by Admin | Jan 8, 2020 | New Release, News
Austin, Texas, January 9, 2020- Plain View Press is proud to offer the latest work from Douglas Nordfors, Half-Dreaming: poems, hitting bookstores everywhere on Jan 10, 2020.
Half-Dreaming uses abstract thought to question, perceive, and come to terms with, the concrete world, and navigates the complexities of being human. Poems about love, friendship, death, work, politics, the environment, creativity, complex feeling, and perception may start with an inner, abstract spark, and then search for outer connection. Others start from concrete circumstance, and then let imagination provide answers and healing. In the end, the abstract and concrete become interchangeable.
Seattle native and Virginia resident Nordfors gives each poem a unique feel, changing tone and style to fit the needs of a particular subject, mood, or situation, much like a chameleon. A teacher of writing and literature, Nordfors has also published poetry books Auras (Plain View Press 2008) and The Fate Motif (Plain View Press 2013). Since 1987, he has published poems in numerous journals, including Quarterly West, California Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The Iowa Review, Poet Lore, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Seattle Review, and The Sycamore Review.
“The poems in Half-Dreaming, … fly like birds around twin flagpoles—the abstract vs. the concrete, the self as stable vs. the self as always in the process of creating itself, what is knowable about the world vs. what is, and always will be, mystery. … Over many years, Nordfors has quietly built a body of work that generously rewards sustained attention.” —Steve Bellin-Oka, author of Instructions for Seeing a Ghost
“Every poem brings a new revelation, you’ll find no artifice or filler here. … It is a deft and elegant book, and, for those who seek refuge in poetry, a welcome reprieve from the political noise.” —Sarah Estes, author of Hive Bone, and Field Work
Copies of Half-Dreaming: poems can be purchased through Amazon, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-070-2) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-071-9), through retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press, https://www.plainviewpress.com
View the page listing at Half-Dreaming: poems
by Admin | May 27, 2019 | Announcement, News
The PBS National Memorial Day Concert performed “Vietnam Valor and
Brotherhood”, the story of two soldiers — Brad Kennedy and Ernest “Pete”
Peterson — who formed a brotherhood while serving in the 11th US Cavalry in
Vietnam, a.k.a. the Blackhorse Regiment. The two now meet each year at the
Vietnam Wall to remember those who died.
One of the soldiers, Plain View Press author Brad Kennedy, published
Betrayal: Will Stone in Vietnam (2012). A literary fiction novel, Betrayal examines
honor and loyalty — personal, social, military, and political. The story raises
questions of American foreign policy and military strategy, and goes deeper to
ask, “What price must a man pay to remain moral? Are we all brothers? What is
worth dying for?”
“Vietnam Valor and Brotherhood” was performed by actor Dennis
Haysbert (24, MAJOR LEAGUE) as Pete Peterson, and Joe Mantegna as Brad Kennedy.
Hosted by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise, the
30th annual National Memorial Day Concert was broadcast Sunday, May 26, 2019, and
is available as Video on Demand, May 26 to June 9, 2019.
http://www.pbs.org/national-memorial-day-concert/features/vietnam-valor-brotherhood/
by Admin | Dec 26, 2018 | New Release, News
Released on January 2, 2019. America Abroad is part adventure and part history, told in crisp narrative poems rich in imagery. It can be purchased on Amazon.
With the keen eye of an historian, David Radavich explores America’s complex history of discovery, destruction, and quest for power. A myriad of voices (Ponce de Leon, Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty) convey America’s adventurism with clear-eyed honesty. Visit the Book Gallery for more information on the book.
by Admin | Dec 11, 2018 | New Release, News
My Mother’s Daughter by Rebecca Thaddeus was released on January 1, 2019. It can be purchased on Amazon.
My Mother’s Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother’s daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery.
—Nancy King, author of Opening Gates and other novels at www.nancykingstories.com
From slavery through abolition and women’s suffrage, Thaddeus’ sweeping story of four generations of mothers and daughters carries the reader away, down the Mississippi River on a keelboat, beneath the tunneling branches of the Natchez Trace, into the shanties and mansions of the old South, into a bygone time that both unsettles and delights.
—Elaine McCullough, Professor Emerita of English, Ferris State University
My Mother’s Daughter follows Eugenia and her family through more than a century of changes in the American South. From Eugenia’s trip from Philadelphia to rural Natchez, to the stories of her children, the plot’s well-drawn characters and experiences of slavery and its aftermath are compelling.
