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About Gloria Mindock |
Nothing Divine Here by Gloria Mindock |
Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
—Oscar Wilde
A new chapbook by Hugh Fox
Where Sanity Begins by Hugh Fox
Hugh Fox is a 78 year old poet originally from Chicago, has spent most of his life teaching writing, American literature and film in
Champaign-Urbana, Los Angeles, Caracas, Santa Catarina (Brazil), Buenos Aires, etc. He has 110 books published,
his most recent being, THE COLLECTED POETRY OF HUGH FOX, published last year by World Audience in New York.
$7.00 | 57 Pages | In Stock
A new chapbook by Daniel Y. Harris and Adam Shechter
Paul Celan and the Messiah's Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad
by Daniel Y. Harris and Adam Shechter
As Ron Sukenick so aptly put it in his last book "Mosaic Man," Jews are both proto and posthuman. Adam Shechter and Daniel Y. Harris
are possessed of that molten globe of fiery perdition that draws the brighter children of the tribe to the flame. Add poetry and oy!
What can I say? Shechter and Harris have made another journey to the hellchamber of Jewish mystery/creation/death and came out in company,
a big company that includes a lot of fried geniuses, but most of all they came out, and it's good to see them.
—Andrei Codrescu (www.codrescu.com), is the author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
(Princeton University Press) and edits Exquisite Corpse at (www. corpse.org).
I can't begin to comprehend/surround all that is transpiring here in this Harris/Shechter collaboration/fusion—I'll need other
readings toward adequate bearings—but as Seine suicide Paul Celan hovers among these pages of prayerful heresies—"no
Shabbos-always Shabbos"—I experience a language that wields "pen as scalpel," and I feel flayed but grateful for this
awakening into wild inquiry/attack. By way of thousands of years of Jewish history & of their own lives slashed out in
poems & prose pieces of mesmerizing power, even as they wonder if they've gone too far, these two visionaries/revisionists
have made something powerful & new here, something of charismatic complication. Oi Vey, & mazel tov.
—William Heyen, author of Shoah Train: Poems, finalist for the National Book Award
Adam Shechter is from Un-Brooklyn, the imperceptible imperialist brownstone aesthetic of 1989 Prospect Park West benches by
Garfield Street. Adam has never been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review and this fact is likely to never change.
For this reason, he started the online journal, The Blue Jew Yorker. Sadly, this quaintly anarchistic periodical has not found
its reputation competitive with the above named titans of publishing. Still, Mr. Shechter receives great emotional satisfaction
in publishing authors and artists in the journal. A tragic and ironic fact of Adam's life is that his neighborhood of birth and
raising, Park Slope, now houses some of the most successful authors of the writing world. Roger Cohen moved in next to his parents,
a house where the fabled Christiansen family once lived. In line with Freud, listening to the same song over and over is one of
Adam's favorite hobbies.
Daniel Y. Harris, M.Div, holds a Master of Arts in Divinity from The University of Chicago, where he specialized in Jewish
theology and comparative religion and wrote his dissertation on The Zohar. He is the author of Unio Mystica
(Cross-Cultural Communications Press, 2009) and Hyperlinks of Anxiety (forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press, 2012).
He is the associate editor of The Blue Jew Yorker. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Among his
credits are: The Pedestal Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, In Posse Review, European Judaism, SoMa Literary Review, Mad Hatters' Review,
Poetry Salzburg Review, Wheelhouse Magazine, Moria, Ygdrasil, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poetry Magazine.com,
Denver Quarterly, Convergence, Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and
The Other Voices International Among his art exhibitions credits are: The Jewish Community Library of San Francisco,
Market Street Gallery, The Euphrat Museum and The Center for Visual Arts.
His website is www.danielyharris.com.
$7.00 | 58 Pages | In Stock
Coming in September...
What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock and Dori G
by Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper
What May Have Been is a novel in letters exchanged between the artist Jackson Pollock and his fictional lover,
a young woman called Dori G.
Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper have created a sexy and luminous love story that takes place sometime during the late 1940's,
in that sandy wonderland at the eastern tip of Long Island known as The Hamptons.
Advance Praise for What May Have Been
"In this extraordinary novel, Pollock tells his lover that things like paint and wives are very small in the scheme of things.
Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper show how the great scheme of things is, in fact, in literary art, captured in paint and wives and
a Montauk surf and a silky scarf and narrow hips and a cold water flat and a used Ford. Brilliantly conceived, brilliantly executed,
this is a stunning book about art and about life."
—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"The fictional letters between Pollock and an imaginary Dori G come out in a hailstorm of paint flecks, lockets, long looks, kisses,
blowing sand. Dori sees Jackson in his distance and his nearing, and his return to her like the visit of one of the Greek gods to his
mortal lover, as piercing and as fatal."
