After the Serpent's Word
Francis Fike
80 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-217-2
"I admire his lyrics, his epigrams, his skilled translations from Old English, French, and Latin. Fike aims high: clearly he sets himself to write in the great tradition of those who insisted, like Hardy and the late master formalist Winters, on clear sense, moral insight, and tightly controlled craft." X.J. Kennedy
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After Images
The Collected Poems of Kingsley Tufts
Kingsley Tufts
352 pages, clothbound, $19.95
ISBN 1-56474-084-6
"An extensive collection of some of Tufts' best poetry from his long lifetime of work. While his style is traditional, his interests and subjects and sensibilities are always decidedly contemporary." Poet
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Amaranth-Sage Epiphanies of Dusk-Weaving Paradise
Hugo Walter
192 pages, clothbound, $16.95 ISBN 1-56474-109-5
"His erudition is unassailable and his eye for the beautiful expression is indefatigable.This is brilliant almost as the sun, brilliant almost as the moon that stabs us with a stolen starlight in the bitterly chill night." Dusty Dog Review
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Angelus
Poems
Jeanne Shannon
ISBN 1-56474-455-8
112 pages, paperback, $14.00
Many of the poems in this experimental collection offer soft explosions of image, word-collages, mixing colors and sounds, emotions and ideas. Others are more straightforward and accessible narratives. There are tributes to impressionist artists and to musicians and music, natural description and landscapes, as well as autobiographical moments. Some of the poems are "concrete," presenting visual images on the page. The poems are for the most part sensual, although many are given to ideas, including an entire section devoted to the Canonical Hours.
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A Journal of Love
Carol Osterlund and Robert Sellers
ISBN 1-56474-329-2
112 pages, paperback, $12.00
Through these poems and letters we witness two peopleone seventy-one and the other eighty-twofalling in love and deciding to spend their sunset years together. Renewed by the joy of love, they travel about the globe, inspiring others with their youthful approach to life.
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The Beautiful Routes of the West
Rosalind Brackenbury
80 pages, paperback, $9.00 ISBN 1-56474-165-6
This is a book of exquisite passion and clear conviction. It is a celebration of the intimate distances shared by lovers and the fragile equations that govern our lives.This is easily the best book of poems I've read in a long time."Solares Hill
Between the Totems of Labor and Love
Poems
Burton Wasserman
ISBN 1-56474-380-2
80 pages, paperback, $12.00
These poems deal with the heavy subjects of love and death. They face the inevitability of aging and what comes beyond aging, admitting that death is the stuff of which life is made. But the poems also sing with humor and surprising insight, and the style is musical, with rhymes and half-rhymes that slip playfully in and out of classic metric form.
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Bestiary of the Heart
Poems
D.A. Feinfeld
ISBN 1-56474-328-4
80 pages, paperback, $12.00
Poems that celebrate wit, intelligence, and feeling. The poet is fascinated by science and travel and enjoys the playfulness of words. One section is devoted to "word animals," zoological inventions based on elaborate puns.
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Buddy Bolden of New OrleansA Jazz Poem
Ray Bisso
80 pages, paperback,$10.00
ISBN 1-56474-268-7
A poetic biography of one of the most important--and least-knownearly New Orleans jazzmen, from finding his first horn in a gutter to becoming "King" Bolden.
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Calls From a Lighted House
Poems
by Jeanne Lohmann
ISBN 978-1-56474-466-1
96 pages, paperback, $14.00
Acclaimed poet Jeanne Lohmann continues to illuminate the landscape of her past, from the lives of her ancestors, through a long life with marriage and family, a life-long sibling rivalry, her travels, the poets duty to sort out the interplay between chaos and order, and finally her reflections on widowhood, aging, and death.
