HOME | BOOKS | SUBMISSIONS | NEWS & EVENTS | ABOUT US | SITE MAP
BOOKS | ORDERING INFORMATION | BROWSE BOOKS | FEATURED WEB PAGES |
| ISBN: | 0898231574 |
| Title: | Aerial Studies |
| Price: | $7.95 |
| Year Published: | 1994 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Book Description: | The poet exercises an acrobatic flair to vault her readers through a world where language, not unlike the performances of her aerialists, knife-throwers, and tiger trainers, leaves one breathless. "This is the work of a perceptive mind, awake when the rest of us are sleeping, song of the insomniac played out in thoughtful arabesques. Throughout, WItt pulls the gleaming thread of bodily memory through the shadows. In the process she crystallizes sadness to generate the light of loss, made bearable and beautiful through a string of intricate images that glow like stained glass over the wound."— CarolAnn Russell, author of The Red Envelope |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Adelmund Witt,Sandra -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231949 |
| Title: | An Alchemy in the Bones |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 1999 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | This collection of poems is Reichard’s first book. It is an intelligent, lyrical and sensual collection written to celebrate the life of a contemporary gay man. Reichard’s alchemy can be read as the transmutation of seasons, the onset of a dreaded disease that changes the shape of the body, or the attempt to start life anew after the loss of a family member. It is an alchemy celebrated by those who have lived many seasons and are wise about life’s triumphs and trials. "‘It’s about what can be bent,’" William Reichard writes in a poem called ‘Bonsai.’ These poems, too, are about the ways we’re bent by experience: by loss and by desire, by love and difficulty. William Reichard’s poems are beautifully open to the ‘bent’ in all its senses: the not-straight, the damaged, the curves the world throws us. These delicately etched lyrics are attentive to what Reichard calls ‘the intricacy of emotion;’ it doesn’t surprise, then, that this poet has a particular gift for the love poem, for the text of tenderness, the body’s ‘dazzling code.’"--Mark Doty, author of Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Reichard,William -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231787 |
| Title: | Bonfire |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1977 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | |
| Book Description: | The poems in this book are infused with images from nature including items we might otherwise call commonplace. The images are blended skillfully into a collage of humor, irony, and joy. Wanek says poetry "enlightens and enlarges our view of the world around us." "Winner of the 1996 Minnesota Voices Competition, Bonfire is a first collection, but Connie Wanek is not a "Promising young poet" she is superb, mature, a master of mood and language. Wanek writes a musical free verse, and her poems tend to be of two kinds: either tight, brief descriptions of objects that sometimes develop into long meditations, or stories that come to a climax within a page or so. . . . Wanek is terrific at description and narration. The theme of the collection might best be expressed by this pair of lines from "St. Hans Night": "One knows of the world, yet is/continually astonished." Barton Sutter, St. Paul Pioneer Press "With a quirky combination of humor and seriousness, Duluth poet Connie Wanek infuses her debut volume, Bonfire, with imaginative vision. Inanimate objects come alive in her poems. . . . Wanek is clearly no apprentice; the "voice" in Bonfire is mature, tempered, fully formed, a rare quality in a first book. It is also a gendered voice, firmly rooted in woman's experience and concerns, though by no means exclusive Waneks world has space for us all, finding mystery in the routine, and deliciously attuned to the seasonal rhythms of the north country. . . . This winner of the 1997 Minnesota Voices Project is one of the most satisfying collections Ive seen all year." Thomas R. Smith, Minneapolis Star Tribune |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Wanek,Connie -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231043 |
| Title: | Burning the Prairie |
| Price: | $5 |
| Year Published: | 1988 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | Reinhard's first book of poetry introduces us to characters from across Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Texas. It is peopled with familiar types like old girl friends, barmaids, faith healers, and well-known names—Yeats, Merle Haggard, Marilyn Monroe, Fred Astaire. Reinhard's voices is unique and speaks in a spectrum of emotions that are inspired by music and popular culture. Reinhard's second book is On the Road to Patsy Cline (New Rivers Press, 1996). "Another test of poetry might be that which you can read when you first get up in the morning in a cabin in the woods. John Reinhard's Burning the Prairie is this rare sort of work - not that it's devotional in nature, but that nearly all of the poems give us something we knew but never thought of before. Reinhard seems to live and write between the lines of what is accepted as life, thus the poems surprise and delight us, adding in measure that homely old world, wisdom." —John Harrison |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Reinhard,John -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231191 |
| Title: | But I Won't Go Out in a Boat |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1991 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 69 |
