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Written by Ellen von Samson-Himmelstjerna von zur Muehlen
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Monday, 26 November 2007 19:00 |
In God's Hands:
A Noblewoman's Sruggle for Survival in War and Revolution Author: Ellen von Samson-Himmelstjerna von zur Muehlen
Publisher: Warren Publishing at Cornelius, NC
ISBN 978-1-886-057-37-1
 Ellen von Samson-Himmelstjerna von zur Muehlen was born at Hummelshof, her family's estate in north Lavonia, then one of the Baltic provinces of Tsarist Russia and part of today's Estonia. Her family belonged to the Baltic German nobility -- "the Baltic Barons" -- many of whom were descendants of the Teutonic Knights and Livonian Knights who in medieval times brought Christianity to the region. Through the centuries the Baltic German landed aristocracy was the dominant force in the religious, cultural and economic development of the Baltic provinces, particularly in Estonia and Latvia. In the process they accumulated considerable wealth and vast landholdings which they were able to retain largely intact until the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917.
Against this backdrop, the author describes how a large, working estate was managed and the grand but formal lifestyle that was typical of that time and place. But intertwined in her description of elegant country house festivities, she also writes of her childhood at Hummelshof in an atmosphere of strict, Prussian discipline maintained by her nannies and tutors, and overseen by her mother's cold, imperial attitude toward the children. Suffering thus from a feeling of rejection and loneliness, the author develops a love of nature and a deep spirituality -- "her voices" -- which sustain her on many occasions during later years of war and deprivation. The remainder of her memoir is a saga of extraordinary times-World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and World War II -- during which she repeatedly finds her and her family's survival in jeopardy, and indeed culminating in the murder of her then former husband and much of his family by the Soviets. Finally, it is in their flight from the Soviets that she leads her elderly parents and young daughter through the burning ruins of Berlin in the last days of Nazi Germany. |
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Written by Valerie Nieman
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Monday, 26 November 2007 19:00 |
Wake Wake Wake Author: Valerie Nieman
Publisher: Press 53
5 x 8 Paperback, Perfect Bound
100 pages
ISBN: 0-9772283-5-5
$14.00 postage paid  This first full-length collection of poetry by award-winning poet Valerie Nieman includes work that first appeared in Poetry, New Letters, Blackbird and numerous other journals and anthologies.
National Book Award finalist Sarah Lindsay says, "Valerie Nieman writes poems with long tap roots, and poems with sharp beaks that strike swiftly. They cast off from the known, or fix the familiar with a clear gaze, and unmoor the reader either way. For a nameless hunger and restlessness, here are guide and supplies and hills to climb, all in one fine book." Fred Chappell, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina, offers the following: "Like the millwright in her poem, Valerie Nieman seems "with bare hands (to) embrace live steam." Wake Wake Wake is sinew and tendon, hard muscle and bruised bone; the volume sings with every inch of the body and every breath of the spirit. If she speaks of "hearing that we have all fallen short," she yet believes -- she knows -- "the way a path is best walked/not by looking down/but by looking out." Would you be stout of heart, steadfast of purpose? Read Valerie Nieman." Valerie Nieman is the author of a recent collection of short fiction, Fidelities, from West Virginia University Press, as well as two novels and two chapbooks of poetry. Her poems and short stories have been widely published in journals such as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, 5 A.M., and West Branch, as well as several anthologies, including the forthcoming issue from Kakalak. Awards have included a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1998 and 2002 Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes in fiction from the Charlotte Writers Club and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry from Phoebe. Ms. Nieman is a 1978 graduate of West Virginia University and received an M.F.A. in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte. A longtime newspaper reporter and editor, she is now a professor of English and journalism at N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro. |
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Written by Quinn Dalton
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:00 |
Stories from the Afterlife Author: Quinn Dalton
Publisher: Press 53
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
 Ten stories. One question. What do you do when the life you knew becomes the Before?
In Stories from the Afterlife, ten men and women must navigate the unfamiliar territory of their new lives. A college student working at a beer drive-through falls in love with the owner's wife and contemplates murder to claim her until he faces his own brush with death. A man who has kept his sexuality a secret from his family must come home to help his brother cope with the loss of his wife. A woman reunites with a man she loved in her youth, and reluctantly saves the life of the teenaged girl next door. A camera store clerk with secret photographic aspirations meets his new neighbor, who has her own secrets. And a soap opera writer struggles to extricate her love life from the familiar formulas. "Quinn Dalton deserves recognition as a master in the realm of contemporary American letters."
-- Julianna Baggott, author of Girl Talk and The Madam "The flat-out perfectly drawn characters in Stories from the Afterlife will stick to me in much the same manner as Richard Ford's and Raymond Carver's."
-- George Singleton, author of Work Shirts for Manmen and These People are Us |
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Hat's Off!
Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, who had two poems accepted to the Lyricist 2013 edition: “Two Steps” and “My Rockin’ Music." Copies of the magazine will be available at the end of April from Campbell University. |
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