairytales, the lines that divide memories from dreams blur in Mama amp the Hungry Hole . Julia is 4-years-old and her Mama has stolen her away to the mountains of northern New Mexico where everything is unfamiliar and everyone is unknown. Lonely and often forced to take care of herself during Mamas many quotquiet times, quot Julia befriends a tree. Tree has been around longer than anyone and witnessed the village change from thriving ranching town to hippie commune to bedroom community. When Julias Nana comes to visit and a traveling Circus moves in next door it seems like everything will change for the better, but Tree is the first to notice the eerie sensation of nothingness deep beneath its roots. quotLoss, family-forged shackles and bonds, and the power of storytelling, are at the splintered heart of this engaging debut novella. DeBiase poignantly renders the mystery, magic and terror inherent in nature and childhood. and does so with vigorous simplicity. In what amounts to a deftly executed balancing act: charm holds hands with tender sorrow reality dissolves inside of dreams and peeled layers reveal deeper mysteries. Or to spin it another way: an existential fairy tale for insomniacs. quot --John Biscello, author of Broken Land and Freezer Tag quotJohanna DeBiases Mama amp the Hungry Hole excavates the innocence and despair of the liminal child. As activist as it is feminist, DeBiase follows the abrupt agony when the body is confronted with death. Here, mourning yields potent escapism and Mama amp the Hungry Hole is a magical curse that we dare not stop reading. quot --Lily Hoang, author of Unfinished and The Evolutionary Revolution ABOUT THE AUTHOR Johanna DeBiase writes from New Mexico where she is spellbound by the energy vortex of Taos Mountain. Originally from New York, she earned her BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bard Collage and her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her short fiction has been published online and in print including Portland Review . theNewerYork, Monkeybicycle, Convergence, Prick of the Spindle and San Antonio Current . She has also received scholarships to attend San Miguel Writers Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and Rensing Center. The rest of the time, she is a certified yoga instructor. vintage clothing boutique owner and mother of one. Review by Linda Michel-Cassidy for Prick of the Spindle 3 IN THE WORDCRAFT SERIES OF FABULIST NOVELLAS A DOUBLE MONSTER FEATURE (TWO NOVELLAS) BUY ALL THREE GRANDBOIS DOUBLE MONSTER FEATURES FOR SPECIAL DISCOUNT BELOW (SIX NOVELLAS). 2015 FINALIST FOR INDIEFAB BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD IN BOTH LITERARY FICTION AND FANTASY quotThese stories show how fantastical tropes can be perfect touchstones for exploring universal human experiences. quot THE GIRL ON THE SWING amp AT NIGHT IN CRUMBLING VOICES Wordcraft Series of Fabulist Novellas 3 ISBN: 978-1-877655-86-9, LCN: 2014955736 First Trade Paperback, 5 X 8, 144 pgs. 123.50 sh Cover design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Author photo by Gary Isaacs THE GIRL ON THE SWING amp AT NIGHT IN CRUMBLING VOICES, the third and final installment in award winning novelist Peter Grandbois series of monster double features, marks a departure from the previous books in that these stories are not told through the point of view of a movie monster icon. Inspired by lesser know 50s monster fare, the monsters in these novellas become more difficult to discern and therfore, even more disturbing. quotEerie stories harkening back to the grand old talkes of The Twilight Zone will thrill as they entertain. the writing is so good that it goes beyond genre. quot quotIts insightful storytelling at its best. easily Grandbois darkest yet--and the author is only growing more confident and capable, wielding sci-fi tropes like blades to cut to the heart of our doubts and fears. --Glenn Dallas, San Francisco Book Review quotGrandbois makes a case for a newer, better understanding of monsters. He brings them from the far, unexplored edges of the map and sets them directly in front of you in order to show that the monsters most frightening quality is his own fear. Grandbois shows us that the truth is indeed out there, but its even farther, darker, and more complicated than we might have first imagined. quot --Alexander Lumans, Los Angeles Review of Books ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Grandbois first novel, The Gravedigger, is currently in pre-production as a major motion picture. It was also chosen by Barnes and Noble for the quotDiscover Great New Writersquot program and named one of the best books of 2006 by Booklist. His second novel, Nahoonkara was ForeWord magazines Book of the Year Award winner in literary fiction for 2011. He is also the author of an innovative memoir entitled The Arsenic Lobster and a collection of surreal short fictions, Domestic Disturbances, currently a finalist for ForeWord magazines Book of the Year Awards. His plays have been produced in St. Louis, Columbus, and on 42nd St. in New York. He is a professor of creative writing at Dennison University in Ohio. SPECIAL OFFER: BUY ALL THREE BOOKS IN GRANDBOIS MONSTER SERIES, SIX NOVELLAS, FOR 25 PLUS SHIPPING. 2 IN THE WORDCRAFT SERIES OF FABULIST NOVELLAS A DOUBLE MONSTER FEATURE (TWO NOVELLAS) HONORABLE MENTION FOR INDIE-FAB AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY OF THE YEAR BY AN INDEPENDENT OR UNIVERSITY PRESS (2014) Read More quotExtraordinary characters in ordinary situations prompt wry philosophical speculations about everyday life and longings in this pair of novellas laced with tropes from sci-fi B movies. Although Grandbois ( Domestic Disturbances) endows his characters with some otherworldly attributes, he renders them believably human through their self-doubts and amusing foibles. His clever, sympathetic depiction of the men inside the monsters will appeal to a wide range of readers. quot -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY THE GLOB WHO GIRDLED GRANVILLE amp THE SECRET LIVES OF ACTORS Wordcraft Series of Fabulist Novellas 2 ISBN: 978-1-877655-84-5, LCN: 2014942463 First Trade Paperback, 5 X 8, 122 pgs. 123.50 sh Cover design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Author photo by Gary Isaacs In THE GLOB WHO GIRDLED GRANVILLE amp THE SECRET LIVES OF ACTORS, we encounter perhaps the two biggest icons of 50s B Horror, The Blob and The Thing from Another World . This time around, we meet our monsters decades after the films that made them famous as they attempt to adjust to quotnormal life. quot Whether youve seen the movies or not, Grandbois madcap prose breathes life into these monsters, and, in doing so, makes us better able to face the monster in ourselves. quotIf you ever doubted that monsters (and movie stars) have rich inner lives, doubt no more. Let Peter Grandbois be your guide to the wounded heart (or some extra-terrestrial equivalent) of every alien being on a rampage. Full of wit, verve, and imagination. quot --Karen Joy Fowler quotThe monsters Peter Grandbois gives us here arent just painfully wonderfully human, theyre each of us, theyre all of us. After reading this, youll see that youve had scales all along. quot -- Stephen Graham Jones, author of Ledfeather and Flushboy Lit Reactor Review quotA must read. quot --Chris Rosales Read here. HTML Giant Review Grandbois. breath(es) a new, complex literary life into both narratives, so that the thrill is one of uncanny insight and surprising tenderness. a haunting critique of domesticity and divorcemdashnot the conventional manifestations of these states, but their ungraspable and inevitably reductive power. exposing the underlying importance of the freakish clinquant that is our need for our own pop history. -- Nate Liederebach Read here. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Grandbois first novel, The Gravedigger, is currently in pre-production as a major motion picture. It was also chosen by Barnes and Noble for the quotDiscover Great New Writersquot program and named one of the best books of 2006 by Booklist. His second novel, Nahoonkara was ForeWord magazines Book of the Year Award winner in literary fiction for 2011. He is also the author of an innovative memoir entitled The Arsenic Lobster and a collection of surreal short fictions, Domestic Disturbances, currently a finalist for ForeWord magazines Book of the Year Awards. His plays have been produced in St. Louis, Columbus, and on 42nd St. in New York. He is a professor of creative writing at Dennison University in Ohio. September 1, 2014 NEW PROSE POEMS BY OREGON BOOK AWARD WINNER SEA-LEVEL NERVE (BOOK ONE) Prose Poems by James Grabill ISBN: 978-1-877655-88-3, LCN: 2014943775 First Trade Paperback, 6 X 9, 104 pgs. 153.50 sh Cover Art by Miriam Nelson Cover Design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Author photo by Bill Siverly quotIn this era with seven quickly becoming eight billion of us hoping to survive on Earth, as scientific research and development, community resilience, and social justice progress, so do they retool awareness and rewrite working paradigms--on this terrain, the prose poems in Sea-Level Nerve speak symphonically and resonate ecologically as they explore what we collectively find through ecological perspectives with an eye toward the emerging future. quot -- James Grabill, July 21, 2014 quotJames Grabill has always been at the forefront of ecologically concerned poets, finding the information we need, and speaking as a steward for the natural world. In Living with the Stern Review he says Even a gnats dust plants a seed and takes back life. And then he warns us: What our ancestors believed was endless has come circling back around us. quot -- Allan Cooper, editor of Germination and author of Gabriels Wing quotIn Sea-Level Nerve James Grabill takes the mico and macro observations of science--in other words, every being and phenomenon in the universe--and pulls them together into a great vision. His unique lyricism is one of the brilliant lights of contemporary American poetry. quot --Lawrence Smith, editor of Caliban and author of Annies Soup Kitchen About the Author JAMES GRABILL has published seven books of poems, two books of essays and two poetry chapbooks. Poem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone (Lynx House, 1994) won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Three other volumes have been finalists for OBA: Through the Green Fire (Holy Cow Press, 1995) in creative nonfiction, Listening to the Leaves Form (Lynx House, 1997), and An Indigo Scent after the Rain (Lynx House, 2003) in poetry. Now semi-retired, Grabill channels his energy into writing projects and public presentations. He continues to teach quotPathways to Sustainabilityquot at Clackamas Community College. He lives in Portland, Oregon. 1 IN THE WORDCRAFT SERIES OF FABULIST NOVELLAS A DOUBLE MONSTER FEATURE (TWO NOVELLAS) WAIT YOUR TURN amp THE STABILITY OF LARGE SYSTEMS Wordcraft Series of Fabulist Novellas, 1 ISBN: 978-1-877655-82-1, LCN: 2014935679 First Trade Paperback, 5 X 8, 120 pgs. 123.50 sh Cover design by Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Author photo by Gary Isaacs In Wait Your Turn and The Stability of Large Systems, the first in a series of monster double features, award-winning novelist Peter Grandbois pulls back the curtain, revealing previously undiscovered behind the scenes footage of two of the most feared 50s movie icons: The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Fly. Playful and painful, these novellas put the microscope to domestic life revealing the human in the monster and the monstrous in the human. quotGrandbois has a flair for telling stories in refreshingly unique ways. His writing is clear and concise with colorful phrasing and impeccable grammar. His dialogue flows naturally and never seems forced. quot --Jass Elliot, Foreword Reviews . Fall 2014 quotIn this double feature, Grandbois peels back the scrim of the B-movie to reveal the wounded figures lurking behind, figures that cast shadows that seem from one angle monstrous but from another all too human. At once playful and painful--youll never look at B horror in the same way again. quot --Brian Evenson, author of Windeye and Immobility About the Author PETER GRANDBOIS is the author of the novel, The Gravedigger . selected by Barnes and Noble for its quotDiscover Great New Writersquot program, The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, Nahoonkara, winner of the gold medal in literary fiction in ForeWord magazines Book of the Year Awards for 2011, and a collection of surreal flash fictions, Domestic Distrubrances. His essays, plays, and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and been shortlisted for both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. He is an associate editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. KEEPING THE SWARM: NEW AND SELECTED ESSAYS ISBN: 978-1-877655-76-0, LCN: First Trade Paperback, 6 X 9, 224 pgs. 15.953.50 sh Cover Art: quotFinding the Queen, quot Kodua Galieti Cover amp Book Design: redbat design, redbatdesign Author Photo: Marie Balaban quotThe collection is personal and universal, grounded in the small towns of the Inland Northwest that Venn knows so well. quot --Jeff Baker, The Oregonian quotIn his latest collection of essays, Keeping the Swarm, Venn again reflects his strong ties to and affection for the Pacific Northwest. Intensely personal and intimate, these essays reflect a thoughtful nostalgia and gentle sensibility. Venn offers many memorable moments. quot --Kirsten Rabe, ForeWord Reviews . Winter 2012 quotThis welcome essay collection by the sharpest-eyed Northwest writer conjures the region he knows so intimately. His careful portraits of mining towns, wheat harvest, bee keeping, snowland wonders ring clean and true. This venerable voice blesses every reader with another brave and rewarding book. quot --Craig