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Cleopatra in the Night
And Other Poems
Bruce Feld
64 pages, paperback, $9.00
ISBN 1-56474-286-5
"Bruce Feld is a master of language who breathes life into his imagery. It seems that Cleopatra has cast her spell on him, and he can exorcise it only with poetry. The result is provacative lyrics, a beautiful example of the craft." Polly Warfield, Drama-Logue
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Composing Ourselves
Sonnets About Teaching Composition on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Randy Koch
ISBN 1-56474-387-X
80 pages, paperback, $12.00
When Randy Koch, a transplanted Minnesotan, began teaching English composition to Spanish-speaking students on the Texas-Mexico border, he recorded his experiences in a series of sonnets. These sonnets vary from strict to informal in form, and they deal with the subjects of education, good writing, and bicultural community.
In Composing Ourselves Koch celebrates the joys of English and the pleasures of teaching; but more importantly, these poems are tributes to Randy's students, the people who have changed his life, one class at a time.
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Cow'sleapA Nightbook
Poems 1959-1997
Tom Smith
80 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-281-4
Cow'sleapA Nightbook is a collection of challenging, demanding, and rewarding poems that focus on the brain's activity at night, while the body is asleep. These are not poems to make us feel good. "Reader," the poet says, "let me get my clause in you." And the reader is glad to oblige, because the poems pay and repay.
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The Dark Face of Planting
Linda C. Levitz
80 pages, paperback, $9.95
ISBN 1-56474-205-9
"With lean language and a direct voice that seems at times to spring from her body, Levitz gives personal and particular meaning to the natural world." Natalie Safir
Delirium
A Little Story About Love
Betty Lukas
ISBN 1-56474-418-3
64 pages, paperback, $8.00
This is the narrative of a love story, told in poetic form. The author, when she was forty-eight, having been married for twenty-five years and having raised three children, fell in love with a young man, and he returned her love. The love affair didn't last forever, but the effects of it did last. This story, or these poems, are joyous, sensual, romantic, even erotic, and in the end bittersweet but still grateful for the ride.
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Directions to My House
Poems
Linda R. Levitz
ISBN 1-56474-419-1
72 pages, paperback, $12.00
These poems have their share of tension and anger, but there is also pleasure verging on the erotic; and the book ends with harmony, a tentative step into grace.
Part One deals with the painful but rewarding topic of family: grandmother, mother, father, sister. These poems reveal much about childhood and the persistence of girlhood into adulthood. Part Two is about water and all it means to all of us. Part Three celebrates human communion with animals, and Part Four is about the plant kingdom.
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Farming in San Francisco
Poems
Daniel Richman
ISBN 1-56474-440-X
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
Daniel Richman celebrates San Francisco: its people, its architecture, its flora and fauna, its weather, its restaurants and food, plus something transcendent about San Francisco that can't be defined but can be felt. It is undeniably a beautiful city, and yet the poet doesn't hesitate to point out the threat and danger that sometimes underlies the beauty. The poems in this collection are lush with sensual experience: the sounds of the waves, the tastes and smells, and of course the vistas.
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The Flesh of Their Dreams
Poems
Estelle Gershgoren Novak
ISBN 1-56474-409-4
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
These poems face the reality of death as an integral part of life, the chaos in the universe, and the ill will among men that has existed since the time of Cain. The poems bring light to dark subjects through truth and courage.
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Flying Horses
Poems
Jeanne Lohmann
ISBN 1-56474-351-9
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
"Underlying Lohmann's dance of connection and disconnection is her simple, careful lyricism. Her subtle control of sound and sculpted breath moves us from speech toward chant."
Terry Ehret, Calyx
The poems in this new collection, most of which were first published in distinguished literary quarterlies, celebrate travel and creativity, explore loss, and acknowledge the relationship between nature and death.
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Flying Over Tasmania
Steven Luria Ablon
64 pages, paperback, $9.95
ISBN 1-56474-227-X
"Ablon is the ideal guide when one is 'flying over Tasmania,' as in the title poem, as well as when one is visiting the diverse locales evoked in this book. It is, however, the human warmth, the feeling for people, that one carries away from time spent with this fine book."
Richard Tillinghast
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81 Mygrations
Poems
W. K. Buckley
80 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-241-5
Wildly experimental, yet clear and forceful, these poems explore self-exile and celebrate the great American road.
