MOONRISE PRESS ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF THE DESERT HAT

This anthology of poetry published by moonrise publishing is a one-of-a-kind investigation of people’s experiences of surviving in the California desert before, during, and after the agony of the lost hikers. 11 October 2013, Los Angeles, California – Moonrise Press is thrilled to announce the publishing of a collection of poems inspired by the six and a half day journey that poet-broker ed rosenthal endured after being lost in the Mojave Desert in September of 2010. He was a seasoned hiker, but for some reason he suddenly deviated a great distance from his normal path, and he was unable to find his way back. While he was in salvation canyon, search-and-rescue planes and helicopters failed to locate him on many occasions; but, by some miracle, he was located in the canyon by sheriff’s officers from San Bernardino County. the humorous, weird, and introspective poetry included in the desert hat are as follows: survival poems explain the spiritual journey of a survivor who has lived through a near brush with death, beginning with the survivor’s sense of alienation in a corporate metropolitan setting and concluding with the survivor’s post-traumatic musings on life and the natural world. The book is comprised of a total of 36 poems that have been arranged in four distinct parts to reflect the various stages of the author’s spiritual and personal journey. These sections are titled as follows: “getting off track,” “searching for a way back,” “hallucinations in a hostile desert environment,” and “finding shelter in the shade of salvation canyon.” The final section of the book is titled “being rescued and experiencing the world after the return from the brink of death.” The title references to a canvas hat that Rosenthal used as a notepad to assist the missing poet in controlling his thoughts, capturing his feelings, and writing down his final will and a goodbye to his wife and daughter. Rosenthal utilized the hat while he searched for the poet. Each of the twelve pictures features a photograph of the well-known hat. This is the first release of a book-length work by Ed Rosenthal. Isbn: 978-0-9819693-7-4,74 pages are included in the paperback print version. electronic book with an ISBN of 978-0-9819693-9-8 subsequent readings beyond baroque literary center in venice, 681 venice blvd, had a featured poet reading on the 10th of November, 2013. Sunday, November 24, 2013, Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, California 91042 Featured poet reading for the village poets monthly series. Please visit either www.moonrisepress.com or moonrisepress.blogspot.com for further information. about ed rosenthal Ed Rosenthal was a well-known poet and broker in the downtown area of Los Angeles. He was famous for utilizing his rhymes as a way to keep his escrows flowing. In contrast to the legendary modernist poets Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot, who kept their day occupations at a seeming remove from their poems, poet/broker used poetry as a tool in commercial real estate. He did this by adopting the opposite approach. The lyrical plea made by rosenthal for a thirty-day extension of conditions was mentioned in the Los Angeles Times as a factor that made it possible for a redevelopment project to go forward. His post for the Wall Street Journal sent clients admonitions in the form of couplets. Rosenthal sought to imbue his state-issued real estate licenses with a sense of poetic validity by having some of them signed by well-known authors from throughout the globe, such as Seamus Heaney and Evan Boland. Before he had his brush with mortality, he was already tired of playing the poet-broker role he had created for himself. rosenthal, who was an admirer of federico garcia lorca, started working on poetry conveying lunar ideas in urban environments after reading his work. This imagistic writer’s divorce from pragmatism in the direction of spiritual discovery was reinforced when they survived a terrifying near-death experience in the Mojave desert in 2010. about the desert hat in the context of the desert hat, Ed Rosenthal, a poet and real estate broker based in Los Angeles, describes the mythopoetic journey through his real-life experience of being lost for six days in the lonely valleys of the Mojave Desert’s Joshua Tree National Park in September of 2010. Within these poems, rosenthal creates an empathic and spiritually affirming desert landscape that reverberates within all of our desert hearts. the desert hat delves deeply into the wildest and most unpredictable heart of the mojave, into a storied landscape that rosenthal renders as both recognizable to the reader and also deeply specific to his solitary and unanticipated experience. Professor of English at College of the Desert, located in the California Desert Region Ruth Nolan Ed Rosenthal is known for his work as a poet, writer, editor, environmentalist, and academic. Not only does the desert hat convey an immensely vivid narrative of survival, but it also charts out the treacherous excursions of the heart and the imagination in that dreamlike zone between mind and body, between nature and man, and between the past and the future. As the poet James Wright did before him, rosenthal travels “back to the fractured ground of the self” and discovers a stranger there, one who is stuck in the cosmology of an unending, unpitying desert. Similarly to Wright, rosenthal’s work is bleak and unforgiving. The psychological true-north compass seeks refuge in the cool shadow of redemption while the harsh sun burns holes into the sky. Rosenthal emerged from the gaping maw of the defeated beast carrying a stunning and heartbreaking book. elena karina byrne, executive director of avk arts and author of the combustible bird masque and squander the poet-broker ed rosenthal, was motivated to write these works after spending seven and a half days by herself in the Mojave Desert. The poetry of rosenthal does not provide a detailed description of his experiences; it does not include maps, photos, or a day-by-day chronicle of his travels and adventures. Instead, we are given an understanding of what it is like to be genuinely lost and then found, to make it through the most peculiar of desert nights and then make it back to the center of the city… with a fresh perspective and a renewed zeal for life. President of Moonrise Press; Senior Director of Planning at Phoenix House; Director of Polish American Historical Association; Poet, Photographer, and Music Historian Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D. Please get in touch with Ed Rosenthal at poetbroker@yahoo.com if you’d like to schedule a reading. Dr. Maja Trochimczyk may be reached at the following information: maja@moonrisepress.com or 818-384-8944. For questions about her books, please contact her. moonrise press 818 394 8944 los angeles, California moonrisepress.com maja@moonrisepress.com http://www.moonrisepress.com

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