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"James Connolly is a poet of courage and craft. He tells secrets. He tells the truth. He is the most honest man in the village. With clarity and integrity, he speaks of alcoholism, madness, suicide,...

The British call him Punch, the Italians, Pulchinello, the Russians, Petruchka, the Native Americans, Coyote. These are the figures we may know. But every culture that worships authority will breed a...

Author: Fred RosenblumPublisher: FomitePublication Date: November 05, 2019Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1947917293ISBN-13: 9781947917293

In a small town in Indiana, on the cusp of the new millennium, local reporter Alice Becotte wants what should be simple: a baby to fill her heart and complete her family. But Alice's husband Rolly, a...

Rafi's World is a hard-hitting novel that takes an unflinching look at the brutal realities of the Other Israel and its emerging criminal class. Set in the late 1980s as the country undergoes its...

Marlowe has recently moved back home to Vermont after flunking his first term at a private college in the Midwest, when his sort of girlfriend, Eleanor, goes missing. The circumstances surrounding...

Roadman, filled with landscape, history, legend little narrated outside of the confines of historical or anthropological texts, portrays the spread of the Native American Peyote Cult well as...

Charles Rafferty works in miniatures. These short short stories explore the small disasters of desire. They investigate the problems that ensue when, inevitably, his characters get what they wish for...

These plays were written with the feeling of jazz, which has been my life long profession and love. Not that the music in them is jazz, but the with a feeling of spontaneity, which is the way they...

The stories and poetry in Semitones are concerned with families, the natural world, and the spiritual. Haunted by music and the voices of the dead, this collection asks what key we are seeking as we...

Shadowboxing with Bukowski is the tragicomic, cautionary tale of Nicholas Kastinovich, a young bookseller who struggles to keep his bookstore afloat in the harbor town of San Pedro, CA, where the...

She Sits She Rides She FliesAuthor: Elka SchumannPublisher: FomitePublication Date: Dec 06, 2021Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1953236588ISBN-13: 9781953236586

1975. America has lost its war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Racially-tinged riots are tearing the city of Boston apart. The politics and counterculture of the 1960s is disintegrating into nothing more...

Guilt and a desperate need to repent drive the antiheroes in Tom Walker's dark (and often darkly funny) stories: -A gullible journalist falls for the 40-year-old stripper he profiles in a magazine.-A...

Fierce, haunted, urgent, these are poems that could only have been written in the 21st Century, Catastrophe is already around us and more may lie ahead, but here are offerings of stars, coffee,...

Sinfonia Bulgarica is a novel about four women in contemporary Bulgaria: a rich cold-blooded heiress, a masseuse dreaming of peace and quiet that never come, a powerful wife of the most influential...

Jan English Leary's writing deftly offers insight into the disappointments and beauty of human love. In her new collection of sixteen stories, Skating on the Vertical, Leary writes about individuals...

This is a book of political poems. It deals with distortions of consciousness and feeling in response to our past hundred years and more of war, horror, our history and nightmares, confusion and...

Author: Vito M. BonitoPublisher: FomitePublication Date: Oct 22, 2021Number of Pages: 142 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1953236006ISBN-13: 9781953236005

Indian Springs, Nevada (pop 991), at the edge of the Mojave, is "downtown" to three institutions: - Creech Air Force Base, home to drone operators in their air-conditioned trailers, - High Desert...

Author: Paul CodyPublisher: FomitePublication Date: Oct 19, 2020Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1947917919ISBN-13: 9781947917910

Still Time is a collection of twenty-five short and shorter stories exploring tensions that arise in a variety of contemporary relationships: a young boy must deal with the wrath of his out-of-work...

Stillpoint tells the story of a single day in the life of an older woman living alone with her books and memories in a small New Mexico town. A widow, Elle fills her days with work-translating the...

STONES (A deconstruction of Zion) was written by David Schein in 1989 and performed by him in 1990 at the Home for Contemporary Theater and Art in NYC. That was during the First Palestinian Intifada,...

Sugaring DownAuthor: Dan ChodorkoffPublisher: FomitePublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 418 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1947917811ISBN-13: 9781947917811

Suite for Three Voices is a dance of prose genres, teeming with intense human life in all its humor and sorrow. A son uncovers the horrors of his father's wartime experience, a hitchhiker in a muumuu...

The summer before the Berlin Wall collapses, a young American art histo- rian whose husband has disappeared returns to the divided city seeking truths she believes he might have kept from her. There,...

Sunken BoulevardsAuthor: Giorgio MobiliPublisher: FomitePublication Date: 22-Sep-21Number of Pages: 122 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1953236294ISBN-13: 9781953236296

At nine years old, on her first visit to a museum, Emily fell in love with Breakfast, a painting by Henri Matisse. Now a single mother, she lives in the world of art and can barely find time for her...

Mama leaves, Daddy stays, the baby is crying. And then baby Jazz goes quiet, quiet for good. She refuses to talk. Dad is always in a state of panic but he tries to bring up the baby properly, even...