Reviews of NTW authors.

		Rising At 5AM Poems by Marc Elihu Hofstadter Rising At 5AM Is his fifth collection of poems. Here Marc Elihu Hofstadter writes of his thoughts, actions and memories in a way that transcends self-expression. Particularities of detail open up into common experience and engage in a knowledge of joy, nostalgia and mortality. At the heart of Hofstadter's vision is a gratefulness at the gift of our existence and an insistance on living life as intensely as possible. His poetry is full of poignancy and acceptance.

		LUCK Poems by Marc Elihu Hofstadter LUCK delivers a whole life in snapshots taken at moments of bell-like clarity in late afternoon just before half-light decends. Accessible, highly compressed phrases and luminous language. Complete awareness of life's transience and of thought's transience at the same time. Full range of feeling. These poems are flowers that breathe in my soul and reflect back utterly resonant pictures. Clive Matson, author of Squish Boots and Let the Crazy Child Write!

		Shark's Tooth By Marc Elihu Hofstadter Shark's Tooth provides a kaleidoscopic view of a gay man's life past and present, in America and abroad, in sickness and in health. Famed French poet Yves Bonnefoy has written of it, "Marc loves tea and his poems resemble tea. We see his perceptions and intuitions spreading vaporously through his words, and then we taste in the poem, in the book, a flavor that has the mind-expanding quality of an excellent Indian or Chinese tea." And renowed gay poet Robert Peters has said, "Marc Hofstadter has been devoured, ravished, feted in living a poet's life, and he has the goods to prove it with Shark's Tooth. He shares his vicissitudes exquisitely, never shortchanging us. A vital, canny book!" Shark's Tooth is available, on backorder, from Baker & Taylor and from Ingram, and can also be purchased on amazon.com.