John Flynn: 6 books

An E-book re-issue of a collection originally published in June, 1997 by E. Mellon Press. In 1998, it earned the Peace Corp's annual award for best poetry book by a former volunteer. Forrest Gander described the poems as "not absurdly modern, but they take the risk of articulating a serious moral...

This poetry collection brings to mind Nathanael West's novella Day of the Locust. It examines the sun-baked denizens of Hollywood with all their posturing, their sound and fury--all amounting to nothing. This is a world of sad ciphers; ready to make a deal, do lunch, and who never really connect...

This is a book of poems, short and lyrical, in four sections. The final section of the book is a collection of long poems about life in the former Soviet Union, notably the Republic of Moldova.

A 1972 graduate of the State University of Chisinau, Nicolae Dabija is the author of many volumes of poetry and essays, among them The Third Eye (1975), Pure Water (1980), In The Name of Orpheus (1983), The Unsigned Painting (1985), A Wing Under The Shirt (1989), Blackbird Once Wild, Now Tame (1992),...

The title story of Something Grand earned the 1990 H.G. Roberts Foundation Award from Kansas State University. This is a republishing as an E-version of the original story collection, first published in 2002.

The Land of the Left details the authors travels in a number of socialist or leftward leaning countries throughout the globe examining the effect of their system of government on both the economy and the lives of average citizens. It is as much about the people and places visited and the various travails...