Outskirts Press Announces After A Little Stint In A Little War, by Michael Stuart Burns
Topeka, KS, February 23, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published After A Little Stint In A Little War: Reflections On Going Berserk by Michael Stuart Burns, which is the author's most recent book to date. The 7.4 x 9.7 paperback in the Poetry / General category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $14.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/MichaelStuartBurns was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
Flying alongside Satan and the Saints quickly moving in to harvest the dead and wounded splayed on the killing fields of South Vietnam, faithful Army air-ambulance medic, Michael Burns, passionately competed in gathering human spirits. Against all odds he raised them from the jungle’s floor and lifted them onto helicopters; ushering them to hospitals, home, and headstones. Ironically, before his deployment to Vietnam, Burns was lifting spirits from the choir in his monastic home at the Passionist monastery in Louisville, Kentucky. Aptly nicknamed, “The Flying Monk”, Burns was steeped in faith and covered in prayers, but finally he was taken hostage...by the war itself. PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) left Mike Burns forever fighting to lift even his own spirit. For many years following his “little stint” in the war Burns was caught in a surreal web of truth and illusion, tormented, until finally he melted into a stream of verse...a little “war-inspired” poetry. “after a little stint…in a little war”, courses along singing and slaying both truth and lies, exposing the hideous and sublime, toasting and roasting classical history and literature, yet offering contemporary inquiry as to the whereabouts of a guiding god…“or is it just some drunk capt’ning us cross this firmament”? It’s a romp and a stomp; it’s Genghis and Jesus, bureaucratic blow-jobs and political snow jobs, whiskey, tobacco, and horseflesh; it’s Homer, Flaubert, Joyce and the Celts, the shores of Carthage, and the Oracle of Delphi. Embedded within are the whores and horrors of war, all cascading through a tempest stream of …Burns. His humor and wit survived the crucible of hell, and from the fire he forged a novel in verse, “…a butcher’s block an executioners dock, a madman’s book…” “i got the boys out of the jungle… but even god cant get the jungle out of the boys” Michael Stuart Burns “Perfectly seasoned with archetypal themes of the human condition, this provocative smorgasbord of poems has been skillfully seined from the pools of history, literature, theology, and science. Michael Burns has fermented the fetid fruits of war and tapped the stench into a robust and complex vintage of poetry. If Homer were here today he would drink a case of Burns.” ...from the Foreword, by Debra O’Quinn
Deftly constructed at 315 pages, After A Little Stint In A Little War: Reflections On Going Berserk is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Poetrry / General category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, After A Little Stint In A Little War meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $14.95.
Additionally, After A Little Stint In A Little War can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore
ISBN: 9781432740191
Format: 7.4 x 9.7 paperback
SRP: $14.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/MichaelStuartBurns
About the Author
None
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
Flying alongside Satan and the Saints quickly moving in to harvest the dead and wounded splayed on the killing fields of South Vietnam, faithful Army air-ambulance medic, Michael Burns, passionately competed in gathering human spirits. Against all odds he raised them from the jungle’s floor and lifted them onto helicopters; ushering them to hospitals, home, and headstones. Ironically, before his deployment to Vietnam, Burns was lifting spirits from the choir in his monastic home at the Passionist monastery in Louisville, Kentucky. Aptly nicknamed, “The Flying Monk”, Burns was steeped in faith and covered in prayers, but finally he was taken hostage...by the war itself. PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) left Mike Burns forever fighting to lift even his own spirit. For many years following his “little stint” in the war Burns was caught in a surreal web of truth and illusion, tormented, until finally he melted into a stream of verse...a little “war-inspired” poetry. “after a little stint…in a little war”, courses along singing and slaying both truth and lies, exposing the hideous and sublime, toasting and roasting classical history and literature, yet offering contemporary inquiry as to the whereabouts of a guiding god…“or is it just some drunk capt’ning us cross this firmament”? It’s a romp and a stomp; it’s Genghis and Jesus, bureaucratic blow-jobs and political snow jobs, whiskey, tobacco, and horseflesh; it’s Homer, Flaubert, Joyce and the Celts, the shores of Carthage, and the Oracle of Delphi. Embedded within are the whores and horrors of war, all cascading through a tempest stream of …Burns. His humor and wit survived the crucible of hell, and from the fire he forged a novel in verse, “…a butcher’s block an executioners dock, a madman’s book…” “i got the boys out of the jungle… but even god cant get the jungle out of the boys” Michael Stuart Burns “Perfectly seasoned with archetypal themes of the human condition, this provocative smorgasbord of poems has been skillfully seined from the pools of history, literature, theology, and science. Michael Burns has fermented the fetid fruits of war and tapped the stench into a robust and complex vintage of poetry. If Homer were here today he would drink a case of Burns.” ...from the Foreword, by Debra O’Quinn
Deftly constructed at 315 pages, After A Little Stint In A Little War: Reflections On Going Berserk is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Poetrry / General category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, After A Little Stint In A Little War meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $14.95.
Additionally, After A Little Stint In A Little War can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore
ISBN: 9781432740191
Format: 7.4 x 9.7 paperback
SRP: $14.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/MichaelStuartBurns
About the Author
None
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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