Night Falls

About the Book

"He is one of a handful of great names in the contemporary alternative press."

"De France´s poems, narrative and lyrical, starting from detailed actuality and moving toward a more abstract epiphany, are very impressive."

"Treading a different edge between prose and poetry, De France strips all the varnish and superfluous color from our entropic middle class. De France´s poetry is compelling."

"A poet of the street, suburbs, classrooms, cheap motels, dirty kitchens. . . Steve De France has done it all and writes like a slumming angel on the mean streets of Los Angeles, but what I appreciate most is De France´s quick wit and humor."

"A large percentage of the poetry in the journal emanates in the U.S.A. and the best of it comes from the quill of California´s Steve De France, always an elegant writer, and often reminiscent of that great scribbler of the American yarn O. Henry. It´s a sad fact that a great many poets do not read poetry. They can begin by reading a lot of what´s being written today. Steve De France in issue 22 of Current Accounts might be one place to begin."

"People mention Bukowski and Carver when they talk about Steve De France´s poetry, they shouldn´t, because he has a voice all his own."

"His poems really do kick serious ass!"

"Steve writes complex, tough, angry modern American poems which somehow capture the mystery of ordinary everyday occurrences."

About the Author

Steve’s work has appeared in literary publications in America, England, Canada, France, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, India Australia, and New Zealand. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 2002, 2003 & 2006. Recently, his work has appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Mid-American Poetry Review, The Evergreen Review Ambit, Atlantic, Orbis, Poetry Bay, The Yellow Medicine Review & The Sun. In England he won a Reader’s Award in Orbis Magazine for his poem “Hawks.” In the United States he won the Josh Samuels’ Annual Poetry Competition (2003) for his poem: “The Man Who Loved Mermaids.” His play THE KILLER had its world premiere at the GARAGE THEATER in Long Beach, California (Sept-October 2006). He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Chapman University for his writing. Most recently his poem “Gregor’s Wings” was nominated for The Best of The Net by Poetic Diversity.