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There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden

1 review
Leon Forrest

Another Chicago Press, 1988

As fine a book as you'll find
For several years this book was lost, and then it had a resurgence as it was reprinted in 1998. Now it seems to have faded once again, which is understandable. It's dense and difficult to read and Leon Forrest never had a critic to champion his cause the way Ishmael Reed had Henry Louis Gates. That said, let's keep it our little secret. People don't write books like this anymore, which is the ...

Divine Days

2 reviews
Leon Forrest

Another Chicago Press, 1992

jazz, stories, history- it doesn't get any better than this!
Written in the free-form style of jazz music, Leon Forrest's novel captures the pride, woe and miracle of a people and of a generation. There will never be a more human, more complete, more whole celebration of storytelling and history than Divine Days!!!

Another Chicago Magazine ACM 16

Another Chicago Press, 1986

Another Chicago Press, copyright 1986, paperback, 220 pages, includes work by: James Bertolino Wanda Coleman Clayton Eshleman Hugh Fox Marilyn Krysl Thomas McGrath Robert Nichols, Converstion with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, new traslations of Neruda, Wales poetry, Peter Michelson on Women and Pornorotica, LITERATURE

Eva Mary

3 reviews
Linda McCarriston

Another Chicago Press, 1991

Witness to the evils of "a man's home is his castle"
Too easy to call this book confessional or post-confessional, labels which too often have reduced its predecessors (I'm thinking especially of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton) to stereotypes of hysteria. The reduction was wrong there; it would be wrong here too. What *is* here is a calling to account of the social structures that continue to permit husbands and fathers to exercise the "rule of ...

Jack's Universe

1 review
Robert Pope

Another Chicago Press, 1994

A wonderful piece of fiction, by a master craftsman!!!
Robert Pope creates a wonderful, character driven, story that is truly "hard to put down." Jack Henley's universe is one filled with obsession, fantasy, and vicariousness. If you've ever wondered "what happened to Holden Caulfield?" you will love this story. Pope is a master of his art, intertwining heavy doses of lightheartedness and light doses of heavy existentialism. Above all, it is the ...

The Bloodworth Orphans
Leon Forrest

Another Chicago Press, 1987

a novel, foreword by John G. Cawelti

ACM, Another Chicage Magazine 15
Various Authors

Another Chicago Press, 1986

5 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 1/2" - 180 pages - Poetry, Prose, Art, Et Al. - a veryinteresting historical viewloint of Chicago & its viewpoints in the 80's