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ERIC LARSEN, FOUNDER & PUBLISHER
ADAM ENGEL, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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FOR A CATALOGUE OF
BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM
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ANNOUNCING PUBLICATION OF
A CROW'S DREAM
POEMS BY
DOUGLAS VALENTINE
"There is love, and then betrayal.
There is a cause, and then there's none.
Then Mandrake lifts his velvet cape
And all you ever knew is gone." |
WORKING AT IT FOR MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A
century, Douglas Valentine has become widely known as a writer, researcher, and historian, astanding that readers can verify by taking a trip to his web site. A Crow's Dream, however, is this prolific author's first appearance as a poet--and what an appearance it is.
Valentine proves himself master of the poetic line, with not only a brilliant eye and ear for creating spectacularly perfect line-endings, but with the same alertness for finding and harvesting other kinds of goings-on inside the lines. Listen to this first of the two stanzas that make up "Shadow Land" and see if you don't hear the musical tones of a Robert Herrick:
A freckled girl with tangled hair Dances in a sun-splashed field of grass Oblivious to the buzzing bees Twirling barefoot in a rumpled dress- Imagining herself.
And then listen further, to the rest of this tiny, ten-line story--
Her world is a blur around her: The forsythia hedge, her house on the hill, The soaring locust trees and the ancient ash With its one impossible branch- Upon which sits an observant boy.
If you wonder where all that music is hiding, read the last word of each line to hear some of the melody of hidden rhyme, then go back inside the lines for still more music-all the way to the last toneless note that touches, as quietly as a falling feather, on the presence of little Satan in the tree.
Read these poems, please, not only with your eyes but with your ears--and heart, one dares say. Consider the following, arguably the best poem so far on the subject of the occasion it marks:
The Hand Is Faster Than The Eye (Composed 11 September 2001)
I learned that lesson long ago, It was the first articulated truth: "The hand is faster than the eye," Said the raven to the youth.
There is love, and then betrayal. There is a cause, and then there's none. Then Mandrake lifts his velvet cape And all you ever knew is gone.
DOUGLAS VALENTINE
Douglas Valentine is well known as the award-winning author of severals works of non-fiction and one novel. The extraordinary A Crow's Dream is his first book of poetry. For more information about Valentine's other books, publications, and credits, go to the author's web site. And go here for excerpts from A Crow's Dream.
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Following the Sandy Hook shootings, Paul Bendix published a piece at Salon.com entitled "My Lesson in Gun Control." Bendix is the extraordinary author of the moving and courageous memoir, Dance without Steps.
Oliver's publisher and editor, Eric Larsen, has completed a long essay in Intrepid Report.com. The piece appeared in five numbered sections between May and November of this year. It is entitled "Dr. Judy Wood and the Future of the Earth."
Russia Today interviewed poet and historian Douglas Valentine about the ramifications of the CIA having been found guilty of torture by The European Court of Human Rights. Please watch the interview here.
Helen Tzagoloff's new volume of poetry, Listening to the Thunder, is on sale at The Corner Bookstore, Madison and 93rd St., and elsewhere. The book has received raves on the Amazon site, including one from Randall Tillotson, who wrote, "This was one of the best books I've read in a very long time. I hope this is the beginning of a long career in print."
Adam Engel is now writing regularly for the "/dev/nul" section in Dissident Voice.org. Engel announces that "This column will post twice a week. One piece will be written by The Phantom of /dev/null, and one will be written by a guest-writer." Be on your toes as to the identity of each guest-writer. Engel is author of Topiary, I Hope My Corpse Gives You the Plague, and Cella Fantastik.
These Oliver Titles Now Available in e-Book format:
Timothy V. Gatto, Kimchee Days, or, Stoned-Cold Warriors ($2.99)
Alan Salant, Ablong ($2.99)
Eric Larsen, The Skull of Yorick: The Emptiness of American Thinking at a Time of Grave Peril--Studies in the Cover-up of 9/11 ($2.99)
Eric Larsen, The End of the 19th Century, a novel ($2.99)
Paul Bendix, Dance without Steps, a memoir ($9.99)
. . . with more to come following after. . .
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THE LION PACES, WAITING FOR HIS BOOKS. . . .
FROM CONTEMPT TO OUTRAGE, a second volume of full-voiced, angry, and heart-felt essays from the dedicated patriot Timothy V. Gatto, following his path-breaking From Complicity to Contempt
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN NATION, a novel by Eric Larsen, fourth in the tetralogy that includes An American Memory, I Am Zoe Handke, and The End of the 19th Century.
( . . . THE LION WON'T HAVE TO WAIT MUCH LONGER. . . . )
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