Announcing The Publication of “UnInvented Ear” by Leon Fedolfi.

by Henry Stanton

I prefer to let other insightful readers (and reviewers) tell our followers about a book we are publishing. When the publisher of a book works to convince you the read is worth your while, there is always the risk of the sound of sales. In this case though I want to encourage our readers myself to buy and read this book. Leon Fedolfi is surely one of my favorite poets. He would be on that special shelf with Whitman, Williams, Bukowski, Creeley, Stafford, Ashberry, (a few others) if my library weren’t such a mess. James Fedolfi is a unique poet with language and imagery and understanding that can twist you around with its fine expression. “How did I get here this way!” I love it when I read poems and have to struggle to get my feet back under me. Enjoy!

— Henry Stanton, Poet, Painter, Publisher

Fedolfi’s book is a strange, potent, and dangerous demolition packet, carefully constructed to raze the usual artificial structures that we think our minds need to make sense of the world… He doesn’t waste time with the often petty, transient concerns of the small, subjective self, but is always concerned with the larger, collective questions of being human.

— Dave Sims, Editor, The Raw Art Review

In Uninvented Ear: Selected Poems, Leon Fedolfi conducts a symphony of sound and image with a magical lyricism in which “bird wings recur into birds.” These poems explore a hint of the quotidian long enough to carry us “where astronaut owls/see beyond the moon.” They persist on naming what is beautiful even while their “feet are hurting like new teeth.” They pulse with war both on the battlefield, and in the theatre of the mind. And yes, these poems leap from many voices, so that they might shine varied lights to reveal the darkness. To enter these poems is to enter the multisensorial of a strange new world that somehow divides its mirror into this one, reaching for universal love. Read this book to tune your UnInvented ear.


— Eileen Cleary, author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (2019) 2 a.m. with Keats (2021)

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Announcing The Publication of “ON DOWN THE LINE” – poetry by David Beaudouin.

by Henry Stanton

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Announcing the forthcoming publication of:

by Henry Stanton

“An Accident of birth”

a Memoir by T. Alex Blum

When a stranger who turns out to be his niece receives an extra 23andMe test by mistake, it changes Alex Blum’s life forever.  

At the age of sixty, Alex Blum made a life-altering discovery: he was the eldest of four biological brothers he never knew existed. Born in 1955, Blum had always known he was adopted, yet the secrecy of the era kept every detail of his origins sealed. Without a court order, he spent decades without a single clue about where he came from, or why he had been given up.

Raised by a wealthy family on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Blum grew up surrounded by privilege but plagued by a deep sense of disconnection. He often felt out of place and emotionally unmoored, longing for a sense of belonging that never arrived.

Having built a career helping others tell their stories, first for brands as a commercial producer and then as a feature film producer with credits including Behind Enemy Lines and Flight of the Phoenix for 20th Century Fox—Blum finally turns the camera on himself in An Accident of Birth.

More than a memoir of adoption and reunion, An Accident of Birth explores the universal emotional landscape shared by adoptees everywhere. With candid, affecting prose, Blum examines the pressures of “adoptee gratitude,” the quiet ache of alienation, and the lifelong search for identity, connection, and home.

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Announcing The Publication of “THE MEANING OF LIFE” poetry by Ellen Carter.

by Henry Stanton

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Announcing The Publication of “Reflections of France: Images and Poems” by Kim McNealy Sosin and Janet McMillan Rives.

by Henry Stanton
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Announcing The Publication of “UnInvented Ear” by Leon Fedolfi.

by Henry Stanton

I prefer to let other insightful readers (and reviewers) tell our followers about a book we are publishing. When the publisher of a book works to convince you the read is worth your while, there is always the risk of the sound of sales. In this case though I want to encourage our readers myself to buy and read this book. Leon Fedolfi is surely one of my favorite poets. He would be on that special shelf with Whitman, Williams, Bukowski, Creeley, Stafford, Ashberry, (a few others) if my library weren’t such a mess. James Fedolfi is a unique poet with language and imagery and understanding that can twist you around with its fine expression. “How did I get here this way!” I love it when I read poems and have to struggle to get my feet back under me. Enjoy!

— Henry Stanton, Poet, Painter, Publisher

Fedolfi’s book is a strange, potent, and dangerous demolition packet, carefully constructed to raze the usual artificial structures that we think our minds need to make sense of the world… He doesn’t waste time with the often petty, transient concerns of the small, subjective self, but is always concerned with the larger, collective questions of being human.

