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April 20, 2013

4 books by Hungarian poet Paul Sohar

New Releases from Červená Barva Press


Hyperlinks of Anxiety by Daniel Y. Harris (Poetry)

Sweet Snow A novel of the Ukrainian famine of 1933 by Alexander J. Motyl (Fiction)	The Bonsai Curator by Pamela L. Laskin (Poetry)

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New release: Hyperlinks of Anxiety by Daniel Y. Harris

Hyperlinks of Anxiety by Daniel Y. Harris Červená Barva Press, 2013

Daniel Y. Harris holds a Master of Arts in Divinity from The University of Chicago, where he specialized in the history and hermeneutics of religion and wrote his dissertation on The Zohar. He is the author of The New Arcana (with John Amen, New York Quarterly Books, 2012), Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad (with Adam Shechter, Červená Barva Press, 2010; picked by The Jewish Forward as one of the 5 most important Jewish poetry books of 2010) and Unio Mystica (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009). He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His poetry, experimental writing, art and essays have been published in The Denver Quarterly, European Judaism, Exquisite Corpse, The New York Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, among others.
His website is www.danielyharris.com.

Daniel Y. Harris’s new volume of poetry brings together a range of texts – older and newer – evocative of the qualms and uncertainties of our new millennium. A subtle and highly affective read.
—Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University

Is cyberspace the most recent iteration of the diaspora? Will the next Zohar be composed in computer code? Can notarikon generate lyric poems out of the discourses of pharmacology, neurology, biophysics…? Welcome to the Hotel Url, Daniel Y. Harris, sole owner and proprietor, where these questions—and others that the reader has yet to dream—will be answered. No need to be anxious: in less than a nanosecond, the hyperlinks elaborated in Harris’s poems will whisk you from catastrophe creation to apocalypse and beyond. Beam me up, Ezekiel!
—Norman Finkelstein, Professor of English, Xavier University and author of On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry

Daniel Y. Harris combines impressive erudition with a profound awe for continuity—that the eternal energies underlying Life itself constantly (re)iterate and (re)incarnate in myriad waxing and waning forms. Ideas birth Art; Art births Ideas. In such fashion, to employ classic terms, the heart and mind forge a dynamic union resulting in both clarity of perception and depth of feeling. These are poems to be read and reread, concepts and descriptive phrases operating like portals into other worlds. In Hyperlinks of Anxiety, Harris functions as a twenty-first century, digital alchemist, adeptly yoking the abstract and concrete, offering us singular and transformative experiences, all the while reminding us that Poetry is trans-authorial, Mystery our only true teacher.
—John Amen, author of At the Threshold of Alchemy; editor of The Pedestal Magazine

$17.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9883713-4-7 | 156 Pages | In Stock

May 3, 2013: Sweet Snow A novel of the Ukrainian famine of 1933 by Alexander J. Motyl

Sweet Snow A novel of the Ukrainian famine of 1933 by Alexander J. Motyl Červená Barva Press, 2013

Cover Photograph: Mark Hewko

Alexander Motyl is a writer, painter, and professor. He is the author of four novels, Whiskey Priest, Who Killed Andrei Warhol, The Jew Who Was Ukrainian, and Sweet Snow, and two novellas, Flippancy and My Orchidia; his poems have appeared in Mayday, Counterexample Poetics, Istanbul Literary Review, Orion Headless, The Battered Suitcase, Red River Review, Green Door, and New York Quarterly. He has done performances of his fiction and poetry at the Cornelia Street Café and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York. Motyl’s artwork is represented on the Internet gallery, www.artsicle.com, and has been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Westport, and Toronto. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark and lives in New York.

Sweet Snow is set in the winter of 1933 in Ukraine. A terrible famine is raging in the countryside, while the Soviet secret police is arresting suspected spies in the cities. A German nobleman from Berlin, a Jewish communist from New York, a Polish diplomat from Lwów, and a Ukrainian nationalist from Vienna come to share a cell in some unknown prison. One day, as they are being transported to another prison, their van overturns, their guards are killed, and they are freed — to wander amidst the devastated villages, desolate landscapes, snowbound villages, and frozen corpses. As they struggle to survive, they come to grips with the horror of the famine as well as with their own delusions, weaknesses, and mortality.

