Three Wives – Browse & Buy
A lifetime prose writer, Dennis Bartel has completed his first slim volume of poetry. In sixty pages, these poems span a lifetime, from childhood to the author’s seventh decade. “As usual,” writes Brenda Barnes, CEO of KING-FM, Seattle, “there is a brutal honesty to Bartel’s work. He is somehow comfortable with the uncomfortable.”
The prayer if feeble
The call for you absurd
The very act insults.
You give nothing and
Defy me to replace
You with the trivial.
Father, I have. (from “Prayer”)
High’d Up – Browse & Buy
Get acquainted with Dennis James Bartel’s Pulitzer-Prize nominated novel, three decades in the making and destined to become a cult classic. The novel has received a second printing, thanks to The Gramercy Press, this time illustrated.
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High’d Up (excerpt)
It had become that time of evening when the sky turned acoustic blue and grainy as a Diebenkorn. Along Ocean Ave. people sat on their porches rocking gently and talking gently. Couples jogged past in no hurry. Across the street on the beach’s grassy buffer, two old men sat on a red quilt, playing chess.
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High’d Up – Interview with DJ Bartel
The author sits, however reluctantly, for a conversation about his eye-popping novel.
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Voyeurs
Read reviews of DJB’s award-winning collection of stories.
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The Whores of S. Hanover Street
An account of one man’s walk on sidewalks of sin. This chapbook also includes one of DJ Bartel’s most celebrated stories, “Jalousie,” first published by the ground-breaking Libido Magazine, and anthologized in the best-selling book The Ecstatic Moment (Doubleday).
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