One of the Three Guys From Albany, Charles Rossiter, has a brand new book of poetry from FootHills Publishing. Here is the info from the press release:
FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of The Night We Danced With the Raelettes Occurrences In and Around College Park Maryland in the 1960s For the Most Part To the Best of My Recollection, a collection of poems by Charles Rossiter.
It’s all here: leaving home for the first time, hanging out with guys from the dorm; road trips; summer jobs as diverse and improbable as delivering yeast for Budweiser, supervising a pick-your-own strawberry patch, and sweating it out in the coal fields of Bethlehem Steel. There are also musings about life, literature, friendship, and the bliss and pain that comes with searching for, finding, and losing love.
“Charlie Rossiter’s book takes us a high-speed journey into memory and the past. It makes the 60’s come alive again. More importantly, it makes us laugh and cry. Tender, funny, evocative, this book is one not to be missed.”
– Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Founder & Executive Director, Poetry Center, Passaic Co. CC, Paterson, NJ and editor, Paterson Literary Review.
Charlie Rossiter, NEA Fellowship recipient and three time Pushcart Prize nominee, hosts the audio website poetrypoetry.com. A widely published poet, his work has been featured on NPR and numerous statewide public radio networks. During the `90s he hosted the Poetry Motel TV program, still seen on cable stations in some parts of the Northeast. His chapbook, What Men Talk About, won the first Red Wheel Barrow Prize from Pudding House Press. Other publications include CR’s Greatest Hits: 1975-2001 and Around the House also from Pudding House Press. He recently performed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in NJ, and was among a handful of poets selected to perform at the 2005 Chicago Blues Festival. An expanded 2nd edition of Back Beat, his co-authored book of memoir and poetry was published by Fractal Edge Press (2006). He is profiled in Contemporary Authors. Some of the
poems in this collection formed the basis of The Night We Danced With the Raelettes, a one-person play produced at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago.
The Night We Danced With the Raelettes is a 60 page hand-sewn book with spine and is available for $14.00
For more information, a picture of the book or to order on-line go to: http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2007/id176.htm. To order through mail send total price plus $1.75 Shipping and Handling ($2.25 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. (NYS Residents please add $1.12 Sales Tax per book) Send orders to: FootHills Publishing, PO Box 68 , Kanona, NY 14856
