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A Disordered City by Jack Foley
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Date added: 03/30/2010 |
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Ahadada
Books is pleased to present A Disordered City
by Jack Foley. A Disordered City is the
thirtieth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Jack Foley is a poet and
critic living in the San Francisco Bay area. His poetry books include Letters/Lights—Words
for Adelle; Gershwin; Exiles; Adrift (nominated for a Northern
California Book Reviewers Award); Greatest Hits 1974-2003; and Ash
on an Old Man's Sleeve. His books of criticism include the
companion volumes, O Powerful Western Star (winner of the
Artists Embassy Literary/Cultural Award 1998-2000) and Foley’s
Books: California Rebels, Beats, and Radicals as well as The
Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions. Foley’s radio show, Cover
to Cover, is heard every Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. west coast time on
Berkeley station KPFA and is available at the KPFA web site; his
column, “Foley’s Books,” appears in the
online magazine, The Alsop Review. He is well known for his
poetry performances with his wife Adelle, also a poet. His poetry has
been nominated for a Pushcart Award. In June, 2010, he will receive the
Lifetime Achievement Award from The Berkeley Poetry Festival. |
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A Labyrinth of Visions by Bruce Stater
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Date added: 09/30/2007 |
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present A Labyrinth of Visions by Bruce Stater.
A Labyrinth of Visions is the fourteenth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series. |
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After Lolita by Cassandra Atherton
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present After Lolita by Cassandra L. Atherton. After Lolita is the twenty-seventh release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Cassandra Atherton is a writer, critic and balletomane from Victoria, Australia. She completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Her book, Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry, was published by Australian Scholarly press and she is currently revising Wise Guys: The Role and Responsibility of the Academic Public Intellectual in America for publication.
This book is based on her interviews with Professors Harold Bloom,
Camille Paglia, Stephen Greenblatt, Todd Gitlin, Howard Zinn and Noam
Chomsky, among many others. She is a lead interviewer for the University of California’s Writing on the Edge journal and a reviewer for the Italian journal Il Tolomeo. She is currently editing an Australian edition of the journal Ekleksographia.
Cassandra
lectures at both The University of Melbourne and Deakin University in
Australian literature, Canonical Poetry, Literary Classics,
Romanticism, Modernism and Creative Writing. She has published extensively in Australian and American journals and her novel, The Man Jar, is being published later this year by Printed Matter Press. She is currently working on her second novel, Cherry Bomb, after being awarded the Felix Meyer Fellowship and traveling to Japan to research the floating world and roricon. She would like to return to Tokyo in the next few years to live and teach.
In
2008, Cassandra married Dr Glenn Moore, a lecturer in American history
at The University of Melbourne, in Boston, Massachusetts. They live with their two ragdoll cats, Bellamy and Tallulah in Moonee Ponds.
Cassandra is obsessed with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Christian Louboutin
shoes, Alannah Hill dresses, cherry blossoms and Long Island Iced Teas. |
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Anne-Marie Derése in Translation & The Green Parrot by Judith Skillman
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Date added: 01/27/2008 |
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present Anne-Marie Derése in Translation The Green Parrot by Judith Skillman.
Anne-Marie Derése in Translation The Green Parrot is the seventeenth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series. |
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Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Turco
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Putnam Turco. Attic, Shed, and Barn is the twenty-fifth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Lewis Turco is the author of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics,
known to three generations of poets and students of poetry as “the
poet’s Bible.” He was founding director of both the Cleveland State
University Poetry Center in 1962 and the Creative Writing Program at
the State University of New York College at Oswego in 1968 from which
he retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1996. He took his B. A.
from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his M. A. from the
University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received a first honorary
degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University, and a second
in 2009 from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. His poems, essays,
stories and plays have appeared in most of the major literary
periodicals over more than a half-century, and in over one hundred
books and anthologies. Of his fifty books, chapbooks and monographs,
his volume of criticism, Visions and Revisions of American Poetry won the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986, and his A Book of Fears: Poems,
with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual
Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize in 1998. His most recent volumes areThe Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court 1953-2004; Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems, 1959-2007; The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories 2008; Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, and La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs,
both published in 2009. In 1999 he received the John Ciardi Award for
lifetime achievement in poetry sponsored by the periodical Italian Americana
and the National Italian American Foundation., and in 2007 the Robert
Fitzgerald Prosody Award given by the West Chester University Poetry
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