Books published by Full Court Press

When an event, scene, or emotion catches Steven Swank's interest, it tunes his focus and attention. As he perceives the weight, texture, scent, and sound of it, he writes it down. Some poems spill out of the pen; others must be chipped free of clutter. Some poems happen; others are imagined, conjured, or found as stray parts and assembled. In this book you will find poems that entertain, trouble, delight, or amuse. In these pages you will find poems of nature, kindness, mistrust, angst, calm, and beauty; and poems wry with humor, emotion, and insight.

Banned from school, parks, movie theaters-banned from all public places!-shy twelve-year-old Lisl Malkin is trying to escape from German-occupied Austria. Inthis frank, riveting tale, she describes the consequences of that effort. her animated portrayal of confrontations with the Gestapo is bone-chilling. She is finally taken to England by the Kindertransport. She poignantly depicts overcomingher loneliness there during the war, her determination to preserve her Jewish identity, and her eventual embrace of British values. Through tears, laughter, and persistence, she triumphs in achieving independence in America and building a life through marriage, children, and a meaningful career.

Roy Lucianna's poetry, like everything else about him, is by turns sharp, puckish, and deeply wise-but always, always heartfelt, real as rain, and defiantly human. He devoted himself for decades to the Tao, and mastered and taught taiji and qi-gong to many hundreds of acolytes. An artist whose work explored all aspects of these spiritual pursuits, he performed as well in an array of musical settings. Gathered here are those poems he wished to preserve in easily accessible form. As was true of all his work, he wanted to send them into the ocean of the Tao. Mr. Lucianna held a B.A. from New York University, an M.A. from Hunter College, and engaged in Ph.D. studies in Medieval and Modern Art at Columbia University.

Michael Milano's second collection of stories and poems-wry, surprising, and thought-provoking, extends the range and interest of the earlier "Conversations and Poetry" in deeply affecting ways. He has spent a lifetime as a psychiatrist plumbing the depths of the human mind and heart, and his work shows it. You will be carried away by this humane, clear-headed volume.

"All the stories in this book actually happened as written," insists Sigfried Bader, the author of this charming, witty memoir. ." . .What?" he goes on. "You don't believe me? You think they're all made up?" Mr. Bader has to confess some are, but only a few-the events the rest describe were all quite real, and he hopes they're fun to read anyway, and that you save the book for those moments in your own life when you feel, as is our nature as people, a bad twinge. Everything in a life comes to an end, he argues; so did "Through My Eyes." It took him a lifetime to live these tales and then to assemble them. "Some," he says, "were a lot of fu n, some less. If they inspire you to write something yourself, I'll be happy to read it. But don't wait too long. I'm getting old, you know. Make your book interesting, with a lot of funny memories, and I expect it will be even better than mine."

Anthony DiPerno ha insegnato studi sociali per molti anni nel sistema scolastico Clarkstown a New City, New York. Ha conseguito degli studi ed ha preso un BA in Economia e Commercio nell'Universita del Maryland. Poi, ha ricevuto il Master in Istruzione dal Collegio Siena di Loudonville, New York. Nel 1983 e' diventato membro della Societa Americana di Compositori, Autori ed Editori (ASCAP). Durante I suoi 27 anni di carriera da educatore, il suo piu grande interesse e' stato quello d'insegnare i grandi uomini della storia e Garibaldi e' certemente stato uno di loro. Fu cosi che, affascinato con la vita dell'eroe di cappa e spada, decise di scrivere un libro su di liu. "Le Avventure di Garibaldi" e il prodotto finale di anni di studi e ricerche su "l'eroe dei due mondi." Il libro copre l'intera vita avventurosa di Giuseppe Garibaldi, e comprende una collezione di capricciose avventure, storie d'amore e racconti folcloristici che danno vita alla personalita dei soggetto. Il lavore e stato arricchito con il materiale e le informazioni che descrivone le varie personalita e le condizioni pre-esistenti che interessarono le azione ed il modo di pensare di Garibaldi. Con lo sfondo drammatico del favore nazionalistico e d'intrighi politici, le camicie rosse, Anita, Mazzini, Cavour e Vittorio Emanuele danno vita in queste pagine. Infatti, tutto il Risorgimento e rivissuto avendo Garibaldi come figura centrale. La scopo principale di Di Perno e quello di far rivivere il pubblico in generale ed in particolare gli appassionati di storia, un vivo interesse per l'uomo che una volta venne descritto come "Hercules, Robin Hood, e George Washington, tutti arrotolati in uno.""