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Kevin Gallagher

Isolate Flecks by Kevin Gallagher Červená Barva Press, 2008: Kevin Gallagher is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Isolate Flecks (Červená Barva Press, 2008), and Looking for Lake Texcoco (Cy Gist, 2008). His poetry and reviews have appeared in such publications as The Boston Review, Emergency Almanac, Green Mountains Review, Harvard Review, Jacket, Peacework, the Partisan Review and elsewhere. In 2004 he edited a feature on Kenneth Rexroth for Jacket, and a chapbook titled Nevertheless: Some Gloucester Writers and Artists. From 1992 to 2002 he was a publisher and editor of compost magazine. A retrospective anthology of compost, co-edited with Margaret Bezucha, is titled There's No Place on Earth Like the World (Zephyr, 2006). He lives with his wife Kelly, and son Theo, in Newton, Massachusetts.
$7.00 | 39 Pages | In Stock: 20

Miriam Gallagher

Fancy Footwork selected plays by Miriam Gallagher 1991

A memorable piece of theatre. Irish Press

Vivid imagination at the heart of both plays. Irish Times

A macabre dance of characters locked in an illusion of choice.
City Limits

Informative and absorbing entertainment with a sensitivity of construction.
Irish Times, 1987

In originality Irish people come close to Finns. A performance of joy and confidence.
Turun Sanomat, Helenski, 1989

$18.95 | 565 Pages | In Stock: 3

Kalahari Blues and other plays by Miriam Gallagher 2006

What has been said about her work;

She shows vivid imagination and is something of a surrealist.
Irish Times

Vigorous and lively work. New York Daily News

Displays inventiveness and style. Sunday Tribune

Impressive. Books Ireland

Combines the real with the surreal. Evening Herald

A Kafkaesque journey. Daily Ireland

She tackles exile, sexual liberation, Shakespearean role-playing…and concern with human rights.
Irish Women Writers: An A-Z Guide

$7.95 | 91 Pages | In Stock: 5

Song for Salamander by Miriam Gallagher Trafford Publishing, 2004

When Salamander Quinn decides to liberate all the lost souls at St. Job's infirmary, he embarks on a Kafkasque journey. His plans are further complicated by the arrival of a mystery woman, who sets in motion a chain of startling events. Faced with mounting odds, as his past comes back to haunt him. he struggles to prevail. With the Health Service in crisis and Dublin in the grip of Global warming, he risks all to attain his goal. Powerful forces determine his ultimate destiny.
Miriam Gallagher and Trafford

What has been said about her work;

She shows vivid imagination and is something of a surrealist.
Irish Times

Vigorous and lively work. New York Daily News

Displays inventiveness and style. Sunday Tribune

Impressive. Books Ireland

$12.50 | ISBN: 141201299-6 | 238 Pages | In Stock: 2

Timothy Gager

this is where you go when you are gone by Timothy Gager Červená Barva press, 2008

This chapbook represents Timothy's best poems from 2007, a year that he had 32 accepted submissions. These poems are rich with emotion, humor, double meanings, happiness and regret. "this is where you go when you are gone" ranges of experiences, responses to social events and a poetic e-mails written to someone who felt his poems were too sad. Timothy Gager tells stories through his poetry and this collection represents a new and more mature and seasoned writer.

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
Saturday, March 22, 2009
Review by Doug Holder

Tim Gager’s poems are poems of the regular guy, and in his own way Gager’s work is as American as apple pie. He is a man who is confused by and craves women, retains a childlike enthusiasm for Baseball into his middle age, downs the burger and brews, and pines for something that always seems just out of his reach. There is nothing rarefied about the poet’s work; his poetry speaks as plainly as a stick or bone.

In the poem “2 A.M.” Gager writes evocatively about the concessions of carnality:

“On me
you push down
the weight on each bent leg,
cures my evils…
no more bile
to hold down
no more skeletons
to settle for
when it’s dark…”

And Gager really hits his stride with “ stuck, with my old school ways.” I must admit in this age of the wireless I remain a Luddite , and view the pay phone, and the phone booth with a certain romantic reverence. Gager infuses this one pedestrian booth simmering in the Arizona heat with a plume of sad/sweet nostalgia and longing:

“got green in my pocket
not plastic—nor have I
ever brought a cell
to make his call like this
with poles and wires
endless from where I stand
to you

i’ve driven miles in dust
to find this pay phone
to whisper in your ear
i love you baby
and how are the kids

on the side of the road,
my loneliness
is this booth where
i hear you smile
and I picture
the way your hips thrust
forward, every time you laugh…
this surge of you
bursts, hits me
like the heat in Arizona
at ten
AM.”

This is another fine collection from Cervena Barva. And hats off to the front cover artist Andrea Libertini.

$7.00 | 43 Pages | In Stock: 25

Lo Galluccio

Hot Rain by Lo Galluccio Singing Bone Press/Ibbettson Street Press, 2003

"you think by 2004 that everthing that's do-able on the page has been done and then comes Lo Galluccio and creates a whole new word-game...- a totally original voice filled with psycho-social realities of contemporary America. It's act, react, get into the psych-underground and let it flow..."
--hugh fox, poet, critic, writer and founding member of COSMEP--Committee of Small Press Magazine Editors and Publishers

Lo Galluccio is an original and striking voice, based both on the quality of her work and her lyrically pleasing performance style. Her work is an interesting amalgam of the psychological, mythical and musical. Its content is entertaining and challenging at the same time, weaving in toughness and surrealism.