| Book Description: | Like the harsh midwestern landscapes she depicts, the author's poems are spare but intense, describing the physical pains of a hard life on the Dakota prairie as well as the emotional pains wrought by domestic abuse. escape the darkness. In 'Taking a Snow Bath,' the girl can become a bluejay, working snow into her feathers to clean herself, leaving 'wingmarks, precise as knifecuts,/ and the bad blood, pure.' " —Linda M. Hasselstrom |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Chmielarz,Sharon -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231590 |
| Title: | Coming Up for Light and Air |
| Price: | $9.95 |
| Year Published: | 1995 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 71 |
| Book Description: | The early poems in this extraordinary collection—many of them elegies to the poet's dead son—are as spare as they are powerful, eqloquent of bereavement and the raw, dark pain of loss. Yet as the title promises, the poet's voice is gradually transformed, turning away from the very edge of heartbreak and finding rebirth in things small and wondrous. "Reading this book is the adventure of entering another life described with grave and mysterious eloquence." —Choice "It's a long odyssey from Christchurch, New Zealand, to Grand Forks, North Dakota. but this wonderously skilled poet seems to have weather the trip well, despite agonizing personal losses. This first full collection is another triumph for her Minneapolis publishers."—Minneapolis Star Tribune |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Crow,Barbara -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230926 |
| Title: | Death of the Plankton Bar & Grill |
| Price: | $5 |
| Year Published: | 1987 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | |
| Book Description: | Poetry by an Italian-American that is witty and diverse. Nocerino's book of poems Wax Lips was published by New Rivers in 1980. Illustrated with 10 drawings by artist Cynthia Carlson. "Ethnicity in the sense of a multicultural process of self-definition does not appear as a central issue in these poems. The reader is confronted with a mature, well-defined personality, who is able to organize the roles of history and muth within her own artistic experience." Italian Americana |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Nocerino,Katheryn -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 089823042x |
| Title: | Different Arrangements |
| Price: | $3 |
| Year Published: | 1982 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 103 |
| Book Description: | The Dakotas and rural Minnesota are recaptured in vignettes of bare-bone towns in snowstorms, of wifebeaters and drunks and uncles, and of the horses you count along the highways to stay awake. "Sharon Chmielarz...knows that one can never leave home. The book begins and ends at home. The abusive relationship between the parents is central in this book. . . These are the songs of her bewilderment, her anger and disgust, her accommodation and finally her renewal." —Mary Kay Rummel |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Chmielarz,Sharon -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231124 |
| Title: | Dismal River |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1990 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 92 |
| Book Description: | "Along with Jim Harrison, Ray Carver, Evan Connell, and a few others, Block is exploring the values —and disvalues —of the frontier in a thoroughly contemporary context. This book, written in the humility of the lone artist-adventurer, is at the same time crucial to the nation's self-understanding. A remarkable and glorious book." —Hayden Carruth |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Block,Ron -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 089823168x |
| Title: | Divining the Landscape |
| Price: | $11.95 |
| Year Published: | 1996 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 60 |
| Book Description: | Jarvenpa brings a Finnish-American sensibility to everyday subjects, infusing them with a magical awareness of the connection between generations and mother-and-daughter ties. She conveys her delight with the natural history of her region and of places in Finland she has visited. For those who share the destiny of what she calls a "mute generation" "Diane Jarvenpa tells us there are things we cannot see: how flowers grow, what the prairie dreams, how summers come, where muskrats go. She honors too the complexities of the people closest to her, like her immigrant grandparents and her parents. She knows there are some things that can only be explained with poetry. That is why these poems begin with words but always end in music."—Jim Johnson, author of Wolves |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Jarvenpa,Diane -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230888 |
| Title: | Dying Old and Dying Young |
| Price: | $4 |
| Year Published: | 1987 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | |
| Book Description: | Susan Williams describes women in her evocative poetry, and keeps them alive through language. "My favorite poems here are of two kinds, very differentt from each other: in one are the gritty, colloquial voices of ordinary women, alive on the page. In the other, there is a delicacy of image and music that reminds me of Roethke's short, later poems. Everywhere intelligence shines." —Roland Flint |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Williams,Susan -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231337 |
| Title: | Edith Jacobson Begins to Fly |
