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Flying Carpets, Hedy Habra Dec 2015

Flying Carpets, Hedy Habra

Hedy Habra

Surveying what appears as familiar ground, Hedy Habra's Flying Carpets plunge deep into the bygone and the irrecoverable. Steeped in childhood memories of Egypt and Lebanon, and intensified in the act of fictional recollection, Habra's stories are at once joyous and tragic, witty and profound. In Habra we have a Shehrazad of our times, not one trying to save her life, but one intent to bring enchantment, gravitas, and sensitivity to ours. This is a book full of marvels, beautifully written. --Khaled Mattawa, author of Amorisco and Tocqueville

Hedy Habra's Flying Carpets is a collection of enchantments and wonders charmingly …


The Apocalyptic Adventures Of Private Winfred Scott Biegle, Clifford Davidson Dec 2015

The Apocalyptic Adventures Of Private Winfred Scott Biegle, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

A modernist novel, describing a dystopian military in the imaginary dictatorship of Atlantis, written more than a half century ago when the author was a conscript in the army during the Cold War. As editor of the post newspaper at the Granite City Engineer Depot, Clifford Davidson was in a privileged position for observing the military mentality of the time, in particular the propensity for bullying intended to turn men into mindless killing machines. From other soldiers he was also able to hear disturbing stories at first hand about World War II and the very recent Korean War, only concluded …


Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade Nov 2015

Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade

Andrew R. Slade

If Jean-Luc Nancy was able to write in "The Sublime Offering," in 1993, that the sublime was fashionable (25), then academic and theoretical tastes have changed, and beauty has come back in style. Throughout the late 1990s, cultural critics and theorists undertook a return to beauty against the fashion for the sublime that returned in twentieth-century theory and philosophy of art in works by Jean-François Lyotard and Theodor Adorno, among others. The interest in the sublime has been grounded in violent historical experience. Not that violence was new, or that the kinds of violence that the twentieth century bequeathed us …


Screenplay: Mark Of The Apprentice, Meredith Doench, Nancy Zafris Jun 2015

Screenplay: Mark Of The Apprentice, Meredith Doench, Nancy Zafris

Meredith Doench

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Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph Mar 2015

Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

In this collection of poems, Patrick T. Randolph achieves something all too few writers are able accomplish: He conveys honest joy, and he does so deeply, convincingly, and sustainedly. The book is a true pleasure to read. Lester Smith, president, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets has said: "If I could bequeath one book of poetry to my grandchildren and great grandchildren, it would be Father "s Philosophy by Patrick T. Randolph. Randolph's poems are written with such love and sunshine that more than one generation should have the pleasure and privilege of reading them. ” Joanne Flemming, editor of Irish Stew.


Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph Mar 2015

Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

151 poems about hunger and homelessness, from 80 poets, many with direct experience, such as: Dori Appel, a Red Cross disaster volunteer; Mary L. Downs, a volunteer at LEAVEN; Barbara Flaherty, former treatment center supervisor; Nancy Gauquier, formerly homeless in NY; Randall Horton, a Ph.D. candidate who advocates for the homeless and prison reform, having been homeless and in prison; Michele Leavitt, a teenage runaway in the 1970s, who later worked as a public defender; John J. Quirk, a member of Chicago's Homeless Action Committee; Nancy Scott, a social worker who helps find housing; and Julian I. Taber, who treated …


Creative Work, Annadora Khan Jan 2015

Creative Work, Annadora Khan

Annadora Y Khan

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Harley "Hog" Hill, Pamela Herron Dec 2014

Harley "Hog" Hill, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

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Writing In Two Tongues, Wang Ping Dec 2014

Writing In Two Tongues, Wang Ping

Wang Ping

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North Of Kowloon, Pamela Herron Dec 2014

North Of Kowloon, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

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42 Days, Pamela Herron Dec 2014

42 Days, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

Flash fiction "42 Days" by Pamela Herron was shortlisted for the 2015 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and published in their Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2015.


Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim Dec 2014

Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim

Frank Pommersheim

Poetry chapbook by Frank Pommersheim.


'Objectless Love': The Vagabondage Of Colette And Katherine Mansfield, Deborah Pike Dec 2014

'Objectless Love': The Vagabondage Of Colette And Katherine Mansfield, Deborah Pike

Deborah Pike

Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence identifies Mansfield’s involvement in six modes of literary influence - Ambivalence, Exchange, Identification, Imitation, Enchantment and Legacy. In so doing, it revisits key issues in Mansfield studies, including her relationships with Virginia Woolf, John Middleton Murry and S. S. Koteliansky, as well as the famous plagiarism case regarding Anton Chekhov. It also charts new territories for exploration, expanding the terrain of Mansfield's influence to include writers as diverse as Colette, Evelyn Waugh, Nettie Palmer, Eve Langley and Frank Sargeson. [Book]