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The Required Accompanying Cover Letter Published by Parallel Press
Posted 8/16/11
MADISON, Wis. – Parallel Press is pleased to announce the publication of The Required
Accompanying Cover Letter, by Richard Fein. In this most recent addition to the Parallel Press Poetry Series, the poet explores states of alienation and loneliness through natural and technical metaphors: “God the geek is lonely, all geeks are. / Hours a day touching nothing warm except a computer monitor and reheated pizza. / Of course, all the algorithms onscreen are his own creations
and that’s the cosmic irony, / for he’s a misfit programmer among his own programs.”
Fein’s poetic examination of writing, with all of its frustrations and rewards, is evident in the collection’s opening piece, “The Required Accompanying Cover Letter”: “Submit. Submit! Submit? / I should submit a manuscript so you could turn thumbs up or down? / Never! Not this pen-wielding Spartacus! / I don’t submit to anyone, and I’m sub to no one.” Fein’s use of organic and technical metaphors offers a rich, complex view of a world where history, nature, spirituality and rationality mingle to create tension and sometimes an unexpected coalescence.
Richard Fein was a finalist in the 2004 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. He has been published in web and print journals such as Southern Review, Foliate Oak, Morpo Review, Ken*Again, Oregon East, Southern Humanities Review, Skyline, Touchstone, Windsor Review, Maverick, Parnassus Literary Review, Small Pond, Kansas Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Exquisite Corpse, Terrain Aroostook Review, Compass Rose, and many others. He also has an interest in digital photography and has published many of his photos.
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