100 AMERICAN POETS AGAINST THE WAR A PROTEST ANTHOLOGY Edited, Selected, and Introducted by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine

Over 100 of the most important literary figures in The United States join together in this protest against the Iraqi War and the Bush Administration including: Jonathan Aaron, Sandra Alcosser, Richard Allen , Beth Anderson, Nin Andrews , John Ashbery, John Balaban, Mary Jo Bang, Amiri Baraka, Coleman Barks, Gerald Barrax, Robin Becker, Marvin Bell, Wendell Berry, Frank Bidart , George Bilgere, Diann Blakely, Robert Bly, Chana Bloch, Philip Booth, Bruce Bond, Catherine Bowman , George Bradley, John Brehm, Richard Broderick, Lucie Brock-Broido, Hayden Carruth, Anne Carson, Rosemary Catacalos, Jerah Chadwick, Marilyn Chin, Nicholas Christopher, Lucille Clifton , Joshua Clover, William Collins , Michael S. Collins , Douglas Crase, Robert Creeley, Victor Hernandez Cruz, James Cummins, Lydia Davis ,Debra Kang Dean, Chard deNiord, Carl Dennis, Susan Dickman, Brian D. Dietrich, Thomas M. Disch, Patrick Donnelly, Rita Dove, John Drury, Norman Dubie, Stephen Dunn, Stuart Dybek, Russell Edson, Elaine Equi, Irving Feldman, Gary Fincke, Charles Fort, Aaron Fogel , Alice Friman, Alice Fulton, Brendan Galvin, James Galvin, Ted Genoways, Dan Gerber , Amy Gerstler, Jack Gilbert, Sandra Gilbert , Louise Glück ,Michael Goldman, Ray Gonzalez , Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, Debra Greger, Allen Grossman, Katharine Haake, Kimiko Hahn,John Haines, Donald Hall , Mark Halliday, Barbara Hamby, Sam Hamill, Jim Harrison, Michael S. Harper , Matthea Harvey, Robert Hass , Vickey Hearne, Jennifer Michael Hecht , Bob Hicok , George Higgins , Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland , John Hollander , Garrett Hongo, Richard Howard, John Hollander, Amy Holman , Gray Jacobik, Rodney Jones, Mary Karr, Joy Katz , X. J. Kennedy, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, David Kirby, Karl Kirchwey , Galway Kinnell , Carolyn Kizer, Ron Koertge , Jennifer L. , John Koethe, Jusef Komunyakaa, William Kulik, Stanley Kunitz,, Ann Lauterbach, Dorianne Laux ,Li-Young Lee, David Lehman, Denise Levertov , Philip Levine, David Mamet , Gigi Marks Harry Matthews, J. D. McClatchy, Campbell McGrath, W. S. Merwin, Joni Mitchell, Susan Mitchell, Albert F. Moritz, Heather Moss , Stanley Moss, Thylias Moss, Brighde Mullins, Joan Murray, Paul Muldoon, Peggy Munson, Marilyn Nelson, Rik Nelson, Daniel Nester, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Franco Pagnucci, Eric Pankey, Ishle Yi Park, Molly Peacock,Bob Perelman, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Katha Pollitt, D. A. Powell, Tony Hoagland, Kevin Prufer, David Ray, Adrienne Rich, Alberto Rios, Ed Roberson, Pattiann Rogers, Charles Rossiter, Kay Ryan , Sonia Sanchez, Vijay Seshadri , Grace Schulman, Alan R. Shapiro, David Shapiro, Myra Shapiro, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, Thomas R. Sleigh, Bruce Smith Charlie Smith, Thomas R. Smith, Marcia Southwick, David St. John, Maura Stanton, Gerald Stern, Ruth Stone, Gary Synder, Larissa Szporluk, John Taggart, James Tate , Diane Thiel , William Tremblay , Natasha Trethewey, Nance van Winckel, Judith Vollmer , David Wagoner, Derek Walcott, Ronald Wallace, Lewis Warsh, Rosanna Warren, William Wenthe, Susan Wheeler, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Terence Winch, David Wojahn, Phil Woods, Charles Wright , C. D. Wright, Jay Wright, Robert Wrigley, Michael Wunderlich, Timothy Young, Anna Ziegler, and Ahmos Zu-Bolton II.

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.