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Red-blooded and Gutsy New Book Details Love, Addiction, and Murder in Honest and Poignant Terms
Two-Handed Engine Press of New York City will release Bartab: An Afterhours Ballad, a novel in verse by writer, musician, and journalist, Cesca Janece Waterfield. Editors and founders of Two-Handed Engine Press express unreserved excitement Contact: Peter K. Nash Email: twohandedenginepress@gmail.com January 15, 2008 New York, NY Musician, writer, and journalist Cesca Janece Waterfield will release her first full-length collection of short fiction and poetry March, 2008. Published by Two-Handed Engine Press of New York City, Bartab: An Afterhours Ballad is a novel in verse and is the narrative account of a musician couple living in urban Virginia. It is an unblinking look at the sometimes severe terms of artistic ambition crossed with poverty and substance abuse. Ultimately, the book is a ransom to the métier of sobriety. But Bartab is no morality yarn. Both the work as a whole, and the discrete poems and stories that comprise its 115 pages are spare and authentic renderings of life lived on the fringes. Local references to music venues and neighborhoods make Bartab particularly interesting to residents of and visitors to Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia, and New York City. In rooms and on highways where only the reckless and distracted fly, Bartab moves from the charm of romance and allure of ambition, through the disappointment and fury in their defeat. In harrowing terms, it even briefly lights the author's intimate perspective in a true-life murder tragedy gnashed in a blitz of media coverage for more than a year. Bartab resonates with any reader who has stumbled in pursuit of a dream and from her own blunders. Readings are scheduled in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, and New York City with other cities to follow. Bartab will be available via online vendors as well as independent brick and mortar booksellers in major cities. Editors and founders of Two-Handed Engine Press express unreserved excitement about Waterfield's first collection. For Waterfield, who's been a freelance journalist for three years and a working musician for the past fifteen, Bartab: An Afterhours Ballad represents her first full-length book release. Cesca Janece Waterfield has been selected three times by ASCAP to receive songwriter grants. Her music, new writing, and more can be found at www.Cesca.net Her short fiction and poetry have been published in publications including RVA Magazine, and journals including Blue Collar Review, Powhatan Review, the Charles Review, and others. She is Editor and Art Director of Eve in Hand, an online arts and culture publication found at www.EveInHand.com. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. Peter K. Nash http://www.cesca.net www.myspace.com/twohandedenginepress END If you’d like more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact Peter K. Nash at twohandedenginepress@gmail.com ### Back |
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