$18.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9883713-7-8 | 154 Pages | In Stock

April 20, 2013: 4 books by Hungarian poet Paul Sohar

Dancing Embers by Sandor Kanyadi Translated by Paul Sohar Twisted Spoon Press, 2002

Sándor Kányádi was born in 1929 in the small Transylvanian village of Galambfalva to a family of farmers. Since 1950 he has lived in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) Romania. A graduate in Hungarian philology from Bólyai University, he has served as editor on a number of Hungarian-language journals and magazines. Since his first book of poetry appeared in 1955 he has published over a dozen volumes. His translation work includes both Saxon folk songs and Yiddish folk poetry from Transylvania — in bilingual volumes — as well as contemporary Romanian poets and the major German and French poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. His is the recipient of the Poetry Prize of the Romanian Writers’ Union and the Kossuth Prize in Hungary, the preeminent literary awards of their respective countries, the Austrian Herder Prize, and the Central European Time Millenium Prize (2000). Kányádi now divides his time between Budapest and his cottage in the Transylvanian countryside.

Paul Sohar was born in Hungary and came to the United States after the revolution in 1956, earning a B.A. from the University of Illinois. A poet in his own right, his translations of Hungarian poets have appeared in a wide variety of journals and anthologies, including the bilingual volume Maradok-I Remain (Pro-Print, 1997).

$13.00 | ISBN: 978-8086264-04-2 | 180 Pages | 4 copies in Stock

Homing Poems by Paul Sohar Iniquity Press, 2005

In my poetry volume "Homing Poems" some of my poems appear in Hungarian translation too, because the book was printed in Transylvania.

Paul Sohar took BA in philosophy and a day job in a lab while publishing seven volumes of translations. Now two volumes of his own poetry are available: "Homing Poems" from Iniquity Press (2005) and "The Wayward Orchard," a prize winner from Wordrunner Press (2011). His prose work "True Tales of a Fictitious Spy" was published by SynergeBooks in 2006. He has translated two Hungarian bestsellers; "Far from Nothing" was published in Toronto (2006) and "The Club at Eddy's Bar" is scheduled for June release by Pheaton Press (Dublin, Ireland). His play "The Renewal" is now in print from One Act Depot (Canada); magazine credits include Agni, Gargoyle, Kenyon Review, Rattle, Bewildering Stories, and anthologies such as Budapest Tales and Bucharest Tales, etc.

$13.00 | ISBN: 9781877968358 | 147 Pages | 4 copies in Stock

Maradok-I Remain by Paul Sohar Csikszereda: Pro-Print Konyvkiado, 1997: Paul Sohar took BA in philosophy and a day job in a lab while publishing seven volumes of translations. Now two volumes of his own poetry are available: "Homing Poems" from Iniquity Press (2006) and "The Wayward Orchard," a prize winner from Wordrunner Press (2011). His prose work "True Tales of a Fictitious Spy" was published by SynergeBooks in 2006. He has translated two Hungarian bestsellers; "Far from Nothing" was published in Toronto (2006) and "The Club at Eddy's Bar" is scheduled for June release by Pheaton Press (Dublin, Ireland). His play "The Renewal" is now in print from One Act Depot (Canada); magazine credits include Agni, Gargoyle, Kenyon Review, Rattle, Bewildering Stories, and anthologies such as Budapest Tales and Bucharest Tales, etc.
$9.00 | ISBN: 9789739311090 | 431 Pages | 5 copies in Stock

True Tales of a Fictitious Spy by Ferenc Aladár Györgyey with Paul Sohar SynergEbooks, 2006

A former political prisoner takes a satirical look at the Stalinist prison-camp system in Hungary through a series of misadventures which he recounts with uniquely Central European irony, giving his creative nonfiction a surrealist dimension – Kafka meets Solyzhenitsyn as the anti-hero Ferenc Aladár Györgyey presents his version of Ivan Denisovich in this Hungarian gulag grotesquerie.

