Marick Press Introduces New Authors April 11, 2009

MARICK PRESS INTRODUCES NEW AUTHORS APRIL 11
‘ INRI’, ‘Been and Gone’, ‘American Prophet’, ‘It May Do Well With Strawberries’ and ‘At the Revelation Restaurant and Other Poems’ are publisher’s new books for 2009

GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. – Marick Press, a literary publisher dedicated to poetry and fiction, will release its new titles: Poetry translations of ‘ INRI’ by William Rowe, and ‘Been and Gone’ by Piotr Florczyk, the non-fiction ‘It May Do Well With Strawberries’ by David Matlin, and poetry collections ‘American Prophet’ by Robert Fanning and ‘At the Revelation Restaurant and Other Poems’ by Alicia Ostriker for Spring 2009 at the Stata Center at the MIT.

Raul Zurita, winner of the Chilean National Poetry Prize, is one of the best known poets of Latin America. His work is part of a revolution in poetic language that began in the 1970s and sought to find new forms of expression, radically different from those of Pablo Neruda. The challenge was to confront the contemporary epoch, with its particular forms of violence, including violence done to language. In 2005, Raul Zurita, wrote INRI a book about the Pinochet regime victim’s. Zurita bulldozed a poem into the sand of the Atacama Desert. It read ni pena ni miedo: neither pain nor fear. Long ago, it would have been obliterated by rains and wind, but the people in the nearest village still carry shovels into the desert on Sundays and they turn over the sand of the letters to keep it fresh. Zurita is considered one of the most important Chilean poets of his generation. Translated into English by William Rowe. INRI
 will be published by Marick Press and distributed by Wayne State University Press and SPDbooks in spring 2009. William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics in the Department of Spanish and the School of English and Humanities. He has published six books and over eighty articles on Latin American literature and culture. He has also published translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry and his research interests include the theory and practice of literary translation.

Born in Gliwice in 1946, Julian Kornhauser, the author of “Been and Gone,” is one of the most acclaimed figures of Polish poetry writing today, while also being an uncompromising critic, translator and professor of South-Slavic literatures at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. This debut collection of his work in English, which draws exclusively on his three most recent volumes and presents the poems in a new arrangement together with their Polish originals, should not be viewed as an attempt by the translator to recap the poet’s voluminous and diverse body of work, even though it does in fact touch upon most, if not all, of Kornhauser’s formal strategies and thematic concerns, thus giving American readers the opportunity to discover one of Poland’s most important contemporary writers in Piotr Florczyk’s splendid translations.

David Matlin is that dangerous thing, a writer’s writer. (William O’Rourke). ‘It Might Do Well With Strawberries’ is an important book. Writing a book of days for his time and country, David Matlin provides us with a glimpse of how one might witness and record the life of the nation in a new way. Combining lyrical verse, prose, responses to daily events, joys of friendship, gardening and literary meditations, Matlin gives us an astounding mosaic of our time. David Matlin is a novelist and poet who lives in San Diego, California and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at San Diego State University.

At once lyrical, humorous, heartbreaking, bitter, and wry — American Prophet, by Robert Fanning, introduces a character like none other seen in the history of poetry. This engaging collection of poems details the sojourns of a so-called Prophet across the American landscape, from coastal beaches to strip malls to cities to heartland farms. As the Prophet tries continually but fails to reach “his people,” his urgent messages go unnoticed or get swallowed by the machines and cacophony of contemporary America. Robert Fanning (The Seed Thieves, Marick Press 2006) is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Central Michigan University.

At the Revelation Restaurant and Other Poems’ bring us the best of Alicia Ostriker. Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is author of eleven volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven (2005). As a critic Ostriker is the author of two path breaking volumes on women’s poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. Her most recent critical book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic. She has also published three books on the Bible, Feminist Revision and the Bible, the controversial The Nakedness of the Fathers; Biblical Visions and Revisions, a combination of prose and poetry that re-imagines the Bible from the perspective of a contemporary Jewish woman, and most recently, For the Love of God: the Bible as an Open Book.

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Titles scheduled for publication in the Fall 2009 included books By Gerry LaFemina and The Country of Loneliness by Dawn Paul and a book by poet Jerome Rothenberg (Gematrias Selected).

Galley proofs are available upon request

Marick Press Events
All events are open to the public
Launch celebration
Join Marick Press and the Latin-American Alumni of MIT for the spring 2009 launch of new books by Marick Press. An introduction by editors at Marick Press will be followed by poetry readings Raul Zurita, William Rowe, David Matlin and Robert Fanning. The readings will be followed by cocktail party.
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009 at the Stata House at the MIT
Time: 2-5pm
Location: ROOM TO BE ANNOUNCED
Admission: Free admission
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