| Price: | $6.5 |
| Year Published: | 1992 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 77 |
| Book Description: | Edith Jacobson Begins to Fly is an unusual first book of poems. Patricia Zontelli, like Wanda Gag (author of Millions of Cats) before her, is both writer and painter - a melding of talents that emerges in the highly colorful and visual imagery that characterizes her poetry and gives it depth and resonance. The title sequence is a bold and imaginative statement about a woman's heroic - and zany - effort to define herself in a complex and attractive world, at once liberating, breathtaking, and responsible. Few poets we know of manage to be wonderfully comic and serious at the same time and in so many surprising ways. I admire Edith Jacobson rising over her know world, 'the slinky,licorice roads / tying it all together...' She is Everywoman articulating our dreads and daring in these often stunning poems." —Maxine Kumin, author of Nurture |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Zontelli,Patricia -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231620 |
| Title: | Everything's a Verb |
| Price: | $9.95 |
| Year Published: | 1995 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Book Description: | In her first collection of poetry, Marquart looks back on her childhood, her family, her sense of place, not with nostalgia but with a lyricism and wit that take the reader on a fascinating journey. Every subject touched on - from fond remembrances of a German grandmother to an abusive ex-husband - is infused with passion and made transcendent by an extraordinary gift for language."Marquart looks forward to finding her place in society as a strong, independent woman and confronts some of the harsher realities of what that experience means in our world. The directness of her lines, the music of her voice, and the edge she achieves through her ironic twists and turns, make a compelling book, a stunning debut for a poet we'll all want to follow." —Mary Swander, author of Driving the Body Back and Heaven-and-Earth House |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Marquart,Debra -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230306 |
| Title: | Faith |
| Price: | $4 |
| Year Published: | 1981 |
| Trim Size: | 7x10 |
| Pages | 109 |
| Book Description: | "Goldbarth's best work stands as an attempt at metamorphosis that will succeed, that will sustain itself as a work of intellectual and historical imagination." —Michael King, The American Poetry Review |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Goldbarth,Albert -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231744 |
| Title: | Fishing for Myth |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1997 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | Heid Erdrich shows us how personal myth grows. In describing her writing Erdrich says: "When events or memories seem impossible or inexplicable, I listen for the voice that tells how they came to be—the story voice, the myth-teller. These poems are the result of that listening." |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Erdrich,Heid E. -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0-89823-227-9 |
| Title: | Flock & Shadow: New & Selected Poems |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2005 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 199 |
| Book Description: | "Michael Hettich's new collection ... resonates with a deep sense of place, with poignant moments of domestic life, and with energy brimming beneath the surface of seemingly small encounters. Each poem is a lyric journey .... " Diane Thiel |
| Excerpt: | Hands Today thousands/ of envelopes filled/ with tiny hands/ are passing through the mail. // It is a sunny/ day and all/ these small hands sweat/ in their mailman's bags. // These are the hands / of the skunks, squirrels,/ raccoons that have now/ become so valued // for their strangeness, for their/ resemblance to ours. // Deep in the woods/ there are still small animals/ with all four hands./ They hide well. And all // around the edges,/ close to our houses,/ many walk on stumps./ They don't walk far. // We feed them scraps/ from our dinners, and they/ grow fat and sleek./ They sleep without fear. // Their hands will last/ forever now. |
| Reviews: | "With the publication of Flock and Shadow: New and Selected Poems, the world will finally savor what the literary cognoscenti have known since the early 1980s- that Michael Hettich's poems have consistently provided a quiet phosphorescent glow in the lush garden of contemporary American poetry." Nick Carbo |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Hettich,Michael -- Michael Hettich was born in New York City, and grew up in the city and its suburbs. He has lived in upstate New York, Colorado, North Florida, Vermont, and Miami, Florida, where he now lives. Author of twelve previous books and chapbooks, his work has appeared widely in journals, among them Witness, New Letters, TriQuarterly, and The Literary Review. His awards include two Florida Individual Artist Fellowships, and an Endowed Teaching Chair from Miami Dade College, where he teaches English and Creative Writing. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231353 |
| Title: | Forest of Childhood: Poems from Sweden |
| Price: | $14.95 |
