Welcome to Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. Our other imprints include our mystery books, Caravel, and our non-fiction line, Aequitas. Also on this site you will find Empty Bowl Press, a Division of Pleasure Boat Studio. Click HERE to get a list of our authors.
Inger Frimansson, author and journalist, is considered to be Sweden’s premier author of psychological thrillers. Critics place her novels 
the same class as the best English and American novels in the genre. Frimansson’s writing is characterized by her vision of the dark and morbid reality behind what seems to be an idyll. Her concise and suggestive style resulted in her being the only female writer to be awarded twice with the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for Best Mystery, for Good Night, My Darling and for The Shadow in the Water, both of which have been published by Caravel Books. Caravel has also published her critically acclaimed thriller, Island of the Naked Women. This new work, also translated by Laura Wideburg, is another page-turner studying the fate of an 
person who makes a mistake. You won’t forget it.
“Burnished and elemental, Sarah Plimpton's sinewy poems open vistas of experience and sensation in astonishingly few words. - Rachel Hadas
“The power of Sarah Plimpton’s poetry lies in the truth of what is not said. Her silences are eloquent. In The Every
Day, she writes with passion and accuracy, and yet with veneration for mystery, leading us to discover the fullness of sun, air, and sky, and things of the earth we never knew were there.” -- Grace Schulman
“As quiet as a moment just before sleep, Sarah Plimpton's poems are like preludes to dreams. The “everyday” happens daily, but it is also rare and precious in Ms. Plimpton's transparent telling.” --John Ashbery
This unusual and varied collection of poems shows the poet's artistry in several forms – lyrical, comical, contemplative, inquisitive, erotic,
, cynical, playful, negative, affirmative. A reader will be constantly awakened to a new way of expressing a mood or an idea. Throughout these separate journeys, however, one thing will stand out over and over: This is a highly imaginative and extremely intelligent poet. The poems match manner to matter. Life, up against the wall.
In this volume you will discover a philosophical poem called "I Fly, Therefore I Am (and Other Cartesian Obsessions)" as well as an erotic work titled "Apparition," you will 
humorous aphorisms ("Aphorisms in Search of a Poem") and broad challenges ("The World Is Everything"). In the words of the poet himself, "I have a forest of a brain" (from "Study in Green, Darkly")
ISBN 978-1-929355-98-3 $15.00
Pleasure Boat Studio is proud to announce the bilingual publication of Alter Mundus (The Other World) by Lucia Gazzino. These lovely and thoughtful translations by Michael Daley 
of Gazzino’s Italian are the first of the popular poet’s five collections to be published in English. She is a poet who includes her personal life and private emotions while amassing evidence in an argument with greed, despair, and injustice. San Francisco’s former Poet Laureate, Jack Hirschman, noted “the exquisite intimacy of many of her poems of love and despair,” as well as the “strength and resoluteness of her ‘civil’ or more directly political poems…. Daley’s translation captures Gazzino's bitten-lip idiom, her implosive magmatic tension between ‘being-here’ and ‘being away.’ The work is strong, clear, passionate, 
and Gazzino knows how to develop an image. First published by Lietocolle in Como, Italy, this is a beautiful collection, and Pleasure Boat Studio is delighted to introduce her to American readers. ISBN 978-1-929355-94-5 $15.95
