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Gival Press is pleased to announce that Brian Cronwall of Kapa'a, Hawaii has won the 20th Oscar Wilde Award, chosen anonymously by the previous winner of the award, George Klawitter.
In the Brackish Place Where We Come to Love
My tongue and lips revel in your cove
between my freshwater stream, your ocean,
in the brackish place where we come to love.
The flaps and folds of your flesh move
like moss on a rock, like an open question
where my tongue and lips revel in your cove.
My urgent mouth is rich in this flood
of saline wonder, your gushing affection
in the brackish place where we come to love.
I feel your ebb then your flow, your breath above,
the clenches of your thighs, how your waves moan
as my tongue and lips revel in your cove.
A rising cling, clamp, and tide woven
with tired muscles, panting, and emotions
at this brackish place where we come to love.
And even as we slowly swirl in this wonder that proves
our well-spent desire, a kiss, a smile, a touch, devotion,
my tongue and lips begin again to slowly revel in your cove
in the brackish place where we come and continue to love.
Copyright © 2021 by Brian Cronwall.
About the Author
Brian Cronwall, born in San Francisco and grew up in the California coastal town of Carmel, got his undergraduate degree in English at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and his graduate degree at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He taught English at UMD, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Inver Hills Community College (Minnesota), and over 22 years at Kaua`i Community College in Hawai`i until he retired December 2015. He also worked as the Audio Archivist at Minnesota Public Radio, Acting Director of the Minnesota Peace and Justice Coalition, freelance writer, and other scattered jobs. He served on the board of Malama Pono Health Services and was a commissioner on the University of Hawai`i Commission on the Status of LGBTI Concerns. His poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in Hawai`i, Guam, the Continental United States, Australia, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, including recent publications in Bamboo Ridge, Chiron Review, Hawai`i Pacific Review, Ekphrasis, The Santa Fe Literary Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Briar Cliff Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Exit 13, Talking River Review, Albatross, and others.
Finalists
Erased by Robert Cataldo of Providence, Rhode Island.
Abandoning Our House by Thomas March of New York, New York.
Nightfall Fancies by Eugene O'Connor of Columbus, Ohio.
The Strips of Latex and Fabric by Bryan Monte of Zeist, The Netherlands.
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- Robert Giron
Gival Press Novel Award 2020
When a prisoner in an unnamed labor camp finds his journal of memories taken from his cell, he sets out to console himself and perhaps find in his past a way to reclaim his freedom by again writing down what he can remember. As the prisoner writes and passes through the vivid world of a distant life, he is eventually confronted by a strange memory that, if true, questions the reliability of his memories and whether what he remembers was really his own life or, somehow, someone else's.
"A piercingly eerie, if sometimes-blurry, account of a prison sentence."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Capturing the befuddlement of sustained imprisonment, the dystopian novel Redshift, Blueshift focuses on a man who's alone in a cell, and who becomes a prism through which to explore multiple interpretations of reality."
—Foreword Reviews, 4 Starred Review
About the Author
Jordan Silversmith has received degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia. His poem "Praxis" was chosen by Philip Metres for the 2020 Slippery Elm Prize in Poetry. He works as an attorney in New York City.
Redshift, Blueshift
ISBN-13: 9781940724317
Pub. Date: 10/01/2021
Pages: 216
Price: Book $20 / eBook $9.99
Publisher: Gival Press
Pre-order: Amazon / Barnes & Noble
Gival Press / PO Box 3812
Arlington, VA 22203
givalpress@yahoo.com / 703.351.0079
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