A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript stayed in a file until the Civil War began in Syria, March 18, 2011, the author's 70th birthday. The poems were retrieved, and the manuscript continued. Glancy wrote as an observer–as someone who had talked to the students in the universities–who had experienced a fo ...
The River Dream is a collection of original proverbs that looks to continue that classic form in its search for wisdom and spirituality. Each proverb has a corresponding photo that adds meaning and substance in the same way music adds to a lyric to create a song. Breaking through the confinements of religion, these songs express a unique spiritual outlook in a simple poetic form. Many themes such as love, faith, vision, and death are explored, w ...
Here is Americana at its best–the WWII years. America is doggedly hanging on, awaiting the return of her heroes, knowing there will be parades for some and processions for others. The author, an accomplished rhetoric instructor, lived these poignant years and is in early sync with the reader through interesting insights into each poem. He takes the reader on a heartfelt, personal tour of small-town America, using real people coupled with poetic ...
Akashic will be promote the book to the trades and to Caribbean media.The title will be catalogued as already available with an July 2018 pub date.Featuring brand-new writing by: Tracy Assing (Trinidad and Tobago), Heather Barker (Barbados), Angela Barry (Bermuda), Cecil Browne (St Vincent and the Grenadines), Tammi Browne-Bannister (Antigua and Barbuda), Sabah Carrim (Mauritius), Damon Chua (Singapore), Marita Davies (Kiribati), Fetuolemoana El ...
Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known “Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.Percival Everett’s novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid [A Novel] ruffled many Confedera ...
Atlanta Noir will be published simultaneously in paperback and eBook formats.Featuring brand-new stories by: Tananarive Due, Kenji Jasper, Tayari Jones, Dallas Hudgens, Jim Grimsley, Brandon Massey, Jennifer Harlow, Sheri Joseph, Alesia Parker, Gillian Royes, Anthony Grooms, John Holman, Daniel Black, and David James Poissant.The editor, Tayari Jones, is a successful novelist and one of the better-known writers coming out of Atlanta. She is also ...
Akashic will be promote the book to the trades and to Caribbean media.The title will be catalogued as already available with an October 2016 pub date.Featuring speculative short fiction by Tammi-Browne Bannister, Summer Edward, Portia Subran, Brandon O’Brien, Kevin Jared Hosein, Richard B. Lynch, Elizabeth J. Jones, Damion Wilson, Brian Franklin, Ararimeh Aiyejina and H.K. Williams. ...
This is Akashic's first fully Spanish-language publication. It will be published simultaneously with a English-language edition of San Juan Noir. Both editions should be sold in both the US and Puerto Rico. All the stories are originally written in Spanish, except for 3 in English. Brand-new stories by: Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, Ernesto Quinonez, Myra Santos-Febres, Jose Rabelo, Luis Negron, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Ana Maria Fuster Lavin, J ...