| Year Published: | 1996 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Book Description: | A splendid introduction to ten respected Swedish poets, this translation brings us a wondrous medley of poems that will appeal to all readers of poetry. "In Swedish poetry from the seventeenth century on, nature has been a favorite subject. All these poets may be seen as born allies of the botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778). Folke Isaksson's Vinterresa (Winter Tour, 1951), which beautifully reflects the landscape of northern Sweden, contains a moving portrait of Linnaeus. Harry Martinson is similar to the famous botanist in his 'deeply original ingenuity, his sensitive and unconventional alertness and attentiveness with the shape and form of every living thing.' Elisabeth Rynell has called her encounters with the vast forests and deer-herding Lapps ' a kind of university.' All these poets are in one way or another affected by the natural scene. Osten Sjostrand finds in the dandelion a symbol of God's creation that outweighs all man's inventions. Even Lars Gustafsson, the most philosophical of the lot, addresses a moving ballad to the old paths in the province of Vastmanland, where at the age of fourteen he had felt called upon to serve poetry with the language 'which in some mysterious way was identical with the wordless authority of the scenery.' " —William Jay Smith, from his introduction |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
William Jay,Smith Leif,Sjoberg |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231868 |
| Title: | Fragile Peace You Keep: Poems |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1998 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | Forged between the strong impulses of remembering and bearing witness, Kel Munger’s poetry creates a dialogue between the poet and her own historical obsessions—the stories that ring like sirens through the poet’s memory. These poems move geographically from the heartland to the Northwest coast, showing how precarious life can be in the middle of things, how beautiful and stable at the wild and jagged edge. In edgy poems often cetered in traditional forms and through traditional subjects set free on the blown landscape, Kel Munger develops a powerful paradox: wherever we stand is both the center and the edge. Balanced in our separate lives, we have in common a fragile peace we keep. Clearly, Kel Munger is a poet we need to hear. -- Neal Bowers, author of Words for the Taking |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Munger,Kel -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232007 |
| Title: | Gifts and Secrets |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 1999 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Book Description: | Elizabeth Zelvin’s poetry carries off a rich and lyrical balancing act. It moves with dignity, poise, and humor into places of deep longing and moments of joyous celebration. I feel safe in her hands. Leslie Simon, co-author of A Music I No Longer Heard: The Early Death of a Parent The reader of Elizabeth Zelvin’s new book feels as if he or she has been granted access to the deepest secrets contained in that most private of spaces: a psychotherapist’s consulting room. Yet the poems evoke this privilege without the least hint of voyeurism or academic haughtiness on the part of the therapist-author.The poems achieve a rare combination of accessibility and luminous insight, earthiness and sophistication. Barbara F. Lefcowitz, Ph.D., poet and author of The Minarets of Vienna Elizabeth Zelvin is a therapist in New York City. |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Zelvin,Elizabeth -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231523 |
| Title: | Handmade Paper |
| Price: | $7.95 |
| Year Published: | 1994 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Book Description: | In this sophisticated collection of poems, novelist and visual artist Patricia Barone draws on her experience as a painter and printmaker to manipulate, masterfully, the countours and textures of language. "The rich details of everyday life abound in this fine book, like flecks of color in handmade paper. Her poems often weave together the unlikely, making connections which help us see with new eyes the old stories." Jill Breckenridge, author of How to Be Lucky "Many of these [poems] are about the lost and lonely of the world, depicyted with tenderness but free of sentimentaiity. Readers, keep your eyes on this talented upper Midwest poet." Minneapolis Star and Tribune |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Barone,Patricia -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 978-0-89823-240-0 |
| Title: | Hollow Out |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2008 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 83 |
| Book Description: | "No one since John Haines's Winter News has written so well about the interminable winters, the snow, the cold and the human solitude of those living in polar regions." Charles Simic |
| Excerpt: | A Warm Inside A couple walked home semidrunk after bingo. It was cold and, his baby kicking her abdomen, her thoughts turned inside. Neither of them noticed the polar bear. He pushed her out of the way. He charged. From the doorway, she watched his head disappear, limbs flailing. |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Habecker,Kelsea -- Kelsea Habecker writes poetry and nonfiction- much of it filled with snow. She has lived in Michigan, Virginia, Mexico, New York, and Illinois, and she spent five years in a remote Inupiat Eskimo village on the Arctic Ocean in northern Alaska. She received her M.F.A. from Bennington College's Writing Seminars. She received a 2006 grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation and a 2007 residency at the Santa Fe Institute. She teaches writing and literature. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232104 |
