DreamStreet Press

Books, Music and Observations Relevant to an Emerging Era

Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Science, Health Care, SongBooks, Music CDs for Psaltery, songs, and Solo Piano in Recital and in the Studio, Ambient Music, Songs from the stage musical Penelope and Sheet Music.

Our contributors include:

Composer, performer and author Gerald Brennan, poet Patrick O'Neill, novelist David Stevenson, and national authority on childbirth and family issues, Patty Brennan.

There is no plot but many characters. Not exactly autobiography, but a case could be made. This is a book about the people, influences, hopes, fears, and favorite things about my life as a composer, novelist, journalist, broadcaster, performing musician, and person.

The poetry of Patrick O’Neill is essential to the study and appreciation of the centuries of great poetry in the English language. He is that rarest of artist — he is an original. For all his erudition, courage, imagination and deep familiarity with English-language literature, O’Neill’s poetry will nevertheless remind you of no other poet. He stands alone. Few artists can make such a claim. Readers of contemporary American or English-language poetry will find this book a gem, and aficionados will discover a must-have addition to their library.

In the new and previously uncollected stories that make up Points of Astonishment, Stevenson follows through on the promise of his Letters from Chamonix, winner of the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. These eight short stories describe the fates of their fictional climbers on stages as intimate as their own living room and as vast and unforgiving as the remote Himalaya. Stevenson stirs up a mix of humanity, language, and mountainous terrain and lays bare the answers to the question every fiction writer asks: what if? In the words of Katie Ives, long-time editor of Alpinist and author of Imaginary Peaks, “. . . one of the great prose stylists of modern climbing literature.”