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  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”...

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  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.

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  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).

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  Râwâhi

  poetry from Oceania

  Benjamin Blake ~ Michelle Gaddes ~ Leanne Hanson ~ John Holland ~ Vaughan Rapatahana ~ Mercedes Webb-Pullman

  RAWAHI features selected works by poets from Australia and New Zealand whose collections have been published by Hammer & Anvil Books. Each writer exemplifies both their storied native lands and their vivid contributions to the oceans of world poetry. Every lover of international prose will delight in Râwâhi ~ Poetry from Oceania, which also features illustrations inspired by the Orient by Chicago artist Jeffrey Littleton.

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  Quicksand

  fiction

  Arlene Greene

  Arlene Greene’s debut novel QUICKSAND is a jewel of resonant and memorable images: scenes that will echo for the reader forever. The characters are those found in the most ubiquitous encounters - beleaguered by economic pressure, and how that duress impacts love, loyalty, and, especially, family and its ties. Yet Greene never reaches for the easy palliatives of pathos or romance. Hers is a keen eye, but a determinedly compassionate one. Readers will easily identify with each family member’s struggle as they unfurl within their unique perspectives, providing a gripping foretaste into their own psyches as well as our own. QUICKSAND is a vivid and powerful unveiling that leaves readers with a no-holds-barred story that ultimately fills the heart.

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  Nightmares

  a collection of tales

  J. Eric Castro

  NIGHTMARES is a compilation of short tales spanning a range of personal creative chaos. We live in a world of collective assaults on the psyche; here, a nightmarish gallery of colorful muggings takes a variety of story-telling shapes. From the apocalyptic to the tragic, the Biblical and existential, the experimental to the demonic, mirrors of belief are held up to the author’s many voices - and to the reader’s. Under the spells of Lovecraft and Aesop, author J. Eric Castro returns to the streets where he grew up and makes them yours. NIGHTMARES builds on the success of author Castro’s baseball drama, Rowdies (Outskirts Press, 2011) and marks his imagining as one to watch.

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  La liebre de marzo ~ The March Hare

  fiction from Uruguay

  Marosa di Giorgio, translated by Kathryn A. Kopple

  Marosa di Giorgio, a Uruguayan poet of considerable reputation, authored over a dozen works, and won numerous awards in her career. Her hybrid poetics—tone, sonics, puns, playfulness, enigmatic poetic prose—astound poets and readers to this day. Her darkest pieces are often followed by poems that cause pure delight, combining unusual phrasing with spectacular visual images. It was said of her, perhaps more than any other Latin American writer, that at its finest her poetry literally “glistened,” radiating with a lustrous sparkle. Kathryn A. Kopple, author of the acclaimed Little Velásquez (Mirth Press, 2012) brings her scholarship in Latin American studies and love of language to bear in this bespoke translation of Marosa di Giorgio’s LA LIEBRE DE MARZO ~ The March Hare.

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  Kate Moss & Other Heroines

  fiction from the United Kingdom

  Samantha Memi

  British chef and author Samantha Memi takes lovers of short fiction on a tour de force of the kind of dark humour unique to Londoners. With titles such as Kate Moss Versus the Millipede, Lamborghinis Don’t Cry, Rebellious Shoes, The Lizard’s Don Giovanni, and (ahem) The Virtuous Qualities of a Used Tampax, readers know they are in for an E-Ticket wild ride across the indie lit landscape. Fasten your lap straps!

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  A Feather of Fujiyama

  poetry from Bulgaria

  Bozhidar Pangelov

  Bozhidar Pangelov has been present among contemporary Bulgarian poets for some time. a long time. He is a poet who manages to disorder the order of the usual in order to breach a material world for a more human world of ideas and feelings. Using dramatic tensions within the poetic and semantic, Pangelov’s spare yet verdant imagery evokes the sound of bamboo sticks and Zen Buddhist monks, poem after poem. Writer and poet Palmi Ranchev says, “Pangelov will enrich the palette of world poetry with new colors and nuances.” With a light melancholy of something desired but not known to the end, forgotten but endlessly close, no lover of international verse will go unmoved by Bozhidar Pangelov’s A FEATHER OF FUJIYAMA.

