Cynara
Donald Newlove
May 21, 2024
ISBN 9798218372064 / Paperback / 156 pages / $17.99

In this previously unpublished semi-autobiographical novel from 1975, Donald Newlove (1928–2021) charts his journey towards metaphysical enlightenment, accompanied by the restless spirit of his "great love," Cynara, who died tragically at twenty-six. Cynara first appeared in Newlove's 1972 novel Leo & Theodore and returned in its 1974 sequel The Drunks, later collected as Sweet Adversity (1978) and reissued by Tough Poets Press in 2019.