THE SOCIALIST’S GARDEN OF VERSES

by Christopher Bernard

$19.95 / ISBN: 978-1-58790-530-8 / 250 pages / paperback / 5” x 8”

Poetry

ABOUT THE BOOK

From one of the finest living writers in the English-speaking world comes a book of inspired, impassioned, and deeply moving poetry addressing the major crises of our times. Christopher Bernard, “one of [our] best-kept lyric secrets” (Ivan Arguelles), offers a magnificent new collection of poems to help inspire us through this age of emergency as we face a pandemic, a crisis of democracy, and a world racing toward environmental disaster. “A vibrant and focused collection” (Marvin R. Hiemstra); poems “lyrical, funny, haunting, provocative, and sometimes maddening . . . adventurous, entertaining, and full of life” (Jane Tompkins). “With humor, grace, and human insight, Bernard leads us toward our ever-nearing future” (Keith Ekiss).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher Bernard’s first book of poetry, The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs (A Press of Rabble), appeared in 2013 and his second, Chien Lunatique (Regent Press), in 2018. He has also published three novels (the modern classics, A Spy in the Ruins [2005] and Voyage to a Phantom City [2015; both from Regent Press]) and two collections of short fiction: In the American Night and Dangerous Stories for Boys (both from A Press of Rabble). His third novel, Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe (Regent Press), appeared in 2020. He has also written plays produced and radio broadcast in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives. He has published journalism in many periodicals across the U.S. and is a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos International Magazine. In 1989 he founded, and is now co-editor of, the literary and arts magazine (now webzine) Caveat Lector. In 2019, he was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.