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Work by Peter Anastas
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Decline of Fishes
by Peter Anastas
Set in the historic fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts during the summer of 1993, Decline of Fishes depicts the battle, led by an intrepid group of local citizens, to prevent the construction of a shopping mall on the last remaining parcel of the city's harborfront.
Decline of Fishes is a gripping, multi-layered epic novel about the recklessness of growth at any cost, the survival of an endangered industry, and the value of hard-won principles. The novel tells the story of a choice faced by cities and towns across America: whether to stay true to their historical selves or sell out to the highest bidder.
Available from book stores or from distributor Len Bolonsky at Good Harbor Books. Phone: 978-283-9294 or 978-283-4769
Click Here to purchase from Amazon.com.
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At the Cut
by Peter Anastas
Of his memoir of growing up in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the 1940s,
Peter Anastas writes, "In one sense I have written a memoir. But I have
also attempted an archaeology of a childhood: the slow, careful, peeling
back of the layers of self-deception and forgetfulness that obscure and
perhaps even buffer the pain of discovering who we are and how we got to
be that way. For we never truly survive our childhood, we merely spend a
lifetime recovering from it."
Available from
Dogtown Books
and
Amazon.com
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Broken
Trip
by Peter Anastas
In this novel of Gloucester, Massachusetts in the 1990s, Peter Anastas
penetrates the facade of the venerable seaport depicted in tourist
brochures to reveal the lives of men and women who've been by-passed by
the economic boom. Inspired by Pat Barker's novels of working-class life
in the North of England, the narrative unfolds against the background of
a fishing industry in crisis, a city in transition from gritty
blue-collar to gentrified bedroom. The title, an indigenous expression
for a failed or unprofitable fishing voyage, suggests the misfortune that
besets many of the characters' lives--and the tragedy waiting for some of
them.
Photographs by Ernest Morin, www.dbadocument.net.
Available from
Glad Day Books and
Amazon.com
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Work by Schuyler Hoffman
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Sacrifice
CD by Schuyler Hoffman Recorded on compact disc with music by
Richard Atwood and printed in booklet form included in the jewel box, the
poems of Sacrifice range in tone from subtle to dramatic, issuing
from a postmodern, post-Beat aesthetic that employs both collage and
projective verse techniques. The subjects address the full range of human
experience in the contemporary world: love, loss, alienation, political
endo-colonization, and the postmodern Sublime.
Includes an eight-page booklet with 11 poems: A Kind of Grieving,
Borderlands, The Biological Dance,
and Double Vision. Read a poem. Order by
email thru Back Shore or by regular mail at
P.O. Box 211, Gloucester MA 01931-0211
Price: $19.95, includes shipping and handling
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The Spaces Between
The Spaces Between, published in 1979 by The Golgonooza Research
Foundation in Boulder, Colorado, contains the only published earlier work of
Schuyler Hoffman still in print. The poems are composed in a minimal style, evoking the
rip-rap aesthetic of the early work of Gary Snyder, and influenced by
Williams and Lorca. The wildernesses of nature and love, and the
complications of the modern scene are among the subjects addressed in this
elegant, slim volume designed by the author.
A 14-page chapbook with 20 poems, including for Gary Snyder, the fear
of riding, and against the snow she moved against.
Order by email thru Back Shore or by regular mail at
P.O. Box 211, Gloucester MA 01931-0211
Price: $10.95, includes shipping and handling
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Work by Peter Tuttle
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Looking
for a Sign in the West
by Peter Tuttle
Looking for a Sign in the West, Back Shore's first book, is a 200-page
road poem and low-rent spiritual odyssey through the American West, the
author leaving old failures behind and pursuing the American Dream of a
new start- the new beginning out West- and vividly describing the
down-to-earth people and places he encounters in his journey.
"I liked
Looking for a Sign in the West. I think it is
distinctive work."
Larry McMurtry
"Recommended reading!"
Big Bridge
Available from
Amazon.com.
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Work by other Cape Ann Authors
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An Island No
More, by Ronald Gilson: An essay of the author’s experience of the
fishing industry in the 1940s and 50s as it affected the everyday life of its citizens.
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