E N T A S I S  P R E S S
Publication date:  January 26, 2008
ISBN  978-0-9800999-0-4

GIlbert L. Gigliotti's anthology of verse referencing Old Blue Eyes in
every possible way will delight both Sinatra fans and poetry fans
alike.  The sixty poets Gigliotti has included offer a multiplicity of views
that are, as Gigliotti says in his introduction to the book, "as
contradictory as the man himself . . . at times harsh, satiric,
sentimental, erotic, comic, and tragic."

Poets include:

Gerald Early                               David Lloyd
Landis Everson                         Kathleen Norris
Maria Mazziotti Gillan                Diane Raptosh
Allen Ginsberg                           Jack Ridl
Beckian Fritz Goldberg             Ravi Shankar
William Hartman                       Ruth Stone
George Jessel                           Virgil Suarez
David Lehman                           Robert Wrigley
Gilbert L. Gigliotti is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Central Connecticut State University.
A specialist in the classical influences on early American literature, he has taught courses on such Puritan
writers as Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Edward Taylor, as well as on Greek and Roman literature and
the literature of Sinatra. The author of  A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (2002), Gigliotti has
mounted several exhibits of his Sinatra memorabilia collection, lectures frequently on the singer, and hosts a
weekly radio show on Tuesday mornings on WFCS 107.7 FM (New Britain/Hartford) and at www.wfcsradio.
com. His wife cried more than he when Sinatra died, and his daughters are two of the very few of their
generation to have seen 1943’s Ghosts on the Loose with Ava Gardner, Bela Lugosi, Huntz Hall, and Leo
Gorcey.                             Click here to listen to Gilbert Gigliotti discuss this book .
Sinatra . . . but buddy, I'm a kind of poem
Gilbert L. Gigliotti  Editor
McCallum-Smith creates vivid portraits of individuals who bear the scars of
failed relationships, misunderstood intentions, sexual and physical abuse,
and spiritual isolation. These nine stories, which move effortlessly from the
19th to the 21st centuries, take the reader to a Mexican colonial city for a
Day of the Dead celebration, to visitors’ day at a Glasgow prison, to Belle
Epoch New York, to the contemporary art scene of London, to villages of
Scotland’s rugged coast, and to Montreal, where a hockey fan’s keen
interest in the game leads to an unexpected dilemma. McCallum-Smith’s
ability to give a comic and wry edge to a dark scene, to capture the patois of
both high and low society, to navigate the turbulent waters of dysfunctional
families, and to pull her readers through the emotional undertow of these
stories attests to the power of her fictive voice. Much of the pleasure for
readers lies in her masterful use of syntax and figurative language; her
talent for finding exactly the right images to convey mood and setting gives
her work its immediacy and its keen sense of place, creating elements of
lasting beauty and transcendent insight.
Born and raised in Scotland, Susan
McCallum-Smith currently lives in Baltimore,
where she is a freelance editor and book
reviewer. Her work has appeared in Urbanite,
The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Scottish
Review of Books; her reviews are often heard
on Maryland Public Radio. She received her
MA from Johns Hopkins University and her
MFA from Bennington College. Slipping the
Moorings is her first book.
Slipping the Moorings
Stories by Susan McCallum-Smith
Woodsia
Poems by Kelly McGuinness
Kelly McGuinness embodies in her work a rare combination of
hardheaded sensibility and mystical insight, with results that are
intelligent and often deeply moving.  Her work has appeared in many
journals and magazines including the Antioch Review, Green
Mountain Review, Conduit, The National Poetry Review, Sou'wester,
and Sycamore Review. In his introduction to Woodsia,  Andrew
Hudgins praises the lyrical grace of these poems while providing
insight into their multiple layers of meaning. Woodsia is Kelly
McGuinness's first book.



Kelly McGuinness, a law enforcement agent, is a certified yoga
instructor and Thai masseuse living in Brooklyn, New York.
American Future
Poems by Peter Bethanis
Peter Behtanis has published poems in more than fifty journals and
magazines including Poetry, Blue Viiolin, Aethlon, River Review,
Lullwater Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Tar River Review, The
Mellon Poetry Anthology, The Iconoclast, and The Blue Collar Review.
His work achieves a fine balance between his keen observations of the
minutiae of everyday life and the profound questions we all raise as we
search for deeper meanings that underlie experience.



Peter Bethanis received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.  An assistant professor at Ball State University in Muncie,
he is the co-author of Dada and Surrealism for Beginners.
American Future is his first book of poems.