Not many writers about the Mafia listened to the notorious Frank Costello, Vito Genovese and Tony Gallo drinking marsala and chatting in a kitchen, but Djelloul Marbrook, author of Saraceno, did, and he celebrates it with a poet's ear in this haunting, unique tale of redemption. "Not just another run-of-the-mill Mafia novel." -Small Press Bookwatch
Not many writers about the Mafia listened to the notorious Frank Costello, Vito Genovese and Tony Gallo drinking marsala and chatting in a kitchen, bu...
Acclaimed author Djelloul Marbrook here offers us two powerfully original novellas that centre on the New York art world. The Pain of Wearing Our Faces is about an art teacher in Manhattan and one of her students, a famous composer, who pledge to entertain each other as they try to remain sober. She goes in search of him when he disappears after confessing that his most famous work was plagiarized from a homeless woman in Woodstock. In the second novella, Grace, teenager Grace Torrance runs away from an abusive father when a Catskill mountain flood destroys their cabin. Without money she...
Acclaimed author Djelloul Marbrook here offers us two powerfully original novellas that centre on the New York art world. The Pain of Wearing Our Face...
Dear friend You don't leave much for the undertaker So fully you've inhabited there I've never minded your not being here you being a favorite hallucination but I wonder how you speak of us ....so begins one of the poems in Brash Ice, which, unlike its predecessors, Far From Algiers and Brushstrokes and Glances, looks back on a dervish's trek through the world of illusions and tells us what beguiled and enlightened him. ******** Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and...
Dear friend You don't leave much for the undertaker So fully you've inhabited there I've never minded your not being here you being a favo...
In Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds the poet, "a cleanup man" who has "settled in the Dachaus of the mind & learned to love the guards," looks back, feels "invisibility coming on," and prepares "to go home" ... "the fair means to Montauk grow out of my shoulder blades."
About Djelloul Marbrook's Far from Algiers, winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry:
. . . I find some perfection of style, including images, in his verse . . . as succinct as most stanzas by Dickinson. . . . an unusually mature,...
In Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds the poet, "a cleanup man" who has "settled in the Dachaus of the mind & learned to love the guards," ...
