& speaking of New Star, my stablemate Donato Mancini's wonderful Ligatures just got reviewed on Amazon by the mighty Kevin Killian--

"This book had me standing up several times a day, so the book fell off my lap as my "lap" went away. The book, all dented now, remains a monument to the imagination, the strength of alphabet, as ivy and fluid, the way we keep making sense out of the insensible..."