—Mary Grimm, author of Left to Themselves and Stealing Time
"How to convey the irresistible pleasures of this novel in letters? The language mimics the slashing, dramatic immediate heroic
gestures of abstract expressionism, is an extraordinary act of poetic invention, and tells a sexy and doomed love story."
—James Robison, author of The Illustrator and Rumors
"These two fervent voices exude the splendor and gloom of adulterous love."
—Mark Wisniewski, author of Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman
$15.00 | ISBN 978-0-9844732-8-1 | 104 Pages | In Stock
Shipping Date: September 15, 2010
July 23, 2010
Six Questions for Gloria Mindock, Editor and Publisher, Cervena Barva Press
Read Gloria's Interview on Publishing
Interview by Jim Harrington
New Release July 1st
Moments Around The Campfire With A Vietnam Vet by Thom Brucie
Thom Brucie earned his MA in English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and his PhD at Binghamton University.
His short story collection, Still Waters: Five Stories was nominated for a Georgia Author of the Year award in the short fiction
category. His poems and stories have appeared in a variety of journals, including DEROS, Southwestern Review, San Joaquin Review,
Cappers, and others. He teaches American Literature and Creative Writing at Brewton-Parker College.
He and his wife, Carol, have six children.
The poems in Moments Around The Campfire With A Vietnam Vet flow with an incredible narrative voice spoken from the recollected
perspective of a ghost poet with a precise eye for detail, a poet who carries you along the beautiful waterfall of misery with your
eyes wide open and your heart in your throat. Each poem commands the page, daring the reader to deny its verity and weight,
forbidding the reader to dismiss the small totals of Vietnam we still don't speak about. Wow. These poems took my breath away.
~Lana Maht Wiggins, University of Louisiana; author of Notes From Refuge, Felix Voorhies Award winner
Moments Around The Campfire With A Vietnam Vet is full of poignant poems about various characters who fought in the Vietnam War.
Thom Brucie's style is direct, his images clear and specific, and the poems often end on a sardonic or ironic note. He makes us
feel as though we were actually invited into the camp circle to hear the stories of these people, to know their longings and
aspirations and disappointments. This is one of the best books of war poems I've ever read. I promise, you won't be able to
put it down.
~Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Binghamton University; American Book Award winner for All That Lies Between Us
Cover Photo: Members of the 3rd Bn, 12th Inf, 4th Inf Div, "take five" during bunker construction on Hill 530, Vietnam War, 1967.
$7.00 | 42 Pages | In Stock
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So many Authors have queried Červená Barva Press
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ABOUT THE PRESS
ČERVENÁ BARVA PRESS was founded in April of 2005.
The press solicits poetry, fiction, and plays from various writers
around the world, and holds open contests regularly for its chapbooks,
postcards, broadsides and full-length books.
I look for work that has a strong voice, is unique, and that takes risks with language.
Please see submission guidelines for current information.
I encourage queries from Central and Eastern Europe
Gloria Mindock is editor and publisher of Červená Barva Press. In 2007, she took over as editor of the Istanbul Literature Review,
an online journal based in Turkey. In 2010, she co-founded an experimental journal, X Peri, with Irene Koronas.
She is the author of two chapbooks, Doppelganger (S. Press), Oh Angel (U Šoku Štampa) and is the author of two books,
Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson St. Press, 2007) and Nothing Divine Here (U Šoku Štampa, 2010). Gloria's third collection,
La Portile Raiului (Ars Longa Press) is forthcoming and was translated into Romanian by Flavia Cosma.
Gloria has been published in numerous journals including River Styx, Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, Ibbetson St., WHLR, Poesia,
Arabesques, and Bogg. In Romania, her poems can be found in UNU: Revistă de Cultură, Gând Românesc, Citadela and the anthology Murmur of
Voices (Cogito Press) with translation by Flavia Cosma. Other anthologies include: Bagel With the Bards No.1 and No. 2,
WHLR Anthology # 1, and City Lights.
Recently, she was interviewed by Luis R. Calvo and Flavia Cosma in the literary magazine,
Generación Abierta (Buenos Aires, Argentina). The interview was translated into Spanish by Flavia Cosma.
Gloria has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, St. Botolph Award and was awarded a fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council.
From 1984-1994, she edited the Boston Literary Review/BLuR and was co-founder of Theatre S & S. Press, Inc.
Theatre S. received grants from the Polaroid Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Globe Foundation,
New England for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Somerville Arts Council.
With an extensive background in theatre, Gloria has written and performed numerous performance pieces including
BIG BOMB BUICKS, WHERE DID ALL THOSE BIRDS AND DOGS COME FROM?, I WISH FRANCISCO FRANCO WOULD LOVE ME, and
SKIN CELLS, MAGGOTS, AND OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST. Her poetry collection called Doppelganger was a text of a
theatre piece of the same name performed by THEATRE S. A review by STAGES stated she took great liberties with
Poe and "captured the romantic desperation of "William Wilson," a tale of self-destructive double-identity."