Lesley, author of Burning Fence quot Keeping the Swarm is an intimate, powerful portrait of community. Dipping his pen into a mix of blood and honey, George Venn braves the scabrous terrain of memory. Venns prose is powerful, his narrative vulnerable. The Poets abiding respect for creatures and for environment, for song and for languages. shines brightly here. This book will make you thirst for the clear water of the mountains, and hunger for the amber-nectar of home. quot --Karen Spears Zacharias, author of A Silence of Mockingbirds quotGeorge Venn is a gentle radical: In lyrical prose he enchants us with the closely observed words and acts of ordinary people--from the Northwests small towns to classrooms in post-Cultural Revolution Hunan--always connecting this fabric of local life to the global issues of social justice and human interdependence. Who says literature makes nothing happen Venn asks. His memorable essays inspire us to go beyond humanities to humanitarian work. quot --Jennifer Eastman Atteberry, author of Up in the Rocky Mountains quotIn Keeping the Swarm, George Venn both asks and answers the question, quotAfter all, what are writers for. In clear-eyed, honest, and eloquent fashion, Venn examines the places and people of his childhood and adulthood, proving that the pedestrian and the profound exist. and coalesce to form our most sacred guidebook for us to examine our own piece of the world, to recognize the beauty, grace, and peril. quot --Robert Stubblefield, University of Montana quotIn his latest collection of essays, Keeping the Swarm, Venn again reflects his strong ties to and affection for the Pacific Northwest. intensely personal and intimate, these essays reflect a thoughtful nostalgia and gentle sensibility. touches of powerful writing and many memorable moments. quot --Kirsten Rabe, Foreword Reviews, Winter 2013 quotFrom the gorgeous cover photo by California beekeeper-photographer Kodua Galieti to the very personal family photos and gentle boyhood remembrances, Venn paints a picture of beekeeping and family forever intertwined. quot --Fran Bach, Washington State Beekeepers Assoc. Newsletter, Nov. 2012 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Poet, essayist, literary historian, editor, linguist, and educator, George Venn is a distinguished figure in western literature. In 1988, his third book, Marking the Magic Circle . was awarded a silver medal from Oregon Institute of Literary Arts. From 1989-1994, he designed and directed the OREGON LITERATURE SERIES for which he received the Stewart Holbrook Award for quotoutstanding contributions to Oregons literary life. quot In 1999, West of Paradise was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. In 2005, the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission honored Marking the Magic Circle as quotone of the 100 best Oregon books in two centuries. quot His C. E.S. Wood monograph Soldier to Advocate (2007) and his Word War II Fred Hill collection Darkroom Soldier have recently earned high praise. For more see his website at: georgevenn Poems by Joshua McKinney ISBN: 978-1-877655-77-7, LCN: 2012940178 First Trade Paperback, 6 X 9, 80 pgs. 143.50 sh Cover art: quotMiyamoto Musashi wielding two bokken, quot a print by Calligraphy: Magdelena amp Maciej Kopciuch Cover Design: Kristin Summers, redbat design Author Photo: Anita Scharf Interior design: David Memmott quotThe poems in Mad Cursive move gracefully between beauty and destruction, the essential real locale of poetry in our times. A mad swordsman inside a poet-seer, McKinney dares to locate what resembles, in my reading, spirit laid bare. In this truly elegant book, the remnant of our language negotiates a shadow world--that space between life and death--which is life on this earth. Inside sword we find word, indeed. A truly courageous book. --Claudia Keelan, author of Missing Her quotJoshua McKinney tells of two masters: one who liked to write while walking in a place unblurred by interruption and one who preferred uneven ground. When I think of McKinneys work, I see him as the second master--clearing a new path, or, as Pound said of Whitman, the one who broke the new wood. In McKinneys post-bucolic interstitial landscape, flowers stand as ostiaries, the heat index reduces the Earths archives to ash, and the spirit trembles like a leaf. What I thought beautiful was what died astray. Though he leads us through foreboding realms of the imagination, McKinneys gentle-edged Taoist generosity is exceedingly redemptive, assuring, pointing us skyward and crying, look. Here is a poet who has earned the title of master. -- D. A. Powell, author of Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys quotIn an era of distress and shrillness, it takes courage and, more than courage, Grace, to speak out boldly. unguardedly, for Balance. In the literal body of these new poems, Joshua McKinney articulates the mortal grandeur and (this is more poignant than I can rightly say) the tragedy of Balance. McKinney simply will not relinquish either past or present, love or bereavement, intellect or animal anguish, merely to accommodate the shrill urgings of our moment. Mad Cursive is therefore, and shall remain, a heroic collection. quot --Donald Revell, author of The Bitter Withy quot Mad Cursive is an excellent use of poetry as a vehicle for real thought: a good read. quot --San Francisco Book Review, Sept. 2012 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joshua McKinney is the author of two previous collections of poetry: Saunter . co-winner of the University of Georgia Press Poetry Series Open Competition in 2001, and The Novice Mourner, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize in 2005. He is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Saunter (Primitive Publications, 1998) and Permutations of the Gallery (Pavement Saw Press, 1996), winner of the Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared widely in such journals as American Letters amp Commentary, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. Other awards include a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry. He teaches poetry writing and literature at California State University, Sacramento. He is a member of Senkakukan of Sacramento where he studies Mugai Ryu, Toyama Ryu, and the curriculum of the Zen Nihon Battado Renmei. SUDDEN DEATH OVER TIME Stories by John Rember ISBN: 978-1-877655-79-1, LCN: 2012938178 First Trade Paperback, 6 X 9, 146 pgs. 143.50 sh Front cover art: quotFind Your Rainbow, quot Diane Labombarge, courtesy Back cover art: quotSeamless Crows, quot Indigocrow, courtesy Title page collage: David Memmott, images courtesy iStockphoto Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbatdesign Interior design: David Memmott Sudden Death Over Time does what only good satire can--tear down the artificial and the irrelevant to get to what is human. The stories are funny, insightful, disturbing, sad, and always entertaining. They emerge from the uncertainty of our time, amid failing infrastructures, moral ambiguity, corruption, and tenured disinterest of an academic system that perhaps like our political system needs to slough its skin and renew itself every ten years as Thomas Jefferson once suggested. Rembers talent in bringing interesting characters to life and letting them stumble on their humanity in places at the same time common and extreme give these stories an energy that sparks on every page until they conflagrate into a controlled burn. quotJohn Rember tears your heart out and replaces it with his own. No one I know of comes close to his mastery of the short story. Read him and weep. quot --TIM SANDLIN, author of the GroVont Quartet quotI couldnt get enough of the stories in Sudden Death Over Time . John Rembers wit is as sharp as the edge of a well-hone ski and his prose is as smooth and perfect as a Deans finest scotch. Reading these stories made me feel as though Id come upon Richard Russo and Thomas McGuane swapping smart and wicked tales in front of a hot pub fire with cold drinks in hand. The book is that skillful, and that funny. quot --ALYSON HAGY, author of Ghosts of Wyoming quotRembers deft touches, the concrete language and careful craftsmanship he displays discloses a powerful writer at the summit of his game, a wordsmith who knows how to spin a yarn in such a winning way that those who read his stories are carried along with ineffable ease, perhaps seldom aware of the simple beauty of the style, the prose, its concision: never a word out of place, never a phrase without its distinctive, unfaltering Rember rhythm. Sudden Death Over Time is consummate literature--a dazzling achievement. quot --DUFF BRENNA, from his Introduction About the Author JOHN REMBER was born in Sun Valley, Idaho. He is the author of the story collections, Coyote in the Mountains and Cheerleaders from Gomorrah, the memoir Traplines, and the why-to-write book, MFA in a Box. For many years he was a professor of literature and writing at the College of Idaho and in the Pacific University MFA Program. He lives with his wife Julie in the Sawtooth Valley of Idaho. Finalist for Next Generation Indie Book Award in General Non-Fiction Finalist for San Diego Book Award quotBrennas experience is all there, in thorough, felt detail--in the embedded dialogue, in the scenes truer than memory or invention, in the visionary understanding of grotesque and sympathetic characters, and in the complete, self-standing episodes woven into the chronological flow. Anyone following the landmark achievements of literary memoir must learn from and celebrate this remarkable book. quot DeWitt Henry, American Book Review . Nov. Dec. 2012, Vol. 34, 1 MURDERING THE MOM: A MEMOIR ISBN: 978-1-877655-74-6, LCN: 2012930960 First Trade Paperback, 6 X 9, 218 pg. 153.50 sh Cover and Family Photos from Pappas family album Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design Author Photo: David Memmott Special thanks to Robert Mast for assistance with family album quotYoure killing me, Duffy. Youre killing me, quot the mom always said. Murdering the Mom is a story that elevates the obscene to the sublime. Duff Brenna takes all the materials of hardship and abuse during an unhappy childhood and sculpts it into art, into something transcendent. This is a heart-rending memoir that exceeds the expectations one normally has of a memoir, that is, it reads like a captivating novel. quotThere are some memoirs that seem so artful in the dissection of the joys and horrors of a life that they resonate long after that last page. Duff Brenna provides just such a story. he provides a compelling attempt to untangle the emotional threads of his childhood. By viewing his past with such a sense of honesty and compassion, he delivers a memoir thats a truly striking accomplishment. quot -- Elizabeth Millard for ForeWord Magazine On-Line Reviews quotDuff Brenna is one of the most talented, brave and daring writers of contemporary American letters. With great skill, insight, wisdom, introspection, and above all a sense of humanity and forgiveness, a brilliant writer transcends the tragic and turns this powerful, raw, heartfelt story into the finest art. quot --JAMES BROWN, author of This River and The Los Angeles Dairies quotThis book portrays a broken childhood and a struggling life in the most raw and honest manner imaginable. He makes this book a personal gift to every reader. quot --Rachel J. Richards, The Portland Book Review quotDuff Brenna is exploring--unsparingly, unflinchingly, but above all fairly, with balance and breathtaking honesty--the humanity of a group of people born into and continually creating a kind of hell in which they thrash around without a clue as to how to get out. quot --THOMAS E. KENNEDY, author of In the Company of Angels, and Fallling Sideways Read review in San Diegos East County Magazine quotWith plenty of humor and poignancy, Murdering the Mom, is an excellent pick for memoir collections, very highly recommended. quot -- Midwest Book Review quotDuff Brenna childhood and coming of age are as harrowing as Maxim Gorkis, but where Gorkis calls for a Soviet revolution to free underlcasses from the cycle of brutality, Brennas celebrates our common humanity, complexity, and resilience, revolution within. His accounts of being brutalized and loved by his stepfatherare both horrific and comic. This is a memoir remarkable for its ironic acceptance of outrages. quot quot Murdering the Mom is wonderful I just finished it a minute ago. A delicious read. those last scenes are terribly moving. quot --Steve Kowit, author of The Gods of Rapture and Lurid Confessions About the Author DUFF BRENNA is the author of six novels, including The Book of Mamie, which won the AWP Award for Best Novel The Holy Book of the Beard . named quotan underground classicquot by The New York Times Too Cool, a New York Times Noteworthy Book The Altar of the Body, given the Editors Prize Favorite Book of the Year Award, South Florido Sun-Sentinel, and also received a San Diego Writers Association Award for Best Novel in 2002. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award, Milwaukee Magazines Best Short Story of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention. His work has been translated into six languages. His collection of short stories, Minnesota Memoirs, was published by Serving House Books in February, 2012. 2012 Bronze in Poetry from Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award. 