HOT RAIN is a musical and sustained piece of work. In her Acknowledgments, Lo writes "These poems are about love, loss, identity and just the language out of which they are made." This is accurate but also an understatement. For Lo Galluccio’s best work is earthy, vivid, painful and haunting. Her style is marked by interesting use of conventional poetic devices like internal rhyme, alliteration, the use of refrain, lending to a distinctive, lyrical style. Her voice is sometimes nonsensical, almost like Dame Edith Sitwell on acid! She makes playful use of rhyming preconscious language in wordplay poems like "The Sweat of His Labor"’s lines: "A mermaid is caught./A mermaid is not."
-Carolyn Gregory, Poet

$7.00 | 40 Pages | In Stock: 3

Harris Gardner

Among Us by Harris Gardner Červená Barva Press, 2007

It is said the angels walk among us, the invisible. Gardner drapes the invisible with language in the hopes that we can see ourselves.
–Afaa M. Weaver

Gardner's vision here mainly focuses on angels. He's right out of scripture, brings biblical (and elsewhere) visions of angels into our contemporary world so that everything surrounding us becomes supernaturalized and uplifted., And always in a language that reads the way Monet paints. "The breeze stretches pliant forms/ kinetic art, brush-stroked clouds…/ Senses soar toward the sun/ when rays sear through languid clouds/ revealing noble haloed heads…" ("Among Us"). He is Mr. Visionary, taking the Torah and all other angel-sources like Milton, Raphael, "Dictionary of Angels", etc., and filling our world with uplifting such as you've never been uplifted into before. It's a vision sorely needed today, and technically the most masterful word-working on the contemporary or any other scene.
–Hugh Fox

Excerpt from a review
Angels have held a fascination for many writers: Milton, Hass, Hopkins, Billy Collins, to name a few. But how does one manage to address the imperceptible, let alone the holy? Gardner’s answer is to bring angels down to earth, to imbue them with human characteristics and foibles...This collection’s central strength is its admonition to the reader to look beyond the mundane. “Seeing angels may challenge your vision. / No cost to believe in noble winged creatures.” In our bitter post-post-modern age, this is a welcome thought.
Eleanor Goodman/ Ibbetson Update/ Jan 2008
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

$7.00 | 45 Pages | In Stock: 20

Lest They Become... Poetry by Harris Gardner Ibbetson Street Press, 2003

…welcomes readers of all faiths into that quiet, reflective space that, like a comfortable pew and a rousing sermon, leaves us feeling a little bit challenged and a lot renewed.
Lisa Beatman, Author of The Ladies at the Blue Hill Spa

$6.00 | ISBN: 0-9724601-6-0 | 26 Pages | In Stock: 6

Gaynell Gavin

Intersections by Gaynell Gavin Main Street Rag: Gaynell Gavin's poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in numerous journals including Praire Schooner, Fourth Genre, Natural Bridge, Viet Nam War Generation Journal, The Comstock Review, and others. She was the winner of the 2001 Audre Lorde Creative Writing Award.
$7.00 | ISBN: 1-930907-96-6 | 41 Pages | In Stock: 5

Joan Gelfand

Seeking Center by Joan Gelfand Two Bridges Press, 2005

"Ms. Gelfand's exquisite, breath-taking poems tell us about our deepest selves, reaching these secret places where we all overlap and long for validation."
-Jane Swigart, author, The Myth of the Perfect Mother

$9.95 | ISBN 978-0-9723947-6-5 | 71 Pages | In Stock: 3 Signed copies

Steve Glines

Opuscula Small thoughts, hardly worthy of note by Steve Glines Červená Barva Press, 2009: Steve Glines, in addition to being the editor of Wilderness House Literary Review, is an essayist, journalist, storyteller, occasional poet and bon vivant. His motto is, "The best is barely good enough." Steve has published six books, only one of which might be considered even remotely "literary," a travelogue about Fiji. He has been published in Ibbetson Review, The Belmont Citizen, The Littleton Independent, Unix Review, Technology Review, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Hartford Current among others. He has never been published in The Paris Review, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, The Atlantic Monthly or The Kenyon Review. To these awesome credentials it should be added that he has never received a McArthur Award nor been nominated for a Pulitzer or Pushcart Prize. Still, for some reason, people like what he writes and, on occasion, even pay him for it.
$7.00 | 37 Pages | In Stock

