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  • Sun Dogs
    Anthony Labriola
    These poems fly from Earth to Jupiter and back, but one can feel the sweat on the skin for the whole trip. In three parts, Sun Dogs attempts to capture moments of wonder, loss, and healing: 'Planetarium,' 'Jealous Planet,' and 'Cosmic Therapies.' The poems speak of the human journey-the odyssey of experience in a galaxy filled with legends and natural phenomena. We are all star...
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    10,56 €

  • The Rigged Universe
    Anthony Labriola / TBD
    A collection of poems by Anthony Labriola that deal with the magical experience of living in our world and the chance encounters with its mystery. In these poems, the presence of the magician attests to a double vision as we live in nature while sensing the mystery behind it. The commonplace is charged with magic. Wonder takes over when we least expect it. The extraordinary is ...
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    10,48 €

  • Jealousy
    Anthony Labriola
    “The Jealous Shoemaker” and “Numbered Days” are envy-tainted tales that deal with jealously guarded secrets of the past. The distant past has become a lost paradise for old men such as Pietro d’Arborio and Bliss (Dodo) Bane. Hell-bent on telling their versions of the truth, they also bear witness to life’s stunning surprises, twisted ironies, dark enchantments, and puzzling mys...
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    20,71 €

  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
    Anthony Labriola
    The poems in The Sleep of Reason were written in the poet’s youth at the beginning of his experiments and poetic explorations. With sheer lyrical madness, poets such as Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, T S Eliot, Ezra Pound, WB Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Merton, Eugenio Montale and Leonard Cohen haunt the...
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    25,83 €

  • Armour & Lace
    Anna Faktorovich / Anthony Labriola
    Deals with desire, its myths and ever-evolving realities. The free-form poems trace the arc of a journey on which there are joys and sorrows, a sense of delight, and the re-configuring of lives lived. Beyond bewilderment and mystification, the poems also converse with grief and wonder. In the words of Clement Rosset, 'reality must be negotiated in terms of joyous cruelty.' Yet ...
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    20,71 €

  • An Englishman in Italian
    Anthony Labriola
    What if you woke up one day to find that you were famous? Lord Byron wrote that he woke up one day to find that he was famous. Centuries before, Will Shakespeare woke up to the dawning of his Shakespearean fame. An Englishman in Italian deals with the art of striving for success, the kind of success that leads to worldwide fame, and the perpetual longing for artistic immortalit...
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    20,56 €

  • The Dandelion Clock
    Anthony Labriola
    A novel of resistance. In rage and fury, it is a protest against “the dying of the light.” An old teacher, Leonardo Furioso, nicknamed Fury, sets out to delete his blighted memories of a life filled with misadventures, misdirected passion, and mistaken identity. The Dandelion Clock is also a portrait of a failed artist as an old man in a black frock coat with long, flaring, whi...
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    20,70 €

  • The Lonely Barber
    Anthony Labriola
    The Lonely Barber is an urban love story, a dark romance. On the cusp of making business plans for the future, a man nicknamed Lonely clashes with the past. Despite hostility, menace and violence, he seeks his bliss in the city. Love makes its erotic appearance in his life. Unlooked for, the love of his life makes her splashy entrance in the big city. Strapped together in pursu...
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    20,65 €

  • The Blessing of the Bikes & Other Life-Cycles
    Anthony Labriola
    Anthony Labriola received the Toronto Arts Council Grant in 2014 to write this poetic collection, which explores city life, and chronicles lives lived from childhood to old age. Throughout, the poems imagine and re-imagine urban living. The poems are praise songs for city life. What would we miss if it were all to go missing? Even if we left the place behind for new cities (or ...
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    15,48 €

  • Invisible Mending
    Anthony Labriola
    A themed poetry collection-a kind of 'séance'-an evening to get in touch with other souls, and the world they once lived in. Yet, as a linked collection, the poems trace the arc of a life from birth to death, from childhood to old age, and move towards a spiritual journey in art. Our lives seem to be vanishing acts, perfected from birth to death. The trip also takes us within. ...
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    20,69 €

  • Poor Love & Other Stories
    Anthony Labriola
    These stories, in all their narrative voicings, deal with sorrow and still seek to find life's joys. Despite conflicts, contradictions, sacrifices, surprises and ironies, the haunted and hunted characters try to comprehend death in detail. In so doing, the human spirit rises up and triumphs against the incomprehensible and bewildering aspects of life, love and death. 3 ...
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    20,53 €

  • The Pros & Cons of Dragon-Slaying
    Anthony Labriola
    The Pros & Cons of Dragon-Slaying: Collected Stories: Anthony Labriola's collection of stories shows us the battles-fought, lost and won-when we strive to live life to the fullest. In the fabled adventures in both this world and the next, there are many quests to be embarked on, with countless clashes with dragons-seen and unseen. In The Pros & Cons of Dragon-Slaying, the chara...
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    18,87 €

  • Devouring the Artist
    Anthony Labriola
    Set in the late sixties and early seventies in Montreal and Paris, the novella deals with Sebastien Elia, a young but accomplished artist, and his anarchic relationship with Lee Archer, a Canadian-born student-artist. Sebastien introduces him to the violence of life, sex and art. His rapacious hunger to devour experience draws Lee and a small group of intimates into a world of ...
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    15,10 €