THREE POEMS by BRIAN CHAN
Transcendence
The useless matters: the invisible
waiting to be seen by eyes made again
naked as a newborn's: a bridge across
an open space that needs to remain
open:a domain without a border
Ah, Mikhail, O Fidel by N. D. Williams
Ah Mikhail brings us into inner city New York in the early nineties.In this immigrant filled world full of uncertainties and shifting loyalties we get a sense of the impending chaos that would come to a climax on Sept. 11,2001. Through the eyes of a nervous teacher Radix we see the underbelly of the new superpower. The failing public school system is a mirror of the chaos that really exists in this mega city.
Colonial Cream: New and Selected Stories by N. D. Williams
N.D. Williams has quietly chronicled the emtional storms of an era in the past in what was seen as a backwater of the empire--the Caribbean as well as contempoary themes like the restlessnes of today's people as they travel back and forth between simple and complex societes Williams is not afraid to explore different ways of writing. Readers are also struck by his forceful but precise prose.His characters bring wry smiles as they muse or sometimes utter incongruous comments.
The Crying of Rainbirds by N. D Williams
The characters in these short stories inhabit a Caribbean they find it impossible to live in, yet impossible to live without. They dream of being inviolable and whole, but live in situations which are invariably on the edge of disorder and personal threat.
The Silence of Islands by N.D. Williams
Delia gives Mr. Ni Win two bags for safe keeping. In them he finds her story of escape from the suffocations of her father and Caribbean island life into the nightmarish world of an illegal immigrant in America.
Prash and Ras by N. D Williams
Two intriguing novellas. The first one 'Planet of Ras' hauntingly evokes a real life story I read of years after its publication of the mysterious disappearance of a young American woman. These stories give us insights into the pain and emotional trauma that modern life brings to even the simple and innocent.
