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(More customer reviews)The minimal listing here on Amazon does not do this work justice. This little gem is a lovely treasure trove created by a group of professional artists and writers from around New England. All of the tales and images center around the concepts of what walls and bridges may represent. They enclose and isolate, allow us access to worlds beyond our own, bind us yet bring us together. It is chock full of exquisite writing from just about any genre you can imagine, from memoir to sci-fi, humor to the paranormal, poetry to tragedy. What makes it unique is its design; it's a literary anthology disguised as a mini-art book. There are sumptuous black and white photographs and sketches to complement the expert writing.
The publisher is actually Millennial Concepts, not Createspace as listed here. MC is a first rate small house headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island. They are better known for their comics and graphic novels. Included you will find: "Shut Away Behind Convent Walls" by E. Bell Carroll, "Walled Away" by J.N. Day, "The Bridge to Nowhere" and "Nicki" by Nancy Driggs, "The Bridge" by Jessica Grota, "Ninety-five Miles in Pleasantburg" by Amy Machado, "Mr. Bobo" and "Tiny Murders" by Sally Sanford, "Charity-1912" by Barbara Moore, "The Prodigal Son" by Gil Paradis, "My Journey Home" by Ramona Perham, "Crossing Guards" by Kristi Petersen Schoonover, "The Aftertaste" by Richard Alan Scott, "From the Bridge to the Wall" by John Michael Skaggs, "Driving Home" and "One Patch of Earth" by Heather Sullivan, "A Year Knit in Socks" by Susan West Kurz and "Dreams for Sale" by Thomas Allen Mays.
The wealth of authors range from accomplished names to exciting new voices. I was pleasantly surprised as I was taken to so many varied realms: a musician's purgatory of his own making, a bitter crone's paranoid isolation, one woman's anguish over witnessing her brilliant mother deteriorating and another woman's certainty that her relationship is doing the same, a haunted palace as imagined in a lost Poe manuscript, a year of milestones remembered in a knitting project, a Vietnam veteran's reflections on the highs and lows of existence, a homesick girl's letter from a convent, a hilarious and erotic feud between neighbors which hinges on a dastardly chihuahua, and a small town where a medicine show barker guarantees to send you into another person's skin.
These are only a fraction of the tales that await you in this volume, all wrapped up in evocative photos and art from Melissa Martin-Ellis, Donald Heywood, Jill Meyers, Amelia Scott, Mark Ellis and Sylvia Hampton, as well as several of the aforementioned authors.
Believe me, when I picked up this small paperback on my grandson's recommendation, I had no idea what to expect, but the flights of fancy that awaited kept me wanting to return again and again in the succeeding days. Talk about an entertaining and emotionally satisfying ride! I would venture to say that this hidden jewel has more bang for your buck than a whole week of cable!
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While seeming to beopposites, walls and bridges often form a ying/yang dynamic which blocks us or connects us. Newport Round Table's premiere anthology contains the work of New England writers and artists from all walks of life.In this volume, they beautifully express their observations on the meaning of the situations and circumstances which draw us together-- or keep us apart.
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