Neurotica: A Sort of Love Story
by Gerald Schoenewolf
Here in one volume is a collection of the most moving poems ever
written. The editor wanted to concentrate on poetry “from the heart,”
eschewing intellectual
poems in favor of those he considered more
emotional and heart-felt. It includes the classic English poems and a
sprinklng of poem from around the world.
It also includes poetic
writings not often found in collections of poems, such as sections from
“Songs of Solomon” from the Bible, Buddha’s "Dhammapada,"
Lao Zi’s "Dao
De Ching", as well as works by Friedrich Nietzsche and Kahlil Gibran.
You will find all the major poets such as Shakespeare, Goethe,
Wordsworth,
Shelly, Keats, Byron, Pushkin, Coleridge, Blake, Dickinson,
Millay, Cummings and Elliot, along with other known and not-so-known
works. In all there are 60 poets
and over 200 poems. The volume features
photos and brief biographies of each poet followed by one or more of their
most heart-felt poems. This is a book
that readers will enjoy and love,
and one that may be useful for courses in literature as well.
Newly Revised
Holding On and Letting Go: Poems and Drawings
by Gerald Schoenewolf
"Let
me start off by saying I love poetry, I’ve taken my share of poetry
classes in college and it’s always been one of my biggest weaknesses.
Anywhere from Shakespeare
to peer editing others’ works. Poetry is one
of, if not the deepest and most vulnerable form of writing there is. This book of poems was unique, different, emotional and raw.
And absolutely perfect. As
most poetry goes, it’s broad enough to leave open room for
interpretation, but specific enough to feel the author’s emotions and
feelings through
their words. The first half of the book was
dark and depressing, almost like a Sylvia Plath. It, at least to me, was
full of fear and suffering. The second half of the book was
not quite a
redemption, but more of a peaceful acceptance. I loved this
collection of poems and drawings."
--Valerie Fasio on Goodreads
The Adventures of Dolly Lahma
Licensed Private Investigator
by Gerald Schoenewolf
"This
is kind of an old-fashioned detective story, with crazy characters and
car chases and a road trip from California to he Florida Keys. When you
first start reading, you'll think that
J. D. Salinger or Mark Twain or
maybe even Henry Miller is he narrator. That's because it is written in
the first person from the point of view of its kinky 25-year-old female
detective.
I honestly could not put it down and found Dolly to be one
of the most original characters I have ever encountered. It is written
with Mark Twain type humor as Dolly, a very human
detective who gets PMS
cramps when she is being chased by crooks. She and her odd-ball
friend, Alice, who doesn't like anything about anybody, attempt to bring
down a sex ring that
is located on a man-made island in the Keys.
Along the way she and her friend engage in kinky sex experiences, such
as having a peeing contest with a bunch of college boys in a motel
in
Oklahoma City. I was laughing my head off throughout this book, but I
realized as I read it that it is definitely not for everybody. It is
quite ribald and many people may think it over
the top or too sexual or
in bad taste. But if you are looking for a different, entertaining, and
even in some ways profound detective yarn, this is it! "
--Amy Capella
"I found this book to be a funny, sometimes hilarious, often profound, page-turner of a neurotic 37-year-old who buys a Robodoll. He hopes to teach her how to be his dream
sex partner and instead she winds up teaching him to love. She turns out to be a robot who doesn't look like a robot, but looks like a real woman, and she is programmed to
have the most technologically advanced orgasm reflex he
has ever encountered. She also can speak 66 languages, sing
opera, dance ballet, cook an array of
international cuisine and read people’s minds. There are many adventures in the book that are funny and surprising. The author's sense of humor is a bit weird, but
it left me in stitches. For example, the robodolls need to pass gas after human meals, which is their way of digesting them, so they end up filling a restaurant with pink clouds.
I also found it laugh-out-loud funny when he took her to his company's Christmas party in Manhattan, and she read the mind of a nasty young woman, causing her
to faint in the arms of the boss. Another hilarious part was when she hit a softball in a Central Park pick-up game 36 miles. I don't want to give away the ending,
but it was a very happy and satisfactory one to me. I found this not just a very entertaining page-turner, but a literary story with very smooth and often poetic prose
and something to say about society that could even become a classic of its genre."
--Amy Capella
"This novel is definitely a page-turner. It is written entirely from the protagonist's mind, in the second person, as this
beautiful, Mexican 17-year-old girl rides into a Texas town wearing pants and a gun and challenges the richest man
in town--who happens to be her father. This father raped and killed the girl's mother when she was a young girl, and
and now she has come for revenge. The novel is full of adventures and touching details throughout. She has a
touching romance with a Mexican boy a few years older than her as she sets up a duel with her father, to which the whole
story rushes toward. I won't tell you the ending, but I will call this a very original Western classic."
--Edith Codrington
