"The poems and stories in Out of the Blue take their time. As they unfold, they invite us inward, into memories, musings, anxieties, and sudden pleasures of people whose points of view we grasp with a shock of recognition: the moments in which we find them--on a bus, on a snowy mountainside, by a hearth where a dead bird lies in ashes--are strangely familiar. We meet them in the deep interiority of their self-knowing and are led to recollect ourselves. Anthony's fine sense of character, pace, and phrase entices us from one piece to the next, When the last page comes, the clear next step will be to begin again. Marilyn McEntyre, UC Berkeley. Author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies David has an MA in English Literature and finishing a second MA in the History of Religion. His work has been published in Nevada Magazine, The Daily Californian and other journals. He is a veteran of the US Air Force and lives with his wife, Claudia, in San Anselmo, California.