Edward Loomis: 8 books

Some of the free verse offered here was first published in Poems of a Cockroach (1970): this was a self-published pamphlet illustrated with drawings by Gerry Haggerty. EVERYMAN was made into a film with a rather dubious sound-track bringing the thing down. This book is a gathering of work of the last...

The novel gives a search by an English prof. (Jim Truebig) through the past histories of two friends who do not know each other. He suspects similar past histories, and comes to believe that they did indeed share in some terrible experiences. They suffered--and he comes to a realization of that. Both...

The book tells the story of an investigator whose views change dramatically as his knowledge of Spain quite dramatically grows in the course of a few years. He comes under the influence of the Catholic Church, very directly, as an experience that repeats itself in certain holy Spanish places. This...

The novel ROMEO AND JULIET IN L.A. gives the story of the making of a film called that, which is the story of street kids enacting the Romeo-and-Juliet theme to a tragic conclusion, and the novel as it happens tells that story--the story of Mayo, Julie, Adam, Angel, and Reno--against...

The book gathers the work of two eminent writers with a view to making a window on Spain and Latin America as they were at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. These were two very different writers; but they knew and admired each other's writing. The Nicaraguan was a little older (born in 1967,...

The book makes use of the developed possibilities of modern American writing, enriched by centuries of European example and newly opened out to include free verse and the prose poem as well as accentual-syllabic verse. The author takes the position that all three forms are viable, as practised by...

The hero of the novel, CLEAN AND SOBER, is a representative figure in his southern California world (Santa Barbara), an artist and a teacher, i.e., his teaching supports his art. He is very much a citizen of his time and place, a middle-class white male struggling to keep his head above water in a...

He came from Ohio. Young, unsure of himself, innocent. He came to Europe as an infantryman battling his way into the heart of Germany. There he stopped being unsure of himself. He stopped when he first went into battle and heard the singing of bullets close overhead, heard the crump of the...