Masculine Happiness Toon Tellegen Aidas Marcenas

Aidas Marcenas

In reflecting this

This is his fifth book for Five Leaves

Works by 5 fiction-writers

Sue Coll of Garnet Publishing talks about their Arab Women Writers Series

Masculine Happiness Toon Tellegen Aidas MarcenasThis provocative debut collection, some years in the making, is often inspired by the poets reading of American literature: the conversational tone of Frank OHara and the long lined garrulity of Allen Ginsberg, as well as the models of masculinity handed out to us by Hollywood characters like John Wayne. This is also a writer who casts a cold eye on the natural world, at one point lauding a landscape and the next, mourning its depredation. There is