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In related news, Poeta en San Francisco is back on SPDBooks’ Bestseller List for January 2008.

And in related news, here’s an announcement from Susan Schultz:

ANOTHER new Tinfish title!!!

A Communion of Saints, by Meg Withers.

R. Zamora Linmark, author of Rolling the R’s and other books, writes of Withers’s new volume of prose poems:

Welcome to Meg Withers’ Hawai’i: the eighties’ Eden for exiles, outcasts, and the “eternally tormented,” where Rose is sometimes Bob, Arlene used to be Allen, George is Georgia, and “hard sex (is) by Pfizer.” These saints, living on the margins of Honolulu, get dolled up, get high on coke and cocktails, whore day and night, bar fly from Hotel Street to Kuhio Avenue, find home in each other, and, when tragedy strikes, seek healing and wisdom from na po mokole. Divided into three books and interspersed with Biblical passages that offer an alternative, if not more happening, way of interpreting Luke et al, A Communion of Saints reverberates with the street beat of the eighties and captures the glam and heart of that era. Unapologetic, vibrant, and at times, elegiac; in short, a fine work from a promising poet.

Retail price = $14

***Special pre-publication price of $7!!***

Send checks to Tinfish Press, 47-728 Hui Kelu Street #9, Kaneohe, HI 96744

And, for another $10, you will receive Hazel Smith’s forthcoming poetry and new media collection, The Erotics of Geography.

More information on both books can be found on our website:

http://tinfishpress.com/hot_off_the_press.html

While you’re there, please look around at our other offerings, both free and for sale.

Stay tuned for books by Craig Santos Perez, Norman Fischer and for Tinfish 18, Tinfish 18 ½ (the Picard, Yamasawa, Oishi, Takehiro, and Gaspar issue) and other forthcoming publications!

Aloha, Susan M. Schultz
Editor, Tinfish Press