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2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its November releases that shares stories of memories, poetry and prose.
Written Eye: Visuals/Verses, a collection of ekphrasitc poetry, A Country Without Borders, Poems and Stories of Kashmir, the debut poetry collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, and The Fourth Moment, Journeys From The Known to The Unknown, a memoir by Carole J. Garrison. Print editions are available for preorder on Amazon.com and ebooks will be available for sale on 2Leaf Press’ website and other online outlets on November 1, 2017.
The Fourth Moment, Journeys From The Known to The Unknown is a memoir by Carole .J. Garrison. Through a series of tragedies and triumphs, blunders and epiphanies, Garrison’s life has been filled with a number of unusual detours from being a suburban housewife in Miami, to becoming a single mom and police officer in Atlanta, to returning to school to become a seasoned ethics and women studies professor in Ohio and Kentucky, to working in Cambodia as it emerged from decades of civil strife, with some personal challenges in between, all the while growing into the passionate humanitarian she is today. Her stories reflect the acute perceptions of a woman for whom every day is a new adventure and a fresh opportunity to learn. In The Fourth Moment, Garrison reveals truths not always within everyday reach, but certainly within everyday aspirations, something that readers will be able to connect to. Garrison is retired professor who currently teaches online and does volunteer work in her community of Huntington, West Virginia. www.cjgarrison.com.
Written Eye: Visuals/Verse by A. Robert Lee offers poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. This is Lee’s third poetry collection with 2Leaf Press that explores the ekphrastic nature of poetry. In this collection, he focuses on the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of painting or sculpture in a manner that engages and amplifies their meaning. Accessible and insightful, these delightful poems express the poet’s playful attention to a wide international range of paintings, photography, films, sculptures and architecture and the impact literary and visual arts can have on society. For those interested in the re-thinking of ekphrastic poetry’s motives and purposes, and the interplay between poetry and visual art, Written Eye: Visuals/Verse will be essential reading. Lee is a retired professor and scholar and resides in Murcia, Spain.
A Country Without Borders, Poems and Stories About Kashmir is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Hindi Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home, culture, migration, womanhood, otherness and exile. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven, evoking a home no longer accessible. Few Hindi Kashmiri women poets preceding her, or any of her contemporaries, have recorded their lives with such precision. In these poems and stories, Pandit Hogan shares a detailed description of her childhood in Anantnag and Kulgam, to immigrating to the United States and living in Wisconsin, a confluence of Indian and Western cultures that embody the full spectrum of her work. In this autobiographical collection of poems and stories, Pandit Hogan provides an extensive preface that educates readers about Kashmir and her family’s history and place in it. The book is remarkable not only for her graphic accounts of individual suffering, anguish and pain, but also for her poignant and fond memories of what Kashmir is and what it should be, which is framed in a sense of place. A Country Without Borders is an invaluable collection for all who are interested in cultural remembrance and meditations that reflect postcolonial poetry, and to students reading South Asian literature and culture. Pandit Hogan is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, and affiliate faculty of the South Asia Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Please contact me at gdavid[at]2leafpress[dot]org for book reviews, readings and interviews.
