Olympia, WA Author Publishes New Book

The Bobo Marché, a new book by Curtis Cushman, has been released by RoseDog Books.

Marché is French for market. In this case, the sprawling, color-rife, and often bewildering market of Bobo-Dioulasso in today's Burkina Faso stands as a metaphor for the selections in this book. Only the first eponymous poem takes place in the market itself. The others are scattered from a landscape blistered by a classic, and thus tragic, drought, to the deep forest of the Equator. Here is set the final story, "The Parrots of the Rainbow," capturing the myth tales of an African storyteller.

Meet the Red Lands and the Emerald.
Welcome to Bobo Marché.

I never before knew what was meant
By the ancient oceans inside me,
Until this morning,
Beneath the solemn foreign trees,
I knew within my stranded heart
The course of falling seas…

About the Author

Curtis D. Cushman wrote The Bobo Marché years ago in West and Central Africa where he lived and worked for four years. The ease of modern publishing and printing compelled him to take time off from his hectic career in engineering geology to produce this work. He is a resident of the Pacific Northwest.

The Bobo Marché is a 140-page paperback with a retail price of $16.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-7271-2. It was published by RoseDog Books of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.rosedog.com/pressroom or our online bookstore at www.rosedogbookstore.com.