"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from
the cone."
- Jim Feiberg
New Release June 12th, 2009: Anthem poems by CL Bledsoe
CL Bledsoe has published work
in over 200 journals and
anthologies, including The
Cimarron Review, Nimrod and
The Arkansas Review. Winner
of the Blue Collar Review's
Working People's Poetry
Contest, he is also a 3-time
Pushcart Prize nominee. He is
an editor for Ghoti Magazine.
http://www.ghotimag.com and
the author of a chapbook
entitled_______(Want/Need)
CL Bledsoe's Anthem is succinct, shrewd and
contemporary. Bledsoe is a modern-age poet with the
unique ability to bring the reader smack into the
moment with him ... Anthem's poems are no exception.
Often confessional, occasionally biting, Bledsoe proves
once again that he is the poet for generation X, Y and
whatever lies beyond.
- Patricia Gomes, editor of Adagio Verse Quarterly and poetry
moderator of iVillage's Poet's Workshop
Fresh, funny, hip, anarchic, jaded, secretly hopeful,
angry, wry, laid-back: to read CL Bledsoe's Anthem is
to enter a world that may make you twitch - but will
surely help you keep on keeping on. These songs of
punked-out innocence stage-strut across the page,
even when they claim they're simply slacking on the
couch. Join Frog and Death and the absinthe squirrels
on a savvy, consciousness-jolting road-trip through
the landscape of right now. I loved this smart and
artful book. I bet you will to. Open it. Find out.
- Jeanne Larsen, winner of the AWP poetry book award
$15.00 | ISBN 978-0-615-25796-9 | 65 Pages | In Stock
New Release June 12th, 2009: Anezka Ceska by Jaromir Horec
Jaromir Horec was born on December 18, 1921 in Chust, in Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia,
which in 1919, at the treaty of Versailles, had voted to become part of the newly formed
Czechoslovak Republic with an enlightened, freely elected government led by the
humanist philosopher, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.
Throughout the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Jaromír Hoec was active in the
underground anti-Nazi youth movement. After World War II, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia
was not returned to Czechoslovakia but was annexed by Stalin to the Soviet Union. Thus
Horec, living in Prague, became an expatriate in his own country. He was a prolific poet,
who was not allowed to publish for two periods of twenty years each: 1948-1966 and 1969-1989.
In 1977, he signed Charter 77 and two years later, he founded the Czech underground press Ceska Expedice
for which he was imprisoned in 1981. His many works of poetry, include Anezka Ceska, and Chleb Na Stole, as well as
many other publications, such as Why I Am Not a Communist and Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia-an Unknown land have
been coming out only since 1989.
$15.00 | ISBN 978-0-578-02262-8 | 54 Pages | In Stock
New Release June 12th, 2009: Pretty Little Lies Ten Generations Of Southern Hypocrisy by W. R. Mayo
Pretty Little Lies, as told from the perspective of a member of the southern Mayo clan,
reads like a gothic novel spanning centuries. In a take no prisoners accounting. W. R.
Mayo's memoir is a serious undertaking that makes for fascinating reading. Though not from
an old southern family, I, for one recognize much of what we all carry in our DNA.
- Susan Tepper, author of DEER
In his biting family memoir, Pretty Little Lies, W. R. Mayo courageously puts a dagger
into the heart of the southern plantation myth. By unflinchingly facing his own dysfunctional
past, Mayo gives the romantic, idealized version of ante- and post-bellum life below the
Mason-Dixon Line a well-deserved paddling. In moving prose, he reveals the underbelly of the
"big house"- a way of life created and sustained by traffic in human slavery and one reliant
upon the manipulation, or far worse, of the land and those who lived and toiled upon it.
Pretty Little Lies is a must read for anyone looking to see past the mythology of the
Old South.
- J. B. Hogan, author
Unflinching. Revealing. In this exhaustively researched family history, Mayo charts the rise
of a Southern family from its roots in England to the founding of a plantation in Southeastern
Arkansas in the middle of the nineteenth century. Through the degradations of the Civil War,
two world wars, and countless family conflicts still raging to this day, Mayo lays bare the
mythology of Southern "Nobility." He frankly examines the treatment of slaves by his family
which led to "the other Mayos," a family of blacks descended from these slaves, and describes
the uncompromising natures of his progenitors. From his mother who never apologized for anything,
considering it a waste of time to his racist, domineering father, Mayo chronicles the infighting,
manipulation, and xenophobia prevalent in his family's past. Mayo digs to the core to face
head-on not only the lies, exaggerations and conscious-salving stories of "pride" passed down
within his family, but also to uncover the real story of Southern history. As Faulkner said, "The
past is never dead. In fact, it's not even past." Mayo's past is certainly not dead, though this
book is an attempt to put a stake through it's heart.