2013 Finalist for the Spur Award for Best Western Poem from Western Writers of America, for quotNight Singer, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico THE SKY IS A BIRD OF SORROW Poems by Steve Dieffenbacher ISBN: 978-1-877655-75-3, LCN: 2012932497 First Trade Paperback,6 X 9, 110 pgs. 153.50 sh Cover and interior artwork copyright 2005-2011, Don Gray dongraystudio quotLoom of the Land, quot cover painting Author photo: Deidre Dieffenbacher The Sky Is a Bird of Sorrow is an apt title for Steve Dieffenbachers new book of poems. Like the sky, the scope of the poetry is wide, primarily a sweeping vision of spaces and eras specific to the West -- Oregon, New Mexico, deserts, mountains, ocean shores, the land and its people. The tone of voice, maintained almost consistently throughout the book, is filled with the sort of longing that beauty and wonder always occasion. Loss and searching, treated honestly and straighforwardly through human events and earthly, are Dieffenbachers major themes. quotOn the rim of the canyonI have come to find you. quot --Pattiann Rogers, author of Wayfare and Generations These gentle, well-considered poems travel American landscapes of the domestic, historic and prehistoric. In virtually every line, Steve Dieffenbacher celebrates the complications of human occupation and succession, always asserting the possibilities of a life well-lived: quotif it be not now, yet it will come, our last and deepest love. quot --David Axelrod, author of What Next, Old Knife and Departing by a Broken Gate From this poet whose German surname evokes a quotdeep streamquot comes a collection both lit and shadowed from within by a Rilkean lyricism. Dieffenbacher gives us poems that can hear a quot. continents breathheaving out of distancefrom plains of frost. quot His is a gift capable of conveying the language of a wounded tree, its quot . achingbroken topquot its quot. bellof wooden bones. quot Brimming with stunning tropes, alive with liquid music, his poems carry quot. the mute undertow of another earth. quot On these pages, a fortunate reader finds language that reaches quotto the root of the world. quot --Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate When the geese call in late autumn, this book says, they call for you. Crossing borders, climbing the rim, holding a vigil at dawn, these poems forge elegy in each hour of each day, like birds graced with dark wings. In poems like these, even sorrow can fly. --Kim Stafford, author of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writers Craft Interview with Steve Dieffenbacher About the Author Steve Dieffenbacher has lived in Oregons Rogue Valley since 1989. His poem quotEmptinessquot won the 2010 Poetry Prize sponsored by Cloudbank magazine of Corvallis, Oregon, and he has published in numerous regional journals. His poems also are included in Deer Drink the Moon (2007), an anthology of Oregon poetry published by Ooligan Press at Portland State University in the chapbooks Universe of the Unsaid (2009), Voices of the Siskiyous (2006), and At the Boundary (2001) in the anthology Intricate Homeland: Collected Writings from the Klamath Siskiyou (2000) and in A Path Through Stone, a 1995 cycle of poems that includes the work by Bruce Barton, Jonah Bornstein and John Reid. He is an editor at the Mail Tribune in Medford, where he writes a monthly column focusing on nature and hiking for the newspapers Sunday travel section. He has won various awards for writing, photography, and page design in his more than 35 years as a journalist. Picked as one of the ten best fiction titles of 2011 by Jane Ciabattari for The Boston Globe OUR DAILY BREAD A Novel by Lauren B. Davis ISBN: 978-1-877655-72-2, LCN: 2011928120 First trade paperback, 6X9, 258 pages, 153.50 sh Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design Cover art: iStockPhoto Photo of Boy Scout Whistle: Ron Davis Author photo: Helen Tansey quotBackwoods Noirquot at its best. For generations the Erskine clan has lived in poverty and isolation on North Mountain, shunned by the God-fearing people of nearby Gideon. Now, Albert Erskine comes down off the mountain hoping to change the future for his brothers and sisters and sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything. Inspired by the true story. From best-selling novelist Lauren B. Davis comes the deeply compassionate story of what happens when we view our neighbors as quotThe Other, quot as well as the transcendent power of unlikely friendships. OUR DAILY BREAD HAS BEEN PICKED UP BY HARPER COLLINS-CANADA. WORDCRAFT OF OREGON WILL CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE NOVEL IN THE UNITED STATES. Our Daily Bread is a compelling narrative set in a closely observed, sometimes dark, but ultimately life-enhancing landscape. Lauren B. Davis vivid prose and empathetically developed characters will remain in the readers mind long after the final chapter has been read. quot --Jane Urquhart, prize winning author of Away and The Stone Carvers quotIll never forget this book, the stunning power of the descriptions, the attention to detail, the riveting plot, the fully-realized characters--this is storytelling at its very best. quot --Duff Brenna, author of The Book of Mamie, The Holy Book of the Beard quotWow From the first chapter of Our Daily Bread . quotup here where the view was like heaven and the living was like hell, quot I was hooked--by the characters, by the flow, by the clean. rhythmic prose. This is a novel that will make you want to do something about poverty, hunger, ignorance and the people who are subjected to such conditions. An outstanding, absorbing, page-turning novel. quot --Thomas E. Kennedy, author of The Copenhagen Quartet quotRendered with gorgeous prose, this compact, fast-moving novel features an astonishing range of tones, from hope to heartbreak, from black humor to white-knuckle terror. It will stay with you long after the covers are closed. quot --Dexter Palmer, author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lauren B. Davis is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, The Radiant City . a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and The Stubborn Season . chosen for the Robert Adams Lecture Series as well as two collections of short stories, An Unrehearsed Desire and Rat Medicine amp Other Unlikely Curatives . Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards and she is the recipient of two Mid-Career Writer Sustaining grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. Lauren reviews books for The Globe amp Mail and The Literary Review of Canada . leads monthly Sharpening the Quill writing workshops in Princeton, New Jersey. TO ARRANGE AND INTERVIEW, CONTACT BLANCHE BRANN, LITERARY ADVOCATE, 609-620-0450, Bibrannyahoo FOR INFORMATION ON READINGS AND EVENTS, PLEASE VISIT LAURENS WEBSITE AT laurenbdavis READ FIRST CHAPTER Lauren B. Davis is the featured author for the October 2011 issue of SERVING HOUSE JOURNAL. Read the first chapter of OUR DAILY BREAD. Quot. a powerful, harrowing, and deeply unsettling work. Its the sort of novel that keeps you reading even as your skin crawls and your blood pressure mounts. Our Daily Bread proceeds like a noose tightening. a stark, beautiful, sad and frankly terrifying novel. Our Daily Bread is finely crafted, with careful attention to characterization, style and pacing. It succeeds on every level. quot --Robert J. Wiersema, Quill amp Quire . Sept. 2011 ldquoa novel full of remarkable moments. a level of detail that puts us in the beating hearts of imperiled souls. No fact-filled journalistic account, no matter how lurid, could do the same. simple, brave, powerful scenes, skillfully written with an anger no less effective for being tempered ndash scenes that sit with the soul long after the book is closed. rdquo ndash Alan Cumyn, The Globe amp Mail, Oct. 15, 2011 LINKS TO REVIEWS NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: 1960-2010 First trade paperback, 6 X9, 146 pages, 153.50 sh Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design Author photo: Zoe Filipkowska quotAlex was my first writing teacher, and 25 years later is still my teacher. His vision is sure and uncompromising. I love this book. quot quotI happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him. quot quotLine after line, I am surprised and moved by the way his language connects the rhythms of our collective memory, imagination and chance. quot quotAlex Kuos A Chinamans Chance startles its reader out of complacency. Here is writing that doesnt coddle and that keeps one engrossed, questioning, thoroughly awake. Kuos poem-stories deftly resist attempts at a too narrow classification of style--beyond it being his own--simultaneously suggesting while artfully sidestepping any overassumption of autobiography by blending what reads like personal history with inarguable emotional truths. quot --Laurel Leigh, The Bloomsbury Review (Vol. 31, 1) quotAlex Kuo has given us. a book we can be with for many years. a book that feeds my mind and touches my spiritual life. quot ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Boston, Alex Kuo spent most of World War II in China, followed by eight years in Hong Kong before returning to the United States. He has lived and worked most of his adult life in Idaho and Washington beginning in 1956 when he signed on a forest fire crew for U. S.F. S. Since 1963 he has taught writing and cultural studies at several colleges and universties on both sides of the Pacific. His first published poems appeared in 1961 in Castalia, Descant and American Weave . Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, he has also been awarded the Lingnan American Studies and Senior Fulbright lectureships, a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, and several research grants. He has been appointed distinguished writer-in-residence at Fudan University. Knox College and Mercy Corps. In 2002 Lipstick and Other Stories received the American Book Award, and in 2010 he received the Alumni Achievement Award from Knox College. WORDCRAFT OF OREGON CHAPBOOK SERIES, 1 BLUE MOON: Poems from Chinese Lines Poems, Vincent Wixon saddle-stitched, 6.25 X 8.25, 36 pages, 8, plus 3.50 sh Book design: David Memmott Author photo: Patty Wixon 29 poems developed from lines from Chinese poems selected from THE COLLECTED SONGS OF COLD MOUNTAIN and POEMSOF THE MASTERS: Chinas Classic Anthology of Tang and Sung Dynasty Verse, published by Copper Canyon Press . ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vincent Wixon is the author of two other books of poetry-- THE SQUARE GROVE (Traprock Books, 2006) and SEED (May Day Press, 1993). He has co-produced documentary films on Lawson Inada and William Stafford, and co-edited two books on writing by William Stafford for the University of Michigan Press. He and his wife Patty live in Ashland, Oregon, and are long-time poetry editors for Jefferson Monthly . the public radio program guide for Southern Oregon and Northern California. FIRST FULL POETRY COLLECTION BY AUTHOR OF quot ABOVE THE CLEARWATER, quot FINALIST FOR THE 2004 OREGON BOOK AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION AT THIS DISTANCE Poems, Bette Husted ISBN: 978-1-877655-69-2, LCN: 2010925248 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 104 pages, 143.50 sh Cover art amp inside bw croppings: quotAbove 8,quot Don Gray Cover design: Kristin Summer, redbat design Author photo: Dean Husted quotBette Lynch Husted, so richly rooted in the wild Oregon land she inhabits, writes with deep care and conscience. Her poems shun nothing--exploring difficult legacies and the mysterious encroachments of what people do with calm humility and curiousity. She asks the questions. Anything a Box Will Hold cant be missed. When she speaks of the winter wren singing his small whole-bodies celebration amid bright moss, quot thats her voice too, in the giant landscape--comforting and clear. quot --Naomi Shihab Nye quotSpace. Spaciousness. Amidst such vistas, these poems are placed. Visit. Stay. quot --Lawson Fusao Inada quotThis is a poet who will take you on roads you dont know to places where you havent been, the lonesome places, Wallowa, Ahsahka, Imnaha, and on into the gray-crowned night. She travels the far West, the farthest West, farther than the pioneers. She goes the distance. quot --Ursula K. Le Guin quotBette Husteds poems in this collection explore the rural landscape, its peoples and why and how they live there. This is what important poetry is supposted to be, a caring look into a place one grew up and lives in. quot ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bette Lynch Husted lives and writes in Pendleton. Her works include a chapbook After Fire (Puddinghouse 2002) and a collection of memoir essays, Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land (Oregon State University Press 2004), which was a finalist for the 2005 Oregon Book Award and the 2005 WILLA Award in creative nonfiction. Her collection of essays, Lessons from the Borderlands . is forthcoming from Plain View Press. Her essays, stories and poems have appeared in Runes, Fourth Genre, Prairie Schooner, Natural Bridge and other journals. She was a Fishtrap Fellow and received a 2007 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Award. IMPULSE amp WARP: The Selected 20th Century Poems ISBN: 978-1-877655-68-5, LCN: 2010925247 first trade paperback, 7.5 X 9.25, 162 pages, 153.50 sh Cover art: quotInviting the Aliens, quot David Memmott BW ink plates: Brad Winter Cover design: Kristin Summer, redbat design Author photo: Melba Dlugonski quotDan Raphael is one of the finest prophetic poets composing in English. He focuses on his subjects so intently they dissolve and he rearranges the molecules into recombinant linguistic poetry for now and the future. quot --Charles Potts, author of The Portable Potts and Valga Krusa quotMusical, intelligent and perpetually mutable. Impulse amp Warp is a gift of high art made of the raw materials. Essential sound from one of our finest singers. quot Jake Berry, author of Branbu Drezi and Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes quotDan Raphael is from the great tradition--he doesnt want to think about or judge his work. He wants to keep making more: the unstoppable soul importance of the poet, the knowing your friends by the shape of their breaths. Impulse amp Warp is a wild wonderful ride, a kaleidoscope of words, sensations and ideas. quot --Sharon Doubiago, author of My Fathers Love and Love on the Streets quotDan Raphaels poetry lights up the dark abyss with sparks generated by blows from Vulcans hammer. Watch out innocent civilians, friendly fire is headed your way. quot --Casey Bush, Senior Editor of Bear Deluxe Magazine ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dan Raphaels poems have appeared in around 300 publications including Caliban, Central Park, Heaven Bone, Lost and Found Times, Nebula Awards 31, Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry, Tinfish, Otoliths, Portland Review, Unlikely Stories, Short Fuse, Raven Chronicles and x-stream . Among his books of the 21st Century are Showing Light a Good Time (Wordcraft of OregonJazz Police, 2001), Among My Eyes (x-stream, 2002) and Breath Test (nine muses books, 2007). An energetic and intense performer, Dan has given over 200 readings, including places like Bumershoot, Portland Poetry Festival, Powells Books, Cornell University, Red Sky Poetry Theatre, Reed College, Artquake, Southern Oregon University, Moes Books, Portland Jazz Festival, and the Astrochimp Impact Crater. He edited NRG Magazine for 18 years, then published 26 Books (26 chapbooks of 26 pages by 26 authors). Starting at college, he had organized readings and poetry events for over 30 years, including one monthly series that lasted 13 years, and Poetland, where 80 poets read in 8 venues over an 8 hour span. Despite degrees from Cornell, Bowling Green State and Western Washington, Dan has stayed out of teaching, working first for the post office and later for the Oregon DMV. He lives in Portland, OR, with his wife Melba and son Orion. