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New release by Gary Gautier!

TWO DREAMS AND TWO HOLLOWS

Deep dive into craziness with a two-time Faulkner-Wisdom Prize finalist. Short stories and novellas, chipped with poetry and flash nonfiction, in a montage of voices and styles. Realism and anti-realism, seekers and bums, epiphanies great and small, bound together by comic, poignant, and thoughtful threads that weave and un-weave a multicoloured tapestry.

Congratulations Gary! Wishing you all the luck with this wonderful book!

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ONE QUESTION

If you could erase anyone from the history of literature (not kill, but simply erase their existence) who would it be?

My first thought is to erase James Joyce. His Dubliners, by focusing away from dramatic moments and onto smaller ones, created a market for boring books, says my first self; and the later novels like Ulysses and Finnegans Wake created a market for impenetrable ones. But wait, says my second self. True, I’ve often wanted to pause and strangle Joyce while reading those later novels, but I credit him for fumbling his way into new terrain, creating pathways for modernism that would bear delicious fruit in the works of Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and others, not to mention a trajectory in poetry from T. S. Eliot to Sylvia Plath and onward. In fact, both the micro-emotions of Dubliners and the gaps and indirection of the later novels have influenced my own writing again and again. So we’d better bring the scorned beast back for another pint of Guinness. I don’t want to live in a literary landscape sans Woolf or Faulkner or myself.

POETRY SHORTS BY GARY GAUTIER

john cage dumplings

john cage dumplings
sunflower eyes

tumbling down the stairs
firecracker stars

crossing the street now
finnegans luck

three passes by the stadium
armful of something

more than our daily bread

dusk and vigil

stream of emotion
paper swans
lanterns line the alley

cup of dreams

a crowded place
a slap of water
a cup of dreams
in a tea leaf

and awaiting the tide

glass of hot sand
rose and fell of the tide
the moons slow heartbeat

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I wish to thank Gary Gautier for his wonderful collaboration with our online magazine LatinosUSA (English Edition). LatinosUSA is part of the greater online magazine MASTICADORES created by our Editor-in-Chief Juan Ré.

If you would like to see your poems/prose/art in our online pages, please feel free to send me, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, poetry editor a message at: ArribaPamplona@gmail.com and I will tell you how.

CHEERS