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RECENT PEN MEMBER PUBLICATIONS (A-Z)
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PEN Members: To submit a recent publication for posting, please click here. |
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Ann Harleman: The Year She Disappeared
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(University of Texas Press, March 2008)
In her newest book, The Year She Disappeared, award-winning writer Ann Harleman explores the possibility—and the price—of late blooming. This outside-the-box adventure story breaks all the rules, mixing laughter and tears, lacing peril with romance, defying assumptions about age, race, and gender. |
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Allison Hedge Coke: Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry
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(To Topos International Journal, University of Oregon, December 2006)
Aboriginal North, Central and South American and surrounding island poets are welcome to submit work to be included in this unique tribal representation of poetry of the Western Hemisphere. Inviting submissions of Native Peoples from the Inuit Village of Resolute Bay, Canada, to Mapuche Pueblo in Chile and everywhere in between. |
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Ronald K. Fried: Christmas in Paris 2002
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(The Permanent Press, 2006)
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan: All That Lies Between Us
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(Guernica Editions, 2007)
From the author of Things My Mother Told Me, Where I Come From, and Italian Women in Black Dresses comes this new volume, All That Lies Between Us, that continues this memoir in poetry that Maria Mazziotti Gillan has been constructing. Here we find the geography of the heart's home--not a physical but an emotional center around which she constructs the story of her life. But at its center is the woman she has become who struggles to deal with all the complexities of love and the difficulties of achieving compassion and tenderness int he face of adversity. Diane di Prima says of this book: these poems are powerful in their honesty, their passion and their grief. They take us deep into the labyrinth of our humanity and--in the face of fear and death and loss--show us the paradox of love in the center of our being. |
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Rika Lesser: Siddhartha: An Indic Poem
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(Barnes & Noble Classics, November 2007)
Rika Lesser's new translation of one of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century deftly evokes the lyricism and quiet beauty of Herman Hesse's novel, Siddhartha: An Indic Poem which first appeared in German in 1922. Introduction and Notes by Robert A. F Thurman. |
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Michael Lowenthal: Charity Girl
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(Houghton Mifflin, January 2007)
Description: Charity Girl is a novel, set in 1918, based on a disturbing but little-remembered episode in American history, when the government, claiming special wartime powers to protect the military, arrested and incarcerated 15,000 women who had venereal disease. The women--American citizens--were held indefinitely, without formal charges, in federally funded detention centers. |
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Skye Moody: Washed up: the Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam
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(Sasquatch, September 2006)
Description: A nonfiction account of how both trash and treasure travel the world's ocean currents to wash up on distant shores. The Great Garbage Patches that exist in the world's oceans. The misadventures of cargo spills: sea-borne Nike shoes and rubber ducks experience more travel adventures than most humans. East African artisans craft fashion accessories from what washes up on their beaches. The flotsamist grapevine, from the Netherlands to Los Angeles. |
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Geoffrey Philp: Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories
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(Mabrak Books, June 2007)
Description: Jimmy Harrison loves school and his favorite subject is snack time! But when a new boy, Kevin, joins his class, he begins to bully Jimmy and the rest of the children. What’s worse, he begins to take away Jimmy’s snacks. Using the wisdom from his Grandpa Sydney’s story about “Anancy, Snake, and Tiger,” Jimmy overcomes the class bully. And for one Sunday, he reunites his family for dinner.
Set in the multicultural environment of South Florida, Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories draws on the rich oral tradition of Anancy stories that are told and re-told in Jamaica and the Caribbean. These Anancy stories, which originated in West Africa, are rich sources of wisdom that have been passed down from generation to generation
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Phyllis Raphael: Off The King's Road: Lost and Found in London
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(OtherPress, 2007)
Description: In Off The King's Road, Phyllis Raphael recalls how she landed in London in December of 1968 as the restless wife of a Hollywood movie producer, only to be left by her husband soon thereafter. Raphael writes of being an exile and an accident victim, an expatriate during the turbulent 1960s. She arrived in London naive, dependent and dissatisfied, but several years later, she left as another person entirely--a woman in command, for better or worse, of her own life. Written with elegance, humor, and sexual candor, Off The King's Road speaks to women of all ages of the possibilities of a life transformed by circumstance. |
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Albert Russo: Multiple Titles
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(Xlibris, 2007; Blurb, 2007)
Shalom Tower Syndrome (Xlibris 2007);
Sang Mêlé, novel (Ginkgo, Paris, 2007);
New York at heart, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
City of lovers - City of wonder, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
Quirks / Eclats, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
Israel at heart / au coeur, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
Granada, Ronda & Costa del Sol, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
Rainbow Nature, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
Italia Nostra, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
Body Glorious / Corps à Corps, photobook (Xlibris, 2007);
Viennese kaleidoscope, photobook (Blurb, 2007);
Norway to Spitzberg, photobook (Blurb, 2007) |
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Anthony Valerio: Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night
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(Bordighera Press, January 2007)
A memoir of North American writers working together in Sicily, centering around the author/media-political activist Toni Cade Bambara. |
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, & Beyond
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(W.W. Norton, May 2008)
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, & Beyond, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar, with a foreword by Carolyn Forché, celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the Diaspora. Some poets, such as Mahmoud Darwish and Bei Dao, are acclaimed worldwide, but many more will be new to the reader. The collection includes 400 unique voices from 55 countries writing in 40 different languages—political and apolitical, monastic and erotic—that represent a wider artistic movement that challenges thousand-year-old traditions, broadening our notion of contemporary literature. |
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