The Marksman Contemporary romance and the future of the

and the future of the birth center model

vanishing children

the glowworm

With Abyssinia's grand plan about to kick off in a night of magic

with her 40th birthday in sight and a precarious hold on employment

The Marksman Contemporary romance and the future of theJeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations and transformations, of wrenching displacement and redemption. Through its imaginative reach, wild humor, and dazzling clarity of language, The Marksman centers its aim on the broken dreams of our lives,