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 "It was Superstoe's idea to take over the government and reform society." Dear Mr. Borden,
I am a student of Dr. Joe Taylor's at the University of West Alabama. Our class read your novel Dancing With Bears, and we all enjoyed it very much. I enjoyed it so much I read Superstoe. I loved it so much I immediately began re-reading it after I finished it the first time! I told our class I did not see how everyone has not heard of and read Superstoe. It should have its own display in every bookstore with a stream of radiant light beaming down on it from above. It was thought provoking, terrifying, and hilarious. A masterpiece!
Sincerely,
Amanda P. Gilbert
"Fast, entertaining fun for a wild election year." Publishers Weekly
"Imaginative, funny, and highly readable." Huntington Herald Dispatch
"More than a farce—Superstoe is incisive political and social criticism." Choice
"Should be required reading for members of Congress." Columbus Citizen-Journal
"In Treatment" meets "Grey's Anatomy"
A one-hour seriocomedy television series.
When an ensemble of psychotherapists in northern Minnesota team up to bring mental health to the local lumberjacks, bikers, and Native Americans, we wonder who's crazier, the shrinks or their clients?
Available for option and production
ANNA'S STONE
Anna, a woman running away from a floundering marriage, finds herself on a Greek island having to share a primitive farmhouse with Brodsky, a sculptor who's trying to finish a figure hewn from the last piece of the famous Parian marble. Brodsky puts art above people, and Anna is not so sure about love anymore. When the marble cracks, Brodsky needs Anna to pose for him, but she's not interested. Gradually Anna opens herself to the uncertainties of love, and Brodsky realizes that Anna gives him something that neither cold marble nor fame can give him. A romantic drama. Optioned 1990-1992.
THEA
God takes form as a black woman, materializing in the apartment of Burton, an unassuming astrophysicist. Now She has to figure out why She's here. To straighten things out on earth? She has no better luck than anyone else. She decides to return to her spiritual state. But she's been human too long. She can't go back. What now? Is she stuck here, like the rest of us? A romantic comedy.
LOON DANCE
A man invites his new mistress to a family reunion on a Minnesota lake. Three generations face new truths. A dramatic comedy. Optioned 1996-1998.
Currently under option:
DON'T DANCE ME OUTSIDE
Butch, a novelist, and Ardis, an architect, begin an affair. During an afternoon and an evening, in first one hotel room and then another, they reveal their pasts, fantasize their future, call their spouses, fight, risk, and love.
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 "A delicious stew, seasoned with playful, lyrical prose, raucous humor, and real wisdom." —Larry Watson, Montana 1948; Sundown, Yellow Moon
"Lyle Gustafson is an absolute original, the bears are as honestly rendered as any in American literature, and everyone else, once in the kitchen or forest or bedroom, refuses to leave quietly."
—John Salter, Alberta Clipper, A Trout in the Sea of Cortez
"The table is set with love, philosophy, physics, and, of course, a proper wine. Bears behave like humans, humans emulate bears, and no one goes hungry."
—Susan Carol Hauser, Sugaring, A Maple Syrup Memoir; Outside After Dark: New and Collected Poems, NPR Commentator
"Bears riding in Volvos, bears breaking into home freezers looking for Ben and Jerry’s, bears in the public library perusing Bon Appétit and the New Age Journal."
—David Wyman, The Alabama Writers' Forum
"I'm re-reading Dancing with Bears, since I'm using it for a class--Narratology, form in fiction. I'm using Bears as an example of an encyclopedic novel. And I'm loving re-reading it."
--Joe Taylor, University of West Alabama
A novel about transformations and roguish imagination, Dancing with Bears takes us from the unruly forests of Minnesota to the wilds of Manhattan to tell the story of Lyle Gustafson, bear researcher and culinary avant-gardist, whose intemperate passion for wine, women, food, and bears invites the reader to celebrate the spontaneity of lust, the slipperiness of love, and the meanderings of good intentions.
Available from the usual suspects, and from the author, from whom you can purchase a personally dedicated and signed copy, only $20, postage included. "a wild and seductive ride"
And so you've come for me,
dressed up, suited out, high-stepping,
flute and lyre hanging from your belt-
you think you're pretty hot.
You
were afraid I had forgotten you?
Oh, no, my smooth-cheeked boy.
You made
the trees waltz. Birds
slowed their swift flights
to glide atop your rhythms.
I could hold a stone to my ear,
and the stone sang.
"Eurydice’s Song is a wild and seductive ride filled with passion, poignancy, and the urgency of good old human yearning. Poet William Borden and painter Douglas Kinsey, who are expert guides on this journey, pry open the shadows of this ancient and beautiful myth and let the light play in all its lyrical brilliance."
–Robert Hedin, The Old Liberators, Winter Poems
"Shrewd, resourceful, and lyrical."
–Jeffrey Carson, poet and translator of The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis
Published in the U.S. by St. Andrew’s Press, Laurinberg, NC, and in Canada by Bayeux Arts, Calgary, AL. $16.95. Available from Amazon and from the author.
