Djelloul Marbrook: 2 books

“How honored I am—how lucky—to have been able to choose this superb first book by Djelloul Marbrook that honors a lifetime of hidden achievement. . . . Sometimes the poems seem utterly symbolic, surreal; they are philosophical, historical, psychological, political, and spiritual. The genius...

Not many writers about the Mafia listened to the notorious Frank Costello, Vito Genovese and Tony Gallo drinking marsala and chatting in a kitchen, but Djelloul Marbrook, author of Saraceno, did, and he celebrates it with a poet’s ear in this haunting, unique tale of redemption."Not just another run-of-the-mill Mafia novel."--Small Press Bookwatch