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Beautiful Books CELEBRATING THE JERSEY SHORE All Summer Long — Tales and Lore of Lifeguarding on the Atlantic — By Gordon HessE All Summer Long captures behind-the-scenes stories of beach culture and life over a span of seven decades (particularly the '60s and '70s) as seen and told by lifeguards in their own words. Whether you are a beachgoer or one of the few who has guarded our shores, many of these accounts will bring back memories of good days gone by. Author Gordon Hesse lifeguarded for ten years on the beaches of New Jersey and Florida. Based on his own experiences and interviews with nearly three dozen men and women lifeguards (most from Lavallette, a small coastal town on the Jersey Shore), All Summer Long is a compilation of beach tales and lore that traces the evolution of lifeguarding on the Atlantic. Drawn from a long oral tradition, these first-person accounts and recollections tell of triumphs and tragedies and offer insight into lifeguarding's heritage, training, hazing rituals, friendships, and social scene. Also, some of the significant changes in guarding are discussed, including the introduction and acceptance of women as ocean lifeguards. Readers will meet these lively and interesting personalities and be transported to the beach, rowing through the waves on Hankins surfboats, looking for elusive sharks and other sea life, observing the crowds, and saving lives—culminating in "The Big Rescue," a massive Labor Day rescue involving dozens of victims. $24.95 Actual Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" From interviews and letters, Gordon Hesse artfully weaves the voices of these Hardcover with dust jacket, 208 pages men and women as they speak not only about lifeguarding but a full spectrum of ISBN: 0-9632906-7-3 human experience. Their words tell of growing up as children of the dunes and coming of age on the beach; they range from the serious to the light and breezy, from the tragic to the ironic and humorous. Both profound and profane, from the poetic and sublime to the asinine, from heroic deeds to hedonistic parties and the absurd (and often cruel) humor of youth, and from dramatic rescues to heart-breaking tragedies, these stories of the small but mighty men and women who stood guard on the beach reveal a secret shared experience that has forged a bond between them that will last forever. OUR GIFT TO YOU! A FREE subscription with your order. See page 11. the poets of New Jersey — From Colonial to Contemporary — edited By Emanuel di Pasquale, Frank Finale, Sander Zulauf Hardcover with dust jacket: $24.95 Actual size 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" 240 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-9632906-8-7 ISBN-10: 0-9632906-8-1 Softcover: $19.95 Actual size 6" x 9" 240 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-9632906-9-4 ISBN-10: 0-9632906-9-X The Poets of New Jersey celebrates sixty-five extraordinary poets who have lived and worked in New Jersey, from Colonial times to the present. Many of the poets included in this anthology are among America's finest. Stephen Dunn, the Pulitzer Prize poet, originally from Port Republic, writes the Foreword; X. J. Kennedy, the renowned poet, originally from Dover (whose comprehensive text, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama, has taught generations of college students), writes the Introduction. The three editors, Emanuel di Pasquale from Long Branch, Frank Finale from Bayville, and Sander Zulauf from Andover, all poets themselves, had one simple criterion in compiling the works: they "wanted to hear the pure, clear words of the poets who have called this place home." They were interested in the sum of poetic greatness distilled from life in this state—the poetry New Jersey poets have written, whether New Jersey oriented or not. The editors reached back to the earliest poets, including Philip Freneau, the Revolutionary War's "Father of American Poetry" from Freehold; Walt Whitman, the "revolutionizer" of poetry from Camden; and Stephen Crane, the poet from Newark who bridged the realists to the moderns. They included three key figures of modernism, William Carlos Williams of Rutherford, Marianne Moore of Chatham, and Kenneth Burke of Andover, as well as their direct descendants—the poets of the Beat Generation—Allen Ginsberg from Paterson and Amiri Baraka from Newark. New Jersey's three other current Pulitzer Prize poets, Yusef Komunyakaa, C. K. Williams, and Paul Muldoon, all of Princeton, are also included. The result is a beautiful book of poetry for the ages. As X. J. Kennedy writes in his Introduction, "Without New Jersey, the world today would be darker and quieter; and contemporary American poetry, inconceivable." To order, please call toll-free, 24 hours-a-day: (888) 22-SHORE (227-4673) y a q