AMERICAN POETS AGAINST THE WAR A Protest Anthology Against the War in Iraq and the Bush Administration Selected, Edited, and Introduced by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine

Over 100 leading literary figures in the United States join together in this protest against the Iraqi War and the Bush Administration including: Sandra Alcosser, Nin Andrews, John Balaban, Mary Jo Bang, Amiri Baraka, Coleman Barks, Marvin Bell, Wendell Berry, Frank Bidart, George Bilgere, Robert Bly, Chana Bloch, Bruce Bond, John Brehm, Alan Britt, Geoffrey Brock, Lucie Brock-Broido, Richard Broderick, David Budbill, Scott Cairns, Hayden Carruth, Jerah Chadwick, Marilyn Chin, Nicholas Christopher, Michael Collier, Michael Collins, Robert Creely, Brian D. Dietrich, Page Dougherty Delano, Chard diNiord, Patrick Donnelly, Rita Dove, Norman Dubie, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Elaine Equi, Irving Feldman, Gary Finck, Charles Fort, Alice Friman, Alice Fulton, Brendan Galvin, Dan Gerber, Sandra Gilbert, Milton S. Glaser, Jorie Graham, Michael Gregory, Donald Hall, Sam Hamill, Matthea Harvey, Robert Hass, William Helmuth Heyen, Tony Hoagland, John Hollander, Rodney Jones, Mary Karr, Joy Katz, Galway Kinnell, Karl Kirschway, Ron Koertge, John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Krieger, Dorianne Laux, David Lehman, Susan Lenfestey, Philip Levine, Gigi Marks, Joni Mitchell, Susan Mitchell, Albert F. Moritz, Thylias Moss, Joan Murray, Marilyn Nelson, Rik Nelson, Hugh Ogden, Franco Pagnucci, Elise Paschen Osage, Rob Perelman, Patrick Phillips, Katha Pollitt, D. A. Powell, Kevin Prufer, David Ray, Charles Rossiter, Kay Ryan, David St. John, Philip Schultz, Myra Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Thomas R. Sleigh, Bruce Smith, Thomas R. Smith, Ronald Donald Spector, Maura Stanton, Gerald Stern, Terese Svoboda, Larissa Szporluk, Diane Thiel, William Tremblay, Nance van Winckel, Ronald Wallace, Martin Walls, Lewis Warsh, William Wenthe, C. K. Williams, Robert Wrigley, Timothy Young, Bill Zavatsy.

GREENLAND A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY CHRISTIAN K. NARKIEWICZ-LAINE

For this poet, Greenland is a myth, a symbolic place that he frequently observed flying between Scandinavia and the Americas, starting early in life as a child. The gigantic ice-covered island, which for all reasons should be classified as "a continent," is mythological in proportion: a solid frozen wasteland with icebergs, ice mountains, and a great and vast ice desert. The poet sees Greenland as a metaphor; a diffuse and oceanic medium of life; and ultimately, a place he will "never touch" or step foot on. Such myths are likened to a dream-like state, which are dangerous, quixotic, and something that ultimately signifies the ultimate in isolation. Enticed, but, at the same time, approached with intellectual hesitancy and much reluctant apprehension.

The title of this recent collection of poems does not refer to the physical locality of "Greenland," but serves more to summon a symbolic reference to the poet's identical state of being that connects the realms of living and dying—where love, happiness, joy, sorrow, pain, and pleasure straddle inside the great divide. Like Greenland, everything there is indecipherable, intransigent, temporary, fleeting, fragile, and more important, inexplicable. As humans, we strive to interpret, dream, contemplate, doubt, and evaluate in order to ascertain certain truths—hidden or clearly visible. In realty, there are no answers, only a continuum of sensations and vague realizations and recollections.

Soft Cover, Perfect Bound, 112 pages.

DISTANT FIRES A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY CHRISTIAN K. NARKIEWICZ-LAINE

This new book by the American/European poet, Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, written between 1990 and 1996, establishes the author as a new international voice in poetry today. The style of writing is intense, metamorphical, and filled with symbolism and with observations about life and about a quest for a higher state of existence. Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine, however, is not so concerned about life's physical realities, but more about the spiritual and moral consequences. There is a certain agony about life on the edge of paradox: the strong contrasts between the natural and the supernatural; between living and dying, and between what is remembered and what is forgotten. For this poet, life is as ephemeral as fire, which burns bright and then quickly fades away.

English/144 pages/Perfect Bound.

BALTIC HOURS A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY CHRISTIAN K. NARKIEWICZ-LAINE

This new book of poems, Baltic Hours, by the American/European poet, Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, written between 1998 and 1999, is part biographic experience, part record of a remarkable hejira through the Baltic region of Northern Europe. The work reminds us of how the power of poetry gains orientation within a natural and long ranging memory of the past, which is, at most times, unconscious and part of our lives unknowingly passed onto us by previous generations. That memory is heavy with surviving customs, a sense of primitive history, and an awareness of many cultures and traditions. These forces have their impact on this writer as he forges ahead into an equally unknown depth of current history and events. Baltic Hours reflects upon nature, human experience, love and death, good and evil—as the poet celebrates the mysteries of life on earth.