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF MADISON HOUSE . WINNER OF THE 2005 LANGUM PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HISTORICAL FICTION CLARA AND MERRITT A Literary Historical Novel by Peter Donahue ISBN: 978-1-877655-66-1, LCN: 2010922060 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 288 pgs, 153.50 sh Cover art: quotBusiness District, quot by Yvonne Twining Humber, courtesy of Martin-Zambito Fine Art, Seattle, WA Cover design: Kristin Summer, redbat design Author photo: Jay W. Shoot Clara and Merritt unfolds amidst the violent strife between longshoremen and Teamsters in Seattle in the 1930s and 40s. When Clara Hamilton, the daughter of a longshoreman, and Merritt Discoll, a member of the Teamsters, fall in love, their relationship is immediately threatened by the fierce antagonism between the rival unions. Encompassing the West Coast labor movement, World War II, the rise of McCarthyism, the Northwest School of Art, and much more, this profound and multi-layered novel explores how people reckon with the larger forces of world events in their everyday lives--and extends author Peter Donahues remarkable investigation of Northwest history. quot Clara and Merritt is rich with details that give life to a little-known chapter of our past. Donahue draws us into a panoramic, dramatic sage--events that affected the entire Pacific Northwest and generations to come. quot --Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses quotPeter Donahue has crafted an impressive, fully imagined, satisfying drama, and Clara Hamilton ranks among the most endearing and inspiring heroines in Northwest literature. quot --Jim Lynch, author of The Highest Tide and Border Songs quotDecades before Seattle became known for Microsoft and Starbucks, the city was a muscular place where working men labored hard. Peter Donahues Clara and Merritt captures that brawnier city from the 1930s and 1940s when the Teamsters and more radical International Longshoremen Association battled for labor supremacy. Like the best historical fiction, Donahurs well-paced novel. provides a strong sense of place and well-drawn characters to convey its time. quot --Hank Stern, Willamette Week quot. vivid characters, persuasive storytelling, rich noirish detail, and a deep sense of time and place. quot --Eric Scigliano, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Donahue is the author of the novel, Madison House . winner of the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction, and the short story collection The Corneilius Arms. He is co-editor, along with John Trombold, of the anthologies Reading Seattle: The City in Prose and Reading Portland: The City in Prose . He writes the Retrospective Reviews column on Northwest literature for Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History . and teaches creative writing and journalism at Birmingham-Sourthern College in Alabama. THE FIRE DIARIES Poems by Matt Schumacher ISBN: 978-1-877655-67-8, LCN: 2010921257 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 100 pgs, 143.50 sh Cover art: quotEagle Nebula, quot Kevin Loren Cornelius Kevins website Cover design: Kristin Summer, redbat design Author photo: Kaley Frank quotIn Matt Schumachers The Fire Diaries . the wheels attempt to grip the violet highway as a car passes through a forest fire. Schumachers poems pivot on a central theme: a poet in utter control of his medium, writing about uncontrolled burning. Schumacher shape-shifts fearlessly, speaking sometimes through the voices of witnesses, and sometimes through the fire itself, as poem after poem spontaneously combusts. This is a terrific book: funny, scary, and visceral. quot --Angela Sorby, author of Bird Skin Coat quotTo read a Matt Schumacher poem is to enter a world of riotous word riffs and fire-related incantations. Meditative, hauntingly chaotic, and beautiful, these poems will singe your memory. This ample collection glows with great personal and historical revelatory spark. quot --Virgial Saurez, author of 90 Miles: New and Selected Poems quotIn The Fire Diaries . Matt Schumacher draws on accounts ranging from the great Chicago fire to the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Ducs self immolation and ignites them with the minds embroidery to take his readers on an unexpected and transformative journey. Through the intermediary of his rich lyrics, Schumacher. calls his readers to see beyond the ordinary. quot --Kirberly Blaeser, author of Apprenticed to Justice and Absentee Indians ABOUT THE AUTHOR Educated at the University of Maine and the Iowa Writers Workshop, Matt Schumacher is a vagabond transplant who considers himself an Oregonian. His first collection of poetry, Spilling the Moon . made its debut with Wordcraft of Oregon in March 2008, and his poems have recently appeared in ZYZZYVA, Green Mountains Review, Sub-Lit, basalt, and Portland Reivew . A short version of this collection, Fire Diary . was chosen by Matthea Harvey as the winner of the Well Lit Press chapbook contest in spring 2008. He lives with his wife, Kaley, and is pursuing a doctorate in EnglishCreative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. DEPARTING BY A BROKEN GATE Poems by David Axelrod ISBN: 978-1-877655-65-4, LCN: 2009938236 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 92 pages, 143.50 sh Front amp back Cover images: courtesy of MorgueFile Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat New collection of poems by the author of The Cartographers Melancholy . winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Poetry and finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award in poetry Praise for previous work: quotAxelrods poems are a moving journey into a landscape where we are all pilgrims making our way down dark roads in search of some transcendent moment that may never occur, yet the will to keep traveling impels us ever forward until we reach a kind of solace and release. quot --Ai, author of Dread quotThought provoking. often lyrically tender. quot --Barbara McMichael, reviewere for The Olympian quotDavid Axelrods fine, elegaic and lyrical poems express a sense of loss the contemporary mind must endure, unaccommodated, on the edge of betrayed nature and nothing. quot --Paul Nelson, author of Sea Level ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Axelrod is the author of four previous collections of poems, including Wordcraft of Oregon titles, The Kingdom at Hand and Chronicles of a Withering State . His collection of cultural and environmental essays about the interior Northwest, Troubled Intimacies . appeared in 2004. His poems and essays have been published in New Letters, Boulevard, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, River Styx, Verse Daily, among others. He also edits basalt. a journal of fine amp liteerary arts. THE PROCESSION OF MEMORIES: Selected Poems 1929-1945 Harry Martinson, the Swedish Nobel Prize Winner A New Bilingual Edition Translated by Lars Nordstroumlm ISBN: 978-1-877655-64-7, LCN: 2009927703 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 124 pages, 143.50 sh Cover Painting, Eldareportraumltt Portait of a Stoker by Sketch of Harry Martinson by Swedish artist, Arne Cassell Sketch of clipper ship by Harry Martinson Photo of Lars Nordstroumlm: Cynthia Nordstroumlm Cover Design: redbat design, Kristin Summer Interior Design: David Memmott Fatherless and abandoned by his mother at age six, Nobel Laureate, Harry Martinson, grew up mostly in rural foster homes in the south of Sweden in the early years of the 20th century. He left school at thirteen and became a sailor and vagabondmdasha global nomadmdashat sixteen. After permanently leaving the sea in 1927, he began to transform the story of his life into art. He painted, wrote poetry, autobiography, fiction, drama and essays. Using imagery and language that was fresh and striking, readers found his books moving and appealing, and he quickly wrote himself into the hearts of Scandinavian readers. Today, Martinson is still a widely read author in Sweden and new translations of his work continuous to find readers around the world. In this bilingual edition, translator Lars Nordstroumlm introduces the reader to Martinsonrsquos early work as a poet. None of the 60 poems included here have ever been translated into English previously. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Lars Nordstroumlm was born in 1954 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he lived until 1974. He was educated at the University of Stockholm and Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where he received a BA in English in 1981. He then moved to Uppsala University, Sweden, where he received his Ph. D. in American literature in 1989. He is the recipient of several Fulbright grants, a Scandinavian Foundation grant for academic research in the USA, several Swedish Institute grants and awards, a Dagmar and Nils William Olsson Fellowship, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship. In 1988 he settled with his wife and two sons on a small vineyard in Beavercreek, Oregon. For many years Lars Nordstroumlm worked as a technical translator in the high tech industry, but now divides his time between growing wine grapes and writing and translating literature, as well as giving talks on various Swedish-American subjects. Lars Nordstroumlm has published prose, poetry, translations, oral histories, interviews, articles, and scholarly materials in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Canada, Japan and the United States in magazines such as Studia Neophilologica, Alchemy, Horisont, The Great River Review, the new renaissance, Translation, The Greenfield Review, The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, Calapooya Literary Review, Hubbub, ICE-FLOE, Northwest Review, Oregon Literary Review, PRISM International, International Poetry Review, The Chariton Review . WRIT and many more. For an up-to-date list of Lars Nordstroumlmrsquos writings, please visit WINNER OF THE DELTA AWARD FROM FRIENDS OF MORRIS LIBRARY (SOUTHERN ILLINOIS-CARBONDALE) A DEMOCRACY OF GHOSTS a novel by John Griswold ISBN: 978-1-877655-63-0, LCN: 2009920772 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 192 pages, 13.953.50 sh Cover Art: October 1916 cover of The Masses Cover Design: redbat design, Kristin Summers Author Photo: Josh Birnbaum A Democracy of Ghosts is the love story of four couples, set against the backdrop of the Herrin Massacre of 1922. This clash of miners and strikebreakers in Bloody Williamson County, in Southern Illinois, resulted in the deaths of 21 men -- 19 of them the quotscabsquot tortured and murdered by average men, women, and even children in what was once the most radical community in America. John Griswold has drawn from contemporary eyewitnesses and news accounts, an ethnography of the area, histories, and his own grandfathers letters to create the lives of four fictional couples whose ambitions, self-doubts, and social and sexual jealousies contribute to this great American violence that still echoes down through time. quotAt times disturbing and tragically violent, always insightful, poignant and uncompromising, Griswolds riveting narrative is filled with complex men and women bursting with life. Fast-paced and powerful, Ghosts is an original ride told by a masterful writer. quot --Duff Brenna, author of The Law of Falling Bodies quotWith iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nations sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair. quot A Democracy of Ghosts has been selected as the winner of the Delta Award from Friends of Morris Library (University of Southern Illinois - Carbondale) in recognition of an individual or organization that has written published about southern Illinois with distinction. John Griswold joins such luminaries as John Gardner, Paul Simon and Robert Coover as winners of this award. ldquoA brilliant and lyrical historical novel, Democracy of Ghosts conjures the affairs behind one of the most violent labor disputes in American historymdashthe brutal killing of 21 scabs and coal miners at a strip mine in southern Illinois in 1921. In some ways a horrifying cautionary tale for todayrsquos mining conflicts in the coalfields. Democracy of Ghosts explores the entangled love affairs between couples caught up in the