Paul Sohar took BA in philosophy and a day job in a lab while publishing seven volumes of translations. Now two volumes of his own poetry are available: "Homing Poems" from Iniquity Press (2006) and "The Wayward Orchard," a prize winner from Wordrunner Press (2011). His prose work "True Tales of a Fictitious Spy" was published by SynergeBooks in 2006. He has translated two Hungarian bestsellers; "Far from Nothing" was published in Toronto (2006) and "The Club at Eddy's Bar" is scheduled for June release by Pheaton Press (Dublin, Ireland). His play "The Renewal" is now in print from One Act Depot (Canada); magazine credits include Agni, Gargoyle, Kenyon Review, Rattle, Bewildering Stories, and anthologies such as Budapest Tales and Bucharest Tales, etc.

$15.00 | ISBN: 978-0744310740 | 294 Pages | 3 copies in Stock

May 12, 2013:
The Bonsai Curator by Pamela L. Laskin

The Bonsai Curator by Pamela L. Laskin Červená Barva Press, 2013

Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Poetry collections include: Remembering Fireflies and Secrets of Sheets (Plain View Press), Van Gogh’s Ear (Červená Barva Press), Daring Daughters/Defiant Dreams (A Gathering of Tribes), and The Plagiarist (Dos Madres Press). Several children’s books have been published.

In The Bonsai Curator, through metaphor, myth, and fairy tale, Pam Laskin chronicles a life, from the figurative museum, into the woods, then out of that museum, into the world. But my favorite moments live in her language and imagery, like: “The pines, bamboo, and plum trees... from the same father, / a recluse / who made his children lovely, / but lonely.” / and “I am good at stunting growth; / I’ve kept myself / five forever.” As always, Laskin doesn’t blink, and she doesn’t flinch, either.
—Estha Weiner

In this subtly complex collection of poems, Pam Laskin takes the image of bonsai—stunted and scarred into beauty through deliberate human artifice—and makes it a metaphor of being mothered, smothered and “wretchedly loved.” Then with great deftness, she uproots the image and offers us a fresh and expansive vision of a tree, one that summons us to the sprawling beauty of parenting—and of poetry—that is nurtured in respect and love.
—David Groff, Author of CLAY

Bonsai Beauty

I have been birthed/unearthed
from air,

a mutation
my odd, atrophied limbs
are startling.

Like a fixture I stand
paralyzed
by motherless memories.

Yes, there is a tree here
but at fifty
I still can't grow.

$17.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9883713-5-4 | 72 Pages | 7 in Stock

March 7, 2013:
Microtones by Robert Vaughan

Microtones by Robert Vaughan Červená Barva Press, 2013

Robert Vaughan leads writing roundtables at Redbird- Redoak Writing. His writing has appeared in hundreds of journals. His short prose, “10,000 Dollar Pyramid” was a finalist in the Micro-Fiction Awards 2012. Also, “Ten Notes to the Guy Studying Jujitsu” was a finalist for the Gertrude Stein Award 2013. He is senior flash fiction editor at JMWW, and Lost in Thought magazines. His book, Flash Fiction Fridays, is at Amazon. His blog is: http://www.rgv7735.wordpress.com.

"Hip, rousing, and utterly winning, Microtones reveals Robert Vaughan as a sly master of concision, a nimble ringmaster of short-takes and X-ray-savvy mini-portraits. Buoyant, brimming with clear-eyed humor ("I have a bachelor of arts in folding laundry") and a larkish cinema verité candor, leavened with small gusts of compassion and social acumen, this is a chapbook Frank O'Hara would have loved."
—Cyrus Cassells, author of The Crossed-Out Swastika

"Robert Vaughan sucks us into his luminous vortex with guts, humor and grit. Microtones is as much about transcendence as falling. Vaughan blasts through the subterfuge of the unsaid and lets us "face gravity head-on." This is a fearless, unparalleled collection reminiscent of Lydia Davis that takes us on a "free fall" of a ride we want to jump back on over and over again. Read it!"
—Meg Tuite, author of Domestic Apparition

Legacy

An observer would have
thought her unsuited
for that frame.

I wondered why my
parents kept the photo on
the piano. She'd died over

ten years ago. Died on her
own, by her own stupidity.
A visitor would have

thought her adorable,
precocious, serene.
Unable to see the contagious

recklessness. Unable to see
the damage she inflicted.
How my family came undone.

