title: Tattered Scrolls and Postulates: Volume I Poems, Viscera, Encyclopedia, Esoterica
author: Joseph V. Milford
description: Joseph Milford might just be the Philippe Petit of contemporary American poetry. His Tattered Scrolls and Postulates shows us nothing less than an ingeniously shaped poetic imagination and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of astonishing lines.<br /><br />Joe Milford knows things that are reserved for true artists and the sainted mad. He spills them in torrents of fire. Joe claims to be knee-deep in the unsayable. Maybe so, but he does a damned fine job of pushing through the scars of the wounded world.<br /><br />Tattered Scrolls and Postulates, Joseph Milford's striking sequence, transports us to a bizarre neighborhood where "every elevator is a minefield" and the famous castaway "Alexander Selkirk sleeps in a tent in my backyard and befriends neighbors and stray dogs."
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  **THE PRISONER**
  
  
  **OF**
  
  
  **LIMNOS**
  
  
    
  
  
  A Penric & Desdemona novella
  
  
  in the World of the Five Gods
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Lois McMaster Bujold
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Copyright ©_ 2017 _by Lois McMaster Bujold_
  
  
    
  
  
  _Cover art and design by Ron Miller,_ 2017
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  **I**
  
  
    
  
  
  The bookroom in the duke of Orbas’s palace at Vilnoc was a lovely chamber. The
  spacious octagon, lined with shelves for scrolls and codices, was capped by a
  glassed roof. A well of good light for reading fell upon the central table
  where Penric sat. The quietude smelled of ink and paper, time and thought. It
  was his own failing that he couldn’t concentrate upon a single word of the
  rare scroll rolled open in front of him.
  
  
  He sighed and pulled the letter from the inner pocket of his white tunic,
  unfolded and read it once more. It had been handed to him this morning by the
  superior of the Bastard’s Order here in Vilnoc. So, did he hope its contents
  might have changed si