great coal mining strike that ultimately shattered a region, and turned one of the most radical communities into a social pariah. Griswoldrsquos narrative is riveting. This original novel deserves as large an audience as possiblemdashpass the word. rdquo --Jeff Biggs, The Huffington Post (112909) ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Griswold lives with his wife and sons in Urbana, Illinois, where he teaches at the Univesity of Illinois. HIs writing has appeared in Ninth Letter . Brevity and Natural Bridge . which nominated him for the Pushcart Prize, and in the anthhologies The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3 (W. W. Norton) and Mountain Man Dance Moves (McSweenys Books). His single-story chapbook, The Stork . is available from Featherproof Books. Hes currently at work on a nonfiction book about Herrin, Illinois, which will be published in 2010 by The History Press. John has also written extensively under the pen name Oronte Churm. As Churm, he is a contributing writer for Inside Higher Ed and as a columnist for McSweeneys . quotWhere the Yellow Brick Roadquot from GIVING IT AWAY was selected as a finalist for Western Writers of America 2010 Spur Award for Western poem category. poems by David Memmott ISBN: 978-1-877655-62-3, LCN: 2008943602 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 176 pages, 143.50 sh Cover art: David Memmott Inside art: David Memmott Author photo: Sue Hoyt quotRich in personae--Dreamer, Warrior, Traveler, Gardener, Lover, Son, Witness, Poet--David Memmotts Giving It Away is mature, sophisticated, visionary work. These diverse poems range far and near, inside and out of time and place. They intimately explore what we all want to know: How does the dream of life shape our every waking moment What happens in a day under these wheeling infinite stars Are harmony and wisdom possible Readers everywhere may savor the fruits of Memmotts amazing range of replies and his passionate quest for the universal round--our common dance. quot --George Venn, author of Marking the Magic Circle and West of Paradise quotDavid Memmotts sense of place extends from his piece of ground in northeastern Oregon to the space-time continuum of the universe itself. By turns prophetic, polemical, sensual, and humorous, these poems speak in stalwart witness to the outer and inner landscapes that he calls home. quot --John Daniel, author of The Far Corner quot Giving It Away is infused with the generous and expansive spirit its title evokes. The center of the book is a powerful narrative poem, Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West. From that center he unfolds the harsh but saving rituals of survival in the rual west: paying homage to his mother who escaped an abusive husband and took him to a new life, celebrating stacked firewood and the song of wintering over birds, responding to the works of other writers, confronting a flatline stretch of lonesome highway, and suffering the bite of winter which nevertheless brings with it snow slumping awayunder the steady Chinook of our most welcome touch. A fine and fresh contribution to the literature of the northwest. quot --Barbara Drake, author of Bees in Wet Weather and Writing Poetry quotDavid Memmotts fifth book of poetry is an engaging celebration of life in Eastern Oregon--and the many strong poems resonate with a lyric vitality. quot --Peter Sears, author of The Brink Read Memmotts long poem, quotWhere the Yellow Brick Road Turns West, quot published as an e-chapbook on Poets and WritersWeb del Sol, edited by Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy Read Memmotts long poem, quotDisciples of Paradox, quot a tribute to Stephen W. Hawking, in Strange Horizons archive. Nominated for a 2009 Rhysling Award in the long poem category. ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Memmottrsquos work has appeared in mainstream as well as genre magazines and anthologies. HIs previous books of poetry include House on Fire . a limited edition of 100 copies published by Jazz Police Books The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut . published by Permeable Press Within the Walls of Jericho . 26 Books and Watermarked . published by Traprock Books. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies including Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon, Salt: An Anthology of Oregon Coastal Poetry, Years Best Fantasy and Horror, NebulaAwards 27, Alchemy of Stars: An Anthology of Rhysling Award Winners, High Desert Journal, Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, Strange Horizons, The Jefferson Monthly. He co-edited, Angel Body and Other Magic for the Soul . with Chris Reed of BBR Publications, selected as a finalist for the British Fantasy Award for best antholgy of 2003. He is also the author of a story collection, Shadow Baones . and a postcyberpunk novel, Primetime . which Paul DiFillipo, in his review for Isaac Asimovs SF Magazine . called quotphilosophic sf at its best. quot WINNER OF 2009 WILLA AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST FOR ERIC HOFFER AWARD BETWEEN DESERT SEASONS, poems by Ellen Waterston ISBN: 978-1-877655-60-9. LCN: 2008934447 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 106 pages, 143.50 sh Cover art: Ingrid Lustig Author photo: Carol Sternkopf Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design quotThe music of Ellen Waterstons language in Between Desert Seasons is touching and vibrant, fiery raw and refined, reined in and set free. The endings of so many of these poems are startling and perfect, compelling re-readings just to experience again the turn of logic and imagination that created them. Im grateful for the open voice of this book that has allowed me to enter places, meet people, and experience ebvents I might otherwise have missed. quot --Pattiann Rogers, author of Wayfare quotThe poems in this collection search for a way beyond loneliness of self first by naming that loneliness and then by threading connections to the multi-layered world beyond the self. In Between Desert Seasons Waterston has found a way to quotplant words strong enoughquot to do the work of describing what it means to be human. quot --Wendy Mnookin, author of The Moon Makes Its Own Plea quotThe men and women in these poems travel diverse landscapes from Oregon to Baja in search of love, solace, and the meaning of a touch. Ellen Waterston creates vivid, singular moments that shine beyond the words on the page. quot --Kent Nelson, author of The Touching That Lasts quotThe truth is: Ellen Waterstons poems arrive. They situate themselves naturally, to proceed in compelling, telling ways. Each poem leaves something behind. quot -- Lawson Fusao Inada, Oregon Poet Laureate and author of Legends from Camp quot Ellen Waterstons new poems come from years of living in a desert of high revelation. Her poems create an oasis for all of us--a clear, remote, and vital spring, a womans life beyond any macho western settlers museum or mirage. quot --George Venn, General Editor of the Oregon Literature Series and author of West of Paradise ABOUT THE AUTHOR As a New Englander who married and moved to the ranching West, Waterston grounds her writing in both of those cultural and geographic landscapes. Her award-winning essays, short stories and poems have been widely published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her memoir, Then There Was No Mountain . Rowman and Littlefield publisher, was selected by the Oregonian as one of the top ten books in 2003, and nationally was a Foreword and WILLA finalist earning her an appearance on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer. Her collection of poetry, I Am Madagascar . was awarded the WILLA Prize in Poetry in 2005. She is the winner of the 2007 Obsidian Prize in Poetry, the 2008 Oregon Quarterly Essay Award and the author of two childrfens books, Barneys Joy and Tea at Miss Jeans . Roberts Rinehart publisher. Waterston is the recipient of numerous writing residency followships and honors, including the 2005 Fishtrap Writer-In-Residence, a 2003 Special Literary Fellowship for Women Writers given by Oregons Literary Arts, and a 2007 honorary PhD in Humane Letters from Oregon State UniversityCascade Campus for her work as an author and in support of the literary arts. She is the founder of the Writing Ranch writingranch. which supports writers through seminars and retreats, and is director of The Nature of Words thenatureofwords. org. an annual literary event held in Bend, Oregon the first weekend of November. Where the Crooked River Rises . a collection of personal and nature essays on the High Desert is slatedfor publication in 2009. She is working on a novel. Waterston received her Bachelors degree from Harvard University and Masters degree from the University of Madagascar. FINALIST FOR 2009 WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD IN FICTION WHITE JADE amp OTHER STORIES . seven short stories and a novella ISBN: 978-1-877655-61-6, LCN: 2008928198 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 186 pgs. 13.953.50 sh Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design Author photo: Zoe Filipkowska quotAlex Kuos writing refuses to be pinned down, traveling from playful wit and searing sarcasm in eastern Oregon, to sorrowful tragedy in Shanghai. While the stories are dizzyingly smart and mischievous, the novella illuminates the depth of Kuos talent for humanizing historical circumstances with fiercely vivid characters. White Jade deconstructs and re-imagines the purpose and power of the literary autobiography. quot -- Aimee Phan, author of We Should Never Meet quotI first fell in love with American literature through the poems and stories of Alex Kuo. This gorgeous and intelligent book confirms that love. Ill be reading Alex until the end of days. quot -- Sherman Alexie, author of Flight and Indian Killer ldquoFor Kuohellip language is always political. As an Asian-American writer, Kuo has spent a career writing and living in China and the American West. The tension in his fiction is the anger, humor, irony and confusion you feel when you come from two worlds, neither of which really accepts youhellipand Kuo tells it with the steady gaze of a poet and with great empathy. rdquo ndash Richard Wallace for The Seattle Times quotWriter Alex Kuo challenges the perimeters of Asian American identity in his collection of short stories, White Jade and Other Stories. In this latest publication, Kuorsquos characters offer a fresh perspective on the aftermath of transplanting onersquos ancestral roots, from a recent Washington State University (WSU) graduate, ill-proficient in wielding chopsticks and unable to speak any Chinese dialect, to a promising student from 1920s Shanghai who flees to California amidst political unrest in her homeland. Given the wide divergence of each characterrsquos historical and cultural reference points, the common thread of their Chinese heritage provides a focal theme, albeit with unexpected variations. quot Nancy Young Kwon, International Examiner Volume 35, No. 22 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alex Kuo has been an administrator and a teacher of writing, literature, ethnic and cultural studies at several American universities. He has also taught writing, translation and American literature in Chinese universities. He has three National Endowment for the Arts awards, and grants from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the United Nations, Artist Trust, and the Idaho, Pennsylvania and Washington state arts organizations. He has been awarded a Senior Fulbright, a Lingnan, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residency. He has also held the positions of Writer-in-Residence for Mercy Corps and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Knox College. In 2008 he was invited to be the Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Shanghais Fudan University. More than three hundred-and-fifty poems. short stories, photographs and essays have appeared in magazines and newspapers. HIs most recent books are This Fierce Geography (poems1999), Lipstick and Other Stories (2001) which received the 2002 American Book Award, and The Panda Diaries (novel2006). 