For over 36 years, Gloria has performed, acted, composed music, and sang in the theatre.
Her newest performance piece, to be performed in September, is called WALKING IN El SALVADOR. Gloria works
as a Social Worker and freelances editing manuscripts and conducting workshops for writers.
Gloria Mindock's Website is currently under construction.
Nothing Divine Here by Gloria Mindock
U Šoku Štampa Press, 2009
Gloria Mindock is the author of the forthcoming book, La Porile Raiului (Ars Longa Press,
2010, Romania) and Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson Street Press, 2007).
She is editor of Cervena Barva Press and the Istanbul Literature Review,
an online journal based in Istanbul, Turkey. She has had numerous
publications including Poet Lore, River Styx, Phoebe, Blackbox, Poesia,
Bogg, Ibbetson, WHLR, UNU: Revista de Cultura, Citadela, Aurora, and
Arabesques. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, St. Botolph
Award, and was awarded a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council distributed by the Somerville Arts Council.
From the Preface
Passionate and rebellious, Gloria Mindock’s poetry jumps forcefully from the page, grabs the reader
by the collar of his coat and holds and hangs on to his/her attention.
In unison with the poet’s heart, the nature of things is in big turmoil here, forever searching for the
elusive Divine Harmony, the only force capable of rearranging the world into one of love and
understanding.
In a perpetual state of sadness and grief, these poems descend to the very core of the raw discourse
of the soul, devoid of artifice and pose. The stark simplicity of their statement disarms us and leaves
us vulnerable in front of the bitter reality of life.
—Flavia Cosma, author of seventeen books of poetry, a novel, a travel memoir, and
four books for children
The stunning thing about Mindock’s work is its overwhelming sense of
the real world in real time. It’s “poetic” in its own way,
well-crafted, agile, nicely balanced, but in terms of content, you move
into Mindock’s world and you’re suddenly in a basic, essential reality
that hardly anyone in the poetry world touches: “I see your skull
veiled by a cloud/Eyelids sunk/Hands pressed on knees/Heart gone/A
sight of secrets//I think living is brave/Death is a release/The dog
knows -- heaven is nothing but a frill.” (“Dog Dance,” p.41). An
interesting mixture of existential toughness crowned by an ultimate
sense of final nothingness.
It’s interesting how Mindock’s world-view combines a dispairing sense
of expanding out into the horrific Now with a vision of everything
eventually dissolving into nothingness: “Living on this earth is/one
big nightmare.,/This landscape frightens me./Too much death./Think
about it.//I refuse to fall short of detail so/ here it is: Death of
emotion/Death of love/Death of skin...//I’m going away to where I
really belong./To me, this is uplifting.” (“Aftermath,” p.63).
Very few style-games here. This is poetry as a minimalist Declaration
of Finality. And the very fact that Mindock doesn’t play style-games
makes her vision a thousand times more effective/powerful than the
word-game players who turn poetry into a kind of syntactical
basketball.
—Hugh Fox
In Nothing Divine Here, Mindock invokes a resurrection, the power of love to spring eternal from
the hurt we all know. She looks at the personal and the political, that haunting polarity, and weaves
a gentle but brave hopefulness between them.
—Afaa Michael Weaver, Simmons College
Gloria Mindock is a fearless poet. She gets right in the face, in the very nostril of death. She
confronts her past lovers, her dreams, dashed or otherwise, not with cool detachment, but with a
visceral lyrical and emotional engagement. She has made her pain into high art, into the high holy.
Mindock, is a force to be reckoned with, so watch your back!
—Doug Holder, Arts Editor The Somerville News, Founder Ibbetson Street Press
$15.00 | ISBN: 978-0-578-04760-7 | 87 Pages | In Stock
Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock
Ibbetson Street Press, 2007
In her fascinating poem cycle, Gloria Mindock jolts back into memory the roots of El Salvador's present day violence.
Mindock coaxes to the page the voices of the dead who lie, less in peace, than in restless obsession with the atrocities
they suffered. She brings forth as well the voices of the living who seem startled to find that they died somewhere between
the horrors they witnessed and the grave they have yet to lie down in. Blood Soaked Dresses is a beautiful,
harrowing first book.
--Catherine Sasanov
Also available at Grolier Poetry Bookstore in Cambridge, MA., and can be ordered online at: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and Powells.
For signed copies: order directly from the author at: P.O. Box 440357, W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222 ($13.50 plus $3.00 S/H)
To read reviews go to:
Boston Globe review by Ellen Steinbaum
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene Reviews:
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=lo+gallucio
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=irene+koronas
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