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Poetry Chapbook. SPICER''S CITY is 6 prose-poems which have to do with men, names, war, the city, films, relations, ends, lacks of end, means and meanings. The drama of recognition is a story without names. The double, the ambivalent, the uncertain, these are the categories we must accept. Only something like a mineral garden is left. (from Laura) Only something like poems, nourishment in paragraphs, names of musings and experiences, experiments, attempts, which ask us to consider: What have I said? What have I done? In a story about memory do the memories make any difference? (from 12 O''clock High)

Poetry. "If poems can be profoundly emotional - illuminating the persistently difficult zero of experience - these poems are. Precise, compelling, moving, simple, yet in places skirting the edges of what can be said, the writing in SYMMETRY feels absolutely necessary. Its toughness, honesty and eyes-open confrontation with the unnameable may make you weep"-Norman Fischer.

New York in den Goldenen Zwanzigern: Eine turbulente Metropole voller Leben, Musik, Abenteuer - ein aufregendes Versprechen. Als die fünfzehnjährige Louise aus dem verschlafenen Kansas dorthin reist, um Tänzerin zu werden, geht für sie ein Traum in Erfüllung. Hals über Kopf stürzt sich das neugierige, unkonventionelle Mädchen in diese berauschende Welt - sehr zum Missfallen ihrer Anstandsdame Cora, einer Frau mit traditionellen Wertvorstellungen. Doch hinter Coras korrekter Fassade verbirgt sich ein trauriges Schicksal, von dem niemand ahnt. Die Reise nach New York ist für sie eine Reise in die Vergangenheit.

This is the story of grandparents of*****The Nine Irish Sons*****Brigid Jones meets Patrick a.k.a. Jones O''Malley when he walks into her mother''s bakery in Dublin. He''s dressed as an Admiral and she sees an idealized image of the father she never met. The two decide they were meant for each other almost immediately when they discover that they have identical ambitions---to marry, own a cottage, and raise a bunch of children, and interestingly dismiss the need for a romantic courtship.Unknown, however, are private lives that are filled with unspoken suffering and strange ordeals. In the end, they are blessed with the many children they both desired, but not all were their own. Brigid says in the end, "Sometimes I think there are millions of Irish spirits desperate to be born whether they end up with a decent life or not---it''s as if none of us are as important as that next life that just has to be brought into the world in Ireland."

This is a story taken from the lineage of the O''Malley family in "The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons".Around 300 B.C., a handsome Roman general, nephew of the reigning Caesar, is sent off to battle pirates and bring home treasure for the glory of Rome. Along the way, he comes across an extremely unusual Irish ship crewed by both male and female pirates, a bad omen as far as his crew is concerned . . . and an unlikely source of any kind of treasure. Nonetheless, the general is instantly smitten by the ship''s beautiful captain and orders his reluctant crew to pursue the strange vessel. Despite disaster, his quest continues until the general is taken prisoner by an unfriendly King. When the King turns him over to an ugly peasant woman, our hero continues to pine for his lost love. Both prisoner and caretaker live in fantasy worlds where they yearn for what they cannot have until a shocking discovery changes everything for both of them.

About the book . . . Sandy Hook, New Jersey is called a barrier spit. It looks like a little finger that sticks up out of the State into the New York Bay just south of New York City. It is located on the northeast side of New Jersey. It is approximately six miles long and its width varies between one-tenth of a mile, and one mile wide, and ends in Middletown Township in Monmouth County. The name comes from the Dutch who called the area "Sant Hoek", meaning "spit of land."The Sandy Hook Lighthouse---originally the New York Lighthouse---was commissioned by George Washington and is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States. Many of the records of the lighthouse keepers are missing between 1923 and 1962. This lighthouse seemed to conjure up many stories over the years. Its endless association with legends and obscurities includes a mysterious sea and abandoned human bones.*****A child of an Irish Baron and housemaid discovers she was abandoned to a couple on a baby farm in Scotland. She loves her foster parents deeply, but they are killed in an accident, and she is scooped away from the farm by a rich and very strict Calvinist aunt.She suffers additional tragedies despite being blessed with a good education and wealth through several deaths. Her life of heartbreak and desire is never quenched until she has a baby of her own, Nora.But it was a short-lived reprieve from unhappiness, as a catastrophe takes her and her rich husband Harry Fairmont, who had lost all he owned in the stock market crash of 1929.Nora miraculously ends up on the barrier spit of Sandy Hook where she grows up in the lighthouse with strangers during the depression.

Short descriptionAlexis Dering is the son of a rich lord in Exeter, EnglandWhen he learns that his ancestors were frauds and hypo-crites, guilty of unspeakable crimes, he decides to strike out on his own, leaving his wealth and potential positionbehind.Despite his desire to help humanity and live a peaceful life, he runs into endless obstacles. His life is filled with unrequitedlove and tragedy. Only late in life does he discover true love, and hope to live the life he has always desired.

Kevin O''Malley & The Oxford Connection follows The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons trilogy, but precedes the first book in time. However, much like a sequel, this story references parts of the original trilogy which should be read first.This story is pure fiction. But the idea behind it came from a multitude of real news reports by The New York Times, The Guardian, CSPAN, The Huffington Post, PBS, and other sources that that have reported and explained the cultural beliefs, greed, and immorality behind the insane enslavement and torture of women and children.While the tale itself could be equated to a comic book action hero styled story, it is also filled with the emotional terror of real situations, and presents the reader with many provocative questions about a netherworld of evil that not only exists across all nations, but is one that is often ignored by law enforcement.