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| AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARIA CALLAS : A Novel [Alma H Bond] A fictionalised account of the well-known and not so widely known details of the tempestuous and passionate, creative and private life of the internationally acclaimed diva. The soaring heights of her talents, the fears of her decline, written from a psychological, highly controversial perspective. { 224pp, 155x230mm, May 1998; PB, £11.99, 0913559482:9780913559482 / HB, £18.99, 0913559490:9780913559499 , Birch Brook Press } |
| BASEBALL & THE LYRICAL LIFE : Poetry & Diamond Dust [Thomas Tolnay (ed)] An anthology which brings together serious and workaday poets who extol baseball in verse. Printed letterpress. Baseball wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair. { 86pp, 140x215mm, December 1999; PB, £9.99, 0913559547:9780913559543 , Birch Brook Press } |
| BEOWULF [Translated & illustrated by Bertha Rogers] REVIEW: "Rogers's ten illustrations supply insight into her treatment of the translation... derived from Anglo-Saxon art... yet with a contemporary edge..." -- Chelsea Review. { 136pp, 150x230mm, March 2000; PB, £13.50, 0913559598:9780913559598 , Birch Brook Press } |
| CONFESSIONS OF A RATIONAL LUNATIC [Marcus Rome] Rome uses an urgent, seductive, sometimes terrifying voice and rhythms to grip and hold onto one's psyche, leading the reader through winding, dark corridors of the mind as his subjects search for the light of love and security. { 91pp, 140x215mm, January 2007; PB, £10.99, 0913559989:9780913559987 , Birch Brook Press } |
| CONTEMPORARY MARTRYDOM [John Popielaski] Unflinching poetry on contemporary truths. These poems are "crafted, considered and strong". { 62pp, 140x215mm, May 2002; PB, £9.50, 0913559733:9780913559734 , Birch Brook Press } |
| COOPERSTOWN CHRONICLES : Love & Other Camp Games [Peter Rutkoff] A sequence of insightful, delightful coming-of-age tales at a summer camp on Lake Otsego, near Cooperstown, NY in the 1960s. A letterpress edition, featuring hand-coloured wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair. { 144pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £15.99, 0913559695:9780913559697 , Birch Brook Press } |
| DERELICT GENIUS OF MARTIN M [Frank Fagan] Overlords addicted to war hold sway in a foredoomed world. Martin M, artist-genius, may be among the obliterated, or he may find immortality. Letterpress edition, with wood engraving by Joanna Schultz. { 88pp, 140x215mm, March 1999; PB, £10.99, 0913559504:9780913559505 , Birch Brook Press } |
| FATEFUL CHOICES : Tales Along the Road Taken [Marshall Brooks & Stephanie Greene (eds)] Classic and modern tales/poems on the choices people make on the road of life. Abbey, Bradbury, Chopin, Dante, Farrell, Frost, O'Henry, Sophocles, Twain, Whitman and more. Illustrated by Marshall Brooks. Letterpress edition printed on Mohawk Vellum. { 184pp, 140x215mm, January 2001; PB, £14.99, 091355961X:9780913559611 / HB, £39.99, 0913559652:9780913559659 , Birch Brook Press } |
| FISHING WITH FAERIES [Robert J Romano Jr] Hike sprite-laden trails with a knowledgeable and, at time, philosophical flyfisherman as he pursues his 'trout passions' along 'secret' fishing pools. His 'Little Stream' is tucked away somewhere between the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and the Adirondacks in New York. { 224pp, 140x215mm, August 2002; PB, £12.99, 0913559814:9780913559819 / HB, £19.50, 0913559806:9780913559802 , Birch Brook Press } |
| HUMAN / NATURE [Lance Lee] The breadth and depth of Lance Lee's poetry is evidenced here by its sharp-etched imagery and far-reaching perspectives: stunning poems about his psychological connections to artists and historical figures such as Rembrandt and Hannibal, and others which draw upon mythological stalwarts such as Orpheus and Eurydice. REVIEW: "Lance Lee’s resources belong to the privileged but his genius is in creating poetry for anyone with the slightest lingering wish for the beauty that can still infuse life. How he liberates us!" -- Judy Gahagan, August 2007. { 120pp, 155x230mm, January 2007; PB, £11.50, 0913559997:9780913559994 , Birch Brook Press } |
| HUNGARIAN SEA [Wallace Lee Gruhn] The theme 'all is connected' runs through these crisply crafted poems as the author explores the connections between the natural world, humanity, and their interwoven histories. { 94pp, 140x215mm, June 2004; PB, £10.99, 0913559873:9780913559871 , Birch Brook Press } |
