POETRY · EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
Adam Fieled
American poet Adam Fieled was born in New York City in 1976 but raised in the Philadelphia suburb Cheltenham. He attended Penn State University in the Nineties, but eventually graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in the Aughts. His first print books, Posit (2 editions) and Opera Bufa, appeared in 2007, and were followed by When You Bit..., Chimes, Apparition Poems, Equations (2 editions), and Cheltenham, as well as numerous e-books and chapbooks, like Beams and [The White Album (2 editions)]. Fieled also earned an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University. He currently resides in the Philadelphia suburb Conshohocken. His poetry and theoretical endeavors all involve spearheading a movement he calls Neo-Romanticism, under the aegis of which also fall many young artists working in Philadelphia in the Aughts.
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— from Saturn
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Saturn
Overview: Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to run the risks. Now the governments of Earth are encouraging many of their most incorrigible dissidents to join a great ark on a one-way expedition, twice Jupiter's distance from the Sun, to Saturn, the ringed planet that baffled Galileo and has fascinated astronomers ever since. But humans will be human, on Earth or in the heavens-so amidst the idealism permeating Space Habitat Goddard are many individuals with long-term schemes, each awaiting the tight moment. And hidden from them is the greatest secret of all, the real purpose of this expedition, known to only a few ...
Dry ice
2007
New York Times bestselling author Stephen White brings back his popular character, psychologist Alan Gregory, to take on the sociopathic killer from White's first novel—who, many years later, has walked away from a mental hospital, hungry for revenge.It has been years since the mayhem was unleashed in Privileged Information. Now Michael McClelland, the brilliant, determined killer introduced in White's first novel, has left the Colorado State Mental Hospital—and he's coming after Alan Gregory's family. The timing couldn't be deadlier; like a cornered animal, Alan is in a deeply vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And McClelland holds the most powerful weapons of all: secrets from Alan's past. Secrets Alan thought he had successfully buried years ago. Secrets not even his wife knows. Time is running out as Alan scrambles to outwit his nemesis while confronting each of his worst nightmares. His becomes a captivating psychological journey into the events that forever change us, and the relentless drumbeat of the past. Faithful readers of the series and newcomers alike will be mesmerized by this searing view into the revered doctor's heart—with a haunting conclusion that will secure Dry Ice's place as the most memorable of White's novels.
Revolver
The e-chapbook Revolver, by Adam Fieled, was originally released by Chicago's Scantily Clad Press (ed. Andrew Lundwall) in 2008.