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On Borrowed Time
Poems of Two Centuries
Naomi Goodman
ISBN 1-56474-451-5
80 pages, paperback, $12.00
Death is a part of life, and the dead are part of our lives. In this collection, poet Naomi Goodman discloses her strong feelings about the aging process, the march toward the end game. Life is a passing phenomenon, she says: we're here almost by accident, on borrowed time, and we must make the most of what time we're loaned. One must do one's best to stay alert, so as not to survive the death of one's mind. Be grateful. Honor the present as well as the past. And when we die, we will still be around for those we leave behind.
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Granite Under Water
Poems
Jeanne Lohmann
72 pages, paperback, $8.95
ISBN 1-56474-180-X
These moving poems about a husband's death are about grief but not about self-pity. Granite Under Water is an unsentimental celebration of landscape that endures (the granite under water), and the paradox a widow often feels: her husband's constant company now that she is traveling alone.
Gossamer Ribbons
Poems
Erline Dessie Goodell
ISBN 1-56474-383-7
96 pages, paperback, $9.95
In today's fast-paced, volume-oriented society, each of us needs to set aside a time to sit, breathe, and be still. This selection of verse will assist the reader in "having a good excuse" to reflect on the beauty of the universe. Counselor Erline Goodell offers her verse as a springboard to promote personal exploration, relaxation, and serenity.
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Gold of a Certain Kind
Annemarie Ewing Towner
76 pages, paperback, $8.95
ISBN 1-56474-081-1
"This is wise poetry. This is poetry written for those whose perceptual horizons enable them to appreciate the clean, the clear, and the grand. She knows and she loves the great poets and she contributes to their accumulated light." Dusty Dog Review
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Grandpa Was No Saint
James P. Quinn
112 pages, paperback, $8.95
ISBN 1-56474-136-2
A lyrical view of Ireland, family and friendship, love and death, from an Irish-American point of view. Quinn was 1995's Connecticut and New England Poet of the Year.
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Hang Time
Poems
W.R. Wilkins
ISBN 1-56474-288-1
160 pages, paperback, $15.00
This retrospective collection covers forty years in the life and career of "ninja poet" and creative writing teacher W.R. Wilkins. Many of the poems are clearly autobiographical, telling the tale of a man traveling westward through his life, from Indiana to Washington state. All of the poems reveal Wilkins' fascination with words and his even more intense fascination with people and human emotions and behavior.
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How Far Light Must Travel
Poems
by Judi K. Beach
ISBN 978-1-56474-467-8
128 pages, paperback, $14.00
These generous poems tell stories of personal history: childhood joys, childhood lessons, and childhood traumas; divorce and grief, family and escape from family; love in many senses; the process and reward of being a poet; the ongoing quest for improvement and serenity; survival and forgiveness; the passage of time and the process of changing; aging and the only way out. they deal with the dying of the present and the presence of the past. They traffic in the many senses of perception (smells of food, sounds of music, colors of light). They celebrate the parts of the body: hands, the skin, and mostly the heart, which is muscle, which is spirit, which is the poets synecdoche.
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Hunger for Light
Poems by Stephen Browning
Monotypes by Kalani Engles
ISBN 1-56474-461-2
72 pages, paperback, $20.00
Poems by poet Stephen Browning accompany monotype botanical artwork by Kalani Engles. Both of these artists are highly regarded, and their collaboration is a tour de force celebrating the powerful emotional response evoked by the natural world in general and the plant kingdom in particular. In addition to being an award-winning poet, Stephen Browning is a designer of books in limited editions. This volume of his poems, containing illustrations by his friend and studio-mate, Kalani Engles, is designed by Mr. Browning.
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The Invisible Telling Its Shape
Florence Weinberger
96 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-195-8
"The title of this book is a rare instance of the phrase that distills the essence of a poet's work into a few precious words. Although her specific subjects are autobiographical, Weinberger's technique is like magical realism, transforming the world to better reveal it." Booklist
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Journey Toward Bold
A Woman's Poetic Reflections
Erline Dessie Goodell
ISBN 1-56474-335-7
64 pages, paperback, $9.95
Poems by a feminist counselor that address important life issues: the loss of a father, coming to terms with one's mother, the active choices we make and the risks we take, especially in relationships, and the acceptance of death as a fact of life.
