Authors: Adam Henry Carriere
Miles (26 page)
Adam Henry
Carrière
is an online
habitué specializing in letters, publishing design, and instruction. A former
NPR broadcaster, he holds a BA in Film & Video from
Columbia
College
and an MA in Professional Writing from the
University
of
Southern California
. He has taught writing at both his alma mater and
for the United States Navy across the Pacific. Born on the South Side of
Chicago, Adam now resides in
Las
Vegas
, where he has won the Nevada
Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. He styles as Verleger / Herausgeber of
Nevada’s first online literary magazine,
Danse Macabre
. He is widely
published across the web as well as the author of novels
Miles
(2012)
and
Hi's Cool
(2013) and the poetry collection
Zigeunertänze
(2009,
2012). A second poetry collection,
The Symphony Shostakovitch Never
Wrote
, is forthcoming from Bench Press (NZ).
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Catalogue
Zigeunertänze
poetry
Adam Henry Carrière
A Gypsy’s dance and his music are elaborate
and fantastical, understood somehow in all the lands he travels. Like
Carrière’s collection of poems, ZIGEUNERTÄNZE, the Gypsy bewitches with
his sparkling, lively strangeness. And like the Roma, the ostinato of this
book is romantic love, sometimes embodied, other times imagined and wished
for. Stylistically tense as a well-strung bow, and agile with a turn of
phrase, ZIGEUNERTÄNZE runs the scale of human emotions from a place of
unspeakable longing that begs articulation.
Richard, Zombie King
fiction
Robert C.J. Graves
Richard Diemar is under a love spell cast by a
beautiful witch who tricks him into murdering his father and brothers. After
she refuses to marry him, he flees to a settlement of polygamists, steals the
patriarch’s youngest wife, and takes her to
New Orleans
where a voodoo
mambo turns them into zombies. Richard escapes living-death when a snake god
shows him how to travel through inner-dimensions found in shadows. He reunites
with the witch, whose spell still holds him, when he finds her reincarnated as
a giant serpent, and together they set out to build a zombie kingdom. Packed
with love, betrayal, dark history, and heady revenge, RICHARD, ZOMBIE KING is
full of what readers crave: myth, murder, mayhem, magic, the dead, and, of
course, the undead.
Laissez les terreurs commencer!
Spaced
poetry from
South Asia
Sheikha A.
SPACED speaks to a time that hasn’t yet forgotten, or
forgiven. Each poem is an echo, a voice leveled in tonality, like a sounder
that is used to measure the depth of water but in the process causes
reverberating ripples all around its space. Author Sheikha A. navigates the
philosophies of love and spirituality in search of the aura beating within
both. Can adoration be alchemized into new forms of divinity, into images that
transcend demarcations into lucidity? SPACED eschews reasoning for feeling,
exploring avenues of balance within imagery and patience through the beauty of
the precisely-selected word. There is no stillness of heart in this extensive
and empathetic collection.
The Olive Stain
and other Stories
fiction & photography
Kristin Fouquet
THE OLIVE STAIN and Other Stories is an illustrated
chapbook of fiction from celebrated
New
Orleans
photographer Kristin Fouquet.
Each tale is not only a narrative snapshot in the finest traditions of short
fiction but features a bespoke visual rendering in monochrome. These
distinctive portraitures of the Gothic, the idiosyncratic, and the macabre will
transport you to a captivating literary landscape set amid haunting visual
panoramas only a denizen of
New Orleans
could create.
Ono
poetry from
New Zealand
Mercedes Webb-Pullman
ONO is the latest collection from acclaimed
New Zealand
poet
Mercedes Webb-Pullman (LOOKING FOR KEROUAC, AFTER THE DANSE). Devotees of
Mercedes’ kaleidoscopic oeuvre will greet this new gathering as an event;
lovers of world poetry new to her work will delight in the layers of concentric
etymology and passion that infuse Mercedes’ prose. In ONO, indigenous Maori
speech is illuminated through the subconscious of the observer, the meditations
of the traveller, and the sensuality of the wanderer. Count ONO as a radiant
addition to any poetry lover’s bookshelf.
