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John Elsberg
Catching The Light 12 Haiku Sequences
by John Elsberg and Eric Greinke
Červená Barva Press, 2009-
Eric Greinke has been active on the literary scene since the late sixties. He has studied and published with many of the major poets of the post-modern period, including Robert Bly, Ted Berrigan, Charles Reznikoff, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Donald Hall. He has taught creative writing in Grand Rapids City School and for the Michigan Poets In The Schools program and spent 25 years as a social worker for special needs children. He has a long history of collaborations with other poets, including Ronnie Lane, Brian Adam, Harry Smith, Mark Sonnenfeld, Richard Kostelanetz and Hugh Fox. He has published poetry, fiction, translations, creative non-fiction and essays in hundreds of books and magazines internationally, including recent American appearances in The New York Quarterly, The California Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Mad Poets Review, and the Home Planet News. His work has been nominated six times for a Pushcart Prize. His long poem For The Living Dead won the 2008 Muses Review Award for Best Poem of the Year. His most recent poetry collection is Wild Strawberries. He lives with wife Roseanne on a Michigan lake where they publish under the Presa Press imprint.
www.ericgreinke.com.
John Elsberg is a poet, reviewer, editor, and historian. He is the author of over a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, and his work has been in a number of anthologies. He also was the host of open poetry readings at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, for almost twenty-five years. He has conducted various writing workshops (to include experimental poetry on the high school level) and judged numerous poetry contests. He was the fiction editor of Gargoyle in the late 1970's, and he has been the editor of Bogg: A Journal of Contemporary Writing since 1980. He also sits on the editorial board of The Delmarva Review on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where he and his wife Connie now spend a good part of their time. In terms of a "daytime job," as a young man he taught for the University of Maryland, and then he spent many years as an editor/publisher of history books. His poems have appeared in a wide range of journals, such as Hanging Loose, Blue Unicorn, the New Orleans Review, Lost & Found Times, RAW NerVZ (Canada), Modern Haiku, and the Lilliput Review.
$7.00 | 32 Pages | In Stock
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Denis Emorine
Passions (monodrama) by Denis Emorine
Translated from the French by Brian Cole
Červená Barva Press, 2010-
Denis Emorine is the author of short stories, essays, poetry, and theater. He was born in 1956 in Paris and studied literature at the Sorbonne (University of Paris). His theatrical output has been staged in France and Russia. He has a great interest for Eastern Europe. In 2004, he won first prize (French) for his poetry at the Féile Filiochta International competition. His poetry has been published in Pphoo (India), Blue Beat Jacket (Japan), Snow Monkey, Cokefishing, Be Which Magazine, Poesia, (USA). His texts have been published in numerous e-zines including Cipher Journal, Mad Hatter's Review, Milk, The Salt River Review, Istanbul Literary Review, and WHL Review. His last publication was a play called, "On The Platform," (Červená Barva Press).
Salt for the Dead: 'Passions' by Denis Emorine
article by Michael T. SteffenSometimes while watching or reading drama we're struck by an insight, however subjective, that the theatre the author is presenting to us is the theatre of our own mind. The notion was impressed convincingly upon me once as I read 'Othello' and realized that Iago was not an actor of acts, but a protagonist, in the true sense of the word, of the tragic hero's passions. That is, Iago is the powerful agent of Doubt within Othello's own psyche.
It's interesting that Denis Emorine's one-act monodrama 'Passions' (released earlier this year by Cervená Barva Press) so deftly evokes this sense of isolated inner psychology, though unusually the drama of 'Passions' takes place in the wake of a personal crisis or tragedy, and the tables are turned. The protagonist, Frank, now has nothing to say. He lies on a bed motionless and speechless throughout the short play. Frederick, we gather from his bitter and plaintive monologue, has been the victim of a conspiracy (just what we are not told specifically) which Frank and another referred to as George have played out on him.
This whole displacement of focus from the acts that build to a climax, to the worded invective after, makes a good point in its demonstration of the destructive senseless gestures of regret and spite. We sense throughout the first half of the act that Frederick's wounded pride is fruitless. He can't even evoke the events of Frank and George's treachery, and we suspect moreover, because of this lack of details, that Frederick in fact has no case whatsoever, that he is suffering from delusions.
A further and more poignant point made by 'Passions' comes to our awareness when the insularity of the drama is disrupted toward the end of the play by the sound of footsteps rushing to the door outside the room. Here Frederick must realize that he has only deepened his own dilemma by elaborating his grief against his companion. Threatened by the arrival of a soldier, Frederick's roaring indignation is deflated. He is again frightened and pleading for Frank to help him. At this moment Frank's unresponsiveness grows haunted and meaningful.
