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Backlist Three To get to the main New Orphic Index, hit the website address below:
www3.telus.net/neworphicpublishers-hekkanen New Orphic Publishers 706 Mill Street, Nelson, B.C. V1L
4S5 Canada Tel: 250-354-0494 To purchase any of the following books, make out a check for the price,
add $7.00 for shipping and handling and send your order to the above address. Straying
from Luminosity by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-6-4 $15.00 The poems in Straying from Luminosity deal with topics as varied as the life of a seaman stranded in
Vancouver’s skidrow, Rasputin’s rise and fall in Russia, Milarepa, wars past
and present and, throughout it all, our ever-persistent longing to shine, to
reacquaint ourselves with what is luminous in life. ______________________________________________________________________________ Up
& Coming in Seattle by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 1-894842-03-0 $25.00 Steve Haavikko, a third
generation Finnish-American who teaches at the University of Washington, has
just come out of a three-year-long depression caused by his mother’s death
and his wife having left him for a woman lawyer. The youngest of five
children and the only son, he suffers from a mammoth inferiority complex, due
to his father having repeatedly told him, “Yes siree, I should have gotten myself clipped after the fourth
kid rather than after the fifth.” ________________________________________________________________________________ Dementia
Island by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-3-X $15.00 This allegorical tale deals
with memory, madness and the imagination. In the new-gothic world of
tomorrow, the last battlefield to be won or lost is the imagination. The
socially irredeemable are sent to Dementia Island to lose their memories or
their lives. ______________________________________________________________________________ The
Island of Winged Wonders by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682880-8-0 $15.00 On the surface this novella is
a fable about a fisherman who catches a luminous, silver egg, which, upon
hatching, gives rise to some rather extraordinary events on an island cut off
by catastrophe from the rest of the world, but it also has some significant
things to say about individuals who are, by nature, visionary. ________________________________________________________________________________ You
Know Me Better Than That by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-9-9 $14.00 Tomas Kurikka, an expatriate
writer from Finland, contemplates his tangled life, his numerous affairs, his
estrangement from home and country, while watching a mother sparrow hawk
raise her young on the banks of the Similkameen River in British Columbia ________________________________________________________________________________ My
Dog is More Than Just a Dog to Me by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-4-8 $15.00 A political cartoonist and an
ESL teacher, both dog owners, meet in an East Vancouver park well-known as a
place where people walk their dogs. By exploring what dogs mean to them, they
reveal the story of their lives and eventually fall in love. ________________________________________________________________________________ The
Shipwrecked Heart by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9687317-8-3 $15.00 In these tales of the fantastic
and the macabre, a heart as large as a sperm whale is hurled still beating
onto a northern shoreline known as the Teeth of the Ancient Ones, a reporter
takes a merry voyage on a sea of uncertainty, canes step down from a painting
and turn upon an art critic, and a Victorian house on the Olympic Peninsula
ruthlessly evicts tenants. ________________________________________________________________________________ Sometimes
I Have These Incendiary Dreams by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-7-2 $18.00 These essays deal with
philosophy, politics, economics, the writer’s life, and whether violence is
an appropriate way to deal with governments that are primarily concerned with
enriching the cronies of those in power. In the title essay, Hekkanen
laments: “What can be done to rectify
this deplorable state of affairs?... It’s too bad the Weatherman movement
isn’t a viable political force. At least, when the Weathermen existed as part
of the political equation, they could dispense with an unfaithful politician
or at least severely handicap him….” |