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Phoenicia's publishing plan comprises the following categories:
- Creative non-fiction and memoir
- Cross-cultural experience
- Religion, spirituality and politics
- Poetry
- Photography
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CURRENT BOOKLIST
Brilliant Coroners: Selected Poems
Sixty-eight poems by seventeen poets, in a beautiful edition from Laupe House Press. Edited by Rachel Barenblat and Rachel Rawlins.
88 pages; $11.95. November 2007
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Writers and artists have always formed groups for mutual support, commentary, and encouragement, sometimes collaborating on public projects from group shows to hand-printed literary magazines. But while one tends to think of local writers hanging out in Paris cafés in the 1930s, or on the lower East side of New York in the 1950s, how does that desire for communication and creative inspiration translate into today’s online world? The poets and visual artists of this anthology met online through their blogs, and have corresponded for a number of years, across continents and oceans. All are serious writers and artists, many with published poems or books. Brilliant Coroners arose from their desire to create a collective work and share it with a wider public, and also their wish to draw attention to the high quality of literary writing on the web, and to the exciting possibilities for creative collaboration it affords. The title of this collection refers not to the poets, but to the poems themselves, which sharply dissect meaning from a post-modern world.
The Middle East Remembered: Stories of an Armenian Refugee Childhood
by Marjorie Abrahamian Sa'adah
with essays by Marjorie Gellhorn Sa'adah and Elizabeth Adams
80 pages. 2008
"When our over-loaded boat reached the Syrian coastline, I was about six... I still distinctly recall the sensation of a happy surprise, the tingling of my skin with excitement as we came closer and closer to that sunny shore, covered with green orchards and groves, dotted with modest brick houses with open doors. Children darted in and out, to disappear into the shade of orchards. Grown-ups also moved around filling baskets, presumably with fruit picked from trees still strange to me; they then balanced those baskets on their heads and carried them away... They all moved so calmly, so freely, without furtively scanning the area around them for supervisors or gendarmes, that they baffled us. So different, so unfamiliar was this atmosphere of freedom from the somber, fearful one we had just left behind in Turkey, where for years we had spoken in whispers and made ourselves invisible lest we attract attention and anger, that we stood bewildered, transfixed and silent on the ship's deck while our orders kept on reminding us over and over again that we were now in a new country and we need not fear any longer, that we could talk and shout as we pleased..."
