Product Description: 10 fine stories by this seasoned fiction writer, all set in the urban Heartlands of America...."In Story Hour, Robert Flanagan tells masterfully rendered, hard-edged tales of the tough lives of men and women struggling to get by on the edges of America's heartland...read more

Product Description: In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan comtemplates mortality in his latest collection. Flanagan's poetry is essential, incantatory, and almost shamanistic in its ability to cast spells that transport the reader to invaluable inner worlds...read more

A thousand miles from the nearest war zone―in a foreign country call the U.S. Marine Corps, a few good men are finding out what living hell is all about. Theplace: Parris Island, S.C. The time: basic training. For Tom Adamczyk and Joe Waite--two of the seventy raw recruits of Platoon 197--it’s a bizarre and violent journey into degradation, fear, and confusion under the onslaught of drill instructor Sgt. Maguire. Maguire is out to turn lowly maggots into Marines―and he'll use any means he can. But when Maguire crosses the line between cruelty and sadism, and an official investigation is launched, each man is forced to make a choice between the truth and a lie. And for Adamczyk and Waite the choice will shape the rest of their lives--not as maggots, or Marines, but as men."When it comes to novels written about boot camp life in the United States military, nothing compares to Robert Flanagan's revealing and wonderfully written classic, Maggot." -Donald Ray Pollock

Product Description: Existentialist in approach, this collection of tightly woven, abstract poems explores ageing and what it means to not be young anymore.

Product Description: This volume brings together the poems from Robert Flanagan's earlier books -- Body (1970), Incisions (1972), Gravity (1978), and On the Ground (1990) -- and a number of new poems. We find a continuity, a flow between the various poems and the different books...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)