Martin Golan

STREETS OF FLOWERS by Martin Golan Červená Barva Press, 2007: In "Streets of Flowers," a college student who yearns to be a writer finds inspiration in the flowery names of the streets where he walks and in the beauty of a woman in his writing class. Spurred on by the breathless reviews he imagines in his head, he presents a poem about the woman to the class, in a scene that will be familiar to anyone who has presented work they cared deeply about in a writers' workshop. His experience in the class, coupled with an evening alone with the woman, teaches him a great deal: though he does not yet fully understand it, he has found not only his path but also himself.
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WHEN ANNIE FELL OFF THE MOUNTAIN by Martin Golan Červená Barva Press, 2007: "When Annie Fell Off The Mountain" is a love story set in the world before Roe v. Wade, a world where a foolish moment of impetuosity leads to sneaking around back alleys and clandestine meetings in filthy motels. A man – now happily married and with children of his own – looks back on his and onetime girlfriend Annie's harrowing pursuit of an illegal abortion. He sees for the first time that it was harder for her in ways he would never understand. It comes to him that just being a man, or being the kind of man he was, shielded him from the worst of it, how – as when Annie slipped on a mountain at the story's start, and in the search to terminate her pregnancy, even now in his life – he has always been standing on safe, solid ground.
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The Life and Death of a Literary Legend by Martin Golan Červená Barva Press, 2007

In this hilarious life and death tale of a famous literary magazine, Martin Golan pulls no punches. Anyone who has traversed the often treacherous waters of publishing will appreciate this candid story, presented with humor and a twist of lemon.
--Susan Tepper

For anyone in the literary scene, whether you are an editor or writer, or a lover of words, you will find this story hysterically funny. Take a journey with Martin and the New York Literary Review and watch the fate one magazine can bring!
--Gloria Mindock, Editor, Červená Barva Press

"Being an editor of a literary magazine, I found this story of the life and death of a New York Lit mag. profoundly funny, and profoundly embarrassing. If you ever been in the world of literary magazines, poets and writers you will recognize the ruses, the players and yourself. At the end you will feel like your fly is down."
--Doug Holder/ Ibbetson Update

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Bob Goodnough

The Three Masks a masque by Bob Goodnough The Feral Press, 2006

$12.00 | 17 Pages | In Stock: 4

Michael Graves

Illegal Border Crosser by Michael Graves Červená Barva Press, 2008: Michael Graves was a student of James Wright. He is the author of a chapbook Outside St. Jude's (REM Press, 1990), which was re-issued as an ebook by Rattapallax, and is the recipient of a grant of $4,500 from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for two thousand four. His first full-length collection of poems is Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006). He has published thirteen (13) poems in the James Joyce Quarterly and read a selection of his poems to a meeting of the James Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City. Professor A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President of the James Joyce Society has adopted some of his poems as required reading for his survey course in Modern American Literature. His poem "Apollo to Daphne" appears in Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford University Press 2001). He has published widely in journals and magazines, some of which include The Classical Outlook, European Judaism, The Journal of Irish Literature, Cumberland Poetry Review, nycBigCityLit-New York Edition, Writer's Forum, Rattapallax, The Hurricane Review, The Hollins Critic, Archipelago, and Salonika.
$7.00 | 36 Pages | In Stock: 20

Eric Greinke

Wild Strawberries by Eric Greinke PRESA :S: PRESS, 2008

Eric Greinke's infinite variety has never staled nor withered. His poems have the surrealisticmagic of Magritte or the younf Dali. He is an eclectic poet for all seasons and all times of the day.
--Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

$15.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9800081-1-1 | 96 Pages | In Stock: 3

Selected Poems 1972-2005 by Eric Greinke PRESA :S: PRESS, 2005

Greinke has magically melted several worlds together. I'd call it Whitmanic rorschach: a wild high!
--William Harrold, Small Press Review

Greinke has put a lot of thought into context and structure. His poems are filled withsimple images which have a deeper meaning and keep the reader interested throughout.
--M.C. Eichman, in Wisconsin Review

$20.00 | ISBN 0-9740868-7-8 | 138 Pages | In Stock: 3

THE DRUNKEN BOAT & Other Poems From The French of Arthur Rimbaud Bi-Lingual Edition PRESA :S: PRESS, 2007 4th Edition: Greinke's renderings come across with such a remarkably contemporary feel, that he easily gets away with the occasional use of words like 'car' and 'suburbia'. This little collection boasts many fine poems. The Drunken Boat is wild and lovely and perhaps the poet's most vivid expression of his desire to find a life of total freedom.
--Edward J. Hogan in Aspect
$15.95 | ISBN 0-9772524-7-7 | 107 Pages | In Stock: 3

THE DRUNKEN BOAT & Other Poems From The French of Arthur Rimbaud American Version by Eric Greinke PRESA :S: PRESS, 2005: Greinke's renderings come across with such a remarkably contemporary feel, that he easily gets away with the occasional use of words like 'car' and 'suburbia'. This little collection boasts many fine poems. The Drunken Boat is wild and lovely and perhaps the poet's most vivid expression of his desire to find a life of total freedom.
--Edward J. Hogan in Aspect
$7.00 | 46 Pages | In Stock: 3

Up North by Harry Smith and Eric Greinke PRESA :S: PRESS, 2006

(From the back cover) The 30 short poems in Up North evoke "that Northern feeling" & the universal mystery of time & space. Going up North is like traveling to another time. The radical special differences between urban & rural places encourage one to appreciate the relationships between people & nature from a fresh perspective.

$6.00 | 40 Pages | In Stock: 3