 Available from the author $12.95 from Listening Winds Theatre Press
500 years of American (Turtle Island) history, featuring Sitting Bull, who travels through space and time, Columbus, Isabella (who, disguised as a cabin boy, accompanies Columbus to the new world), Thomas Jefferson, Sally Heming, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Custer, Crazy Horse, The Lone Ranger, Leonard Peltier, and others. Winner of three national playwriting competitions, with over 30 productions, including Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Indigenous Games, eight Indian reservations, The University of North Dakota, and Grand Valley State University.
"If I were running the world everybody would have to see the play," Ada Deer, former Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
"It’s a global message about oppression," Grand Forks Herald.
Loonfeather Press $5
100 M HURDLES
For Rachel
The runners
shake each foot,
loosening
gravity's tight jealousy,
before settling
into the blocks.
Fingertips on the line--
the starter's hand goes up.
The watchers wait
to breathe. This
is the moment
all time
rises on a toe.
It is this
that I remember, this
and the puff of smoke
that precedes the crack of the pistol,
the flurry of legs, the rocking
of hurdles grazed, the legs stretching,
the arms swimming, the crowd yelling,
as you clear hurdle after
hurdle, a dancer leaping
into the fine threads of the future,
faster than my heart, which
leaps everything for you.
"We travel here with a man who knows how to see, how to unite 'remembrance and ceremony' with 'clutching the bright moment.' His poems provide, as all good poems should, a wealth of discovery and we are thus all the richer for journeying with him--indeed, an 'unprecedented course.'" Mark Vinz, Long Distance, Affinities, Late Night Calls
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FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
DON'T DANCE ME OUTSIDE
Butch, a novelist, and Ardis, an architect, begin an affair. They reveal their pasts, fantasize their future, call their spouses, fight, risk, and love.
MANY WORLDS
Maggie has to tell Axel that she has terminal cancer, as Axel explains the "Many Worlds" theory of quantum physics, and from time to time "other worlds" open up, some involving Maggie's husband.
TAP DANCING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
A college professor who wants to run away from home gets his chance when he and his wife are visited by a would-be shaman, a runaway mother, and a hippy.
MEET AGAIN
A romantic comedy that takes a playful, sexy look at reincarnation. "Insightful and delightfully wacky," Jason Fogelson, New York Shakespeare Festival.
GOURMET LOVE
How long can Sally and Arnie keep their affair from their spouses, who are having an affair of their own?
BLUEST REASON
Lewis and Clark air their conflicts and hire a pregnant guide.
TEN-MINUTE PLAYS
GUNNING FOR LIFE
An old man's lust for life confronts his terminal cancer in an unusual comedy with a poignant ending.
DUET FOR VIRTUAL PARTICLES
A man wonders if he's an alien. A woman wonders if she's too tall.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
A woman wearing only a raincoat gives a would-be writer something to write about.
QUARKS
A man and a woman meet at a singles bar. His "Take off your panties," gets unexpected results.
SOMETHING LIGHTER
A couple finalize their divorce. Or do they?
THE BLUES STREET JAZZ CLUB REHEARSES
The loves of five would-be musicians intertwine like strands of music, improvised and unpredictable.
LUNCH
Should Bob and Bella tell their spouses they know their spouses are having an affair?
RECOGNITION
Two high school sweethearts, with their spouses, meet for lunch after 25 years.
HANGMAN
A condemned man must build his own gallows. He helps his executioner write a poem.
ONE EVENING IN PRAGUE
Albert Einstein, an up-and-coming physicist, meets Franz Kafka, a little-known author, .
FALLING
The thoughts of a Jew and a Muslim who fell from the World Trade Center the morning of September 11, 2001.
MUSE
Cal, plagued by writer's block, calls for a muse. He gets Ron.
THAT GUY FROM THE BERGMAN FILM
It may be Cassy's last day, but she hasn't lost her sense of humor as her family gathers around.
THE ALIEN HYPOTHESIS
If Larry is an alien, as he suspects, why haven't the aliens told him?
JUMPING
A man and a woman rejected by love fall in love before one jumps into the ice-covered Mississippi and the other jumps into the praxis of politics.
LEDGE
Mary could jump and end it all if Tom, who also wants to jump, would get out of her way.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
GARAGE SALE
Warren's starting over. He's selling everything.
PATRIOTS
Two men talking--terrorists or undercover agents?
I WANT TO BE AN INDIAN
A white liberal who wants to be an Indian gets his chance.
APPLES
A deconstructed Garden of Eden where Adam finds Lilith, and Eve and Satan reach an understanding.
COCKTAILS, DINNER
Should Sally and Arnie tell their spouses about their affair? Or will it spoil dinner?
IT'S SO WOWOO
Larry wonders if he's an alien. If he is an alien, why haven't the other aliens told him?
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
A teenager wonders if a homeless man is really Jesus.
AFFAIRS OF RECKLESS HONOR
Six women re-enact the duels of an earlier age
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