I slip her photo into
the desk drawer. Underneath
a stack of report cards.

$7.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9883713-9-2 | 36 Pages | In Stock

March 7, 2013:
amores gitano (gypsy loves) by Roberto Carlos Garcia

amores gitano (gypsy loves) by Roberto Carlos Garcia Červená Barva Press, 2013

Roberto Carlos Garcia's work has appeared in Connotation Press- An Online Artifact, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poets & Artists Magazine, Metazen, Atticus Review, and others. His fiction is included in the anthology "The Lost Children," a book of 30 short stories to benefit children's charities PROTECT and Children 1st U.K.

"Amores Gitano (gypsy loves)" is his first chapbook.

A native New Yorker, he now lives and works in New Jersey where he is pursuing an MFA in Poetry and Poetry Translation at Drew University's Low Residency MFA Program.

You can follow Roberto Carlos Garcia on Twitter at @thespokenmind. His website is www.robertocarlosgarcia.tumblr.com

"In his chapbook, amores gitano, Roberto Carlos Garcia breathes adult passion into the craft of desire, these poems strip themselves, naked. They flirt and they want and each section a near erotic frame of determined risk ready to widen the realm of the reader's senses. Here is a poet who can dress and undress the lyric with his mind, hands and tongue."
—Thomas Sayers Ellis, Author of Skin Inc. Identity Repair Poems and The Maverick Room

"Roberto Carlos Garcia gives us twenty stunning gypsy loves in amores gitano that together construct a language so wrought with desire it swaggers. This is a luminous book that marks the emergence of a new and important voice that is sure to stir up all kinds of bad."
—Sean Nevin, Author of Oblivio Gate

18.

There's a cruelty
about her
that's always hungry.

When she finally takes,
finally tastes flesh
& is full,
what's left of me
is loved again,
her cruelty abates.

In many ways
I'm a keeper
in a zoo.

Once the lions are fed
I can enter the cage
but still,
I'm leaving my life
to chance.

$7.00 | 30 Pages | In Stock

March 19, 2013: Constellations A Journal of Poetry and Fiction

Constellations A Journal of Poetry and Fiction Volume 2: Upheaval by Nina Rubinstein Alonso CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Fall, 2012: Constellations is a print literary journal based in the Cambridge/Boston area, featuring poetry and short fiction. We seek writing that is fresh and resonant, and look forward to publishing work from our local literary community as well as elsewhere. Volume 2 has a theme of UPHEAVAL and contains work by Kelli Allen, Nina Rubinstein Alonso, Diana Anhalt, Barbara Baldwin, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Anne Butler, Janet Butler, Jack Carenza, Ha Kiet Chau, Mark J. Easton, Jacob Edwards, Eva Eliav, Joanne Faries, Richard Fein, Virginia Bach Folger, Kristen Forbes, John Grey, Lara Rubinstein Hathaway, Zachary Henderson, Krikor N. Der Hohannesian, Heather Hughes, Maureen Kingston, Ben Leib, Kathleen Brewin Lewis, David Manning, Colleen Michaels, Jack Miller, Nancy Carol Moody, Ted Morrissey, Lance Nizami, Sergio Ortiz, Roland Pease, Clark Powell, Tree Riesener, James P. Roberts, Zvi A. Sesling, Narendra Sharma, Matthew Sissom, Wendell Smith, Zach Wagner, Joanna M. Weston, and Catherine Zickgraf.
$10.00 | ISBN: 978-1481182508 | 170 Pages | 3 copies in Stock

March 19, 2013: Three collections of Central European Contemporary writing by New Europe Writers

Warsaw Tales A collection of Central European Contemporary writing by New Europe Writers New Europe Writers, 2005

Editors: James G. Coon, Andrew Fincham, John a'Beckett

In 2005, New Europe Writers began a ten year project to capture the spirit of a united europe.

Centered on a city, each volume presents essential contemporary writing from new and established authors that captures the vitality and variety of this dynamic place and time.

Warsaw Tales is the third of these anthologies, providing a panoramic insight into the Phoenix on the Vistula and beyond:
Don't visit us without it!

Your guide to life behind the Curtain...