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The Journals of A.P. O'Clipps
Poems
compiled by Phyllis Binkley
ISBN 1-56474-463-9
128 pages, paperback, $14.00
These poems zero in on important themes: the strong beauty of nature; the place of nature in the context of greater nature; the nature of relationship, especially relationships of friendship and love; and the inescapable: disappointment, loss, grief, aging, and death. The poet has a firm moral ground, outrage against disprespect and falsehood, and a critical eye toward the trappings of modern standards, be they television, developers, superstores, facile psycholigists, or fatuous political leaders. She skewers human folly and yearns for simpler times; but the book is also full of beauty, self-confidence, and serenity.
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Keep to the Left of Grizzlies
Meg Fraser
96 pages, paperback, $8.95
ISBN 1-56474-096-X
"Unexpected diction, transformative use of natural imagery, uncanny syntaxFraser's work is at that queer threshold between inner and outer worlds and is for that reason rich and exciting." Small Press
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The Language of Yes
Poems
Joan Peternel
ISBN 1-56474-354-3
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
These poems, both formal and free, are carefully crafted. Many of them are about the craft of poetry and the lonely but rewarding life of the poet. But these poems are also about human history and traditional lore, from Odysseus to Captain Kirk, from Adam and Eve to Neil Armstrong.
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The Light at the Edge
Poems
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
ISBN 1-56474-457-4
112 pages, paperback, $12.00
The poems are "markers," or crumbs left along the paths of domestic life, arrivals and partings, and in the wake of war. The five sections of the book focus loosely on places, encounters, and events where moments of seeing occurwhere the frame shifted, a new light fell, and some reminder was given that even the hardest things occur in the context where love is possible and present. The poet, an English professor at a Christian college, writes with anguish over the warmaking in Iraq, which has involved us all in a project whose human cost is staggering. The book is unabashedly personal, but perhaps in a way that invites reflection on the moments we all receive now and then that remind us there is, even in the midst of darkness, reason to rejoice.
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The Light of Invisible Bodies
Poems
Jeanne Lohmann
ISBN 1-56474-426-4
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
While death waits patiently, the poet waits patiently also, getting the most out of the last light. This book celebrates life while it acknowledges death, grief, and widowhood. The theme of the book is light, whether it is thrown across a landscape or used as a metaphor for transcendence or both. These poems deal largely with nature, celebrating the process of life of both animal and plant. And throughout is the balance the poet finds in nature between joy in the moment and the lure of the futurewhich may and often means death.
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Littoral Zone
Poems
Barbara Branch Bates
ISBN 1-56474-441-8
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
Many of the poems in this collection draw on well-known figures, mostly female, in history and myth, such as Camille Claudel, Salome, and Antigone. Others reference the California landscape and the lost American Indian orientation to the natural world. Although the poems were written individually over a period of years, they hang together chronologically in a very personal framework.
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Max Brand's Best Poems
Verses from a Master of Popular Prose--A Centennial Selection
Max Brand (Frederick Faust), edited by Robert and Jane Easton
104 pages, clothbound, $14.95 ISBN 0-931832-96-9
"This breathtaking collection reveals not only his versatility, but also his soul as one marvels at his sensitivity and understanding while reading his utterly amazing words."
The Western Library
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Medicine Stone
Poems
Jack Coulehan
ISBN 1-56474-405-1
112 pages, paperback, $12.00
With the publication of this book, Jack Coulehan becomes the foremost physician/poet of this time. No one writes about the beauty and frailty of the human body with a keener eye and larger heart. Medicine Stone is a magnificent achievement.
Richard Selzer, Surgeon and Writer
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Mending the Skies
Poems
Celia Brown
ISBN 1-56474-336-5
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
"In Mending the Skies Celia Brown leads us into a personal world, built solidly from elusive moments of pain, joy, and humor. These are captured from a lifetime in Ireland and the U.S., as professional nurse and private woman, as child, parent, and spouse. She makes us feel at home, but not completely and not for long. We want to move on with her to the next habitat of new awareness in the next poem. A readable and very memorable collection. A signal achievement."