— Dave Sims, Editor, The Raw Art Review

In Uninvented Ear: Selected Poems, Leon Fedolfi conducts a symphony of sound and image with a magical lyricism in which “bird wings recur into birds.” These poems explore a hint of the quotidian long enough to carry us “where astronaut owls/see beyond the moon.” They persist on naming what is beautiful even while their “feet are hurting like new teeth.” They pulse with war both on the battlefield, and in the theatre of the mind. And yes, these poems leap from many voices, so that they might shine varied lights to reveal the darkness. To enter these poems is to enter the multisensorial of a strange new world that somehow divides its mirror into this one, reaching for universal love. Read this book to tune your UnInvented ear.


— Eileen Cleary, author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (2019) 2 a.m. with Keats (2021)

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by Henry Stanton

Announcing the publication of:

The Church of the Oversoul and Other Stories

by Ethan Goffman

We tell ourselves stories to live.
Joan Didion


We use the gift of storytelling to make sense of this strange, horrible, wonderful, slippery thing called life. From literary fiction to a sprinkling of fantasy, these stories and a novella provide a surrealistic roadmap to our strangest of times, encompassing political anger in the workplace, climate disaster in cherished spaces, virtual reality in daily life, artificial intelligence and the human psyche, sexual fluidity and ambiguity, and the paradoxes of new age evangelicalism. The Church of the Oversoul and Other Stories will leave you pondering just who we are in the twenty-first century, how we got here, and what might come next.

“A good story is more important than complete fidelity to the truth,” Ethan Goffman writes. Indeed, throughout this collection of short stories, truth proves chimeric, as borderlines between fact and fantasy perpetually shift. Dreams and visions infiltrate the lives of Goffman’s characters, who themselves often seem rather hapless. Despite the elements of magical realism that infuse Goffman’s stories, there are no storybook heroes or villains here, only ordinary people caught in a dystopian world, who nevertheless manage to muddle through. At first glance, these stories might strike the reader as being rather sad, even forlorn. But look again — there is a dark comedy at work here, a cosmic joke, which Goffman strives to illuminate. These are stories of dogged endurance by those who rebel against an often hostile universe. The outcomes may be bittersweet, even tragic, but the human spirit carries on, unconquered.

W. Luther Jett, renowned Washington, DC area poetry advocate and organizer and the author of Flying to America (Broadstone Press, 2024)

“Salvador Dali must be laughing or crying in his grave—probably both—at this dripping, oozing world,” notes one character in The Church of the Oversoul and Other Stories. Reading this book is like taking a vacation into other realms. Ethan Goffman offers stories ranging from the brief to the connected or interconnected pieces of the seven-part “Pifflemeyer.”
You know the rollercoaster has started when Goffman gives readers “a day as lovely as a Hallmark card.” Then, there is the Vonnegut-like tone of “Bertha.” “The Book of Joe” has its own unique connection to the biblical Book of Job while “A Real Man” seems an extension of Anthony Burgess’s novel The Wanting Seed. “The Cruelest Month” asks, “Why doesn’t more go wrong with people?” Goffman shows us how that’s possible within these pages.


Bill Cushing, author of The Commies Come to Waterton, Heroic Brothers of the Civil War, and other books

THE CHURCH OF THE OVERSOUL by Ethan Goffman

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Announcing The Publication of “MAIDEN ROCK” by Peter Mladinic.

by Henry Stanton

Peter Mladinic is my patron saint of strays — stray dogs, stray people, stray memories which gain profound meaning in combination with things which would not be obvious to another, but allow Mladinic quiet epiphanies which stop inches before false resolution might be added. While there is happiness here, a profound melancholy also washes through many of these poems. There are old dogs finally out of options, nuns with their tender humanity masked by their habits, lovers finally lost to one another, but who might pick up the pieces with unconsidered possibilities of the past. There is also the guilt of the hero who can’t, finally, save anyone, not even himself, but who still persists. Read these poems with an open heart and allow yourself the wonders Mladinic offers. He understands that any war is every war, and invites the reader to the uneasy peace that sometimes comes as we stumble our way through the broken minefields of our own long walk into night.

—Jeff Weddle, author of Driving the Lost Highway and winner of the Eudora Welty Prize.

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MAIDEN ROCK by Peter Mladinic

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