by Admin | Jun 23, 2020 | New Release, News
Plain View Press announces the timely release of The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems by Jack Coulehan, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 1, 2020. The Talking Cure highlights physician Jack Coulehan’s poetic career, exploring the poetry of tenderness and steadiness in medical practice—observing moments, healing gestures, and internal response that reveal the worth of the individual and an ethic of compassion. A virtual book launch reading, hosted by The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, will take place on Wednesday, July 17 at 6:30 PM EDT.
A physician by trade, poet-author Coulehan uses poetry to reflect and express the trials and triumphs of keeping the body well and of facing death. The Talking Cure contains new poems plus selections from six previous books. The poems look beyond the difficulties of physical existence to see the worth and holiness of the individual with directness, passion, and humor. They show an ethic of compassionate solidarity between patient and doctor, person and family, the individual and the community. Copies of The Talking Cure, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-078-8) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-079-5), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
An Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Jack Coulehan was formerly director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Bursting with Danger and Music (Plain View Press, 2012). A medical educator, his medical writing includes essays on clinical trials, medical ethics, and humanities, and an award-winning textbook, The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice. Information about his books can be found at Jack Coulehan’s website.
For reviews and purchase information, visit The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems . Find out how a physician uses poetry to make the practice of medicine more compassionate and ethical.
by Admin | Jun 23, 2020 | New Release, News
Plain View Press announces the release of Coming To Be: A Novel by Rebecca Thaddeus, hitting bookstores and Amazon on June 30, 2020.
In Coming To Be by Rebecca Thaddeus, a devastating blow forces Carly to reconcile her past, with the help of her best friends. Remembering the music and sexual revolution of the 70’s, she re-examines past assumptions and life with a bipolar husband, only to discover the inexplicable joy of Plato’s “coming to be.”
With a doctorate in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rebecca Thaddeus taught at Loyola University, the University of Illinois in Chicago, and Ferris State University for a total of 38 years. With a propensity for historical fiction, her first novel, One Amber Bead (2011), was set during World War II. My Mother’s Daughter (2019) was set in early 19th Century Mississippi. Her third novel, Coming To Be (2020), recreates the era of the sixties. Her books and blog posts can be found at oneamberblog.blogspot.com.
Copies of Coming To Be, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-074-0) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-075-7), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
by Admin | May 26, 2020 | New Release, News
Plain View Press announces the publication of the historical fiction novel Victoria’s War by Catherine A. Hamilton, hitting bookstores and Amazon on June 2, 2020. Inspired by events lost in World War II history, the book gives voice to the courageous Polish women kidnapped into real-life slave labor operation during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Victoria’s War, a historical fiction novel by Catherine A. Hamilton, tells the story of Polish teenager Victoria Darski, who was sold into slavery during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and the deaf daughter of the German baker who bought her.
Copies of Victoria’s War, paperback (ISBN: 9781632100689) or ebook (ISBN: 9781632100696), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
“Lagodny, Poland—September 1, 1939 — RADIO changed Victoria Darski’s world. It brought swing jazz and blues into her living room. And on the first of September, when she sat on the high-backed sofa and reached for the brass knob on the cabinet radio, it brought news of war.” In Victoria’s War, the lives of two young women intertwine when Victoria Darski, Polish and Catholic, is bought by the German Tod family and held in their bakery attic—the same place where Etta Tod, deaf and mute, hides her anti-Nazi paintings.
Victoria’s War is the debut novel from author Catherine A. Hamilton, who actively publishes and blogs at www.catherineahamilton.com. Of Polish descent, Hamilton has articles and poems published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Oregonian, the Catholic Sentinel, the Dziennik Związkowy, and the Polish American Journal. She authored the chapter about Katherine Graczyk in Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation, edited by Richard C. Lukas. She is available for public events and book club interaction.
“A searing reminder of the many lesser-known World War II stories that still need to be told.”—Kirkus Reviews
“[A] page-turning tour de force of historical fiction…”—Krysia Jopek, author of Maps and Shadows
“[A] riveting debut….of one Polish woman’s plight and her unlikely friendship with the deaf-mute daughter of her captors….I could not put it down.” —Brigid Pasulka, winner of the 2010 PEN/Hemingway Award for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
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, in bookstores everywhere on Jan 10, 2020.
Half-Dreaming uses abstract thought to question, perceive, and come to terms with the concrete world, navigating 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 reach 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/