Joseph Sendry, Professor of English, Catholic University of America
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The Minotaur's Lament
Stephen Gomez; illustrated by Gabrielle Bakker
ISBN 1-56474-146-X
"With boldness, grace and a thoroughly modern undertone of urgency, Gomez assumes a voice in the tradition of poetry in the Spanish language by making his subject no less than an examination of the mysteries of our existence." San Francisco Examiner
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Musk Ox
And Other Poems
Anne Hyde Greet
96 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-287-3
"Traveling with Anne, on the wings of her poems, from her backyard overlooking a canyon to the far reaches of the undersea world, to the Arctic tundra, and back into the eastern streets of her childhood, is a remarkable journey. Each scene and creature she encounters is full of breathtaking imagery and impeccable detail. To read Musk Ox and Other Poems is to understand more fully what it means to 'survive,' and be transported."
Perie Longo, author of The Privacy of Wind
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Nature Plays for Keeps
John D. Ogden
128 pages, paperback, $9.50
ISBN 1-56474-166-4
"In their understatement, in their irony and even in their wit, these poems are as wise as they are moving." James McConkey
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No no the saddest
Poems
Alan Bern
ISBN 1-56474-433-7
104 pages, paperback, $12.00
"Alan Bern's poetic language captivates our senses and grips our ear. At the end of the book, we feel renewed and we resolve to value life more fully and to love more deeply." Francisco Jimenez, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, author of The Circuit
This collection is the nightmarish narrative of a crucial episode in the poet's life. After a few introductory poems establishing a strong romantic and loving relationship with his pregnant wife, Lynn, the calm disappears with what first appears to be a headache. As the poems progress, it becomes apparent that Lynn has had an aneurism. She has brain surgery, and she lapses into a coma from which she will never awake. The poems describe the anguish of living with a loved one who is lost to the world. She does not die. In fact, she carries their baby to full term and gives birth to a healthy son of whom she will never be aware. After a few years, Lynn dies, the boy grows, and the poet, Alan, eventually finds another love. He writes. He heals.
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Pearls and Lace
Magdalena Klein edited and translated by Susan Simpson Geroe
64 pages, paperback, photos, $9.00
ISBN 1-56474-190-7
The poet endured the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, during which time she kept a poetic journal. The poems, translated by her American niece, are an important testament to the human spirit that transcends even the most horrific events of history.
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Photo, Bomb, Red Chair
New Poems
Barbara Lefcowitz
ISBN 1-56474-431-0
192 pages, paperback, $15.00
Praise for her earlier books:
"She is a poet of daring and tough charm."
Library Journal
"Wise, wittty, dramatic, daring."
Washington Review
"Lefcowitz moves deftly between dream and reality and imagination."
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The poems in this new collection travel all over the globe, from Crete to Paris to Hungary to New York and Washington and all points in between or outside the frame. There's travel in the imagination too, and fanciful surrealism mixed with the time travel of memorychairs remembering their passengers, lipstick tubes acting up in the middle of the night, elevators going through the roof. But the poems all come home to roost in a poetic consciousness and conscience that call for change in the way human beings treate one another.
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Remember Me, Whispers the Dust
Poems
James Scofield
ISBN 1-56474-414-0
80 pages, paperback, $12.00
This book is about death. Death happens in Birkenau, but it also happens in Harvard Yard, and thus it had been since Eden, and thus it will always be, as Mephistopheles tells Faust. Several of these poems explore the darkest side of human nature, like cruelty and violence. The darkness extends to the cruel universe we live in. Even in the midst of beauty, mortality marches on. And yet these poems and this book are not depressing. It is enlivening in its courage.