—Maryanne Heidemann, Co-founder (1981-present) of the No-Name Book Club
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release, News
Privileged to live on a big estate, Joan loves to commune with nature. With typical teenage dilemmas and school assignments that challenge her thinking, she is immersed in the complex workings of American politics when some parents want to fire her science teacher. This story reminds us that the younger generation are our future problem solvers.
Madeleine Herrmann also published Partita” A Psychological Mystery in 2009 and Isabelle’s Dream in 2012.
Publication Date: 8/24/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-038-2
228 pages, $18.95
YA Fiction: Action & Adventure / General
YA Fiction: Coming of Age
YA Fiction: Nature & the Natural World / Environment
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
“Magpies were always there in our English garden, pecking around and singling out particular objects. Beautiful black and white birds with loud calls to each other. That is the way this book was put together.”
— Eileen Berry
This cumulative collection of poetry inspires the mind and imagination with memories and images of people, places, and changes over the years. An inspired geologist who loved the earth and it’s inhabitants, Eileen often spoke of the blackbirds in her garden. Their chatter and happy activity represents the way life builds by memories of tiny events. This book reveals snippits of events of her life.
— Pam Knight, publisher/ writer/ poet
Publication Date: 6/20/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-027-6
80 pages, $14.95
Poetry: American General
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | Announcement
Originally published in 2012, The Rescurer’s Path was revised with a new cover and released in conjunction with Friedman’s new novel, The Change Chronicles: A novel of the Sixties Antiwar Movement.
The Rescurer’s Path is set in Nixon-era Washington DC. Malca Bernovski is riding her horse off trail and discovers the wounded antiwar leader Gavin Hareen, prime suspect in the lethal bombing of an army truck. A budding love between the sheltered Malca, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and the anguished, half-Syrian fugitive becomes a desperate struggle against injustice. From the White House to the Rockies, from the Warsaw Ghetto to the post-9/11 search of the lovers’ child for her origins, this tale spans generations to delve urgent, timeless questions.
Publication Date: 5/30/2018
ISBN: 978-1-935514-88-6
200 pages, $15.95
Fiction : Literary
Fiction : Political
Fiction: Jewish
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
I have the privileged of reading yet another amazing work by Matthew Abuelo! Midnight Carousel will take you on a colorful, yet deep, deep as a midnight sky, ride. The ever turning spiral of emotions are filled in every line, stanza and verse as you are brought high and then downward again. The love of a city that is wrapped up in the arms of an old lover, that is slowly deteriorating around some while flourishing around newfound mistresses of whose sole purpose is to dine on the fatted-calf. Matthew paints a glorious picture with words as he shows the side of the “city that never sleeps” that very few and only those true professionals who keep the midnight oil burning long after midnight ever see. I highly recommend reading Midnight Carousel and following this profound writer. I look forward to interviewing him again very soon.”
—Mary E. Rapier, aka Art Sees Diner
Publication Date: 5/22/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-035-1
138 pages, $16.95
Literary Collections : American – General
Poetry : American – General
Fiction : Political
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
Plain View Press announces the release of The Dove Shall Fly by Judith Austin Mills. A sequel to Bones at Goliad, this is the third novel in the Texas Revolution novel series by this author. The initial book in the series is How Far Tomorrow: Remembering the Georgia Battalion in Texas
“A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century
Texas. …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction.”
—Kirkus Reviews
In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico’s San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in championing the break-away republic. Private James Trezevant, one of few Georgia Battalion survivors, makes his way toward the attack at San Jacinto. The Harper women scramble for the safety of the American border. Yarico and anyone else identified as a slave stay wary during calls for “liberty or death.”
Publication Date: 05/17/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-013-9
344 pages, $21.95
Fiction : Historical – General
Fiction : War & Military
Fiction : Cultural Heritage
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | Announcement
Originally published in 2009 as a hardback book, this compelling historical memoir of a holocaust survivor is now available in paperback and ebook formats.
Months after World War II officially ends, a 15-year-old boy still hides in a potato field. The horror of the Holocaust is followed by the horror of survival. The question “Why me?” haunts survivors for the rest of our lives. For some of us, life is only possible under the anesthesia of silence. After 63 years, Leon Rubinstein has broken his silence with this book. As I Am Presently Known is a remarkable story of life’s victory over death and about one generation passing the torch to another.
Marian Marzynski, Holocaust survivor, documentary filmmaker and author of acclaimed film Shtetl
Publication Date: 05/04/2018
ISBN: 978-0-911051-03-2
208 pages, $22.95
Nonfiction: Historical Memoir
