This Father’s Day, Viva Editions wants to celebrate all the fathers and beloved men in the world!
The best way to show how much you care this Father’s Day is by reminding your dad of the joy he brings you with Reduced to Joy by Mark Nepo. Profound and accessible, Nepo’s seventy-three poems about working with what we’re given until it wears through to joy, are tools for staying close to what matters.
Remind your father or partner of how much you love them with Words of Love: Quotations from the Heart by jollytologist Allen Klein. This collection of over 500 of the best things ever said on matter of the heart, features wit, wisdom and insight of everyone from Sophocles to Cher.
Having the Time of Your Life: Little Lessons to Live By, also by Allen Klein is an easy-to-digest, delightful-to-read book that your dad will love! Klein explores the meaning, madness and mirth of life while diving into the big questions: What’s life? Why are we here? And how do we enjoy the journey?
Celebrate the smartest man you know by giving him Better Than Great: A Platitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives by the great lexophile Arthur Plotnik. Plotnik presents a skull-spinning assortment of words and ideas for describing extraordinary things—the exceptionally beautiful, joyful, delicious, large, forceful, intense, trendy and more—even 50 gr8t texting superlatives!
If your dad is a master of trivia and knowing all things random, then A People’s History of the Peculiar: A Freak Show of Facts, Random Obsessions & Astounding Truths by Nicholas Belardes is the perfect gift! Hailed as a “bizarre fact hunter,” and an academic in anomaly, Belardes knows more secret lore than all the National Treasure movies combined!
It’s likely that your first word was a variation of the word “dad”. This year celebrate the man who taught you how to speak with Elements of Expression by Arthur Plotnik. Here Plotnik treats expressiveness in a world of texts, tweets, rap, apps and joyful diversity. Embracing both the new and classic forms, with hundreds of vivid examples, he leads word-users from the dull generic to the fissionable.
Drunken Angel: A Memoir by Alan Klaufman is the perfect gift for any lover of non-fiction! Kaufman has been compared to Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby Jr., and even Ernest Hemingway, another soldier turned writer. Drunken Angel is an exhilarating account of a life-long battle with alcoholism and a magnificent rise into sobriety that takes us from East Village park benches and reciting Kaddish in Dachau to the pages of The New York Times.
For writers, artists and anyone needing a jolt of inspiration Burning the Midnight Oil by Phil Cousineau is the perfect read! With a forward by Jeff “The Dude” Dowd, the real-life inspiration for The Big Lebowski, Burning the Midnight Oil is an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers through the ages.