$7.00 | ISBN: 978-83-925539-1-5 | 128 Pages | 4 copies in Stock

Bucharest Tales A collection of Central European Contemporary writing by New Europe Writers New Europe Writers, 2011

Editors: James G. Coon, Andrew Fincham, John a'Beckett

In 2005, New Europe Writers began a ten year project to capture the spirit of a united europe.

Centered on a city, each volume presents essential contemporary writing from new and established authors that captures the vitality and variety of this dynamic place and time.

Bucharest Tales is the fourth of these anthologies, providing a panoramic insight into the Carpathian Garden and beyond:
Don't visit us without it!

Your guide to life behind the Curtain...

$7.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9568598-0-8 | 152 Pages | 6 copies in Stock

Ljubljana Tales A collection of Central European Contemporary writing by New Europe Writers New Europe Writers, 2012

Editors: James G. Coon, Andrew Fincham, John a'Beckett
Chief translators: Ana Jelnikar, Barbara Siegal Carlson.

Ljubljana Tales is the fifth anthology cultivated from the fruitful vines of New Europe. As with earlier volumes in the series, we have selected and encouraged contemporary writers to provide an insight into the lands of Slovenia, centered on Ljubljana. Local and international authors, in short stories and verse, combine to give this selection a shared sense of place, whilst at the same time offering a delicate variety of flavours - many of them with hints of the satiric, even the surreal. In this endeavour, we are grateful to Vanja Strle, and to Ana Jelnikar and her team for translating much of the work that appears in this book for the first time in English. Through the pages of this slim volume, we hope that the serious traveling reader will experience some of the subtleties that abound in Ljubljana, the Beloved City of Bridges, Dragons, and Cafés.

At this crossroads of New Europe, the imagination can aspire to fulfill its true function; we should perhaps expect no less from a city that has inspired past visitors to mistake it for somewhere else: Joyce for Trieste, Jason for Vienna, and George W. Bush for Bratislava. We suspect that there may be something quirky in the air.

Contributors
Alja Adam, Marina Bahovec, Ludwig Bauer David Bedrac, Andrej Blatnik, James G. Coon Milan Dekleva, Miriam Drev, Andrew Fincham, Evald Flisar, Ivo Frbežar, Niko Grafanauer, Brian Henry, David Hill Alojz Ihan Jure Jakob, Milan Klec, Miroslav Košuta, Asko Künnap, Wojciech Maslarz, Barbara Marcic, Dragica Marinic, Marinka M. Miklic, Brane Mozetic, Raman Mundair, Ales Mustar Boris A. Novak, Iztok Osojnik, Josip Osti, Ana Pepelnik, Miha Pintaric, Tatjana Jamnik, Gregor Podlogar, Andraž Polic, Lili Potpara, Sebastijan Pregelj, Aleksandar Prokopiev, Yana Punkina, Angus Reid, Delimir Rešicki, Miomira Šegina, Peter Semolic, Miroslav Slana, Morelle Smith, Ronny Someck, Ales Šteger, Marjan Strojan, Lucija Stupica, Suzana Tratnik, Sigurbjorg Thrastardottir, Maja Vidmar, Robert Vrbnjak, Duska Vrhovac, Jadran Zalokar, Andrew Zawacki

"New Europe Writers are embarked upon a ten year project to publish writing that illuminates the "spirit of place" in the New Europe. Our publications so far include Warsaw Tales, Prague Tales, and Budapest Tales. Bucharest Tales published in late February this year, 2011. Now Ljubljana Tales.

The editors, Andrew Fincham , James Coon and John a'Beckett, Englishman, American, and Australian, have harnessed their various experience in editing skills and approaches of those backgrounds with a common principle to encourage suitable quality writing in all its forms, including good translation and also working with and advised by editors in the regions of our Tales.

In 2005 New Europe Writers began a ten year project to capture the spirit of a united Europe. Centred on a city, each volume presents essential contemporary writing from new and established authors that captures the vitality and variety of this dynamic time and place. Part observation, part inspiration We're embarked upon a ten year project to publish writing that illuminates the "spirit of place" in the New Europe. Our publications so far include Warsaw Tales, Prague Tales, and Budapest Tales. Bucharest Tales published in late February this year, 2011. Now Ljubljana Tales.

