Translated by Ted Wang and Chen Chen

"You are about to open a fantastic pop up book of the mind, whose seventeenth-century scholars, clergy, merchants, virgins, and court officials will crowd the room around you. The scents and sounds of their lives, from silk sleeves to the market place hubbub will fill your noses and ears...

"There is a real danger in reviewing Robert Cranny's extraordinary first novel that one may do it less than justice...His dialogue is the truest since Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...This is an astonishing debut." - The Irish Times

"Robery Cranny is an artist, a man of beautiful gifts, a poet." - William Goyen

Brooklyn, 1957. The Dodgers are about to move to Los Angeles; and in a largely Irish and Italian neighborhood, residents are just beginning to feel the impact of the arrival of Black and Hispanic families. A powerful, evocative tale of a community swept up in the volitile racial and social tensions of the period.

When Leslie Palmer achieves a top position with the Office of Naval Intelligence based in the World Trade Center in New York City, the brilliant scientist, who is able to read human character by analyzing body language, has a young lover and foresees a good life for her twin sons. Her dreams are fulfilled.But she is suddenly thrown into a nightmare...

"What Matters straddles two of the exigencies of the human condition: diminishment and endurance. It abounds with poems that skillfully earn their sentiments." - Stephen Dunn

"These poems are eloquent, straightforward, and genuine." - Robert Pinsky

Prose Poems

"These poems venture deeply into that place where, “What never happened will never change.” It is that place where our past regrets, lost loved ones and former selves live on. But in Kenny’s vividly imagined poems it is not a haunted place. It is alive with the sounds of birds, wind, surf; filled with larkspur and moss, hawks, squirrels and crickets; the smell of mud, old houses, smoke and rain-drenched trees. In language so subtly pitched, paced and modulated...

New York PI Giacomo Berg and missing-persons expert Bonita Boyd desperately search for old friend Peter Proust before he disappears from the face of the earth. Their quest leads deep into the vulnerable underbelly of America, populated by survivalists, untethered hippies, people fearing falling space debris, and chemical plant poisoning. Their tortuous search is mirrored by the meandering relationship between Berg and Boyd as they navigate the swamps, deserts, and mountains of the Southwest.

"Written in a polished prose of luminous beauty...Lilith soars above the world of mundane reality and lures its readers into a world of sinister fantasy and haunting unreality. To read this book is to wander down the labyrinthine ways of the insane and to become lost in the dark corridors of madness." - Orville Prescott, The New York Times

"J.R. Salamanca is a brilliant writer, one of this country's most remarkable stylists. His prose shimmers with light, with the exacting registers of emotion and thought. In That Summer's Trance his subject is betrayal, both of oneself and others, in a culture of material rewards. It is an unforgettable story of one actor outdone by another, and it tells us more about role-playing, and the theater of everyday life, than I would have thought possible." - Charles Baxter

"John Wareham possesses the cool, clear eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth." - The New York Times

"Stunning--ardent, strange and affecting. An exploration of moral quandaries from John Wareham, whose writing is assured throughout." - Publishers Weekly

Illustrated with magnificent crisp, contemporary photographs from the Daily Mail of World War I battlefields, battles, and heartbreaking scenes on the homefront, this book would serve as a fine companion to Paul Fussell's "The Great War and Modern Memory," which also invokes poetry.

Two hundred of the most beloved nature poems in the English language are paired with matchless vintage photographs of beautiful landscapes and scenes of nature.