Emorine's vision operates in terms of shadows and impulses, at the vanities of the essential soul, revealing his subjects unflinchingly at precisely their weakest, at the waste of their own worst powers. In its modest format of a chapbook, 'Passions' lurks with dark energy under the surface and filter of our all too frail human confidence.
$7.00 | 16 Pages | In Stock
On The Platform
A play by Denis Emorine
Translated by Brian Cole, Červená Barva Press, 2008-
Cover Art: L' Echo oculaire by Farah Willem Dahri
On the Platform, by Denis Emorine, takes us to a crowded platform where impatient travelers wait for a train from Paris. We are introduced to a character named Laure. She is waiting for her fiancé Julien to arrive. Is it chance or fate that Laure meets a man named Marek? What transpires is an encounter we may all one day face. How extraordinary that in this crowded landscape, Laure realizes her destiny and his are intertwined.
Denis Emorine perfectly captures the torment of Marek and the innocence of Laure, imparting to us a vivid picture of his tortured soul and her radiant spirit. But, as the whims of Fate are unavoidable, Laure's life takes a profound turn…
$14.00 | ISBN: 978-0-615-25983-3 | 42 Pages
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Au chevets des mots by Denis Emorine
Written in French, 2006-
Preface: Here is a collection of vignettes that invites the dreamer into the elusive, entrancing perpetual fever of poetry. Here you are in the town square of language, where words elope, make love, fight, and part like unsatisfied, restless lovers into the night. It is never enough, it seems, when it comes to language. There are words that masquerade and manipulate, and there is the purity of meaning, as Emorine seems to suggest from the opening quotation used: “And then, we’ll be able to talk without stumbling into those words that cause time to bleed.” —Joë Bousquet.
Let us visit with the work assuming all the roles: as the words themselves, as the silence, as the narrator, as Franz Kafka even. The heart of this collection is in the segment “Fever”, when Emorine declares: “Only silence has the bedside manner needed to respond to words broken down by their plentitude”. You may try to stab its “voice face”, you may try to escape consonants and vowels from smothering you, you may even try to drink the colors of a rainbow, but there is no remedy to the intriguing ambiguity of words. -Lina ramona Vitkauskas
$5.00 | ISBN: 2-919942-15-8 | 33 Pages | In Stock: 3
Side by Side by Denis Emorine
Foothills Publishing, 2006-
Denis Emorine has published essays, poetry, short stories and plays. He has had numerous publications in France, Belgium, Romania, India and the USA. His plays have been performed in France, India and Russia.
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$8.00 | ISBN: 0-941053-87-3 | 30 Pages | In Stock: 2
Themes that re-occur throughout his writing include the lost or shattered identity, and mythical Venice. He also has a great interest for Eastern Europe. Denis Emorine is part of the editing team at La Nouvelle Tour de Feu (France) and colllaborates with various other reviews and literary websites in the U. S., Denmark, France, Germany and Japan. In 2004, he won first prize for his poetry at the Feile Filiochta International competition.
--Foothill Publishing
Jane Etzel
In The Limelight by Jane Etzel
Second Edition, Cloudkeeper Press, 2008-
"Jane Etzel is a painter on the page and the canvas. Her strokes with the brush and the pen bleed color and insight."
Doug Holder, Arts Editor, The Somerville News"For me the tour de force of In The Limelight is 'Alone', a poem which combines a Sartrean existentialist outlook with an understanding of the yin-yang principle…."
Richard Wilhelm, Art Editor, Ibbetson Street"Jane Etzel writes about love, loss and pain in soft clear tones that show her courageous spirit."
Barbara Thomas, poet"Jane Etzel's poems gently beckon us into the light of her kind, grateful, sincere attention. They remind us that anything seen in the limelight of love, no matter how painful, is transmuted into beauty."
Rich Borofsky, Ed.D., Jane's first therapistAbout the Author
$7.00 | ISBN: 978-0-615-25931-4 | 35 Pages | In Stock
Jane Etzel has two major passions in her life: poetry and oil painting. Her poetry has appeared in "Lyrical Somerville," The Somerville News in 2006, the new renaissance in 2008, and Spare Change News in 2008. In 2006, Ibbetson Street showcased one of her oil paintings on its inside front cover. Two paintings will be published in the Spring 2009 edition of the new renaissance. Her poetry often deals with real life experiences: childhood memories to her father's death to her battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A highly trained artist, Jane specializes in still-life oil paintings of fruits and vegetables and creates note cards and magnets from her paintings. Before concentrating on poetry and oil painting, she owned a small graphic design studio. Jane taught freelance classes at the Boston Center for Adult Education for five years and was a graduate school instructor at Emerson College. She received a BA in art from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Jane studied oil painting for seven years at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Whenever possible, she spends time in the woods or near the ocean. Jane grew up in Branford, Connecticut, and has called the Boston area her home for many years.
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