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Rodins Eyes
Poems
D.A. Feinfeld
ISBN 1-56474-437-X
96 pages, paperback, $14.00
In these poems, the nature of thingsfrom address files to landscapes, from birds and flowers to galaxiesstand as something grander than what they seem, or seem to outshine their commonplace definitions. The poems also offer us big, sometimes upsetting, ideas, from seeing angels as fierce to seeing the stars rushing away from us. The collection closes with a series of portraits of imaginary beasts, combining word play, imagination, and zoology.
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Seeking Substance
Poems About Ordinary and Extraordinary Women
Erline Dessie Goodell
ISBN 1-56474-430-2
80 pages, paperback, $9.95
The women honored in Erline Dessie Goodell's new collection of poetry are not celebrities, they'rebnot glamorous, and they aren't necessarily beautiful or brainy. But they are worthy and strong because they do their work, they live in this life, they endure, and the world is better for them. The poems in this collection focus on women the poet has met in her travels throughout the world. They also deal with the nature of work, the power of death, and the transcendent beauty of philosophy.
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Signs of Life
Poems
Kathleen Bird Metcalfe
ISBN 1-56474-412-4
80 pages, paperback, $10.00
These poems are written from ordinary life experiences, in an honest, spare style, with a liberal sprinkling of tears, childhood, a nurturing profession, military conflicts, travel, marriage, and all the hoods: motherhood, widowhood, and singlehood. The poet sees her art as a hospital gown: open, vulnerable, and loosely tied.
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Sleepdancer
Poems
Bettina T. Barrett; drawings by the author
80 pages, illustrated, paperback, $8.95 ISBN 1-56474-116-8
"Skillfully crafted, Barrett's poetry hints at a deeply mystical woman, while her canvases portray a dizzying range of subjects, from bears, perhaps her personal totem, to playful and imaginative images. A fascinating mind and a fascinating poet/painter." Kit Tremaine
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Skins
Poems
Joyce Thomas
ISBN 1-56474-373-X
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
Skins are what's left over when we grow. Animals abound in this collection that is also very much about human beings. Animals show up here as food, as art, as spirit, as things of beauty, sources of humor and metaphors for the human condition. There are also poems in this book about travel, important moments in a lifetime, and the enlightenment that invites or causes change.
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Spending the Light
Poems 1955-2003
Tom Smith
ISBN 1-56474-434-5
112 pages, paperback, $12.00
This collection of poems written over a nearly fifty-year span is clearly autobiographical, even if some of the poems deal with dreamlife instead of actual events. The book is a self-portrait of a poet using as a medium the things and places he has seen, the experiences he has had, the people he has known and loved, the changes he has gone through in the journey from fearful and fanciful child to a man of seventy, for who what's left is family and poetry.
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Steel Toe Boots
David Lawrence
80 pages, paperback, $9.50 ISBN 1-56474-188-5
Lawrence writes of time spent in prison, and he writes with no holds barred. These poems are angry, clever, poignant, important. The bitterness is balanced by irony, the poems are about relationship, even from inside a lonely place.
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Strip Search
W.R. Wilkins
80 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-216-4
"Wilkins' poems are full of themselves and instantaneously alive, bringing forth a consistent freshness that sustains his poetic ventures over a shifting terrain of both personal and public domains." Small Press
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Sustenance
Sheila Bender
ISBN 1-56474-300-4
64 pages, paperback, $9.95
"Sheila Bender's daily life springs free into poetry here in the exact miniatures she identifies: magpies pinwheeling into flight, a French 'R' in the throat of a lover, a squeak in the oarlock, a father in the silent auditorium clearing his throat before the rough treasure of a child's first music. Poetry: little things as the best we have."
Kim Stafford, Northwest Writing Institute
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A Time to Whisper
Poems
Jay Liveson
ISBN 1-56474-383-7
80 pages, paperback, $12.00
"...Poems that compose themselves in quiet, vernacular speech, tell us who we are, and what we will one day be. If we shiver when we read them, so be it." Steve Orlen, from the Foreword of A Time to Whisper
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To Every Truth Its Season
Poems
Sam Seifter
ISBN 1-56474-392-6
96 pages, illustrated, paperback, $10.00
These poems, by a distinguished biochemist who is still working and teaching in his eighties, cover a lot of territory, including personal reminiscences, appreciation of the human mind, exploration of the world of nature, concern for the human condition, the very existence of God and the nature of the cosmos.
