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Stewart's Books
The Short Fall From Grace
ISBN 1-59540-982-3
Blue Light Press
$15.95
Available online through 1st World Publishing, amazon, barnes and noble, and other online bookstores. Also available from your local bookseller via Ingram or Baker and Taylor.
Read the press release. (.pdf)
Read the review (.pdf) from the Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, May 2008
Stewart Florsheim has written a Moebius strip of a book, starting with the nearly unspeakable grief of being the child of ill-matched parents, and proceeding by turns into the amorous education of a young man, the perspicuity of a middle-aged aesthete (many of the poems here take their cue from great paintings), and finally marriage and fatherhood, which loop back with irony and insight to the beginning of Florsheim's narrative arc. The Short Fall From Grace, then, doesn't occur so much in a straight line--the way an actual fall might--as it does in a circular fashion, owing its trajectory not to gravity but to the irresistible pull of time.
--Thomas Centolella, Views from along the Middle Way
The Girl Eating Oysters
This chapbook is available for download from 2River.
Ghosts of the Holocaust
ISBN 0-814-32052-X
Wayne State University Press
Out of print, but may be available through amazon and used booksellers
Stewart edited this collection of poetry by children of Holocaust survivors. As disquieting as most of these poems are, they also affirm life. In his foreword, Gerald Stern writes, It is not that we will either forget or reclaim those years because of these poems; it is not that the poems will even make the past bearable. It is that, in our greatest loss, we have a victory.
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