Lots of information on out website: www.new-ink.org

$7.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9568598-1-5 | 144 Pages | 9 Copies in stock

January 25, 2012:
Except for That Poems by Rachel Goldstein

Except for That Poems by Rachel Goldstein Červená Barva Press, 2013

Cover Artist: Rachel Goldstein

Rachel Goldstein is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She was born in Germany in 1946 in a displaced person’s hospital. At the age of two, she moved to La Paz, Bolivia with her parents. Five years later, her family emigrated to Montreal, Canada, where she completed her education with a degree in English Literature from McGill University. Her poems have been widely published. In 2005, she won Second Prize in the Robert Penn Warren Award.

"The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Rachel Goldstein writes with a searing authenticity haunting in its evocative power. Her spare, elegant poems provide intimate and poignant insights into a harrowing time and lives lived bravely afterward."
—Barbara Wallace Grossman, Professor of Drama, Tufts University; Presidential Appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2000-2005)

"In this biographical collection, the author chronicles her parents' experiences before, during and after World War II. She helps the reader understand, "you were not there [when] eyes tilted toward the impossible." Each and every one of them was a "skin-thin weight [with] miles of wind in their bones." Their story will not die as long as "the willows still stand faithful in leafy gowns" and daughter-poet "sing what will not be redeemed.""
—Michal Mahgerefteh, Publisher Poetica Magazine

Reviews

Feb. 2, 2013 Doug Holder Blogspot Review:
Review of Except For That by Rachel Goldstein

$8.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9883713-1-6 | 33 Pages | In Stock

November 19, 2012: Posture a fiction chapbook by Ateet Tuli

Posture by Ateet Tuli Červená Barva Press, 2012

Winner of the 2011 Červená Barva Press Fiction Contest
Judge: Catherine Sasanov

Ateet Tuli lives and works in New York City.
Cover art by Ateet Tuli.

Fortune Teller

Perfume bomb whose silk surface protects a silver subcutaneous and is surrounded by parchment, you draw me close with evocations of mother preparing Dal for the week. The remembered architecture of you below cinnamon, against cardamom, below lime draws me so close I overlook your anger, which makes me cry.

You are capable of destruction, of warping a weft of garlic and chilies. I could cool you, put you in the fridge till you cannot overwhelm me. I could heat you, sweat you till natural sugar caramelizes and you can tell me nothing. I could hurt you also, dear onion. A mutual respect actualized as we grasp each other.

Pulled from a womb of dirt, you also have roots in ancient Asia. In eating you, I eat my relatives; their ashes fed your ancestry where they were spread. The dance of eating and burning you within my own burning body fertilizes the future, when in turn I will feed your children.

I dissect you, your rings akin to those of a tree, until I reach and consume your center. Its delicate youth lingers on my breath and is a flashlight for my tongue.

$7.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9883713-3-0 | 22 Pages | In Stock

November 7, 2012: Červená Barva Press proudly announces the publication of our 100th book!

Two Colors of the Soul: The Selected Poetry of Dmytro Pavlychko Edited and with an introduction by Michael M. Naydan Červená Barva Press, 2012

Cover Art: “Two” by Olha Fedoruk

Translated from the Ukrainian by Svitlana Bednazh, Gladys Evans, Michael M. Naydan, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Mary Skrypnyk, Aliona Sydorenko, Martha B. Trofimenko, and Walter May.

Dmytro Pavlychko has been an editor, translator, literary critic, film scriptwriter, ambassador, and pro-democracy political figure. He was born in 1929 in a rural village close to the Carpathian Mountains. In 1944-5 he was imprisoned at the age of 15 by the Soviets on fabricated charges for alleged activities on behalf of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He has published twenty collections of poetry, as well as several books of poetry translations and literary criticism. Many of his poems have been set to music and turned into songs, with ones such as “Two Colors” becoming national classics known by Ukrainians virtually everywhere. In 1977 Pavlychko received the Shevchenko Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Ukraine. Pavlychko served as ambassador to Slovakia from 1995-1998 and later to Poland from 1999-2002. He was elected a member of the Ukrainian parliament in 2005. He has received the designation of Hero of Ukraine from the Ukrainian government as well as honorary doctorates from Lviv National University and Warsaw University.

