Books published by Spuyten Duyvil

How many ways does the past haunt the present? Can it give you the courage to finally follow your heart? Part literary mystery, part how-to-reinvent-your-life, and 100% delicious, Sunday Taylor's entrancing novel about Charlotte Brontë will have you captivated from page one. Get ready to put the outside world on hold. You don’t just read this book, you live it.        ~ Lisa Borgnes Giramonti

The Chicago Window is structured similar to the eponymous architectural phenomenon: two double-hung sash novellas flanking a fixed center novel. The three panes include: Moby Grape, In the Penal Colony, and Judith Beheading Holofernes. Each of these three works deals obliquely with the gentrification of Chicago’s Near Northwest Side.

Homero Pumarol’s poetry reveals another country. It opens doors that were previously marked out with trepidation.  Facing the disappointments from the 80’s and the machinations of the 70’s, the 90’s have brought us a voice which can lift bridges into the most unsuspected corners.    Miguel D. Mena

Valery Oisteanu took the Lower East Side to Morocco in this color-suffused book and brought it back still redolent and alive, something we need badly as the glass walls of the evil corporate prison squeeze the life out of us. Take this book with you just in case you run into Satan." Andrei Codrescu, author of No Time Like Now: New Poems

Every day, the old man enters the fallout shelter and works on the two manuscripts. He retypes the story of the cowboy hero beside the story of how the Negro boy really died. “Wisteria is a clinging vine,” he writes today. “It grows the way the old narratives do. But when I think of wisteria, it all comes back to me in fractals.” The working novelist learns to respect cause and effect in his own way.

In Shades & Graces, Salcman tells us early on that “Every intern knows it doesn’t matter how long an incision is, just how wide,” and in this accurate and marvelous detail provides a metaphor for the way a surgeon’s suturing provides a signature, “closed but open like a grave,” that “even God can’t erase.” In poem after poem, Salcman’s signature—the stitched lines of his verse—are characterized by verve, clarity, and formal finesse, and as such they attempt to heal the various and vexing wounds of experience.   —Michael Collier, former poet laureate of Maryland, director of the Bread Loaf Writers╩╝ Conference, Professor of English at the University of Maryland and author of “My Bishop and Other Poems.”

In this highly individuated and dignified book, every kind of separation is spoken as synaesthesia.  Verbal, sensual, spiritual “derangements” divide up the page between them and make mildly glorious a mourning.    Sharon Thesen

The Accident is a fragmentary, lyric thing. Not a story. Not a record. An account—provisional and subject to revision. It is a reckoning with the ways language and narrative fail to make sense of the recursive slippages of loss.