ISBN 921870-26-4   6 x 9 104 pp, $10.95 Poetry, Memoir

In this memoir, Catanoy recreates the diary that he kept as a young cadet in Romania when he was imprisoned by the invading Russians. Taken out three times to be executed, Catanoy was one of the few from among the 200 prisoners to survive the random executions. Comprising two different voices, and filled with found-poetry quotations, and the poet's own aphoristic reflections, Notes on a Prison Wall explores the imprisoning effects of the 20th century's various 'isms. Catanoy breaks down the old generic categories; he asks us to read backwards as well as forwards — to find that humanity lies in the fissures of present-day society.