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Lone Wolf Editions

From the interior world of Bill Wallis—written, directed, and produced
entirely by him—come the Lone Wolf editions.

Winner of the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction

Hawk

William Wallis's debut novel is now available. Read more here.

 Hawk pays homage to childhood in the story of a 7-year-old boy who awakens to the world in the early 1950s.
ISBN 13: 978-1-891135-07-01 Paperback 5x8 158 pages $12.95

Sonnets

Each of 128 sonnets is a discrete song (though themes recur).
As much as the structure grants the reader security of expectation, it grants the poet potential for richness of expression.

Sonnets, by William Wallis

    78
Translucent, the air ripples away from your
  form
In gentle waves, as light gathers on your
  skin
In burnished shades of the sun's design,
And the moon traces our conversation.
Your perfect form, woman-child, petite,
  precious,
Eyes full of needful humor, woman's load,
Your heavy gaze draws my dreaming into your
  light
Your lunar grace is echoed in breast and eye.
What became of your childhood search for
  perfect love?
Do the aches of your body and heart ever join
When you gaze at earth below or mists above,
As you dream what you dream when you wake
  with a moan?
Forgive my words, I am blind and need to
  know
How all you do and are enchants my soul.

 

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of expression in 128 sonnets.
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ISBN 0-891135-06-6 Paperback 4.5 x 5.5 140 pages $12.95


Selected Poems, 1969-99

Peter Marin writes about Bill Wallis's verses: "There is a radical transformation here, a sort of soaring in which you can see the words take flight. The poems are filled with light, and I would swear you can perceive object and feelings taking form within it, as if solidifying themselves inside Bill himself, somewhere in the heart of the soul. It's quite wonderful to see."
This hand-sized volume contains the poet's best verse, including the experimental "Redlining San Vicente," the mature "Reading," and several sequences of poems which constitute Wallis's most ambitious work. (Nominated for Pulitzer Prize, Poetry Division, 2000.)

The shadow of your absence cools my chest.
Far from your sleep, I fall back to dream;
My arms trace your form, as dimensions slide
To align our drifting beds in separate places.

If you want to get the pick of the lot, order the poet's selections by
clicking here.

ISBN 1-891135-01-5 Paperback 4-1/2x5-1/2 198 pages $13.95


A Dream of Love Fulfilled: Romantic Opera as Literature

The author was a professional opera singer, a tenor. His love of opera, his musical experience, and his literary studies give him a solid base for analysis and commentary.

The book is for the person who wishes to explore the vast and fascinating world beneath the surface of opera. It stresses the literary aspects of La Bohème, emphasizes the dramatic excellence of Carmen, considers musical aspects of La Traviata, and examines The Rake's Progress as visual art. The form and content will not alienate the beginner or disappoint the reader familiar with opera.

You can experience a special operatic perspective with these pages. Order your copy by clicking here.

ISBN 1-891135-02-3 Paperback 6x9 198pages $14.95

Selected Essays

William Wallis the poet has "always valued the essay as a useful means of sharing information and as a form demanding honesty of intent and creativity in mode." Recently, however, he "realized the importance of the essay form" in his life and education." Now, he sees that "the essay is a flexible and powerful tool of expression," so much so that he wonders whether he has recorded more thought and experience in prose or in poetry.

The thirty essays selected for this volume cover intellectual and emotional adventures that occurred during the same period as his Selected Poems, 1969-99. The eight sections into which the essays are placed include Early, Personal, and Scholastic compositions. There are Eulogies that stand as essays in their celebrations of lives. The sections on Lakota (Sioux) Culture, Religious Conversion, and Opera are quite dense and well-developed.

Altogether, the collection is useful for teachers and students and rewarding for all the intellectually curious.

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ISBN 1-891135-04-x Paperback 6x9 192 pages $14.95