Author: Jim Schumock
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Keywords: story, authors, conversations, american
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0930773519
ISBN-13: 9780930773519

Interviews with 19 major American authors, including: Caolyn Kizer, William Styron, William Kennedy, Tobert Stone, Thomas McGuane, Tim O’Brien, Carol Shields, Ethan Canin, Tobias Wolff, Paul Theroux, Jim Grimsley, Lorrie Moore, Dagoberto Gilb, Philip Levine, Thom Jones, Tobert Wrigley, Stephen Dixon, Henry Louis Gates, Hunior and Robert Olen Butler. Note: "Story Story Story" is the second book in a series that explores writing and independent publishing in North America. The first book is "Publishing Lives: Interviews with Independent Book Publishers in the Pacific Northwest and Briti

Author: Judith Roche
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Keywords: myrrh
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1993-08
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0930773306
ISBN-13: 9780930773304

From the introduction: ’Roche follows the orders of the poem rather than making the poem bend to her will. When one realises how profoundly Myrrh comes from the practice on all levels, how successfully she pulls off one of the riskiest of endeavours ...one begins to grasp...a highly original, courageous, mature, beautiful singularity of Voice, Theme, Sound, Image, etc. , making up a brilliant whole’ - Sharon Doubiago.

Author: Kathleen Walker
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Keywords: mexico, crucifixion
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0930773527
ISBN-13: 9780930773526

In the early 1970’s three American students living in Mexico witness the crucifixion and death of a man in a Mexican village. The man was not supposed to die; at first there is no explanation for his death. Then the villagers turn on the Americans and stone them, forcing them to take sanctuary in a church. A Crucifixion in Mexico is about what happened to two of the Americans in the years that followed. Gloria is a wanderer, a failure by contemporary standards, not content to wait in a farm house for a photographer to happen by. Andrew is a success, moving comfortably from one comprom

Author: Joanna C. Scott
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Keywords: novel, children, charlie
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1997-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0930773462
ISBN-13: 9780930773465

Charlie and the Children is a novel about an American soldier who goes to war, fathers a son and abandons him. Taken captive by the Viet Cong, he is imprisoned in an underground cave. Sick, starving, alone, he gradually loses his grip on reality and becomes convinced that one of his captors is his lost son. In clear, lyrical prose, Joanna C. Scott has written a book that is at the same time mythic and believable.

Author: Matt Briggs
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Keywords: names, river, remains
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-09-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 093077356X
ISBN-13: 9780930773564

The Remains of River Names documents the changes for a counter-culture family during the shift of drug enforce policy from the leniency of the seventies to the War-On-Drugs of the eighties.

Author: Annette Gilson
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Keywords: light, new
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0930773772
ISBN-13: 9780930773779

Beth Martin wakes up one day feeling she has wasted her life. She goes to St. Louis to visit her college roommate and take some time to get her bearings. But at a party she experiences what she can only call a vision, which she finds disconcerting, but also compelling. She also meets a neuroscientist who is researching vision phenomena. Beth accompanies him to New Light, a visionary commune in the Missouri mountains, where she meets its charismatic leader and is befriended by some of its members. Their conception of American life challenges the mainstream in a number of a ways, most notably in

Author: Mary C. Smith
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Keywords: undesirables
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0930773470
ISBN-13: 9780930773472

In the early 22nd century a benign bureaucracy, located in the city of Alternative Four, is bringing economic development to a world that has eliminated war, racial and sexual discrimination, and engineered an ideal society through drugs and genetic mating. Three regional chairmen share nominal executive power over the planet. The people ratify decisions through the People’s TV Assembly, an institution manipulated by the Global Administration Organization. Those threatening this ideal social fabric are either psychologically "restructured" or sterilized and condemed as Undesirables. It i