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  • War and Imagination

    Perspectives from the Hudson Review

    by Ronald Koury, Nina Bogin, Frederick Morgan, Franz Schneider, Charles Gullans, Joseph Bennett, John Finlay, Marilyn Nelson, Brooke Allen, Abraham Pais0, Louis Simpson1, Anne Stevenson2, Daniel Hoffman3, John Ridland4, Maria Terrone5, Maxine Kumin6, Benjamin Fondane7, John Balaban8, Donka Farkas9, Tennessee Williams0, Leo Tolstoy1, Richard Pevear2, Larissa Volokhonsky3, Wendell Berry4, Julián Ríos5, Nick Caistor6, Asako Serizawa7, Luke Mogelson8, Lara Prescott9, Cary Holladay0 ...
    Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coming Down Again

    A Novel

    by John Balaban ...
    Based on a true story: A magnificent portrayal of chaos, darkness, and adventure in Asia's Golden Triangle as the war wages in VietnamAdrift at the end of the Vietnam War, Paul Roberts and his girlfriend, Fay, are arrested at the Burmese-Thai border for smuggling a couple of ounces of hashish. Stranded in a small Thai prison, they become part of a grisly contest played out by opium warlords, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Winter 2022-2023

    by Ladette Randolph, John Skoyles, Alice Jolly, Natalie Bakopoulos, Carmen Giménez Smith, Grace Li, Sara Elkamel, Mimi Schwartz, Kirsty Gunn, Lily Lloyd Burkhalter, Sarah M. Brownsberger, John Balaban, Sven Birkerts, Kashona Stevens, Serkan Gorkemli, Keith S. Wilson, Jim Whiteside, Donna Vorreyer, Ginny Threefoot, Shirley Stephenson, Matthew Sumpter, Nora Hikari, David O'Connell, Charles Rafferty, D. Nurkse, Deshawn McKinney, Jenny Molberg, Cate Lycurgus, Zach Linge, You Li, Christina Hutchins, David Kirby, Maureen Langloss, Luci Huhn, Kate Gaskin, Melissa Fite Johnson, Edison Dupree, Cara Dees, Nathan Blansett, Bruce Bond, Martyn Crucefix, Nancy Feng Liang, D.M. Aderibigbe, Katie Berta ...
    The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporaryAmerican literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in avariety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton amongminnows.”The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Passing through a Gate

    Poems, Essays, and Translations

    by John Balaban ...
    Likely National Book Award prospect (two-time finalist)Offers wisdom and connection between the grief of war and tragedies and the healing power and redemption of poetry and music through landscape and community.Award winning author of 13 books of poetry, translations, and prose spanning multiple decades.Balaban was a conscientious objector to Vietnam and went there anyway to volunteer in a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Empires

    by John Balaban ...
    "John Balaban’s sixth collection of poetry considers America in its innate beauty and complex ugliness, in its powerfully healing landscapes and its destructive misadventures. With a compelling lyricism and cinematic imagery, Empires showcases the pervasiveness of the human spirit across a diverse cast of characters, both modern and ancient. From the rubble of the World Trade Center to Washington ... Read more

    $10.99 USD