New fiction by HC Hsu
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In this debut short story collection from HC Hsu love and death converge in a maze of desire where strangers find intimacy with as well as inflict violence on one another as their lives twist together and fall apart.
HC Hsu is the author of the short story collection Love Is Sweeter, and a collection of essays Middle of the Night (Deerbrook Editions 2012). Finalist for the Wendell Mayo Award and the South Pacific Review and The Austin Chronicle short story prizes, Third Prize Winner of the Memoir essay competition, First Place Winner of A Midsummer Tale Contest, and The Best American Essays Nominee, he has written for Words Without Borders, Two Lines, PRISM International, Renditions, Far Enough East, Cha, Pif, Big Bridge, Iodine, nthposition, 100 Word Story, China Daily News, Liberty Times, Epoch Times, and many others. He has served as translator for the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and his translation of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s biography Steel Gate to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield).
New poetry by Martina Reisz Newberry
Available now.
Praise for Blues for French Roast
Newberry's poems arrive like a friend bearing news. We think we are to hear something ordinary, then suddenly it becomes unusual. Or we find ourselves being told something odd . . . and it gets even odder. Newberry is a poet of spiritual surprise, a poet of transcending images pulled from a very real, contemporary, attentive woman's life.
—John Balaban, is the author of Locusts At The Edge of Summer and the winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize.
I believe I’ve known Martina Reisz Newberry for well over 10 years. Known in that odd way we have become accustomed to these days; without ever having been in the same room together. We became friends over the internet. Initially on a kind of poet’s listserve, then through e-mail, snail mail, and now with social media added to the mix. I have been reading and following her poetry the whole time and for me the release of a new book of Martina’s work is always an event of note. And so it is with “BLUES for FRENCH ROAST with CHICORY.”
Herein you will find poems in which the sky can break into jigsaw puzzle pieces and fall to the ground, the setting winter sun apologizes for leaving homeless people still cold, and a skyfull of stars consider their own mortality.
These are poems full of magic and ghosts: the corpulent ghost with “a thunderstorm of a smile” in the title poem and the “great ghosts” of Geodes. Or the magic can be as simple as the transcendence of snow falling expressed by one who’s never seen it fall.
—Michael J. Arcangelini is the author of two books of poetry, With Fingers At the Tips of My Words and Room Enough.
