Bøker av Sam Eisenstein

90 poems by a 90 year old American poet on the edge of America, in California - casting a cold eye on life, death, passion and despair

Fiction. California Interest. Aliens, gods and artists--these are the figures that populate the numerous worlds of these exciting six stories. Gifted storyteller Sam Eisenstein explores the cosmic and psychic forces at work behind the fac, ade of everyday life. From a man whose dog charges him with taking down the president of the United States, to a Billy Pilgrim-like traveller in time and space, the collection speculates on dualities of love and lust and fate and free will. When you can't count on reality, you have to wonder who's really in charge here. This is a compelling fusion of sci-fi, fantasy, and literary genres, a brilliant new vision of short fiction for the 21st century.

Poetry. As if Freud, Woody Allen, and Larkin had born an unlikely love child in the 1930s, here comes Sam Eisenstein - the octogenarian debut poet from Pasadena. Charting a lifetime of marital, parental, and existential experiences, Eisenstein is both funny and achingly sad. Here is a poet who has spent decades analysing the world from his acerbic, informed, and humanist perspective. Rarely has a book of poems presented, with such searing integrity, this bleak a vision of how Americans live - and die - in this late capitalist time of terror and desire.