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The new collection of poetry from award-winning author Donald Levin "offers a deeply satisfying self-portrait in poetry that maps the terrain of his past against the social and political dimensions of our time" (Terry Bonhorst Blackhawk, author of One Less River). Bridging the worlds of mythology, music, war, photography, art, and literature, Levin's "passionate and well-crafted poems . . . [strive] to grasp meaning in our disillusionment, yearnings, and failures, while he wonders what we owe each other as human beings" (Linda K. Sienkiewicz, author of Sleepwalker).A rich, deeply felt collection from the author of Savage City and The Arsenal of Deceit.

This is a typewritten sketchbook in the spontaneous flavor of writing styles often ignored. A book about fighting against the tidal wave of existence, only to admit that you're the water. It's a book of poetry. Objectified. A thing of words. A voice made out of ink. Written by a person. Themes of joy, themes of confusion. Whatever. It's a book. Made from days gone by now lacking the meaning attributed to real time. It's fiction. A book. Read it. Forget it. Move on. Roll With it. By Andrew K. Published by West Vine Press. 2023.

In his newest collection of stories, Patrick Trotti has created a portrait of forgotten people living on the fringes. Featuring thirteen never before published stories, The Roles We Inherit will entertain and haunt readers. Using a direct style mixed with self-deprecating humor, these characters search for answers even though they're not entirely sure if the questions posed will lead to salvation.A recently sober man recounts all he's been through during a panic attack while trying to reunite with the wife he fears might never come back. A young couple uses a hurricane as cover to loot an abandoned mansion to try and save their new marriage. An addict tries a new drug on the same day he's let out of the hospital for a drug-induced seizure. A young aimless man returns home to find his mother had him killed overseas in a war rather than admit to her neighbors that he's floundering.As these stories, and others, unfold, Trotti explores the vast underbelly of society and shows us just how relatable suffering can be.

At twenty-three years old, Dan Simmonds wants nothing more than time: time to listen to his favorite death metal bands, time to replay the video games of his childhood, time to study the dreamlike paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, time to watch all the classic action movies of the eighties and nineties. But as a recent college graduate with a liberal arts degree in one hand and a threat of eviction from his dad's house in the other, Dan has to find a Real Job to support himself by the end of the summer. Enter Infinity Systems Corporation: an enigmatic technology company whose headquarters are housed within a one-hundred and twenty-seven-floor skyscraper standing alone amid the vast swath of upstate New York farmland just outside Dan's rural hometown of Topine, New York.When Dan gets called in for an interview at the ISC tower, his life seems to be moving in the right direction. But moments after stepping into the lobby, things start to get weird. Here he meets a receptionist with an anger management problem, an executive who has not left her office bathroom in half a century, a former track and field star who only needs one hour of sleep per night, an elevator operator who creates the most popular animal plushies in the world, and other eccentric employees. And as if that isn't enough, there are the rumors of a phantom-like serial killer with supernatural abilities who has been wreaking havoc within the tower for the past ninety-six years.Full of mystery, horror, and Kafkaesque absurdity, Skyscraper is a kaleidoscopic exploration of our rapidly evolving relationships with technology, social media, careers, and each other.