- C. L. Bledsoe, author of Anthem, Riceland and editor for Ghoti Magazine
$15.95 | ISBN 978-0-9773695-4-0 | 211 Pages | In Stock
New Release May 5th, 2009: Opuscula Small thoughts, hardly worthy of note by Steve Glines
Steve Glines, in addition to being the editor of Wilderness House Literary Review, is an essayist, journalist, storyteller, occasional
poet and bon vivant. His motto is, "The best is barely good enough." Steve has published six books, only one of which might be considered
even remotely "literary," a travelogue about Fiji. He has been published in Ibbetson Review, The Belmont Citizen, The Littleton Independent,
Unix Review, Technology Review, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Hartford Current among others. He has never been published in
The Paris Review, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, The Atlantic Monthly or The Kenyon Review. To these awesome credentials it should be
added that he has never received a McArthur Award nor been nominated for a Pulitzer or Pushcart Prize. Still, for some reason, people
like what he writes and, on occasion, even pay him for it.
$7.00 | 37 Pages | In Stock
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ABOUT THE PRESS
ČERVENÁ BARVA PRESS was founded in April of 2005.
The press solicits poetry, fiction, and plays from various writers
around the world, and holds open contests regularly for its chapbooks,
postcards, broadsides and full-length books.
I look for work that has a strong voice, is unique, and that takes risks with language.
Please see submission guidelines for current information.
I encourage queries from Central and Eastern Europe
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Gloria Mindock is editor and publisher of Červená Barva Press. In 2007, she took over as editor of the
Istanbul Literature Review, an online journal based in Turkey.
She is the author of two chapbooks, Doppelganger (S. Press), Oh Angel (U Šoku Štampa) and is the author of two books,
Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson St. Press, 2007) and Nothing Divine Here (U Šoku Štampa) which is forthcoming in 2008.
Gloria has been published in numerous journals including River Styx,
Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, Ibbetson St., WHLR, Poesia, Arabesques, Bogg and UNU: Revista de Cultura in Romania with
translations by Flavia Cosma. She has work in numerous anthologies including Bagel With the Bards No.1 and No. 2,
Murmur of Voices by Cogito Press in Romania/Translations by Flavia Cosma and forthcoming in a WHLR.
anthology which she is editing.
Gloria has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was awarded a fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council.
From 1984-1994, she edited the Boston Literary Review/BLuR and was co-founder of Theatre S & S. Press, Inc.
Theatre S. received grants from the Polaroid Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Globe Foundation,
New England for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Somerville Arts Council.
With an extensive background in theatre, Gloria has written and performed numerous performance pieces including
BIG BOMB BUICKS, WHERE DID ALL THOSE BIRDS AND DOGS COME FROM?, I WISH FRANCISCO FRANCO WOULD LOVE ME, and
SKIN CELLS, MAGGOTS, AND OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST. Her poetry collection called Doppelganger was a text of a
theatre piece of the same name performed by THEATRE S. A review by STAGES stated she took great liberties with
Poe and "captured the romantic desperation of "William Wilson," a tale of self-destructive double-identity."
For over 36 years, Gloria has performed, acted, composed music, and sang in the theatre.
Her newest performance piece, to be performed in September, is called WALKING IN El SALVADOR. Gloria works
as a Social Worker and freelances editing manuscripts and conducting workshops for writers.
Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock
Ibbetson Street Press, 2007
In her fascinating poem cycle, Gloria Mindock jolts back into memory the roots of El Salvador's present day violence.
Mindock coaxes to the page the voices of the dead who lie, less in peace, than in restless obsession with the atrocities
they suffered. She brings forth as well the voices of the living who seem startled to find that they died somewhere between
the horrors they witnessed and the grave they have yet to lie down in. Blood Soaked Dresses is a beautiful,
harrowing first book.
--Catherine Sasanov
Also available at Grolier Poetry Bookstore in Cambridge, MA., and can be ordered online at: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and Powells.
For signed copies: order directly from the author at: P.O. Box 440357, W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222 ($13.50 plus $3.00 S/H)
To read reviews go to:
Boston Globe review by Ellen Steinbaum
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene Reviews:
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=lo+gallucio
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=irene+koronas
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