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His works have appeared in the anthology <I>September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond</I> and in a handful of journals, most recently <I>Terminus</I>. He has earned an MA in Literature from SUNY Brockport and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. He currently survives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife, Michelle Bonczek.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Comments about the book:</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Tom Holmes' Lorca-inspired and Death-suffused Malagueña sequence reads as a single poem, hypnotic in effect and delivering us to where "there's a smell of salt / and women's blood / from the feverish flowers / by the sea"; to where "there are mounds of dung / & lamb's wool / piled in the seas / flooding the world". Each section is a further location of this place in us where Death, who "sleeps / with orchids", resides, the place of poetry itself. </I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>    -William Heyen</div> <bR> <div> After Malagueña<I> is both a deft formal homage to Lorca's moody poem and a shrewd reinvention of it in contemporary guise: "there's an odor of sex / & rotting fish / from the beach / across the street // Death comes / once a week / to sing…." In this stark, vivid sequence, Tom Holmes touches us with a hand as chilling as it is true. As the best poets always do, he sings not against death, but with it, reminding us of what we know.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Stan Sanvel Rubin</div> <bR> <div> <I>Tom Holmes has written a wonderfully comic and powerful invocation of Lorca in </I>After Malagueña<I>. Death appears in the most outrageous of places, not just in the bar of Lorca's poem, but at a wedding, in the courtroom, and in the school where he "stays late / to clean erasers"-what wonderful irony: the great eraser cleans erasers! And in all the humor and close quarters of Lorca's original form, there's a dark reminder that Death is coming and leaving, and a reminder, too, of what poetry can do.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Gerry LaFemina</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>First Tom Holmes resurrects Lorca's character Death in a new translation of "Malagueña," then he follows as Death strolls from the bar in which Lorca found him out into a world as familiar and proximate as the grass stains on a child's dress and as strange and obliterating as the seas flooding the world of our dreams. The patterns of these poems' music comes in large measure from Lorca, but this is Death as Holmes knows him-revolutionary, educator, wedding guest, gig singer, unearther of orchids. This is a wonderful series, as companionable as it is haunting, and it marks the debut of a powerful new talent.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Jonathan Johnson</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Who says you can't quarrel with a translation and praise a new poet's riffs on Lorca-all at the same time? In </I>After Malagueña,<I> Tom Holmes gives us twelve sharp and disturbing ways of looking at Lorca. It's good to have this new and intriguing work among us.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Greg Glazner</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Table of Contents</div> <bR> <div> <I>Preface   7</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Malagueña </I></div> <div> <I>(Federico Garc</I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><I>í</I></FONT><I>a Lorca)   11</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Malaguena   12</I></div> <div> <I>Death's Gig   13</I></div> <div> <I>Death Keeps Tabs   14</I></div> <div> <I>Til Death Do Us Part   15</I></div> <div> <I>Death Finds Religion   16</I></div> <div> <I>Death Educates   17</I></div> <div> <I>Death Goes Downtown   18</I></div> <div> <I>Death Draws Attention   19</I></div> <div> <I>Death Tries Usury   20</I></div> <div> <I>Death Has His Say   21</I></div> <div> Death Decorates   22</div> <div> <I>Death Sleeps   23</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>From the book:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Malagueña</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> La muerte</div> <div> entra y sale</div> <div> de la taberna.</div> <bR> <div> Pasan caballos negros</div> <div> y gente siniestra</div> <div> por los hondos caminos</div> <div> de la guitarra.</div> <bR> <div> Y hay un olor a sal</div> <div> y a sangre de hembra,</div> <div> en los nardos febriles</div> <div> de la marina.</div> <bR> <div> La muerte</div> <div> entra y sale,</div> <div> y sale y entra</div> <div> la muerte</div> <div> de la taberna.</div> <bR> <div>              by Federico Garc<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial Narrow" >í</FONT>a Lorca</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Malaguena</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Death comes</div> <div> to the bar </div> <div> & goes</div> <bR> <div> passes the black horses</div> <div> & people fated to paths</div> <div> with hollow guitars</div> <bR> <div> & there's a smell of salt</div> <div> & women's blood</div> <div> from the feverish flowers </div> <div> by the sea</div> <bR> <div> Death </div> <div> comes & goes</div> <div> from the bar</div> <div> Death </div> <div> goes & comes</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-63-6</div> <bR> <div> After Malagueña<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook - $7.00</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Dolphin" >After Malagueña</FONT><B>  </B>ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="After Malaguena"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="05-06"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Thank you for your support! </B></div> <bR> <bR> </BODY>