He continues to reside in the capital city of Kyiv and remains active in public life. Two Colors of the Soul: The Selected Poetry of Dmytro Pavlychko is his first book of poetry translated and published into English. From the Introduction: DMYTRO PAVLYCHKO: POET AND STATESMAN by Michael M. Naydan

In the tradition of poet-statesmen Neruda and Seferis, Pavlychko writes about his twin passions, love and history. Courageous, direct, and plain-spoken, he has long deserved a place on the international literary stage and Michael Naydan’s skillfully edited selections should confirm it.
—Askold Melnyczuk, award-winning novelist, author and editor

$17.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9883713-0-9 | 90 Pages | In Stock

Gloria Mindock's new book from U Šoku Štampa Press

Nothing Divine Here by Gloria Mindock U ŠOKU ŠTAMPA PRESS, 2010

Gloria Mindock is the author of the forthcoming book, La Porile Raiului (Ars Longa Press, 2010, Romania) and Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson Street Press, 2007). She is editor of Cervena Barva Press and the Istanbul Literature Review, an online journal based in Istanbul, Turkey. She has had numerous publications including Poet Lore, River Styx, Phoebe, Blackbox, Poesia, Bogg, Ibbetson, WHLR, UNU: Revista de Cultura, Citadela, Aurora, and Arabesques. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, St. Botolph Award, and was awarded a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council distributed by the Somerville Arts Council.

From the Preface

Passionate and rebellious, Gloria Mindock’s poetry jumps forcefully from the page, grabs the reader by the collar of his coat and holds and hangs on to his/her attention.

In unison with the poet’s heart, the nature of things is in big turmoil here, forever searching for the elusive Divine Harmony, the only force capable of rearranging the world into one of love and understanding.

In a perpetual state of sadness and grief, these poems descend to the very core of the raw discourse of the soul, devoid of artifice and pose. The stark simplicity of their statement disarms us and leaves us vulnerable in front of the bitter reality of life.
—Flavia Cosma, author of seventeen books of poetry, a novel, a travel memoir, and four books for children

The stunning thing about Mindock’s work is its overwhelming sense of the real world in real time. It’s “poetic” in its own way, well-crafted, agile, nicely balanced, but in terms of content, you move into Mindock’s world and you’re suddenly in a basic, essential reality that hardly anyone in the poetry world touches: “I see your skull veiled by a cloud/Eyelids sunk/Hands pressed on knees/Heart gone/A sight of secrets//I think living is brave/Death is a release/The dog knows -- heaven is nothing but a frill.” (“Dog Dance,” p.41). An interesting mixture of existential toughness crowned by an ultimate sense of final nothingness.

It’s interesting how Mindock’s world-view combines a dispairing sense of expanding out into the horrific Now with a vision of everything eventually dissolving into nothingness: “Living on this earth is/one big nightmare.,/This landscape frightens me./Too much death./Think about it.//I refuse to fall short of detail so/ here it is: Death of emotion/Death of love/Death of skin...//I’m going away to where I really belong./To me, this is uplifting.” (“Aftermath,” p.63).

Very few style-games here. This is poetry as a minimalist Declaration of Finality. And the very fact that Mindock doesn’t play style-games makes her vision a thousand times more effective/powerful than the word-game players who turn poetry into a kind of syntactical basketball.
—Hugh Fox

In Nothing Divine Here, Mindock invokes a resurrection, the power of love to spring eternal from the hurt we all know. She looks at the personal and the political, that haunting polarity, and weaves a gentle but brave hopefulness between them.
—Afaa Michael Weaver, Simmons College

Gloria Mindock is a fearless poet. She gets right in the face, in the very nostril of death. She confronts her past lovers, her dreams, dashed or otherwise, not with cool detachment, but with a visceral lyrical and emotional engagement. She has made her pain into high art, into the high holy. Mindock, is a force to be reckoned with, so watch your back!
—Doug Holder, Arts Editor The Somerville News, Founder Ibbetson Street Press

Review by Michael Parker at Unlikely Stories: http://www.unlikelystories.org/blog/

$15.00 | ISBN: 978-0-578-04760-7 | 87 Pages | In Stock