Christ, With Urban Fox
John F. Deane
Poetry; Multicultural Studies

“is truly magnificent poetry; the music of thought and feeling and the music of language itself is wonderfully fused.”- Denise Levertov

“...we meet an affronted gentleness...in the suburbs, Christ the fox cries, or dies, maimed in a snare. Deane's poems radiate the desire of the spirit to believe despite the harshness of our world.”

Original Trade Paperback
ISBN: 1-877727 - 72-5 ·5.5x8.5 ·$12.00

City and the Child

Ales Debeljak

Debeljak’s previous collection Anxious Moments was a tremendous critical success. Yet between 1990 and 1995, commensurate with Yugoslavia’s slide into war, Debeljak wrote no poems. It took the birth of his daughter, his new muse, to bring forth this collection of irregular sonnets. The Child and the City is a meditation on the conjunction of war and fatherhood, and national literary tradition.

Poetry Terra Incognita Series 5

5.5 x 8.5 96 pages $14.00 1-877727-99-7

Anxious Moments
Prose Poems by Ales Debeljak
Translated by Christopher Merrill

ISBN 1-877727-35-0 · 78 pp · $12.00 paper

In This Sacred Place
Poli Delano

Translated by John J. Hassett & Philip Metzidakis

$16.00 240 pages ISBN 1-893996-59-X
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Gabriel Canales, raised in the countryside, has come to Santiago to attend university and seek his fortune. He soon falls into a pattern of partying, but when he kills a man, he's forced to flee. The police rule the death an accident, and given a fresh start, he returns to the city, where fate hands him Teresa, a political activist who awakens Gabriel to the reality of what has been happening in Chile while he was partying his life away. Now, he finds himself somehow locked in the
men's room of a downtown movie house. With nothing better to do, he creates a movie of his mind. "Rolling at a given speed the film of your own lifexperiences and see them projected onto the screen of your astonished mind," he tells us. But he's about to be even more astonished: the gunshots he hears aren't coming from a movie.

Poli Delano was born in Madrid, Spain and grew up in Chile. With the overthrow of the Allende government in 1973, he, like thousands of Chileans, was forced into exile. He returned to Chile twelve years later and now lives in Santiago, where he continues to write. His work has won many prestigious literary awards in Latin America, and his novels and short stories have been published in Mexico, Europe, Canada, and throughour Latin America. This is his first work to appears in English.

"Poli Délano's novel is the daring metaphor of a tremendous social crisis in Latin America. The
brutality of its graffiti embodied by the hero caught with his pants down is, without a doubt, one of the
most surprising attempts by a Latin American author to parody Yankee comic strips about triumphant heroes on horseback, on space ships or in tanks belonging to a two-bit Pentagon."
-Fernando Alegría - author of The New Latin American Novel

"Inserted within a specific temporal and spatial framework: Santiago, Chile, September 1973, this novel is without a doubt, one of our most significant portrayals of the convulsive environment that is
today's Latin America. Its appearance enriches the already existent saga achieved by such works as
Portable Country (González León), A Manual for Manuel (Cortázar) and Conversation in the Cathedral (Vargas Llosa), to name just a few." -Ariel Muniz - Plural, Mexico

We needed this novel. The brutal fascist assault against the Chilean people has provoked an endless
array of studies, essays and even defenses of such behavior. But we really needed to have in our hands this fresh, ironic narrative text filled with more comprehension than hatred and resentment towards a sector of Santiago's politicized middle class which, with its romantic escapades, its problems, its confidence in the future, had to confront a reality that was deteriorating day by day before its very eyes.
-Fausto Castillo - El Día, Mexico

River of Sorrows

Libertad Demitropulos

This book evokes the era of exploration and settlement of Argentina in the late 16th century, but also speaks to the military dictatorship of 1976-83, which is when the book was written. It imagines the voices of those who are voiceless in official history: women, black slaves, and mestizos. Here, just as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo did four centuries later, it is the women who remember and speak out for justice. Set during the 16th century tumult of exploration and first settlements along the Parana River in Argentina, River of Sorrows, based on actual events, is told by people marginalized and usually invisible in history. Mestizo soldier Blas de Acuna’s great unrequited love for the firey Maria Muratore prompts him to tell the story of Maria’s amazing exploits, but it’s not Blas but his second wife who insures that Maria is not forgotten by history. By constantly retelling the story, she creates a larger-than-life image that embraces all the women who kept the settlements alive, propped up the men and put loaded guns in their hands, and became the collective memory of a nation that, 450 years later, would be home to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Demitropulos Libertad, who died in July of 1998, is widely recognized as one of the finest Argentine writers of the twentieth century. Of her seven novels, River of Sorrows is the most acclaimed. Mary G. Berg’s translations of Latin American writers have been widely published. She teaches at Harvard University.

Fiction Women's Literature Secret Weavers Series 14

6 x 9 196 pages $14.00 1-877727-88-1

Heart of Darkness

Ferida Durakovic
Introduction by Greg Simon

Ferida Durakovic refused to leave Sarajevo when the bombs began to fall. Having seen her home and library bombed, she invokes in her poems the icons and myths of a troubled people caught between the two dominant religions of Europe. The first English-language collection by one of Bosnia’s most promising young poets shows us how when the world is narrowed by guns, one’s field of reference widens so much that everything hurts.

Poetry Women's Literature Terra Incognita Series 3

5.5 x 8.5 112 pages $14.00 1-877727-91-1

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