| Title: | Homecoming |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 120 |
| Book Description: | Ghosts permeate these poems - the poet's wife, his father, old classmates, friends, and enemies. The poems are colored by Contoski's affection for classical music and enriched by his bold palette and sly sense of humor. He taps into dreams, finds hope in loss, tenderness in betrayal, solace in self-doubt. Homecoming is a command performance in four parts: Temptations, Fugues, The Uninvited, and Lullabies. Victor Contoski is the author, editor or translator of nine books of poetry, and his fiction, poetry, criticism, and translations have been widely published and anthologized. He is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Contoski,Victor -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231299 |
| Title: | House Fire A Collection of Poems |
| Price: | $6.5 |
| Year Published: | 1992 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Book Description: | Driving straight for the nitty-gritty, the poems in House Fire are filled with extraordinary wit and intelligence. "In these gem-like, many-faceted poems, by B.J. Buhrow evokes - with a luminous sexuality, a voluptuous clarity - the bright promise and ominous threat that reside in the seemingly mundane and commonplace. Mortality, lawlessness, beauty, love, and risk, roil beneath the calm, taut surfaces of her compelling and haunting lyrics. House Fire is a beautiful, and unforgettable, book."—Ron Wallace, author of Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Buhrow,B.J. -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231183 |
| Title: | In the Shadow of the Gourd |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1990 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Book Description: | This is a volume of poetry by a mature, persistent poet who has honed his skills and expanded his subject matter considerably. "At the heart of this collection is an oracular voice made all the more powerful by its gentleness—not the booming voice of a prophet, but the voice of a witness, one of us. . . . Malcolm Glass offers an essential antidote for the cynical resignation of our age." Neal Bowers, author of The Golf Ball Driver |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Glass,Malcolm -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231418 |
| Title: | Intensive Care |
| Price: | $10.95 |
| Year Published: | 1992 |
| Trim Size: | 6 x 9 |
| Pages | 75 |
| Book Description: | This series of poems, inspired by the paralyzing and near-fatal bout with Guillain-Barr'8e suffered by the author's daughter, is not just a focused meditation/confrontation on the subject of illness, but also a celebration of life and courage wrung from the near experience of death. Getsi teaches at Illinois State University, where she edits The Spoon River Quarterly. In 1996, she was Poet Laureate of Illinois. "It is a rare thing for a poet to write with such clarity about a subject as terrifying as her daugher's battle with death. What makes Lucia Getsi's poems so remarkable is not only their telegraphic immediacy, but their elegance and exquisite control." Tori Derricotte, author of Captivity "Lucia Getsi is a woman who knows intimately the terrors of love." -- Iowa Woman |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Getsi,Lucia Cordell -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231280 |
| Title: | Iron Woman |
| Price: | $7 |
| Year Published: | 1990 |
| Trim Size: | 6 x 9 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Book Description: | This is a collection of 58 poems that deftly blends allegory and narrative while speaking eloquently of the joy and pain of living in two worlds: the Cherokee tradition of her father and the German-English world of her mother. "In these fine poems, Diane Glancy's voice is strong and her images are sharp and true. But it's the myriad stores within these poems that carry us so far, to all the places spiritual and otherwise that the poet has recreated for us from her hard-won experience." Nicholas Christopher |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Glancy,Diane -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230993 |
| Title: | Keeping the Star |
| Price: | $5 |
| Year Published: | 1988 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | Unlike many of his flashier contemporaries, Smith works his poems very hard from the inside out until nothing is left on the page but what is essential and bone-hard. His landscapes real or imagined are infused with a subtle, dream-like power. Indeed, all of his best work is drawn from unconscious sources like dreams, though the places he takes us may be real enough - like Italy, Spain, or the roads and byways of Wisconsin. This is a poetry of moments suddenly made luminous: ...Listening to Copeland's Appalachian Spring The opening strains catch at some bare place in me, some refuge of morning light, earth broken by the tiller under a still sky. ("Vernal Eqinox") "Like those of the original Surrealists, the poems of Thomas R. Smith pulse with desire for the full realization of the world's creative potential. They also ache with knowledge of ways in which that dream can fail. But Smith, whose language beautifully serves his vision, gives clear voice to the belief that lost energies will return transfigured. Dark, his poems never despair. A generous and tender spirit informs them all. Poems like these lead to habits of giving. Keeping the Star does not need readers, but readers need Keeping the Star." Philip Dacey |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Smith,Thomas -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231388 |