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Travel Among the Stars
Poems
Margareta Horiba
ISBN 1-56474-417-5
80 pages, paperback, $10.00
These poems celebrate the real world, from matters as large as the stars to as concentrated as Japanese calligraphy. They understand the seasons, travel the earth from Sweden to Las Vegas and points in between and beyond, and travel through time by way of memory. Many of the poems pay tribute to other writers and other artists from many cultures and many eras. Death is present here, but not as a phenomenon to avoid or lament. "To live is not necessary," the poet tells us. To experience the world, and beyond, is.
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Traveling Light
Norma Almquist
64 pages, paperback, $9.00
ISBN 1-56474-192-3
"The view, whether from space or from the railway station floor in Jhansi, where we lie down with the dispossessed, is always that of the philosopher musician, the tender, witty, unfettered natural poet. Sign up now, pack little, only prepare to return home rich."
Josephine Carson
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Vernissage
Poems
Julia Bates
72 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-266-0
Poetry that fondly looks back but also forward to what lies ahead.
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A View from the Heart
Poems
Séamus P. O'Cuinn
ISBN 1-56474-445-0
128 pages, paperback, $14.00
Séamus P. O'Cuinn writes bravely love and death. He shows that love is in the details, be they once-in-a-lifetime or day-to-day. His elegies for friends and relatives who have gone on are tributes to eternal spirit; and he counts himself among those who must join the dead when the time is right. Meanwhile, he celebrates what joy remains. In between love and death, the poet gives us life full of sports and exercise, rites of passage. Ireland (mythic and real) is a recurrent theme, as is the Trojan War. The style is varied from formal to free.
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Water Tender
Poems
Mary Agnes Dalrymple
ISBN 1-56474-413-2
80 pages, paperback, $10.00
These poems, arranged chronologically, tell the story of the poet's life, from the dangerous, bloody process of being born to the dangerous, bloody process of stuffing sausage with a cousin and swapping family gossip. In between we visit some dark moments, including breast cancer, a husband's stroke, and a mother's fatal automobile accident. But the poet focuses on lighter moments too, like the dance of a monarch butterfly in her garden. The second part of the book is a small collection of poetic narratives inspired by found art such as postcards, old photos, and mysterious news stories.
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Waterwalking in Berkeley
Poems
Alan Bern
ISBN 978-1-56474464-7
96 pages, paperback, $14.00
With a minimalist, economical style, Alan Bern says much with few images and words. Many of the poems in this collection have a narrative quality, and the narrative quality carries over from poem to poem. The interludes between the sections are made up of sharp snapshots. The poet writes of big themes: the haunting past, poignancy of childhood memories, the aging process, community (especially the subculture of old-timers at theY), approaching farewell to parents, and the treasure of relationship. The locale of many of the poems is Berkeley, California, where the poet has lived most of his life; but some of the poems describe the scenery of Italy, where he has traveled often.
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What Counts
Poems
Jay Liveson
ISBN 1-56474-345-4
80 pages, paperback, $12.00
"Poet and doctor Jay Liveson explores a world of extreme contingency. His voice is deeply compassionate, earthy, and haunted by loss." D. Nurkse
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We Used To Be Wives
Divorce Unveiled Through Poetry
Jane Butkin Roth, Editor
ISBN 1-56474-390-X
240 pages, paperback, $14.95
This anthology is a collection of poems about divorce written by many women, each of whom has a different story. The poems are organized to reflect the stages of divorce, and they cover a wide range of emotions, from turmoil and dismay to triumph. This is finally a book about growth and empowerment. Includes poems by Susanne Bowers, Marge Piercy, Margaret Kaufman, and more.
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Words Never Spoken
Poems and Drawings
Doris Vanderlipp
ISBN 1-56474-297-0
192 pages, paperback, $12.00
Poems and drawings that follow the cycle of life and show the spiritual growth of the poet and artist through her relationships with people and nature.
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