  {All proceeds from the sale of this collection will go to the Bulgarian Integrated Education Foundation, working to improve the lives of children and youth with special health and educational needs (including mild Down syndrome, autism / autistic spectrum, cerebral palsy, language-speech disorders, and hyperactivity) and their families.}

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  Phantasizer

  Tales of Dread and the Fantastic

  Kyle Hemmings

  PHANTASIZER collection of stories ranges from Sci-fi to Horror to Alternate History to Fantasy to Bizzaro, with even a bit of humor thrown in. From a young runaway who finds she can telepathically communicate with wounded birds to an ill-fated desert expedition sent to search for a missing archaeologist, to an autistic man's unwitting attempts in foiling a terrorist's scheme, these pieces do not sacrifice character to plot or theme. Nor does the author shy away from shedding some light on the human condition. There is something for all and sundry in this eclectic mix, where everyone has at least one skeleton in his or her closet...and some bones scattered under the bed as well. PHANTASIZER is a must for lovers of the macabre, the dark, the mystical, the unknown, and the unpredictable. Lisa J. Cihlar, author of The Insomniac's House, remarks, “I was up late reading PHANTASIZER, and then afraid to go to bed. In the end, I dare you to look away.”

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  The Water-Lily Bloom

  A domestic tragedy in one act

  J.C. Frampton

  A ghostly visit from a dead father harbori
ng venomous resentments begins a searing rearrangement of personal identity for Angela Windom, the sophisticated, urban-professional heroine of THE WATER-LILY BLOOM, a young woman for whom the tragic Lady of Shalott is a lifelong alter ego. Visiting unannounced the mother she and her police-officer father abandoned two decades earlier, expecting to find solace over his shocking death, she is instead cast into a maelstrom of conflicting emotions and the slowly emerging reality surrounding this Janus-faced man suspiciously central to her life. This deeper truth, about herself, the mother she once harshly condemned, the man she only believed to be her father, and the small-town roué detestably her true father, thrusts Angela into an agony of spiritual confusion, challenging every foundation of a once-confident and assertive selfhood. In the naturalist tradition of August Strindberg, this tightly strung one-act play by an accomplished writer of fiction and drama is a fitting tour de force for Hammer & Anvil Books' first venture into drama.

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  Into the Blue on New Year's Eve

  flash fiction from Russia

  Valery V. Petrovskiy

  Petrovskiy is an acclaimed author from the Chuvashia region of Russia. His work has appeared in journals from around the world, and he is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist to the 2012 Open Russia Literary Contest. From his remote village near the Volga River, Petrovskiy crafts a multihued album of short fictions in the grand traditions of Turgenev and Gogol. These stories exude the warmth of family, the wonder of youth, and the love of language. INTO THE BLUE ON NEW YEAR’S EVE will delight lovers of Russian fiction and fans of flash fiction alike.

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  Under the Dog Star

  poetry from Australia

  John Holland

  In this new collection of poetry from the pen of Australian writer John Holland, we see a further development of the ideas and concepts explored in his first book, Dry Bones.

  “UNDER THE DOG STAR is a powerful collection that takes us here and there, inside and out the mind of the poet, observing the struggle, pain and doubts no human escapes, watching the intelligence dancing in a circle of stones around an inner drain. This collection feels made in the nighttime where the poet has dared to face the demons for us, finding his way back via the Dog Star's bright beam with packages tucked under his arm of truths he discovered and gives to us to open in the comfort of daylight, after our peaceful sleep.” ~ Nia Simone, author.

  Dry Bones, which was published first as an e-book by Hammer & Anvil Books in 2012, has been widely acclaimed, reaching #1 on the Poetry / Australia and Oceania best-seller list on Amazon Kindle. UNDER THE DOG STAR builds on this success while creating a new space within both Australian and world poetry.

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  Dry Bones

  poetry from Australia

  John Holland

  In DRY BONES, readers travel into the outback from page one, ready or not, into unknown territory where they can dance in the dirt and walk with horses. John Holland is a warm blooded writer with a true appreciation for the beauty of his country and the big expanse of nature. And, while he is sparse with his words and metaphors, his poems travel like song-lines over the land he loves, giving voice to the heartland of the tropical north. Here we see something different to what we have come to expect from current poets. The beat and rhythm of Australian poetry are there, but there is also a far deeper questioning of why and how we are here and our connection to an uncertain universe. DRY BONES will not leave you untouched.

