Meredith Sue Willis
www.meredithsuewillis.com

                                                                        6-26-21

 

Dear Friends,
      Some of you know that for many years I've been involved in a small cooperative press called Hamilton Stone Editions.  It has an online literary journal, The Hamilton Stone Review. full of terrific poetry and prose , as well as an imprint called Irene Weinberger Books.
       HSE and IWB have a sterling line-up of new books for Summer 2021. Take a look at these below, and also at the websites for their older (and still in-print!) publications: Hamilton Stone Editions and Irene Weinberger books.
       Support working writers and independent voices!

                                                                                                                   Meredith Sue Willis

 

 

 

 

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H A M I L T O N  S T O N E  E D I T I O N S

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Irene Weinberger Books

Present...

 

 

Jane Lazarre (author of many books including The Communist and the Communist's Daughter; Inheritance; and The Mother Knot) has a new book of poems:

Breaking Light

 

"There is a formality in these pages, a reliance on structure to contain the powerful yet often restrained emotions. Light, nature, mourning and love provide a deep and familiar comfort and stimulation that remain long after we've stopped reading."
                                                  From the Introduction, by Dr. Miryam Sivan

 

Jane Lazarre is the author of numerous works. Her first and most recent memoir, The Mother Knot and The Communist and The Communist's Daughter (Duke University Press) are published in Spanish by Las afueras of Barcelona as El Nudo Materno and El Comunista y La Hija del Comunista. Her stories and essays have been widely published in journals and online. She founded and directed the undergraduate writing program at the Eugene Lang College at the New School where she taught Creative Writing and Literature; she has also taught at the City College of New York and Yale University. Lazarre serves on the Board of Directors of The Brotherhood Sister Sol, a social justice youth development non-profit organization in Harlem, New York.

 

 

Hilton Obenzinger (author of Busy Dying, Treyf Pesach, and many other books) has poems about the quarantine, politics, and beyond:

Witness

 

Diane di Prima says: "I have been following Hilton Obenzinger’s work with delight and astonishment for over 40 years. He is a treasure. Funny, surreal, radical – he is the American Jonathan Swift."

Michael Berkowitz in People's World says,"Hilton Obenzinger’s new book of poems Witness 2017-2020 bristles with righteous energy.... It captures the moments when a candid, often florid observer puts down his camera and joins, nay leads the struggle for meaning, justice, and change."

Jonah Raskin says, "The poems in Witness call for reader participation. In stunning ways, they offer a surrealist take on the news, and invite readers to make some news of their own. They're also a kind of incantation meant to exorcise the unholy ghost of Donald Trump, whose name appears more than a dozen times in these pages — more than one might want— and to usher in a new era where all lives matter, where we all age with dignity and we all go into the future, no matter what it might bring. One doesn't expect any the less from veterans of the Sixties who have gone on dreaming the dream and who have gone into the streets over and over again over the past five-decades."

 

Hilton Obenzinger writes fiction, poetry, history and criticism. His books have received the American Book Award and other honors. His book How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience, is based on the series of "How I Write" public conversations with Stanford faculty and other advanced writers. His other books include Beginning: The Immigration Poems, 1924-1926, of Nachman Obenzinger, poems by his father translated from the Yiddish by Benjamin Weiner, edited by Hilton Obenzinger. His other books include the autobiographical novel Busy Dying, Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger, an oral history of his aunt's ordeal during the war. His history of the fires of New York in verse was selected by the Village Voice as one of the best books of the year and nominated by the Bay Area Book Reviewer's Association for its award in poetry; This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem received the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. Born in 1947 in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and graduating Columbia University in 1969, he has taught on the Yurok Indian Reservation, operated a community printing press in San Francisco's Mission District, co-edited a publication devoted to Middle East peace, worked as a commercial writer and instructional designer, taught writing, comedy, and American literature at Stanford University. He received his doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford. Currently, he is Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.

 

 

 

Miguel Antonio Ortiz has two new books: The Vagueness of the Tropics, Short Stories for Adults and And Mario and the Cats, for children:

 

 

Learn more at Irene Weinberger Books or at Amazon

Miguel Antonio Ortiz was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. He grew up in the South Bronx, and graduated from the High School of Music & Art and the City College of New York. He was an editor for Hanging Loose Press and Publications Director for Teachers & Writers Collaborative. In the business world, he worked as a computer programmer for Chase Manhattan Bank, Merrill Lynch and TIAA-CREF. Happily married for 39 years, he is the father of two sons. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Some words about his novel King of Swords: "It is not often that I finish a novel wishing that it had gone on longer. However, that was how I felt after finishing this beautifully written book by Miguel Ortiz." –William W. Bernhardt, English Professor, City University of New York "The technical proficiency of Ortiz's writing throughout the work is worthy of praise… his writing is lyrical without relying on cliché, expressive without bogging down the reader with too much description or explanation…. He handles very well the generational gap between his major characters, and equally well the manner in which the seeds of bitterness are sown." – Curled Up With a Good Book

 

Also don't miss

Mario y la Vaca
por Miguel Antonio Ortiz
ilustrado por Adalberto Ortiz

 

 

and in English!

Mario and the Cow
by Miguel Antonio Ortiz
illustrated by Adalberto Ortiz

School Library Journal says:
"A solid ... purchase ... with Latinx characters and settings"