Awake For Ever In A Sweet Unrest

"A literary magician, Chuck Rosenthal summons metaphysical wonders from a character's simple act of walking into a bookstore, transporting

the reader into a literary catacomb as rich and mysterious as Carlos Ruiz Zaf鏮's Cemetery of Forgotten Books. If you've ever wandered into a book and

found the characters as real as anyone you might meet in 'real' life, then a grand literary adventure awaits in AWAKE FOR EVER IN A SWEET UNREST."

-ROBERT M. EVERSZ, author of Zero to the Bone

"What gorgeous madness is the work of poetic visionary Chuck Rosenthal, searching for truth and beauty in a liminal world of kindred spirits. Through the portal of AWAKE FOR EVER may we yet retrieve our own lost, romantic souls." -ELIZABETH MCKENZIE, author of Dog of the North

"Chuck Rosenthal's AWAKE FOR EVER is a brilliantly conceived gentle phantasm that lifts the reader through a threshold where Time is the great trickster, poetry goes on forever, and if you are worthy the Darkness can glow. For such a master tale to appear in such a time as ours is nothing short of a literary miracle."

-MICHAEL VENTURA

"The desire for independence is often braided by the historical, the social and the deeply intimate. Whether we look for freedom in art, faith or love, the journey to becoming an individual follows the path of our passions. From poetry and art, we experience how we might give voice to our dreams. Chuck Rosenthal's extraordinary new novel, AWAKE FOR EVER-a truly magical book about the Romantic poets-is a reminder of the courage necessary to struggle beyond one's own time and awake from its nightmare into light." -DAVID ST. JOHN