Jewish Soulfood Ready to be Served!

COMPANY PRESS RELEASE HOQUIAM, WA – June 1, 1999: Dead End Street Publications is pleased to announce that Jewish Soulfood, the highly anticipated collection of poetry by Los Angelino Larry Jaffe, will be available in Portable Document Format 31 August 1999, with the CD-ROM version to follow later this year. The PDF will include Jaffe’s award winning verse in both specially formatted text and digitally recorded audio, as well as musical accompaniment and other special features. "We are happy to release Jewish Soulfood ahead of schedule. The deluge of calls and e-mails expressing interest in the product are greatly appreciated, but a bit overwhelming," comments Dead End Street Publications CEO John P. Rutledge. "We decided to make Jaffe’s poetry a priority to accommodate the requests we’ve been receiving. And in this respect," Rutledge continued, "we will be accepting pre-release orders beginning today. Customers will be able to reserve their copy of Jewish Soulfood at a special pre-release discount and look forward to its prompt delivery on August 31st."

Jewish Soulfood is a breathtaking collection of poetry spanning more than 100 years of Jewish tradition. The poems intertwine to form a brilliant tapestry that will warm your heart and reaffirm your belief in the arts. Particular pieces like "Jew Boy Blues" and "History Lesson" tug at the very nature of the modern Jewish experience. While others speak to the larger context of societal acceptance devoid of assimilation. "As a whole," Rutledge said, "the collection draws brilliantly upon the Jewish Cultural Continuum (of which we are all a part). You’ll feel the ancestral influence as you read the collection. And you’ll find a bit of yourself in each poem, whether you’re Jewish… or Catholic like me."

About the Author:

LG Jaffe is a poet in the truest sense of the word. His words carry impact like sledge hammers. His unshakable belief in the right to be heard becomes more evident with each utterance. And still, his poetry offers an unquestionably powerful aesthetic. Next Magazine comments: Jaffe "displays what is best about the So Cal poet…." And Courtenay Nearburg of Austin Arts writes: his "…style is demanding, with exacting details of prejudice, victimization, and honest reflection on the state of our society, where the anti-establishment has become the status quo, and liberation from "freedomland" has become another disappointing ride in a theme park." Director Sal Romeo adds, "…Larry is politically and socially astute, humorous and sometimes even sweet, he makes me jealous, and that’s a crime."

About the Company:

Dead End Street Publications, LLC, is a multimedia publishing firm based upon the fundamental precept that more speech is preferable to less. In this respect, the company is a forum for literary works considered outside the mainstream. Visit the Dead End Street Publications Homepage at www.deadendstreet.com and discover for yourself why so many people have decided to … "Take a ride down the Dead End Street."