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LYN LIFSHIN'S
BEFORE IT'S LIGHT
FROM BLACK SPARROW PRESS

Dear Friends and Readers,

I am so pleased to have my new book, BEFORE IT'S LIGHT, from Black Sparrow Press and hope you will join me in celebrating its publication at an upcoming event soon in the Washington, Virginia and Maryland area

READINGS AND APPEARANCES...

• Sunday, February 13, 2pm - POETRY AND FICTION PUBLICATION AT THE WRITER'S CENTER, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda MD, 20815, with Maxine Combs. Reception and Book signing to follow. (303) 654- 8664.

• Sunday, February 27, 7pm - READING AND SIGNING, CAFÉ MYTH, 3241 M ST. GEORGETOWN, with open reading, (301) 371-889

• Sunday, March 12, 7pm - READING AND BOOK SIGNING WITH SUNIL FREEMAN AT IOTA BAR AND RESTAURANT, 2832 WILSON BOULEVARD, ARLINGTON, VA (two blocks east from the Clarendon Metro) 703-522 or 703-256-9275

• Saturday, April 15, 2PM - READING AND BOOK SIGNING, BARNES AND NOBLE, TOWSON CIRCLE, BALTIMORE, MD. (410) 296-7065

• "...as always, Lifshin's poetry trawls deep waters of submerged passion beneath the surface of everyday life, coming up with a teeming, glistening catch..." "She's nobody but herself...frightening prolific and utterly intense. One of a kind." - San Francisco Review of Books
• The poems are "Magnificently drafted...terse as needlework"...Choice
• Lyn Lifshin's "The No More Apologizing, the No More Little Laughing Blues," is among the most impressive documents the women's poetry movement has produced"...Alicia Ostriker in Stealing the Language.
• "Lyn Lifshin wakes them up...." - The Washington Post Magazine
• "These poems evoke in fantasy, but with a lot of anthropological detail, the world of the ancient Eskimos...Lifshin's clipped lines take on a chantlike undertone, as of native voices themselves singing from the beyond, that is very pleasing." - Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times Book Review

For updates and details check www.lynlifshin.com

BEFORE IT'S LIGHT

FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

Biography

• Blonde to the Bone (Autobiography)
• Beware My Love (Love and Erotica)
• Rooms Emptied Behind Me (Family)
• Hold on Tight (Mothers and Daughters)
• Stories that Could be True

  Others
  

• Disquieting Postcards from the Back Roads (Other People)
• Red Velvet G-Strings and Apricot Sighs (Mad girls, Marilyn, Lorena, Jesus, Jackie)
• Want Hair, Dreams of Flight (The Peruvian mummy, Leda, the woman who loves maps)

  Other Landscapes
  

• Train of Shadows, a Blood Corsage (war, loss and terror)
• Blaze of Color in a Slash of White (strangers, houses, rivers, trees)

BEFORE IT'S LIGHT 250 pages "...as always, Lifshin's poetry trawls deep waters of submerged passion beneath the surface of everyday life, coming up with a teeming, glistening catch..."	THAT AFTERNOON an unreal amber light 4 o clock the quietness of oil February blue bowls full of oranges we were spreading honey, butter on new bread our skin nearly touching Even the dark wood glowed
BEFORE ITS LIGHT is on sale at readings and publishing parties and at your local bookstores. Please ask them to order it for you if they do not have it. For your convenience: you can use the order blank below to order by mail from Black Sparrow. Orders from individuals should be prepaid by check or money order and include postage & handling: ($2.00 for one book, $0.50 for each additional book) California residents add 7.5% sales tax please. Call (707) 579-4011 and use your credit card. For more information e-mail  Black Sparrow Press 24 Tenth St/ Santa Rosa, Cal 95401 (707) 579-4011 COLD COMFORT  by Lyn Lifshin. Paper $16; Cloth $27.50; Signed Cloth $35.00 Ship to: Name______________________________ Address_____________________________ for poems, bio, photos, reviews: www.lynlifshin.com TOP

Cheryl Townsend Recognized

The new issue of Main Street Rag Poetry Journal is a gallery of my photography. The color cover collage also has one of my shots superimposed in it. The B&W reproductions are done quite well and it feels good being amongst so many of my poetic friends this way.. (Kincaid, Cooperman, Bear, Peeler, Russell & lotsa other fine reads) I don't know what the postage charge would be, but outright, the copy is $5.00. Write M. Scott Douglass for more information at either mainstrag@mindspring.com or POB 25331, Charlotte, NC 28229-5331.

and in the photo section...

Subj:  Stirring : A Literary Collection - Dec. Ed. & Photo Contest Winners
Date:  Wednesday, December 1, 1999 1:34:29 AM
From:  StirringMag
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~stirring

The December edition of Stirring : A Literary Collection is now available on the web.

This issue includes the following . . .
DECEMBER, 1999
-------POETRY

• Robin Brownfield - You Were On My Mind
• Christina Conrad - for Stoneking - Christmas Eve night - 1996
• Catherine Daly - Grain
• Doug Dennison - Passion Haiku
• Cynthia Glass - The Fear
• Jason Gurley - Giving Her Up
• Rodger L. Hilliard - Past. Present. Future?
• Ronald Hobbs - The Pretty Homeless Boy
• nicoLe sativa kurlish - we: not about sex
• Karen McAdams - Pond
• Jennifer McCoy - Love and Panting: A Pantoum
• Joelle Lynn Renstrom - Volunteer
• Judith Schiele - Reflections of Balance
• Sharon Shahan - Out Of The Sea
• Preston Mark Stone - Faking Beethoven

-------PROSE

• Michael Griffith - Salty Portrait Of An Abstract Poet
• Graham Lauder - Hunter
• John P. McWilliams - Running From Jesus
• P.R. van Pottelberg - Eggplant Voodoo Doll Land

We would like to welcome our newest editor, Helena Thomas from Binghamton, NY. You can read more about her by clicking on the Editors link from the main page.

We are also pleased to announce the winners of our Photography contest. They are:

• Cheryl A. Townsend - "Music" - December Issue
• Liz Larrabe - "Heather" - January Issue
• nicoLe sativa kurlish - "Sun Spot Rings" - February Issue

We are planning on bringing this contest back in March, so get those photos ready in advance!
Remember to take advantage of our free critiques and brand new link exchange.


Sincerely,
Erin Elizabeth
Editor-in-Chief, Stirring
Please take a moment to visit us at:
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~stirring

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     An energy banquet of beatitude and beat culture to take place in the heartland and heart of the continental U.S. as celebration where participants will kiss the sleeping sky awake in a resounding counterpoint of yes. The Holy Fools performance will include art, film, music, dance, cars  (and at least one "Roman Holiday" type '58 Vespa) and words, words, words... a portal thru which the past and the future will pass and come together as the present in an inclusive dance where everyone and everything is and will be beat. On the road trips from across the nation to converge at Wichita in a parade of poetic hoo-hah. A symphony of all things still possible spinning symbiotic at the vortex. Cross-generational cross country reunion of the saints, angels and children of go.

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