2009 GOLD MEDAL WINNER OF IPPY AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION HONORABLE MENTION FOR ERIC HOFFER AWARD IN GENERAL FICTION FINALIST FOR FOREWORD MAGAZINES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD IN FICTION SMALL PRESS REVIEW PICK, Sept. Oct. 2008 KATHERINES WISH . a literary historical novel based on the lives of Katherine Mansfield, Ida Constance Baker, and John Middlebury Murry by Linda Lappin ISBN: 978-1-877655-58-6, LCN: 2008925492 First trade paperback, 6 X 9, 228 pgs. 153.50 sh Cover photo by Linda Lappin Cover design by Kristin Summers, redbat design quot Lappin has built on textual evidence from journals, letters, and diary entries in order to adhere to ldquoan overall sense of truthrdquo which she renders as her own mosaic. Her writing style, with its rhythm, flow, and sensual detail, richly evokes the significant social scene of a vanished era. quot quotIts not an easy or siimple thing to write fiction which that keeps faith with the life it is based on, so the reader will say There is nothing here that falsifies, as well as This has the imaginative flair of story telling, the freedom of its form. Linda Lappin has immersed herself in Mansfields life, and emerged from it with a story to to narrate on her own terms, a fiction charged with the enthusiasm of a good researcher, and carried through with a novelists verve. quot --Vince OSullivan, co-editor of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield ldquoLappin weaves a tale that is triumphant, genuine and tender in its unfolding. With vivid details and imagery born of careful research, she brings Mansfield to life, her voice so clear and authentic we are convinced that she is more than Lappins character. She is Mansfield: sexually reckless, socially excitable, temperamentally damaged, spiteful and cruel, appealing and vulnerable. She is Mansfieldmdasha tragic and unconventional heroine. rdquo -- R. A. Rycraft, Perigee: Publication for the Arts . Issue 23, January ndash April, 2009 quotA dramatic retelling of a story about an artist oppressed by the odds, Katherines Wish gives narrative to the chaotic last years of Katherine Mansfields life. Lappin draws from letters and other historical documents to bring the last years of Mansfields life into bring, making Katherines Wish an intriguing and highly recommended piece of writing. quot -- The Midwest Book Review quotKatherines Wish is a beautifully observed novel that reveals a core truth: that Mansfields was not so much a creative life cut short as one that flourished so long against all odds. quot quotKatherines Wish, fifteen years in the making, is a dazzling bit of fictional sorcery, conjuring to life the bright and talented swirl of modern society in the 1920s. This novel is a must read, whether you have historical interests per se or only enjoy a story so compelling and moving that theres no putting it down. I certainly couldntquot -- David Lynn, Editor, the Kenyon Review quotThe author of two critically successful historical novels, Prisoner of Palmary and The Etruscan , Linda Lappin turns her gifted hand to fictional biography in Katherines Wish . Like the new biography of Lytton Strachery and analogous fiction by Virginia Wolff, Lappins fictional life of Mansfield recreates the ineffable, rainbow-like essence of a human being from the inside perspective of three people: Mansfield herself, her traveling friend Ida Baker, and her husband, John Middleton Murry. quot -- Wayne K. Chapman, Editor, The South Caroline Review LINDA LAPPIN READING FROM KATHERINES WISH (MP3s) : ABOUT THE AUTHOR Linda Lappin is the author of The Etruscan (Wynkin de Worde, Galway, 2004) hailed by critics as a new classic in American writing about Italy. Semi-Finalist for the 2000 Three Oaks First Novel Prize awarded by Story-Line Press, in Oregon, The Etruscan was selected as a Book of the Week by Book View Ireland and praised by the Literary Review as quotcompelling, haunting, intriguing, quot and by Prairie Schooner as quotgorgeously detailed, wickedly fun. quot She is also the author of Prisoner of Palmary, an experimental historical novel set in 18th century Italy, short-listed for th e Mid-List First Novel Award in 1999. Her essays, poetry, reviews and fiction have appeared in a wide avriety of US publications, from the Kenyon Review to the Kansas City Star . She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The last chapter of Katherines Wish was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer short fiction award in 2007 and was published in Best New Writing 2007 . She teaches Creative Writing for the U. S.A. C. Study Abroad program in Viterbo. She also directs the Writing Center of Centro Pokkoli pokkoli. org Her forthcoming books include Signatures in Stone, a mystery novel set in Bomarzo, Italy, and Spirits of Place . a creative writing textbook. 2009 FINALIST FOR OREGON BOOK AWARD IN FICTION (KEN KESEY AWARD) 2009 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDALIST FOR SHORT STORY - FICTION, AND FINALIST IN SCIENCE FICTIONFANTASY LISTED AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN SCIENCE FICTIONFANTASY BY BOOKLIST. CRAZY LOVE . stories ISBN: 978-1-877655-59-3, LCN: 2008921844 First trade paperback, 5.5 X 8.5, 200 pgs. 13.95, plus 3.5 sh Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design quotQueen of Gonzo What (Olympic Games ) drags love out of its gooey, schmaltzy rut and takes it for a joyride in this exuberant collection of 17 stories. No matter how brief or long, no matter how bizarre, each tales in this collection grabs readers and demands they rethink how they see all the myriad forms of love. quot -- Publishers Weekly Starred Review quotAn ace at the new weirdness defined by the anthology, Feeling Very Strange (2006), What uses it to be creepy, polemical, and funny, all at once or in various blendings. These 17 stories progress from grim to laugh-out-loud ludicrous without ever derogating their common subject, love, though they do depict it as fairly insane. quot -- The Booklist Starred Review (July 2008) quotLeslie Whats wild and risk-taking fantasy tales have been largely overlooked, but her latest short story collection offers a great opportunity for wideer attention. Babies is a blistering allegory of motherhood that fuses together bug exterminators, marital problems and obsessive solicitude in 13 pitch-perfect pages. The storys heroine carries the extra weight and protective quality of human pregnancy, while mothering cockroaches that always came to her side whenver the bugman sprayed the landlords kitchen. Paper Mates is a clever story in which paperwork quite literally reproduces like rabbits. Whats stories, like Ray Bradburys and Richard Mathesons, rely on high concepts to carry the narratives forward, but her prose works best when it is concise. Nearly every tale offers an unexpected surprise, but never feels too gimmicky. This is a universe in which one should never underestimate a woman in a ratty gorilla suit, even if her ability to speak with gorillas may very well be her only means of communication. quot -- Edward Champion, Washington Post Book World (October 12 - 18, 2008) quotThis quirky short story collection has been almost completely overlooked by readers who look at the fantasy genre with the same frightened isolationism readily observed in George W. Bushrsquos move to a neighborhood terrified of non-Caucasian residents. Thatrsquos a great shame, because there are invaluable lessons here on how to take a wild idea and make it concise and enthralling. The collection contains unsettling allegories and gleefully imaginative premises. There isnrsquot a single story in here that doesnrsquot take some kind of narrative gamble. And while the dice-rolling doesnrsquot always pay off, it certainly remains hot in your hands. quot --TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2008, written by Edward Champion, Washington Post reviewer, from his blog, Reluctant Habits, edrants:80top-ten-books-of-2008 quotWhat demonstrates a gift for delving into heart-wrenching matters with a lightness of touch. Pain, joy, self-deception, guilt: these are the places crazy love takes us. What know them well. quot --L. Timmel Duchamp, American Book Review Line on Line quotIronic and uncompromising, Leslie Whats collection is also unfailingly humorous and boldly creative, frequently outlandishly so. What has written an enlightening examination of the most crazy-making endeavor in which our species obsessively engages. It drives us crazy-Crazy Love. quot quotIf unbearable guilt makes you wish to suffer vicariously, and professionally, for others if you suddenly find yourself the father of thousands and thousands of children if your ambition is to occupy the Chair of Hermit Studies at the University of Oregon, or to be a ghost in a hot-air balloon, or if you have considered wearing a gorilla mask while having an abortion -- Crazy Love is your operating manual. These seventeen achingly funny and hilariously sad stories will give you invaluable advice on how to love, how to be crazy, how to be human. quot -- Ursula Le Guin, author of quot Crazy Love is crazy good Leslie Whats brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds. and love. Lots of love. How lucky we are that her imagination runs deep, runs true, runs onto the page in crazily beautiful stories -- and lucky, so very lucky, to be holding those stories right now in our hands. quot -- Molly Gloss, author of quotCount on Leslie What to give you something you never counted on. Original, delightful, and always, always surprising. quot -- Karen Joy Fowler, author of ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leslie What (Glasser) is a Nebula Award-winning writer and the author of a novel, Olympic Games . and a short story collection, The Sweet and Sour Tongue. She has worked as a charge nurse in a nursing home, in an unlocked psychiatric facility, as a manager for a low-income meal site, and as a maskmaker and artist. She currently teaches in The Writers Program at UCLA Extension. Her work has been published in a number of anthologies and journals, including Parabola, Asimovs, The MacGuffin, Realms of Fantasy, The Clackamas Review, SciFiction and Midstream . Called quotThe Queen of Gonzoquot by Gardner Dozois, her work has been translated into German, Italian, French, Japanese, Russian, Greek and Klingon. SMALL PRESS REVIEW Poetry Pick SPILLING THE MOON . poems by Matt Schumacher ISBN: 978-1-877655-57-9, LCN: 2008920991 First trade paperback, 6 X 9, 102 pages, 123.50 sh Cover art: quotThe Red Chair, quot Jessica Plattner Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design quotMatt Schumachers poetry challenges the reader to imagine a rich, dreamy world where the improbable is never impossible, and the impossible is brought to life by the author, a puppet master with convincing zeal for all that is alien about being human. quot quotThese poems are travelers abolishing distances at every turn. The journey from mirage to mountaintop, from haunting to home-place, and from crime to new creationmdashall suddenly effortless now thanks to the gracious turns of SPILLING THE MOON. quot --Donald Revell, author of A Thief of Strings quotWhere language is audacious as a pterodactyl-esque wingspan and tight as the rhyme between astronaut and not, in Matthew Schumacherrsquos new book SPILLING THE MOON, Selene is an originating source: I rsquom meeting with the moon all afternoon Schumacher writes in Lunar Ghazal. Schumacherrsquos poems are big-hearted, humane, filled with mad - mad love for this life and an abundance of wit. Meditations on symbolist portraits by Arnold Boumlcklin along with carnivalesque dances on the moon, rain, an aluminum fishing boat, an abandoned lighthouse on Lake Huron, all claim our attention and warrant revisitings. In SPILLING THE MOON for every blast beyond gravityrsquos architectonics therersquos a counter-balancing measure, and we. fall like rain gently back into our footsteps. rdquo --Robert Grunst, author of The Smallest Bird in North America quotThe imaginationrsquos redemptive powers cartwheel and cavort in Matt Schumacherrsquos SPILLING THE MOON, a phantasmagoria of breathtaking verbal ingenuity, the non-stop astonishments heeding Keatsrsquos advice to Shelley that every rift of the subject be loaded with ore. These poems render the daily extraordinary and the impossible vividly plausible, their multifarious speakers boasting audaciously tender braggadocio. Matt Schumacherrsquos poems, big-hearted and heartbreaking, amaze and delight. quot -- Aaron Anstett, author of Each Place the Bodys SAMPLE 3: quotIn High Speed Pursuit of Romancequot(PDF) ABOUT THE AUTHOR Matt Schumacher possesses hard-earned degrees in poetry and poetics from the University of Maine and the Iowa Writerrsquos Workshop. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and have won a Willamette Writers Kay Snow Award and a Hayna Award. Theyrsquove also been anthologized by Manic D Press and performed live by a punk rock band named the Iowa Beef Experience. Schumacher has taught writing, literature, and humanities at a cornucopia of collegiate institutions and correctional facilities in California, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, and Washington. He currently teaches at Eastern Oregon University. SELF INTERVIEW: MARCH 2008 (PDF) SOON ENOUGH, poems by Donald Wolff ISBN: 978-1-877655-56-2, 1-877655-56-2 First trade paperback, 6 X 8.25, 88 pages, 12 Cover art: quotJourney, quot by Terry Gloeckler Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design Limited edition of 500 copies quotDonald Wolffs Soon Enough is a book haunted by danger, affliction, imminent disasters, and his poems are talismans against this ferocious onslaught. With these poems, Wolff stares down catastrophe and peril, and celebrates the sheer wonder of our survival-- the glory of our sad, fragile, beautiful lives. quot mdashGary Young, No Other Life quot Soon Enough s landscape is western, cut through by canyons and rivers, populated by bear, even the bison. Reality arises from the details of a life fully lived there: fatherhood, work, memory and hope. The best poems in this collection are the darkest, the squirrel in the belly of a coyote, a man in the grip of his life. quot mdashDorianne Laux, Facts About The Moon quot Soon Enough is a remarkable book of poetry if only for its range, the control of many contemporary modes--prose poems, short lyric poems, long line ekphrastic poems, multi-sectioned symphonic poems--each one with authority and a mastery of craft. And throughout, there is a sure, accessible, and memorable voice. This is a book of grit and gravity, of grace pushing for all it can against mortality. Wolff risks a great deal personally and intellectually, and cuts down to the bone, to the essential meaning. quot --Christopher Buckley, . and the Sea, Sleepwalk ABOUT THE AUTHOR Donald Wolff lives and works in La Grande, Oregon. At Eastern Oregon University, he teaches courses in creative writing and applied linquistics, co-directs the Oregon Writing Project, and currently serves as Chair of the Division of Arts and Letters. He was born and raised in California, which informs many of his poems about the past, while life with his family in La Grande has so far guided many of his poems about the present. In May 2004, he was a resident writer at Fishtrap. His chapbook, Some Days . was printed in 2004 by Brandenburg Press. SMALL PRESS REVIEW Poetry Pick PAPER BIRD . poems by Pamela Steele, ISBN: 978-1-877655-54-8, 1-877655-54-6 First trade paperback, 6 X 8.25, 76 pages, 12 Cover photo: SManohar, courtesy bigstockphoto Cover design: redbat design Limited edition of 500 Small Press Review