In Love with Jerzy Kosinski: A Novel - Tapa dura

"Nesaule, the author's last name, means 'no sun' in Latvian, that is, the situation when there is no sun at all as well as the moments that are filled with light. This book is about sunless, sad, even tragic days in human lives (our own included) but it is also about radiance and joy."--Janina Kursite, University of Latvia "A praise-song to truths of mind, heart, and body."--Alison Townsend, author of "Persephone in America" "A beautiful, compelling story, wholly original, exposing a shadow culture, one that needs illumination and attention: Latvian immigrants' struggle to make a life in the Midwest while coming to terms with war and histories political and personal."--Heather Sellers, author of "Georgia Under Water "and "The Boys I Borrow" Nesaule, the author s last name, means no sun in Latvian, that is, the situation when there is no sun at all as well as the moments that are filled with light. This book is about sunless, sad, even tragic days in human lives (our own included) but it is also about radiance and joy. Janina Kursite, University of Latvia" A beautiful, compelling story, wholly original, exposing a shadow culture, one that needs illumination and attention: Latvian immigrants struggle to make a life in the Midwest while coming to terms with war and histories political and personal. Heather Sellers, author of Georgia Under Water and The Boys I Borrow" A praise-song to truths of mind, heart, and body. Alison Townsend, author of Persephone in America"

The poems in Dancing with a Cowboy are charged with memories and hope, of family, old loves, nostalgia, and regret. Searching for shades of meaning that lurk around old, familiar corners, the poems are constructed from clues found there. Memories are reframed from a new point of reference, defining the curious, the sad, or the just plain ordinary. Tracking the hazardous and the happier moments of life, Rath writes the world alive, always catching its breath, carried forth by emotion."