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
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 .
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
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.
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.
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
Stories by Susan McCallum-Smith
Woodsia
Poems by Kelly McGuinness
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.
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
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.
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.
Click here to read what Bob
Shacochis, Sheila Kohler, and
Margaret Meyers have to say
about this book.
Shacochis, Sheila Kohler, and
Margaret Meyers have to say
about this book.
Ava Gardner
Touches of Venus
Gilbert L. Gigliotti, Editor
Touches of Venus
Gilbert L. Gigliotti, Editor
Gilbert L. Gigliotti is Professor and Chairman of the English Department at
Central Connecticut State University.
He is the editor of Sinatra: But Buddy I’m a Kind of Poem (Entasis, 2008), and
author of A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Greenwood,
2002), the foreword to The Gospel According to Frank (New American, 2009),
and an essay in Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture (Praeger, 1998). He is a
sought-after speaker on the singer’s life and career and has curated several
exhibitions of his extensive Sinatra memorabilia collection.
Since 1993, he has hosted “Frank, Gil, and Friends,” a weekly radio program
on WFCS 107.7 FM New Britain/Hartford and on-line. Trained as a Neo-
Latinist, he has published articles on the classical influences and Latin
writings of such writers as Cotton Mather, Philip Freneau, Girolamo
Fracastoro, John Beveridge, and Louis Rou. He blogs at connecticuthalfwit.
blogspot.com.
Central Connecticut State University.
He is the editor of Sinatra: But Buddy I’m a Kind of Poem (Entasis, 2008), and
author of A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Greenwood,
2002), the foreword to The Gospel According to Frank (New American, 2009),
and an essay in Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture (Praeger, 1998). He is a
sought-after speaker on the singer’s life and career and has curated several
exhibitions of his extensive Sinatra memorabilia collection.
Since 1993, he has hosted “Frank, Gil, and Friends,” a weekly radio program
on WFCS 107.7 FM New Britain/Hartford and on-line. Trained as a Neo-
Latinist, he has published articles on the classical influences and Latin
writings of such writers as Cotton Mather, Philip Freneau, Girolamo
Fracastoro, John Beveridge, and Louis Rou. He blogs at connecticuthalfwit.
blogspot.com.
Publication date: April, 2010
ISBN 978-0-9800999-5-9
An anthology of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction including work by
Margaret Atwood Robert Graves
Allan Gurganus Pere Gimferrer
Mario Cabré Peg Boyers
Margaret Meyers David Lloyd
Alain Souchon Suzanne Vega
Kirpal Singh Virgil Suarez
Alton Rivers Jim Harrison
Michael S. Harper Clarence Major
ISBN 978-0-9800999-5-9
An anthology of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction including work by
Margaret Atwood Robert Graves
Allan Gurganus Pere Gimferrer
Mario Cabré Peg Boyers
Margaret Meyers David Lloyd
Alain Souchon Suzanne Vega
Kirpal Singh Virgil Suarez
Alton Rivers Jim Harrison
Michael S. Harper Clarence Major
“For nearly a hundred years she has inspired and inflamed her idolators,
from matador to billionaire, guttersnipe paparazzo to head-in-the-clouds
poet. Professor G.’s unique anthology—a rich mix of hymn, recollection,
random invocation—is a divine tribute to the Goddess of sex, glamour,
and passion.”
Lee Server, author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing
from matador to billionaire, guttersnipe paparazzo to head-in-the-clouds
poet. Professor G.’s unique anthology—a rich mix of hymn, recollection,
random invocation—is a divine tribute to the Goddess of sex, glamour,
and passion.”
Lee Server, author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing
S P I N
poems by
Moira Egan
poems by
Moira Egan
Publication date: April 2010
ISBN 978-0-9800999-6-6
"Moira Egan’s poems are restless, jazzy, sexy, intricate, and endlessly
interesting."
Lewis Turco
"Moira Egan can retain the sonnet structure and adapt it to the speech and
behavior of our own day. That is impressive, not least because her writing
communicates pleasure even to the untutored reader."
