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Love, War, Fire, Wind by Eliot Katz & William T. Ayton

Love, War, Fire, Wind: Looking Out from North America's Skull

A collection of poems & prose by Eliot Katz, art by William T. Ayton

Paperback: 184 pages—includes poems & prose by Eliot Katz & a full-color cover, 60 b/w ink drawings by Ayton.

Front cover painting:
North America's Skull
by William T. Ayton.

Price: $18.00 US.
ISBN: 978-0-578-00650-5


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The Wake-Up Blast by Hall Gardner

The Wake-Up Blast

A collection of poems
by Hall Gardner

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The Wake-Up Blast captures over 3 decades of poetic protest and dissent, recounted through the lens of personal encounters throughout the world.

Hall Gardner's engaged poetry captivates readers through rallying cries against fear and violence, interwoven with the ultimate hope of peace and global understanding.

The Wake-Up Blast, a brand new collection of Hall Gardner’s poetry is an engaged and committed outcry that comes to the reader from the different continents of this world. Indeed, the collection which is truly international in its spirit and its general lyrical mood speaks mainly to the peoples of Gardner’s homecountry “where white is ostracized for speaking to white/ where black is ostracized for speaking to white”, or rather he was. Now, with the present state of affairs an American, (Tom Sawyer ‘led astray from devouring Pacman’) will not be ashamed of his inability to speak and act as a free soul and a citizen of this world, but he had to fight against the dark forces in order to get there.

Gardner’s prophetic and imaginative book of poetry speaks of this quest for Holy American, of his plight to reassert his pioneer spirit in the 21st century as it speaks of many other things. Of basic justice and basic prejudice in the entire world, of an overwhelming presence of the human humaine, of the beggars “without legs pleading for change”, of death in China, of penalty for poets, of politicians and the “odds you came alive”.

The poet’s song or a jazz-riff transcends masterfully an era that we might simply call ‘cold war’, or an ecological threat if you like, for his words are set against any form of tyranny or oppression. In such capacity they stand proudly as the pillars which inherited the tradition of the previous “Blast” generation- a linguistic playfulness decorating the true meaning and awareness of things as such.
—Nina Zivancevic
Poet, teacher, translator, bilingual, former assistant to Allen Ginsberg,15 books of poetry in Serbian, English, French—the last one is Sous le Signe de Cyber Cybele, (Harmattan, Paris, 2009)—lives and works at la Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris

Hall Gardner's The Wake Up Blast is truly explosive; it ignites the paper it is written on with its poetic opposition to war, military build-up, terrorism and the garbled hype of religious doomsday prophets. It is an important work in its "counter-visionary" depictions of plutonium powered American sub-urbia down to the impoverished slums, favelas and shanty towns of the developed and developing worlds… Should be read by all for the experience of Gardner's  "culture shock and awe"…
— Taslima Nasrin

Front cover painting: Sub-Urban Landscape by Hall Gardner.

Paperback: 152 pages

ISBN-13: 978-0-6152-1956-1
price: $20.00

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Tumbalalaika by Diana Ayton-Shenker

Tumbalalaika

A collection of poems
by Diana Ayton-Shenker

Synopsis
Vivid imagery and evocative language depict themes of contemporary women's identity, Jewish experience, the intimacy of marriage and motherhood, the pursuit of personal and global freedom through law, language, and love.

Front cover painting: The Temple of Diana by William T. Ayton.

Paperback: 112 pages

ISBN-10: 0615178421
ISBN-13: 978-0615178424
price: $17.50

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COMING SOON:
Narcissus: A Literary ReviewNarcissus: A Literary Review

Volume I

Front cover painting: Narcissus by William T. Ayton.

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