Recommended Reading! I Am Not Most Places, by Richard Cumyn
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"With a deft hand, Cumyn creates survivors of the curse of the modern age -- displacement. Between the lines he presents an emotional x-ray of a society looking for permanence in an increasingly fluid and precarious world."
Second Wind, by David Graham
"Dynamic and insightful work from the online poetry editor of the Blue Moon Review."
Acid, by Edward Falco
Winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize for Short Fiction, and home for a Best American Short Story. Excerpted in BPQ#7.
Turning Life Into Fiction, by Robin Hemley
"One of the best books out there for learning, and teaching, writing, IMHO." -doug lawson.
The Darker Face of the Earth, by Rita Dove
"Consistently accomplished... Dove's is a brilliant mind that seeks for itself the widest possible play , an ever-expanding range of reference, the most acute distinctions, and the most subtle shadings of meaning... Hers is a major career." --Callalo
A Much-Married Man by Robert Sward
The new novel from one of the first acclaimed authors to make the leap into cyberspace.
Smoulder, Poems by Mark Cox
"A probing, occasionally slapstick, and always moving search for ideals in an imperfect world."
Possession, by Angela Ball
"Angela Ball is a poet wise enough to describe love as 'a double appetite for seeing.' Her poems are suffused by a wary disappointment in romantic excitement, but with the piqued attention that accompanies desire she makes the world, so far as this can be done, the object of her desire." -- William Matthews
The King Of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You, by George Garrett
"A master storyteller's controversial novel of crime and punishment, set at the shrillest peak of the turbulent 1960s."--BookStacks
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