David Lehman
"The Bar Napkin Sonnets are about looking for love in all the wrong places. If
Edna Millay had been born half a century or so later, she might have penned
something like these witty, irreverent, self-knowing poems. They go down
smooth as agave, and they deliver a pleasing buzz. Salud."
Kim Addonizio
Moira Egan’s books are Cleave, La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of
the Tie, and Bar Napkin Sonnets. Her poems have appeared in numerous
journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2008. With her
husband, Damiano Abeni, she published Un mondo che non può essere
migliore: Poesie scelte 1956-2007, a substantial selection of poems by John
Ashbery, which won a Special Prize of the Premio Napoli (2009). She has been
a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts;
Writer in Residence at the St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Malta; a
Writing Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center; and, most recently, she has been
awarded a Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She lives
in Rome.
ISBN 978-0-9800999-6-6
"Moira Egan’s poems are restless, jazzy, sexy, intricate, and endlessly
interesting."
Lewis Turco
"Moira Egan can retain the sonnet structure and adapt it to the speech and
behavior of our own day. That is impressive, not least because her writing
communicates pleasure even to the untutored reader."
David Lehman
"The Bar Napkin Sonnets are about looking for love in all the wrong places. If
Edna Millay had been born half a century or so later, she might have penned
something like these witty, irreverent, self-knowing poems. They go down
smooth as agave, and they deliver a pleasing buzz. Salud."
Kim Addonizio
Moira Egan’s books are Cleave, La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of
the Tie, and Bar Napkin Sonnets. Her poems have appeared in numerous
journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2008. With her
husband, Damiano Abeni, she published Un mondo che non può essere
migliore: Poesie scelte 1956-2007, a substantial selection of poems by John
Ashbery, which won a Special Prize of the Premio Napoli (2009). She has been
a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts;
Writer in Residence at the St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Malta; a
Writing Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center; and, most recently, she has been
awarded a Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She lives
in Rome.
To read a review of SPIN, click the link
that appears under the cover of
Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus. Both
books were reviewed in the same
article in The Washington Times.
that appears under the cover of
Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus. Both
books were reviewed in the same
article in The Washington Times.
E C L E C T I C A
Art and Fairytales
Arte e Favole
by
Francesca Romana Dragone
Art and Fairytales
Arte e Favole
by
Francesca Romana Dragone
Text in English and Italian, with an introduction by
Italian Art Historian Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi.
Italian Art Historian Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi.
From the introduction:
“Over the course of centuries, literature and painting have often
combined, becoming sources of inspiration for each other,
producing an efficacious game of mirroring, intriguing, and
eclectic breakthroughs. Francesca Romana Dragone makes
use of both media, selecting on the one hand the fable, and on
the other hand images of flowers that are the product of a
knowing and sophisticated pictorial technique.”
“Nel corso dei secoli letteratura e pittura si sono spesso
interrogate a vicenda divenendo fonte di ispirazione l’una per
l’altra e producendo, in un efficace gioco di specchi, intriganti
ed eclettici sconfinamenti. Francesca Romana Dragone si vale
di entrambi i media, scegliendo da un lato la fiaba e dall’altro
immagini floreali frutto di una sapiente e sofisticata tecnica
pittorica.”
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
“Over the course of centuries, literature and painting have often
combined, becoming sources of inspiration for each other,
producing an efficacious game of mirroring, intriguing, and
eclectic breakthroughs. Francesca Romana Dragone makes
use of both media, selecting on the one hand the fable, and on
the other hand images of flowers that are the product of a
knowing and sophisticated pictorial technique.”
“Nel corso dei secoli letteratura e pittura si sono spesso
interrogate a vicenda divenendo fonte di ispirazione l’una per
l’altra e producendo, in un efficace gioco di specchi, intriganti
ed eclettici sconfinamenti. Francesca Romana Dragone si vale
di entrambi i media, scegliendo da un lato la fiaba e dall’altro
immagini floreali frutto di una sapiente e sofisticata tecnica
pittorica.”