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  Death of a Lottery Foe

  A Harry Krisman Mystery

  Tom Sheehan

  Introduced to readers in Murder at the Forum (Hammer & Anvil Books, 2012, “A story with elegance and grace” - Tricia Crisafuli, Faith-Hope-and Fiction) Harry Krisman, failed hockey pro turned detective, returns, hot on the trail of mismanaged lottery funds. In a colorful ocean of avarice and general incompetence, murder comes on the scene - as well as an array of silent enemies of freedom. Their shadowy machinations light a fire under both Harry and a lively corps of faithful citizens who call upon experience in their own wars to combat these villains. Midwest Book Review calls author Tom Sheehan “...the sort of writer who comes along once in a reader’s lifetime.” DEATH OF A LOTTERY FOE, the second Harry Krisman mystery, bears out this praise.

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  Murder at the Forum

  A Harry Krisman Mystery

  Tom Sheehan

  Misery comes in short order, and murder is often a step behind. Too, murder is not particular - certainly not to the Campus de Fleurs-de-Lys, a secret society veiled for centuries deep within the French nation. Using a soldier stained with defeat at Dien Bien Phu as their pawn, the Campus re-emerges in Montreal, Quebec, during the 1960’s. Squaring off against them is Harry Krisman, whose private investigations draw him ever closer to this sinister penumbra. With Les Habitants and their screaming fans as the milieu, MURDER AT THE FORUM introduces mystery mavens and sports fans alike to a new hero from the distant past whose adventures will thrill the house.

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  Antiope

  poetry from Ireland

  Peter O’Neill

  According to Homer, Antiope slept with Zeus and from their encounter bore two sons, Amphion and Zethus, who are the subject of Euripides play Antiope, of which only fragments now remain. ANTIOPE is Peter O’ Neill’s first short collection of 28 poems, the first part of a greater work in 4 parts called The Dark Pool. Like the nineteenth century French Symbolists who have so clearly influenced him, O’Neill’s skill at blending both pagan and Christian mythological motifs gives this singular collection a most distinctive and decisively modern Irish voice that daringly disturbs old gender and stylistic models while making the mundane seem epic - and putting the sublime within our reach.

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  Hitchcock Hotel

  poetry to be murdered by...

  Lyn Lifhsin

  Hitchcock. The mere name, a touchstone of the macabre. Creator of countless memories and thrills, mysteries and chills. Yet, the indelible stories he told, the masterpieces he created, must stand astride the cannily crafted mythos of Hitchcock himself. In HITCHCOCK HOTEL, acclaimed poet Lyn Lifshin journeys into this vast penumbra of platinum women, psychosis, and frenzied brilliance to unmask the man hidden behind the torn curtain at the rear window of our imaginations...

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  Ghost Dreaming

  poetry from Australia

  Leanne Hanson

  Poetry today can often be too clever or gimmicky; GHOST DREAMING stands instead as an antidote for the trivial. Its roots are deep, its poems not beneath our notice. They speak to our common humanity. They do not die alone; instead, they blossom. GHOST DREAMING is earthy, original and beats with an Australian heart that's as white as ghost gum dreaming. Leanne Hanson's work is rooted deep in Australian bedrock. But she does not fear to use her words as rafts to move to other places and times, taking you on a beautiful journey to fresh new and original poetry with a distinctive voice.

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  Fragments of a Journal Salvaged from a Charred House in Germany, 1816... and other stories

  David Massengill

  What are the consequences of an American tourist stealing a jawbone from a tomb in a Parisian cemetery? Or a husband and wife employing a house sitter as bait for the entity that has been terrorizing their home? Or a Bel Air housewife swallowing a worm-like import from Africa with the intention of losing weight? Enter the macabrely karmic world of FRAGMENTS...

  "The genius of a David Massengill short story lies not simply in its taut narrative, its bizarre and disturbing elements, its cracking pace, or its dark humor - rather, it lies in an insistence that the protagonist is complicit in his own demise, even if only through a fleeting thought or a careless action. FRAGMENTS will keep you reading story after fascinati
ng, riveting, blood-curdling story." ~ Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain, Raven Stole the Moon)

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  Carmine Carnival

  poetry from France

  Walter Ruhlmann

  Succumb to the irresistible mythologies built around the beauty of evil. Surrender to the temptations of the flesh, its vampiric shades, its mouth-watering energy. And submit to the epistolary colour Red: blood, wine, sex, desire, fire ... in Walter Ruhlmann’s haunting yet sanguine collection of poetry, CARMINE CARNIVAL.