quotPickquot for Jan. - Feb. 2008, Vol. 40, Nos. 1 - 2, Issues 420 - 421. ldquoSteele transforms the ordinary--cupping moments like the source of light in the palms of her hands. Here, she says, see beyond our time here. Paper Bird is a luminous collection of poems. Honest and spare, wistful and haunting. rdquo mdashDebra Magpie Earling, Perma Red ldquoSteelersquos poems are honest and visceral. They get under the skin and instruct us on how to squeeze our eyes tight and still see real beauty in the world. An important collection of love letters to everything that bleeds. rdquo mdashFrank X Walker, Black Box and Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York ldquoPamela Steelersquos poems are compassionate and descriptive, steeped with a quiet wisdom, opening doors to the profound insights and sensualities of the ordinary. Her poems are both lyrical and narrative, with an intelligent, introspective voice. They are infused with a seductive music, and with duende. rdquo mdashMichael Spring, blue crow and Mudsong ldquoThe heart of Pam Steelersquos poems beats for all of us. rdquo mdashPeter Sears, The Brink ABOUT THE AUTHOR Paper Bird is Pamela Steelersquos first full-length book of poetry, though she previously published a chapbook of poems ( Other Rivers, Distant Song, Spring Tree Press, 1997). Pamela is a Fishtrap Fellow who recently completed her MFA from Spalding University of Louisville, Kentucky. While in the writing program there, she was honored with the Jim Wayne Miller Poetry Prize from the Kentucky Writers Coalition. A turning point in her career came halfway through the MFA Program when two mentors, separately on the same day, told her it was time she got honest and stopped writing around what she wanted to say. ldquoUp to that point, Irsquod been using imagery to flirt with ideas, but Irsquod never written about the difficult topics Irsquove since addressed. rdquo Pamela was recently awarded an artistrsquos fellowship from Jentel Foundation and spent a month living and writing on a working cattle ranch in Wyoming. ldquoThat lifestyle attracts me, rdquo she says, ldquoespecially the landscape of the West, so I started a chapbook of poems about my experiences on my partners small horse outfit on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. My father was a West Virginia boy who came out to Oregon to be a horseman, so thats a thread of my life that I want to keep. rdquo Pamela teaches at Hermiston High School and hopes to teach at the collegeuniversity level. PRIMETIME . Book One of Dreamers Round a postcyberpunk novel by David Memmott ISBN: 978-1-877655-53-1, 1-877655-53-8 First trade paperback, 272 pages, 153.50 sh Cover art collage: Kristin Johnson amp David Memmott Images for collage: bigstockphoto Cover design: redbat design If you think the world is crazy now, just wait. Worldbenders are trained to re-invent the past. Benito Cortezar creates a perfect past only to find it haunted by forces he cannot control. A shadow at the core of Primetime threatens our very humanity. So many depend on Benito, even the dead. At the watershed of human and posthuman, in the clash between Dreamtime and Primetime, a gaggle of fractured heroes are caught up in a struggle between those yet to come and those waiting to come back. ldquo Primetime gives us a future where the sun shines while mythologies and realities of the past and future collide thanks to the emerging technology. Itrsquos a pleasure to read. Come to think of it, it also comes close to my fantasy of science fction that makes you want to get up and dance. rdquo mdash Ernest Hogan, High Aztech . Cortez on Mars . Smoking Mirror Blues quotThis novel explores the battle between two notions of virtual reality, one meant to allow people to experience the ldquorealrdquo, the other opening directly onto the id and an individualrsquos darkest fantasies. Add in the complications of an alien presence, virtual joyriders, and different strata (and substrata) of the real (and the unreal), and yoursquove got a sf novel that doubles as a philosophical meditation on the nature of human reality. Move over, Second Life: Primetime is here. rdquo --Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain , finalist for 2006 International Horror Guild Award quotMemmott is intent on examining deep epistemological and ontological issues concerning the way humanity fashions its own reality, but he embeds his questions in a captivating thriller. This is philosophic SF at its best. quot -- Paul Di Filippo, quotOn Booksquot Isaac Asimovs SF Magazine, July 2008 quotA dizzying debut novel explores an extreme near-future that explodes into a post-cyberpunk extravaganza. Primetime is, inarguably and admirably, ambitious. and it will be interesting to see where the author goes from here. quot ldquoMemmott puts the stimulus of Philip K. Dick and William Gibson to good use, creating a story that takes the best of both and adds his own vision of the future to them, giving us characters that are original and engrossing, characters that we care about. This ability isnt common in science fictionhellipThe point is: its not easy to lift sci-fi to the level of literature, but Memmott has done it in brilliant fashion in Prime Time. rdquo Issue 20, April-May, 2008 quotIn Primetime . David Memmott. gives us a post-cyberpunk novel thats both entertaining and thought-provoking. A world of virtual reality that is futuristic and complex is brought to life by dazzling description. Overall, its heady stuff in more ways than one. quot -- Bobbi Sinha-Morey, The Specusphere quotOILING THE TINMANS JAWS. An Interview with David Memmott, quot by Greg Johnson, edited by Duff Brenna, for Perigee: A Publication for the Arts . Issue 20, April-May 2008 ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Memmottrsquos work has appeared in mainstream as well as genre magazines and anthologies. His genre credits include stories and poetry in Interzone . Yearrsquos Best Fantasy amp Horror . Nebula Awards 27 . Airfish . Alchemy of Stars: An Anthology of Rhysling Award Winners . LrsquoUomo Duplicato . (an Italian science fiction anthology), Back Brain Recluse (England), 2001: An Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry . StarLine . The Magazine of Speculative Poetry , New Realities . Works (England), Ball Magazine . and New Pathways into Science Fiction and Fantasy . He co-edited, Angel Body and Other Magic for the Soul . with Chris Reed of BBR Publications, selected as a finalist for the British Fantasy Award for best antholgy of 2003. He has published four books of poetry including The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut, and a story collection, Shadow Bones . His most recent book of poetry, Watermarked . published by Traprock Books (Eugene, OR, 2004), received four Pushcart Prize nominations. A short story received a Worldwide Writers, Inc. fiction award and essays have been posted on-line including an essay for Writers on the Job at Web del Sol which will be included in an anthology of the same name to be published by Hopewell Publications. An interview and novel excerpt will appear in Perigee . an online literary magazine. Memmott received a Fishtrap Fellowship for his poetry and three Oregon Literary Fellowships for excellence in publishing from Literary Arts, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, most recently in 2006. He is a member of the Writers Guild of Eastern Oregon and serves on the board of RondeHouse Media Arts Konsortium. He lives with his wife, Susan, in La Grande, Oregon. Primetime is his first novel and Book One of the trilogy, DREAMERS ROUND . MAGPIES amp TIGERS . Misha Nogha, Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC: Original trade paperback, 10, black inkcolored coverstock, perfectbound, 5.5 X 8.5, 84 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-877655-49-4, 1-877655-49-X, LCN: 2007930088 Limited edition of 250 copies Cover art by Jessica Soo Hyun Ni, Cover design by Katherine James, Inside digital art by Michael Chocholak ldquoMy fictions are tour guides to the multiverse a stone is not merely a rock, but a small living mountain, a horse is karmic psychic energy, a cat is the Great Mystery, and the seidr-working shamaness is the one person who connects you with your own fate, that special place in the wheel of time which is uniquely yours. The meditative mythologies of Magpies and Tigers are meant to unleash us from the tethers of the mundane. rdquo ldquoMisha Nogharsquos poetry is like the good parts of lifemdashand the good parts of life are often the most dangerous parts, if yoursquore paying attention. Most people are uneasily aware theyrsquore gradually losing touch with something vitalmdashMisharsquos poetry will put you back in touch with that vitality. rdquo mdash John Shirley, The Other End and Living Shadows ldquoMisha Nogha knows not only the animal without but the animal within, and her words sing with this mystery. rdquo mdash Annette Curtis Klaus, Blood and Chocolate and The Silver Kiss ldquoMisha Nogharsquos writings are a kaleidoscope of haunting images. As one poem says, ldquoall realities are spoken here. rdquo Small flashes of color reveal the wild immanence of nature the image of a trotting wind-horse calls up the wideness of the world. Traveling territories seen and unseen, this poetry by a postmodern metaphysician speaks to readers in discordia concours of spectacular wordplay. rdquo mdash Carol McGuirk, Florida Atlantic University, Co-Editor of Science Fiction Studies ldquoA true shaman of the written word, Misha Nogha reminds us of our true human creature selves and our natural heritage through vibrant language, signaling a hyper-reality woven from dreamstates, mythical places, and animal avatars. rdquo mdash Richard Truhlar, The Hollow and Parisian Novels ABOUT THE AUTHOR Misha Nogha is the award winning author of prose and poetry volumes, Prayers of Steel and KeQuaHawkas, and the novel, Red Spider White Web, winner of the 1990 Readercon Award, also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke award. Misha won the 1989 Prix DrsquoItalia with her piece, ldquoTsuki Mangetsu, rdquo performed by two Australian artists. In addition to writing prose and poetry Misha is an accomplished musician and has collaborated with several composers on librettos. The first of these was written in conjunction with composer and cellist Jonathan Golove. Its World Premiere was performed by Mr. Golove and Misha at the Festival of 500 years of Western Music in Buffalo New York in the winter of 2000. Misha is currently writing another set of librettos with composer Arie Van Schuterhoeff of Amsterdam. Misha is of mixed blood Metis, and Norse ancestry. The Reverend Nogha is an ordained minister and her spiritual practices reflect both heritages. She lives a full life as author, musician and farmer. She is also a Skywarn Severe Storm Spotter for NOAA and an official National Weather Service Co-op Observer. Misha recently finished her novel Yellowjacket, a humorous and bittersweet literary western, and working on her third and fourth novels, Jack Jinx and Alruna. True denizens of a modern horse culture, Misha and her husband composer Michael Chocholak, own and operate a small farm in Eastern Oregon where they raise beautiful Norwegian Fjord horses. For other books by Misha published by Wordcraft of Oregon (Red Spider White Web and Prayers of Steel), see Speculative Writers Series FINALIST FOR SAN DIEGO BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY CAMERA OBSCURA, Harry Griswold, Wordcraft of Oregon, LLLC: Original trade First trade paperback, 12 perfectbound, 6 X 9, full-color cover, 80 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-877655-55-5, ISBN: 1-877655-55-4, LCN: 2007925640 Limited edition of 500 Cover art: Harry Griswold Cover design: Kristin Johnson, redbat design This book was published in part due to a 2006 Literary Fellowship for Publishers, Literary Arts, Inc, Portland, Oregon ldquoHarry Griswoldrsquos reality presses in from all sides. He speaks in a calm voice, quiet for the most part, but we sense the wildness just under the surface, pushing against the words. rdquo mdash Joseph Millar, Fortune ldquoHarry Griswold is the kind of poet you would like to sit down with. Hersquos weaving stories and he knows just how much to show, how much to tell. You wonrsquot find a false step or easy theatrics. Camera Obscura is the work of an experienced, astute man, very worthwhile taking in. We need more wisdom in our poetry and Griswold delivers. rdquo mdash Eloise Klein Healy, The Island Project: Poems for Sappho ldquoHarry Griswoldrsquos aptly-titled debut collection of poems, Camera Obscura . is filled with peoplemdashreal and imaginedmdashat times isolated in their grief and locked in silence. The poet gives voice to their yearnings, and solace in his plain-spoken words. This is a poetry deeply focused in its seeing, its way of knowing. From the seemingly mundane to the near extraordinary, these poems look at the dailiness of our lives, as in the camerarsquos darkened chamber, lsquoright in the middle of things. rsquordquo mdash Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard . winner of the Pulitzer Prize ABOUT THE AUTHOR A graduate of the MFA Program at Pacific University, Harry Griswold teaches poetry writing in a private workshop at Solano Beach, CA, and lives in San Diego. He is originally from Rochester, NY, where he graduated from Monroe Community College and the University of Rochester. His training was in computer science and experimental psychology. Camera Obscura is Harryrsquos first book of poetry. IN AN ELEVATOR WITH BRIGITTE BARDOT AND OTHER APPRECIATIONS . Essays by Michael Lee, paperback, 232 pgs. 5.5quot X 8.5quot ISBN: 978-1-877655-50-0 Full-color cover, 153.50 sh Cover art: Suzie Hutchins Bardot caricature: Michael Taylor Cover design: Kristin Johnson, redbat design In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot is an irresistible collection of personal