Death Road
fiction
Robert J. Gregg
DEATH
ROAD
is both a thriller and a shocker for young and old.
Depicted are the political scene on the U.S. side of the Mexican border and the
lethal rivalry between the Latinos and the ‘Whites,’ the dirty tricks, the
rumors, the fights, rapes, killings, and evilest of all, the indifference.
DEATH ROAD is also a story of unusual friendship and love in which right and
wrong interweave, oppose, fight, die - and keep the reader arrested if not
shocked. Though so many may perish on so painful and apparently senseless a road,
“Life burned on unconsumed.”
The Middle-Relief Man
fiction
Loretta Carrière
A young Afghan mujahideen arrives in
France
with
a cache of Stinger missiles for sale. A cell of National Security Agency
operatives in
Paris
is being systematically murdered. An American Serb
obsessed with becoming a player in the Yugoslav civil war enters the fray, on a
collision course with the untested emergency replacement sent to retrieve the
secret
US
position in
France
. Treachery, cold war enmities, mesmeric nationalism,
deeply-held faiths, and the ultimate weapon of sex all intertwine in THE MIDDLE-RELIEF
MAN to create a mosaic of old school espionage stripped naked before the advent
of history and the eternal rules of the game.
PURCHASE THE MIDDLE-RELIEF MAN
mango-red leaves
poetry
Fragano Ledgister
MANGO-RED LEAVES is a fulsome collection of poems
almost all in formal modes – ballades, sonnets, Chaucerian roundels, villanelles,
chants royal – that are marked by reflection, introspection, and occasionally
moments of humour, anger, and wit. It is driven by memory and history, the
author Fragano Ledgister’s own and the shared histories of the communities to
which he belongs and in which he has lived. Through it all, Ledgister seeks to
maintain a consistent voice, one that questions rather than hectors, that is
amused and not weary. Poetry is not journalism, to be sure, but it can document
stories in the same manner. These are Ledgister’s little stories. They are
there to fill the interstices of larger narratives, to refresh the places that
prose cannot - or will not - reach.
A House Made of Glass
poetry from
Serbia
Tatjana Debeljaèki
A HOUSE MADE OF GLASS is an intimate exploration of
the senses and the sensual, wrought in the spare yet passionate verbal
landscapes that have brought international acclaim to its author, Serbian poet
Tatjana Debeljaèki. Each poem appears in its original Serbian form as well as
in English translation: Poetry lovers in both languages will delight in this
unique collection from Hammer & Anvil Books, “Les éditeurs électroniques de
lettres outré”...
Raptus
fiction from
Bulgaria
Svet di-Nahum
Overtaken by mass madness, Earth is ruled by RAPTUS,
a global conspiracy by corporations, banks, stock exchanges, political
movements, religions, criminal cartels, and media to poison and imprison the
planet’s very consciousness. Despite this leviathan evil, a young scientist
appointed by the Institute for International Strategic Investigations to
identify what remaining Achilles' heel RAPTUS may yet possess breaks free of
its Svengali-like controls and emerges to openly resist it. A Dystopian
thriller for the global 21st Century, RAPTUS will arrest your imagination with
prescient detail, well-honed historical veracity, and the kind of human drama
that traverses the millennia.
Looking for Kerouac
travelogue / memoir from
New Zealand
Mercedes Webb-Pullman
LOOKING FOR KEROUAC is a mélange of creative
non-fiction, prose and poetry, travelogue and memoir, from acclaimed
New Zealand
poet & author Mercedes Webb-Pullman. Layering flashbacks from her American
honeymoon 30 years ago with journeys by train in search of remnants of the
world of Kerouac and Co. in their cross-hatching travels over their country,
“LOOKING FOR KEROUAC is certainly a piece of writing that Kerouac or any other
stream-of-consciousness guru would be proud of. Allow the whole thing to
hypnotize and bliss you out.” (Robert Clark Young, CNF Editor, Connotation
Press).