| I RODE A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE : The True Story of a Dedicated Actor's Struggle to Launch His Career [Rudy Bond] This book tells the story of how the author, now deceased, came to "land" this powerful role alongside Marlon Brando in this landmark production, directed by Elia Kazan, of Tennesee Williams' brilliant play, "I Rode A Streetcar Named Desire". { 192pp, 155x230mm, April 2000; PB, £11.50, 0913559571:9780913559574 / HB, £17.99, 091355958X:9780913559581 , Birch Brook Press } |
| JACK'S BEANS : A Five Year Diary [Tom Smith] A unique poetic expression set in the form of personal diary entries which cover five years of the narrator's early years. { 372pp, 155x230mm, January 2007; PB, £19.99, 0913559970:9780913559970 , Birch Brook Press } |
| KAFKA KALEIDOSCOPE [Martin Wasserman (ed)] A kaleidoscope of essays, poetry, fiction and drama inspired by and in homage to writer/mystic Franz Kafka. Wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair. A letterpress edition on Mohawk Vellum. { 104pp, 140x215mm, October 1999; PB, £11.50, 0913559520:9780913559529 , Birch Brook Press } |
| KILIMANJARO BURNING : A Novella Set in Explosive Tansania [John B Robinson] A Fast-paced novel relating the adventures of an ex-patriate American trying to con his way through politically explosive Tanzania. { 124pp, 140x215mm, March 1998; PB, £16.99, 0913559385:9780913559383 , Birch Brook Press } |
| LETTERS TO MY BROTHER [Joseph Katz] This is the remarkable record of the author's correspondence to his brother, noted poet Menke Katz. These beautiful letters overflow with ideas on politics, art, literature, love, and alienation, and were written over a period of half a century from numerous countries around the globe, often at critical turning points in the history of the western world. { 172pp, 155x230mm, December 1998; PB, £11.50, 0913559466:9780913559468 / HB, £17.99, 0913559474:9780913559475 , Birch Brook Press } |
| LIFE & DEATH OF A BOOK [William MacAdams] A beautifully written account of the "rites of passage" of a book: from publication and appearance in Scribner's bookshop on through its subsequent travels from reader to used bookshop to private collector to book reviewer, until meeting its final fate... { 64pp, 140x140mm, March 2003; PB, £10.99, 0913559776:9780913559772 , Birch Brook Press } |
| LONGING FOR LAURA [A M Juster] Delicious translations of a selection of Petrarch's love sonnets. { 56pp, 140x215mm, November 2001; PB, £9.50, 0913559709:9780913559703 , Birch Brook Press } |
| MAGIC & MADNESS IN THE LIBRARY : Protagonists Among the Stacks [Eric Graeber (ed)] Fiction on the unique experience and curious atmosphere of libraries around the world, across time, that have inspired writers to dream up magic and madness. Some of these libraries existed, some have been drawn from the imagination, but all share the charm and mystery that has always haunted writers. Among the authors: Cervantes, Swift, Verne, Voltaire, Wharton, Huxley, Woolf, Borges. { 160pp, 140x215mm, January 1999; PB, £12.99, 0913559369:9780913559369 , Birch Brook Press } |
| MOONLIT DOOR [Frank Fagan] Frank Fagan's latest collection is delicious in its ambiguities and profound insights into "breathing, being and not being...". These poems will lead the attentive reader into "a vast undisclosed satisfaction". { 56pp, 140x215mm, December 2002; PB, £9.50, 0913559768:9780913559765 , Birch Brook Press } |
| PUNK IN GALLOWS AMERICA [P W Fox] Eddie Ways, a once wealthy suburbanite, finds himself hanging around the social underworld of Chicago. His adventures, including his fixation on Lisa Cones, a prostitute, lead to discoveries about life at large and his own life in particular. { 232pp, 155x230mm, March 2001; PB, £15.99, 0913559687:9780913559680 , Birch Brook Press } |
| REPERCUSSIONS [Marcus Rome] Profound and forthright poetic reflections by a New York City psychoanalyst on the darkest secrets of the human heart. { 136pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £12.99, 0913559555:9780913559550 , Birch Brook Press } |
| RISKING THE WIND [Warren Carrier] An autumnal poetic flight carried off with insight and a deft touch. Includes original wood engravings. { 56pp, 140x215mm, January 1990; PB, £8.99, 0913559563:9780913559567 , Birch Brook Press } |
| ROMANCE OF THE BOOK : Classic & Contemporary Confessions on Living with Books Intensively [Marshall Brooks (ed)] This book features a selection of essays from the early days of the book to current times when some claim the book could become an endangered species. Each writer relates a lifelong relationship with the book as a friend, source of inspiration, educational tool, an object to collect or give as a gift, or as a philosophical ally in one's darkest days. Among the writers included: Colette, Franklin, Petrarch, Poe, Lamb, Douglass, Thoreau, Hazlitt, Fuller, Gissing, Eliot, as well as contemporary authors. Printed on 80 lb. Cream White Mohawk Vellum in 12 Bookman type, with a letterpress cover printed on an antique press. { 192pp, 140x215mm, January 1995; PB, £11.99, 0913559288:9780913559284 , Birch Brook Press } |
