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"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
- John Vance Cheney
Announcing: The News Today by George Held
The News Today is George Held's second chapbook from Červená Barva Press, the first being W Is for War (2006).
His other poetry books include Beyond Renewal (2001) and the chapbooks Winged (1995), Salamander Love and Others (1998),
Open & Shut (1999), Grounded (2005), The Art of Writing and Others (2007), and Phased (2008). Other books include the e-book
American Poetry (2004), the art book Absolut Death & Others (2000) (with paintings by Roz Dimon), Martial Artist (2005)
(translations of Martial's epigrams), and the anthology Touched by Eros (2002), which he edited. Held's poetry has appeared
in more than a dozen anthologies, received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and been read by Garrison Keillor on
The Writer's Almanac (NPR). He has co-edited The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine since 1991. In addition, he served as a
Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia, 1973-76, and has been on the executive board of The South Fork Natural History Society and Museum
(Bridgehampton, NY) since 1991.
$7.00 | 33 Pages | In Stock: 20
Once again in The Season of Love, Flavia Cosma offers us those momentary glimpses and sensations briefly felt and viewed which hide
and yet reveal the testament of life. Through the transient sensations of reality, the poet lures her readership deep into the mystic
world of her eternity. Each poem serves to lead the reader through the pain, suffering and loneliness of life while searching for
truth's hidden mysteries which serve to make life meaningful and beautiful, yet remain to be discovered in that continual renewal
and rebirth of life.
David Mills, poet and critic
Toronto, Canada
One of prevailing themes in Flavia Cosma's poetry is love, but not as a banal, run-of-the mill experience. Instead,
it has the elemental intensity of natural phenomena, which best picture both the breakdown of feelings and the undying hope.
And that's where the poet places her wise optimism.
Dr. Irena Harasimowicz-Zarzecka
PHD Philology, University of Bucharest, Romania
Toronto, Canada
Flavia Cosma is an award winning Romanian-born Canadian poet, author and translator.
She has published thirteen books of poetry, a novel, a travel memoir and three books for children. Her book, 47 Poems,
(Texas Tech Press) received the ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize. Červená Barva Press published her chapbook,
Gothic Calligraphy and will be publishing her newest collection, Songs at the Aegean Sea.
Shipping date: July 21, 2008
$15.00 | ISBN: 978-0-615-20097-2 | 89 Pages | In Stock: 10
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Just released from Červená Barva Press
The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel by Doug Holder
For years that image of the man in a small plastic booth in the fume-filled Midtown Tunnel that connects Queens to Manhattan in
NYC haunted me. As a kid traveling into the city from the sheltered, well-manicured lawns of Long Island to the enigmatic,
cosmopolitan world of Manhattan, I couldn't help but wonder about that blue- uniformed lone figure pacing the perimeter of
his plastic cage. I think he represented to some extent my fear of the world outside the comforts of my family, and the staid,
small town I lived in, Rockville Centre.
I have always admired writers like the New Yorker's Joseph Mitchell, who wrote about the outsiders, the denizens of the
old Bowery, the ner-do-wells, the poseurs, the dandies, and the stumblebums, who make the city a both fascinating and
frightened place. I always wondered as a kid if I would wind up in the middle of a metaphorical tunnel, a man in a cage,
looking for the light. And I guess to some extent we all do in one-way or the other, whether we like it or not.
So I thought this image would be a perfect focal point for my poetry collection, a sort of "Spoon River Anthology" that would
consist of character studies of the many men and women I have met, watched and imagined in my time across this stage. I include
myself in this collection, because I have always identified with that man and I see his ghost wherever I roam.
Doug Holder
"Aside from being the founder, publisher, and co-editor of the prestigious and influential Ibbetson Street Press,
Doug Holder writes poetry with a passion and insight that deserves prestige and influence all its own."
S. Craig Renfoe, Jr., Main Street Rag
"Holder's work is rich with textual imagery… a master poet who sees the world clearly and shares that vision
generously with readers.
Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review
"A great poet and a Boston legend."
Joe Gouveia, host of "Poet's Corner," Provincetown radio
"I don't think I send you kudos enough because I take your magical perceptions of the ordinary, your unique take
on the everyday, as something you do time and time again always in surprising ways.... from toilet to pay phones,
to the fluid connection to all things human is utterly Doug Holder and there isn't anyone out there remotely
doing what you do so beautifully...so dryly and always with human regard."
Linda Larson, former editor-in-chief of Spare Change News
$13.00 | ISBN: 9780979531361 | 72 Pages
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Announcing: Ten Songs From Bulgaria by Linda Nemec Foster
The first lines in Linda Nemec Foster’s Ten Songs from Bulgaria, sing 'Small lives, small lives/ we are trapped inside/ small lives.'
The paradox here is that Foster’s poems reveal how large and rich the worlds are in which these small lives are lived.
In line after line, we encounter the depths and reach of those who live outside the zones of everyday safety. Foster makes
herself vulnerable to a world 'as tangible as fog' with her own penetrating observations. She walks 'the long journey' and
her poems reflect the haunting music of ode and elegy.
-Jack Ridl
These poems evoke--in their concision and clarity--intense, disturbing images of lives shredded into pieces so small all
that’s left is the memory of having endured. They are caged inside the empty space of the page, which seems to want to
suffocate their spare, fragile, incredible beauty. Each image speaks a world that is window and mirror of what we hide
from in the fabricated assemblages we make against the truth these poems speak.
-Faye Kicknosway
$7.00 | 20 Pages | In Stock: 25
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Announcing Cloudkeeper Press
So many Authors have queried Červená Barva Press
asking if we would print their chapbooks for a fee, that we have established Cloudkeeper Press to fill this need.
We will work closely with you and make publishing your chapbook a positive experience. We do high quality work.
To visit Cloudkeeper Press just click on the Logo or here!
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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
ABOUT THE EDITOR
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.
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) which is forthcoming in 2008.
Gloria has been published in numerous journals including River Styx,
Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, Ibbetson St., WHLR, Poesia, Arabesques, Bogg and UNU: Revista de Cultura in Romania with
translations by Flavia Cosma. She has work in numerous anthologies including Bagel With the Bards No.1 and No. 2,
Murmur of Voices by Cogito Press in Romania/Translations by Flavia Cosma and forthcoming in a WHLR.
anthology which she is editing.
Gloria has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 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.
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
To read reviews go to:
Boston Globe review by Ellen Steinbaum:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/09/
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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