essays in which Michael Lees characteristic humor and compassionate insight revolves around the experience of daily life in Cape Cod. Framed by broad-interest essays that travel far afield and far abroad, the appropriate center of these appreciations is a seasonal round informed by place. But Lees sense of place is not provincial. He always finds the extraordinary in the ordinary, the universal in the local, narrows down soas to expand and open. Lees achievement here in the short essay form is as remarkable as his achievement in short fiction with his debut collection, Paradise Dance, published by Leapfrog Press (2002). Read them both and marvel. quotEach essay is only a few pages long, yet each strikes the heart of its topic with a deft flick of the wrist. A teasury to savor a bit at a time, or all at once. quot -- Michael J. Carson, The Midwest Book Review quotI see Michael Lee once a week for therapy. Believe me, I earn every dime. quot mdash Gordon Barney, MA, LMHC quotMIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience. quot mdash Norman Mailer quotMichael Lees In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot is by turns melancholy and hilarious, sweet and bittersweet, a gift of hard-won wisdom and wry observation from a shrimp header, soundboard man, delivery driver, short-order cook, bricklayer, fisherman, soldier, back trap hauler and self-described dyslexic carpenter who is first and foremost a writer of enormous gifts. If there is such a thing as painful joy, Michael Lee is its voice. quot mdash Thomas H. Cook, Edgar Award winning author of Red Leaves . Peril . Into the Web . diantara yang lain. quotGold, silver and bronzemdashBarry, Keillor, Leemdashthough not necessarily in that order. With In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot . Mike Lee steps into the natioal circle of champs. He makes it look so easymdashhow the hell does he do it Hell make you chortle and chuckle before surrendering the last of your cool in a boil of laughter all the while your mist-eyed heart sputters, Hes right Hes got it That just exactly it More, Mr. Lee Morequot mdash Thomas E. Kennedy, The Literary Review quotIn swift language woven with sparkling metaphors, Lees wry, sometimes zany observations dissect the human comedy in ways that are ironic but seldom bitter or satirical. Lee has a big heart, and he sees the good in almost everything or if not the good, at least the humor. If there is one thing we need more of in this sadly fracturing world, it is laughter. Michael Lees In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot provides a whole lot of laughter and plenty of food for thought. quot mdash Duff Brenna, The Law of Falling Bodies . The Book of Mamie . among others ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Lee has held an array of jobs that now seem standard in a writerrsquos profile: construction worker, shrimp peeler, commercial diver, short order cook, drummer in a useless band, bartender, and cemetery lawn mower. He began his writing career at age 16 with short humor pieces for Skin Diver Magazine. While serving with the Marine Corps at Khe Sanh in Vietnam, Lee also wrote dispatches for Stars and Stripes and his hometown newspaper in Framingham, Massachusetts. He holds a B. A. from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and an M. F.A. from Emerson College. Currently, Lee is the Literary Editor of The Cape Cod Voice and the director of the annual literary soiree, ldquoNew Works Weekend, rdquo in Orleans, Massachusetts. Lee is a member of the Writerrsquos Guild and the National Book Critics Circle, and his collection of short stories, ldquoParadise Dance, rdquo was published by Leapfrog Press in 2002. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife Julia and is currently working on a novel. Paradise Dance . short stories by Michael Lee, 216 pgs. 0-9679520-6-9, 6 X 9, 14.95paperback original available from Leapfrog Press leapfrogpress FINALIST FOR FOREWORD MAGAZINES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTION A PASSION IN THE DESERT . a novel by Thomas E. Kennedy, paperback, ISBN:1-877655-52-X978-1-8877655-52-4, 192 pgs. 5 12 X 8 12, full-color cover, 153.50 sh Cover artwork by Andi Olsen Cover design by Kristin Johnson, redbat design It is no concidence that Thomas E. Kennedys eighth novel, A Passion in the Desert . borrows its title from a Balzac story about mistrust and betrayalmdashfor these are the themes at the heart of this unsettling story about a man stalked by guilt over a choice he made two decades before. Now small strange happenings begin to plague his daysmdashsomebody elses words in his journal, one too many flat tires, things out of place in his home, damning evidence in his laundry. Somebody, it seems, is after him, but who A colleague His own son Or is it all just a reflection of the guilt, festering in his own heart quotReaders have been introduced to a very troubled mind which only exposes itself slowly as the book progresses. quot Line on Line, Volume 29, Number 3 quotIn A Passion in the Desert . Kennedys exploration of the many modalities of love delivers us to the convergence of sex and death. I dont know of another fiction writer today whose craft is a match for his. quot mdash Robert Gover, author of One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding quotSpellbinding, at times terrifying, with prose that is heartbreakingly beautiful. Kennedy has written a story of the aftermath of an unforgettable passion, the cost of letting go, and then letting go. quot mdash Duff Brenna, author of The Book of Mamie quotBy the time readers finish A Passion in the Desert . they will know its central character, Fred Twomey, more intimately than they know the people around them, quite possibly even themselves. Thats one of the powers of great fiction, and Thomas E. Kennedy possesses a special ability to explore the landscape of a mans inner world, exposing emotions and secrets he can barely admit to himself. Although Twomeys life is unique, caught up in its own particular drama, he is clearly one of us, and in discovering him, we discover ourselves. quot mdash Walter Cummins, The Literary Review ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thomas E. Kennedy, a native of New York and American exjpatriate in Europe since the mid-1970s, is the author of eleven books of fiction, including two volumes in 2007--the novel, A Passion in the Desert . and story collection, Cast Upon the Day. Other recent novels are the four books of The Copenhagen Quartet (Kerrigens Copenhagen, A Love Story, 2002 Bluetts Blue Hours, 2003 Greenes Summer, 2004 and Danish Fall . 2005). Kennedys fiction has won numerous awards including the O. Henry, Pushcart, Gulf Coast, and European Prizes, the Charles Angoff Award, and the Frank Expatriate Writers Award. Other Wordcraft of Oregon titles by Thomas E. Kennedy FINALIST FOR THE SPUR AWARD FOR POETRY FROM WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA LESSONS FOR CUSTER . Poems by Thomas Madden ISBN: 1-877655-47-3 Trade paperback, 64 pages, 6 quot x 9 quot. 14 3.50 sh This collection is centered around a group of poems which focus on the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. quotTom Maddens poems sing of life, of rich histories, and the sad and beautitful landscapes that make us mourn and rejoice. His voice is quiet but insistent. Here, he is saying, look closely, more closely at the soul of the American West and our place here. This is a profound and beautiful collection. quot mdash Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red quotThese small rooms into which Thomas Madden leads us, quietly, hand in hand, burst with treasure. quot mdashDavid Axelrod, winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Poetry SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE: C. E. S. WOODS 1877 LEGACY . George Venn ISBN: 1-877655-48-1 Trade paperback, 98 pages, 8.5quot x 11quot. 203.50 sh SECOND PRINTING: Send check or postal money order for 20 3 SH (media book) to: Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, P. O. Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850. (See ordering information for shipping costs.) Only 24 copies of First Edition, First Printing, signed by author, remain. Get yours now for 35 SH. quotGEORGE VENN IS BREAKING NEW GROUND. quot mdash Jeff Baker, Book Section, The Sunday Oregonian quot. this fascinating book is a must-read, must-have for students of Nez Perce tribal history. Venns teamwork with Wordcraft of Oregon has produced an outstanding work that will be a treasure now and in the future. the unique kind of scholarship represented by Venn. artistically, seamlessly ties modern tribal history to that earlier troubled time. quot -- Steven R. Evans, Oregon HIstorical Quarterly ONE AMERICAN SOLDIER, ONE NEZ PERCE CHIEF: ONE SPIRIT Soldier to Advocate tells the story of 2nd Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) who wants to be a lover and a writer. Stationed in 1877 at Vancouver Barracks near Portland, General Howard grants Wood the privilege of exploring Alaska, then recalls him to fight in the tragic Nez Perce War. Part II features Woods transcribed diary from this period, a text enriched by Woods drawings leaked to the New York pressmdashthe only eye-witness images of the Nez Perce conflict. Part III traces Woods lifetime of prose and poetry defending Chief Joseph and finally opposing General Howard. The book concludes by documenting three 1990s events in the Wood familys legacy of friendship and respect for the Nez Perces: a joint exhibition, the gift of a stallion, and a reconciliation ceremony. With nearly two hundred notes and forty additional 19th century images, Soldier to Advocate shows us that history is the nightmare from which we should all try to awake. quotI highly recommend that any serious student of the Nez Perce Campaign read this excellent and rich piece of work. Mr. Venns research in Soldier to Advocate will add that quotmissing piecequot to some of the misunderstandings of the Nez Perce War. quot -- W. Otis Halfmoon (Nez Perce), former Idaho Unit Manager, Nez Perce National Historical Park, contributor to the Encyclopedia of North American Indians quotGeorge Venns work is a superb contribution to our knowledge of the Nez Perce War, particularly as it respects judgments about Charles E. S. Wood as historian, participant, and literary influence. quot -- Jerome A. Greene, historian and author of Nez Perce Summer, 1977: The U. S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis quotThank you for that wonderful publication, Soldier to Advocate . Its rich, rich, rich, and I congratulate you. quot -- Alvin Josephy, historian and author of The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Pacific Northwest Also by George Venn George Venns website: An American treasure back in print mdash in a new and revised edition. THE BOOK OF MAMIE . Duff Brenna ISBN: 978-1-877655-45-6, ISBN: 1-877655-45-7 Trade paperback, 392 pages. 183.50 sh The Book of Mamie is the story of one persons struggle to overcome the abuse and traumas of her childhood. It is the story of a wonderfully gifted young woman, a young woman of genius, uncanny wisdom and primitive strength, whose revelations unfold in the course of an odyssey across the heartland of America. Mamies story is told by her companion, a 15-year-old farmboy who shares her adventures with a wild variety of characters and whose own story becomes a rite of passage as they try to stay one step ahead of the law and Mamies sinister father. quotDuff Brennas The Book of Mamie reminds us why we read. This novel is unforgettable. quot --James Michael Slama, The Literary Review quot. a risky, graceful book. told in language that is lean and unpretentious, a language forged out of the hard landscape of the rural Middle West. quot quotDuff Brenna is an American treasure. quot -- The Bloomsbury Review quotAnd Brenna writes consciously in the American tradition, invoking Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn in both the voice and the story. and he is in good company with the great literary voices to whom he pays homage. quot -- San Francisco Chronicle Duff Brennas website: They set out to find J. D. SALINGER JD: A MEMOIR OF A TIME AND A JOURNEY . Greg Herriges ISBN: 978-1-877655-46-3, ISBN: 1-877655-46-5 Trade paperback, 136 pages. 153.50 sh In the mid-1970s, hiding out for nearly a decade, J. D. Salinger had long been a literary legend, the lost leader and vanished wiseman of millions of readers around the world, from the USA to the USSR. An unreachable hero. Or was he Enter inner-city teacher Greg Herriges, determined to fulfill his dream of meeting and speaking with the reclusive author. Herrigesrsquo tale is a double helix narrative of personal quest and romantic love as he and his former girlfriend, both young, big city high school teachers, hit the road one summer, Kerouac-style, on a mission to find the hidden giant, discovering America ndash and themselves ndash along the way. This journey of two young idealistic English teachers who set out to find J. D. Salinger is a love story as well as a tribute to the reclusive author. quotBeyond the vividness with which Herriges conveys the surface adventures, JD is much more than a celebrity hunt. The books profound human complexities give it emotional depth. quot --Walter Cummins, The Literary Review ABOUT THE AUTHOR Greg Herriges has published three novels: Somewhere Safe, Secondary Attachments, and the twice award-nominated The Winter Dance Party Murders . a murder mystery satire of the golden days of rock and roll. His short works have appeared in Chicago Tribune Magazine . Social Issues Resources, The Literary Review, Story Quarterly, Britains World Wide Writers, and South Carolina Review. He is a professor of English at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. Scroll down list and click on title BacklistJazz Police Books
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