Monday, November 11, 2013

News Release: Wall Street Revolution


 
November 11, 2013

Fisher King Press and il piccolo editions are pleased to announce another new publication:

Wall Street Revolution and Other Poems
by Charles Zeiders

Wall Street Revolution and Other Poems draws on the perennial wisdom of the Western religious tradition to treat the disease of 21st century nihilism. These poems are at once comical, candid, prophetic, and even healing to the wound in the Western mind. The collection takes the reader on a journey through the Faustian bargains and idolatries that have defined the postwar and postmodern years. Like Dante, the poet shows that only Love and love can satisfy the needs of the individual and collective soul.  In terms of the spiritual poetry addressing the madness of the postmodern moment, this work is unique and enlightening.

News Release: Dark Healing


 
November 11, 2013

Fisher King Press and il piccolo editions are pleased to announce another new publication:

Dark Healing
by Richard E. Messer

These poems, written from lived experience, speak for the survivors of personal violence. The pain inflicted on so many families in our violent age has seldom been faced with such unflinching determination to depict it honestly and wrest from it an acceptance of suffering based on a full, active and meaningful view of life. Does anyone escape suffering? No, that is why those who survive and go on to a new acceptance of life, reach out to those who are for the present victims. Tragedy teaches what intuition always whispers: there is a realm in which we are all present to each other; we are One in the deep heart’s core. We mourn those who die, and we move on through the knowledge that what has happened to them, no matter how brutal or tragic, does not define them—or us. Our spirits and our souls tell us who we are and give our lives their meaning.