| ROME BURNING [Helen Barolini] This collection of elegant, quietly powerful poems evokes the author's past life in Rome and its rich, classical traditions. { 51pp, 135x210mm, June 2004; PB, £9.50, 0913559865:9780913559864 , Birch Brook Press } |
| SELLING AMERICA [Tom Tolnay] Through light drama and dark humour, employing a spectrum of sales personalities and products in realistic as well as fantastic situations, these eighteen stories explore how our personal, family and social lives can be distorted by the 24/7 onslaught of sales pitches targeting us at shopping centres, on the internet, over TV and radio, on the telephone, in newspapers and magazines, on motorways, at our doorsteps, and even in our dreams. { 250pp, 140x215mm, November 2005; PB, £8.99, 1928767389:9781928767381 , Birch Brook Press (Silk Label Books) } |
| SEXY SIXTIES [Harry Smith] Outrageous pronouncements on lies, love and politics, including "our dark leaders", such as JFK and Malcolm X, in the most outrageous decade of all, the 1960s. { 96pp, 155x230mm, June 2002; PB, £12.99, 0913559741:9780913559741 , Birch Brook Press } |
| SEXY SIXTIES (LIMITED EDITION) [Harry Smith] Outrageous pronouncements on lies, love and politics, including "our dark leaders", such as JFK and Malcolm X, in the most outrageous decade of all, the 1960s. Signed and numbered cloth edition limited to 100 copies. { 96pp, 155x230mm, June 2002; HB, £29.99, 091355975X:9780913559758 , Birch Brook Press } |
| SHADWELL HILLS [Rebecca Lilly] The art of the haiku demands sure-footed control and light-winged delicacy, and the author has faced up to this mission with grace and sensibility in 'Shadwell Hills'. { 72pp, 140x215mm, December 2002; PB, £10.99, 0913559792:9780913559796 , Birch Brook Press } |
| SPIRITS OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS [Tom Tolnay] Featuring 36 delightful wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair, this book is a charming account of the "ghosts" and other forms of "spirit life" in the six-million acre "forever wild" forest preserve in upstate New York". { 115pp, 140x215mm, March 2001; PB, £13.99, 0913559628:9780913559628 , Birch Brook Press } |
| SUSPENSE OF LONELINESS This is an anthology of mixed genre stories (literary and mystery) in which that most powerful of all human conditions -- loneliness -- steers characters down strange, dangerous alleyways. Features the work of Ben Satterfield, Warren Carrier, Sid Gustafson, Carole Spearin McCauley, Ed Gorman, S M Page, Michael Beres and other fine writers. { 136pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £12.99, 0913559830:9780913559833 , Birch Brook Press } |
| SYNESTHETICS / EDGES OF SOUND [Harry Smith] An essayist (Harry Smith) and poet (Stanley Nelson) team up to achieve a literary synergy that explores synesthesia, a condition in which one kind of stimulation of the senses evokes sensations in another of the senses. { 128pp, 140x215mm, June 2004; PB, £13.50, 0913559881:9780913559888 , Birch Brook Press } |
| UNCERTAIN RELATIONS [Joel Chace] An exploration of Heisenberg's "physics of poetry" and his "uncertainty principle" via the poetic medium. { 52pp, 140x215mm, June 2000; PB, £9.99, 0913559601:9780913559604 , Birch Brook Press } |
| WAITING ON PENTECOST [Tom Smith] An engaging cycle of unorthodox interpretations of Biblical stories. Wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. { 136pp, 155x230mm, March 1999; PB, £11.50, 0913559539:9780913559536 , Birch Brook Press } |
| WALKING THE PERIMETERS OF THE PLATE GLASS FACTORY [Jared Smith] Eloquent, engaging, sometimes unsettling poetic examination of the changes that time imposes on our personal as well as national histories. { 68pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £10.99, 0913559660:9780913559666 , Birch Brook Press } |
| WHITE BUFFALO [Peter Skinner] A stunning first novel by an accomplished painter, sculptor and actor, this is the tale of three mystic figures who embark on a pilgrimage on behalf of human justice across the brooding terrain of Eastern Washington... { 112pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; PB, £9.50, 0913559717:9780913559710 / HB, £15.99, 0913559725:9780913559727 , Birch Brook Press } |