Footnote #1: A Literary Journal of History (Book Trailer)

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Alternating Current Press’ annual literary journal dedicated to historical and contemporary views on history contains poetry, maps and historical photographs, fiction, essays, articles, and nonfiction by various authors, both contemporary and historical, about various topics of history. Within these covers fantastically drawn by artist Terry Fan, you’ll meet the Romanovs, Serbian poet Vojislav Ilić, Dr. Zhivago, Stephen Crane, Geronimo, Lord Strathcona, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. You’ll learn of the misprint in Herman Melville’s obituary, the constellations in the Southern Planisphere mapped out by Nicolas de La Caille, what words might have been exchanged between William Wordsworth and Thomas Carlyle, how Laura Cereta thrived on insomnia, and who’s buried in the cemeteries at Père-Lachaise and Montparnasse. Our first Featured Writer, A. Jay. Adler — an interviewee for a junior fellowship at Harvard Society of Fellows, Vermont Studio Center grant recipient, and Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition prize winner — will take you through Jewish life on the Lower East Side, Van Gogh’s mental asylum, Route 66, and the bordello rooms of Old-West Tombstone. Our second Featured Writer, Jesseca Cornelson — a Catskill Center’s Platte Clove Preserve and a Sundress Academy for the Arts’ Firefly Farms resident artist — will take you through the Tablet of Daughters, Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville’s journals of the South, and a history of her home state of Alabama’s unfortunate past with racial lynchings. Their work is showcased next to three of our Pushcart Prize nominees and the first, second, and third places, and nine notable-mention finalists, for our 2015 Charter Oak Award for Best Historical. From the Wild West to the Holocaust to Lincoln’s exhumation to the folk music of the sixties to the lost city of Atlantis, you’ll discover entire past worlds between these covers and meet a cast of characters colorful enough to color every page. Alternating Current Press August 2015 ISBN-13: 978-0692479223 ISBN-10: 0692479228 ASIN: B013RTUN7K http://www.press.alternatingcurrentarts.com/2015/08/footnote-1-a-literary-journal-of-history.html Poetry snippets used in the video are from: "Discussing St. Augustine at Sundown" by Brian Le Lay, "15 April 1865" by R. Joseph Capet, "Hamlet" by Diana Andrasi, "Poem in Which She Imagines the Voice of History as a Grandmother" by Jesseca Cornelson, "The Twentieth Century Passes" and "Place traveling" by A. Jay Adler, and "Tower of London" and "No Pasarán!" by Luther Jett. Authors in this collection: A. Jay Adler, Diana Andrasi, Leah Angstman, L. S. Bassen, Sean Brendan-Brown, R. Joseph Capet, Thomas Carlyle, Alan Catlin, Samuel T. Coleridge, Christina Elaine Collins, Jesseca Cornelson, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gary Every, Terry Fan, Robert Frost, Ed Hamilton, Anthony G. Herles, A. E. Housman, Vojislav Ilić, Angie Jeffreys Schomp, Luther Jett, Miodrag Kojadinović, Nicolas de La Caille, Phillip Larrea, Brian Le Lay, Lyn Lifshin, Vachel Lindsay, Helen Losse, J. H. McKenzie, Herman Melville, Heather K. Michon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James O'Brien, Robert L. Penick, Pearl Pirie, David S. Pointer, Sappho, Claudia Serea, Catherine Warfield, Donovan White, Laura Elizabeth Woollett, William Wordsworth, and Elizabeth Zuckerman. Music: "Past the Edge" and "Ossuary 2 - Turn" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0. Book trailer created by Alternating Current Press.