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 Dowitcher
Press is proud to present "Communia Corpora," a chapbook of poems
by local poet Zachary Liebhaber. This is his first
collection of poems.
About the author: Zachary
Liebhaber lives and works in Goleta, California. He holds a BA
in Classics from Bowdoin College, an MA in the same subject from
the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Masters degree
in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee. This is his first collection of poems.
 Dowitcher
Press is proud to release John Ridland’s
selected poems as its debut book. “A Brahms CardBallad”is
a collection of poems printed in Hungarian,and this is its first
English printing.
John Ridland recently retired
from being a professor in the English Department at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. His poems have appeared in numerous
publications.
From the cover: John Ridland has
visited Hungary four times since 1987, and this volume of his
Selected Poems was published first in Hungarian as Ballada Brahms
névjegyére
(Europa Press, Budapest, 2004). His close friend Gyula Kodolányi,
poet, translator, editor, and foreign affairs adviser to the
first President of post-Communist Hungary, chose for it poems
that would be more accessible to Hungarian readers, which he
and five fellow Magyar poets then translated. The present volume
follows his selection exactly. Its title poem is drawn from an
anecdote told by another close friend, the Hungarian historian
Professor Tibor Frank, who as a boy began his collection of the
calling cards of cultural and historical figures such as Brahms.
Hungarians are rightfully proud of their culture and haunted
by their history, while making light of their darker days with
a quirky, absurdist humor. Perhaps a somewhat “Hungarian” sense
of humor and of history ties this selection of Ridland’s
poems together, connecting it with the people whose valiant but
doomed uprising against the Soviet occupation in 1956 first made
him aware of their country, which, since 1987, has extended to
him such warm hospitality.
To learn how you can order these
new books of poems, please look at our ordering section.
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