If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness
Rembrandt van Rijn: A Self-Portrait

Stephen Frech

Seventeenth century Dutch painter Rembrandt’s life, known to us almost exclusively through the paintings and tantalizingly thin written documentation, is the stuff of real drama: he survived several plague outbreaks, two wives, and four children. Taking their cue from Rembrandt’s work, these lyric poems convey the emotional life of the artist and show him as deeply human: flawed, burdened, sympathetic, and desperately honest about himself and others.

Selected by Pattiann Rogers as the winner of the Sixth Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, these lyric poems convey the emotional life of the artist and show him as deeply human: flawed, burdened, sympathetic, and desperately honest about himself and others. Stephen Frech has published widely in magazines and journals. He lives in Chicago.

Poetry

6 x 9 96 pages $14.00 1-893996-13-1

A Bowl of Sour Cherries
Yelena Franklin
New American Voices Series
Fiction, Multicultural Studies, Women's Studies

A stunning story about a woman's return from the U.S. to a homeland that no longer exists.

Pushing forty and an oversized load of responsibility, a clash of cultures finally causes a Yugoslav-born woman to go to Yugoslavia to reclaim her father, her responsibility, her mooring. Bit by bit, she unearths the past, examining the emotions and conf licts of her immediate family and the motley, indomitable nation she stubbornly loves. Strong enough to cope with the conflicting demands of modern womanhood, she is undone by the slow, maddening disintegration of the old, disillusioned, card-carrying bu ilder of Yugoslav Socialism. As she watches him and everything he fought for crumble into dust, she loses her sense and measure of who she is.

“the horrors that have befallen the former Yugoslavia, it is not surprising that many would look back on the Communist era nostalgically. Franklin revisits the twilight years of the Tito era, a world full of eccentric family and friends. Serbs, Croats, and Muslims coexisting happily before being engulfed in civil war. In this semiautobiographical novel, an Americanized Yugoslav woman returns home for a visit and to check up on her aging father, a war hero and former dip lomat whose declining health mirrors the inevitable disintegration of the nation. The interpersonal dynamics between characters are reminiscent of Neil Simon's bittersweet comedies. Franklin's love for her country comes through in every sentence. Frank lin has written the “perfect”expatriate novel for the end of the century.”Ted Leventhal

ISBN 1-877727-81-4 ·6x9 ·242 pages ·$14.00

Ximena at the Crossroads
Yelena Franklin
Secret Weavers Series Vol. 12
Fiction, Latin American Studies, Women's Studies

“thought-provoking novel...a refreshingly unjaundiced look at an individual and a society in transition.”—Américas

Ximena, chronically ill, spends hours in bed looking at picture books, thinking, and dreaming. Her imagination stimulated by fairy tales, Greek myths, and ancient Indian legends, she confuses fantasy with everyday existence. Forced to piece together sni ppets of information, she forms a not-quite-coherent picture of life in the Andes, where her window looks out on both a magnificent landscape and the squalor of an Indian encampment. But her world begins to change. The Indians rebel, and her parents mak e preparations to flee their home. Ximena begins to awaken from her muddle of fantasies and realities to her own complexities and to society's prejudices.

ISBN 1-877727-80-6 ·5.5x8.5 ·270 pages ·$14.00

The Un-American: A Novel by Emanuel Fried

“have had lots of books about McCarthyism...few have had the powerful personal impact of Fried’s book.” - Kansas City People’s Culture

ISBN 1-877800-02-3 · 6 x 9 · 530 pages · $14.95 paper

Selected Poems of Olav Hauge
Translated by Robin Fulton

“is a fine book that deserves recognition for the talents of both author and translator. Recommended.” -Choice

ISBN 1-877727-03-2 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 92 pages · $9.00 paper

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