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Creative Non-fiction. A multifaceted set of lively writings by two poet-intellectuals (A. D. Coleman and Charles Bernstein) about the veracity of an avant-garde essay by third (David Antin) regarding realities within a publishing house run by the parents of one of them, Allan Douglass Coleman, this author. Coleman's leftist family founded a high- end sci-tech press. He and David Antin worked there. Antin wrote about it. Coleman took issue and created poetic license / poetic justice. Charles Bernstein commented. And Coleman, with deepest reverence, presents us with his obituaries of both parents, too.

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"Born in Brooklyn into a family of writers, Allan Douglass Coleman received his M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State College. Under the pen name A. D. Coleman, he has worked as a freelance cultural journalist since 1967, specializing in writing about contemporary photography and new digital technologies. He has been a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, and contributed to Artforum, ARTnews, Technology Review, Juliet Art Magazine (Italy), European Photography (Germany), La Fotogra a (Spain), Art Today (China) and numerous literary journals. He has received the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society and the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society (U.K.)among other honors. His blog Photocritic International appears at photocritic.com. Allan Coleman More info: villaflorentine.us Barbara Rosenthal was born in Bronx, NY, in 1948. In high school and college she edited the literary-art magazines. At 14, she began publishing short fiction, and commenced formal study of art in Isaac Soyer's Painting and Drawing class at The Brooklyn Museum, then attended the Art Student's League. At 17, she studied Art History at NYU Institute of Fine Arts. In 1970, she received a BFA in Painting from Carnegie-Mellon University, where she studied with Elaine de Kooning, and received an MFA in Painting in 1973 from CUNY/Queens College under artist Louis Finkelstein and critic Robert Pincus-Witten. His statement to her that ""art is what AN ARTIST makes"" paved her life-long path contemplating the art/artist relationship. ""A Crack in the Sidewalk,"" her bi-monthly column in Ragazine, is a direct expansion of his remark, as are her books, ""Clues to Myself"" (1981), ""Sensations"" (1984), ""Homo Futurus"" (1986), ""Soul & Psyche"" (1998), all VSW Press, and ""Wish for Amnesia"" (2017), Deadly Chaps Press. In 1976, her media changed to photo-arts, video, performance and image-text, and she is known as the ""Old Master of New Media."" She has made 130 video shorts and 55 artists books, many housed in the MoMA, Whitney and Tate libraries, Artpool Budapest and Berlin Kunstbibliotek. She has kept a journal since 1959, and displayed twelve of the eighty volumes at The Center for Book Arts, NYC, in 2014, and in Brisbane and Berlin in 2013. She has reviewed for Rotkin Review, NY Arts, ArtCircles, Ragazine, and Tribes. For 33 years, she taught college classes in art and English. Her artworks have been exhibited in NY galleries such as Carlo Lamagna, 57th St. (1980s), Monique Goldstrom, SoHo (1990s), and her most recent show was at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, Delancey St., Jan-Feb 2019. Her work has been reviewed by Ellen Handy and Robert C. Morgan. She is represented in over 300 publications, with articles in Believer and American Book Review due out this summer. She is artist-in-residence in her studio eMediaLoft.org, NYC, and serves as editor and publisher of their imprints Xanadu Press and Washington Street Press. Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a founder of the Language Poets.In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2005, he was awarded the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania."

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