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Francesca Romana Dragone, a graduate of La Sapienza University in Rome and the author of a thesis on politics in
contemporary fables, is a photographer and botanical artist whose work has been exhibited in Italy. In the 1990s she began
developing her mixed media pictorial technique, including photographs and collages on paper. Traveling in the course of her
work in Europe and the United States, she continues to cultivate her passion for the study of mythology, archaeomythology,
folklore, and the Italian and European fable. In 2001 she moved to the United States, where she lives with her husband and
son.
contemporary fables, is a photographer and botanical artist whose work has been exhibited in Italy. In the 1990s she began
developing her mixed media pictorial technique, including photographs and collages on paper. Traveling in the course of her
work in Europe and the United States, she continues to cultivate her passion for the study of mythology, archaeomythology,
folklore, and the Italian and European fable. In 2001 she moved to the United States, where she lives with her husband and
son.
HOT SONNETS
an Anthology
Moira Egan and Clarinda Harriss
editors
an Anthology
Moira Egan and Clarinda Harriss
editors
Hot Sonnets offers proof positive that rumors of the death of the sonnet have been
greatly exaggerated. In fact, in the warm and capable hands of these practitioners,
it’s clear that the sonnet is still as relevant (and sexy, serious, mordant, amusing,
scintillating, sizzling) as a poem can be.
Contributors:
Kim Addonizio
Christopher Bakken
Tony Barnstone
Willis Barnstone
Sandra Beasley
Kate Bernadette Benedict
David Bergman
Meredith Bergmann
John Berryman
Rafael Campo
Michael Cantor
Hayden Carruth
Grace Cavalieri
Jo Ann Clark
Maryann Corbett
Wesli Court
e.e. cummings
Robert Crawford
Tim Dlugos
greatly exaggerated. In fact, in the warm and capable hands of these practitioners,
it’s clear that the sonnet is still as relevant (and sexy, serious, mordant, amusing,
scintillating, sizzling) as a poem can be.
Contributors:
Kim Addonizio
Christopher Bakken
Tony Barnstone
Willis Barnstone
Sandra Beasley
Kate Bernadette Benedict
David Bergman
Meredith Bergmann
John Berryman
Rafael Campo
Michael Cantor
Hayden Carruth
Grace Cavalieri
Jo Ann Clark
Maryann Corbett
Wesli Court
e.e. cummings
Robert Crawford
Tim Dlugos
Sharon Dolin
Moira Egan
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Jenny Factor
Midge Goldberg
Thom Gunn
Marilyn Hacker
Chloe Haralambous
Clarinda Harriss
H.L. Hix
Elizabeth M. Johnson
Julie Kane
Rose Kelleher
Mela Kirkpatrick
David W. Landrum
David Lehman
Quincy R. Lehr
Amy Lemmon
Laura Maffei
Moira Egan
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Jenny Factor
Midge Goldberg
Thom Gunn
Marilyn Hacker
Chloe Haralambous
Clarinda Harriss
H.L. Hix
Elizabeth M. Johnson
Julie Kane
Rose Kelleher
Mela Kirkpatrick
David W. Landrum
David Lehman
Quincy R. Lehr
Amy Lemmon
Laura Maffei
Randall Mann
Susan McLean
Mary Meriam
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tatyana Mishel
Leslie Monsour
Molly Peacock
Jessica Piazza
Carol Quinn
David Rothman
Michael Salcman
A.E. Stallings
Julie Stoner
Marilyn L.Taylor
David Trinidad
Kathrine Varnes
Wendy Videlock
Lesley Wheeler
Terri Witek
Susan McLean
Mary Meriam
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tatyana Mishel
Leslie Monsour
Molly Peacock
Jessica Piazza
Carol Quinn
David Rothman
Michael Salcman
A.E. Stallings
Julie Stoner
Marilyn L.Taylor
David Trinidad
Kathrine Varnes
Wendy Videlock
Lesley Wheeler
Terri Witek