| Title: | Late Night Calls |
| Price: | $8.95 |
| Year Published: | 1992 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 155 |
| Book Description: | Whether he takes as his subject his mother hanging out the laundry, hunting, a weird phone call, bar talk or a poem-as-baseball player, there are few practitioners of prose poetry who can match the adroitness of Mark Vinz. "Late Night Calls" is a gathering of messages that comes to us deep in our lives, where they bring the important news that it's all right to let ourselves care for one another, it's all right to give words of tenderness. The most remarkable of these fabulous poems are both fairy tales that articulate our wakeful sleep, and bedtime stories against the dark, lending reassurance and calm to those nights when we turn between loss and failure. Like the caller of the title poem, Mark Vinz 'needs to be heard'. We listen." Jay Meek, Author of Stations |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Vinz,Mark -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230004 |
| Title: | Modern Catalan Poetry |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1979 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 193 |
| Book Description: | r was born in Milwaukee and now teaches at a Montessori school in St. Paul, Minnesota. His poetry has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic Review, the Southern Review and many other publications. "Mozart's G Minor Symphony" won the Billie Muray Denny Poetry Prize. |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Rosenthal,David H. |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231000 |
| Title: | More or Less Urgent |
| Price: | $5 |
| Year Published: | 1988 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Book Description: | Zivancevic, a national figure in her native Yugoslavia, has resided off and on since 1984 in New York City. In fact, America has been an obsession with Zivancevic from early in her career, and she taught herself to write original poetry in English. The result is unique: a highly idiomatic American poetry, with affinities to the Beats, the Black Mountain School, and the punk romanticism of the Lower East Side, created by a woman of modernist European background and sensibility. This is a poetry of strong, aggressive appetities, humor, waywardness. "Fantastic...[a Zivancevic] poem is a piece of sculpture in time, kind of a wind sculpture. Twittering, and really there." The Village Voice |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Zivancevic,Nina -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232317 |
| Title: | Mortar & Pestle |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2006 |
| Trim Size: | 6 X 9 |
| Pages | 103 |
| Book Description: | |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | “This book of poetry by Lisa Gill is a response to a diagnosis of a serious disease, which she is battling courageously, clinically as well as through these superb lyrical meditations. In her case the disease is multiple sclerosis, but it could be almost any other because the sweep of the poetry is so broad. The language is clear, evocative… This work is humble and magisterial, witty and wise. The guide here is nature, getting to the herbs of healing, against the body’s dismantling. Brilliant imagery in a thoroughly brilliant book.” |
| Review Source: | Gene Frumkin, author of The Old Man Who Swam Away and Left Only His Wet Feet |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Gill,Lisa -- Lisa Gill was born in Minot, North Dakota and now makes her home in Moriarty, New Mexico, with two dogs and a cat. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Blue Collar Review, Desperado, Prosodia, Red Weather, The Weekly Alibi, as well as The Harwood Anthology and In Company: An Anthologyh of New Mexican Poets after 1960. One of her short stories won first prize in the 7th volume of American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She frequently works with artists and musicians, and has performed widely from the Seattle Poetry Festival to the Taos Poetry Circus and the Thom McGrath Visiting Writers Series in Moorhead, Minnesota. Her first poetry collection, Red As A Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, one hundred poems dedicated to Thomas Merton, was published with La Alameda Press in 2002. She recently premiered Caput Nili, a one-woman show addressing violence at Out Ch'Yonda in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mortar & Pestle is her second book. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0-89823-221-X |
| Title: | No Guarantee |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2004 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 84 |
| Book Description: | "An edgy lyricism moves through these poems, with yearnings and never-quite-consolable losses, from the other side of a difficult childhood to an adulthood the poet cannot entirely come to terms with."-Carolyne Wright |
| Excerpt: | Close to Earth Where you raged, Father, grass presses close to the earth./ There is no light in this half of the sky, no compass to navigate by.//A child's heart died on this spot, and there is no monument/ except this collection of words.//Here, a song. There, an elegy. It is all the same breath./ When they ask my name, I am silent as air.// Still, there are times the rain washes through itself and comes out clean./ The sky bleeds. Half of God's light is blood. |
| Reviews: | "Call it a high-octane collection of love and death poems; call it poem noir on rollerblades-romantic, pastoral, tropical, narrative, political, meditative, comic, and beautifully rendered. No Guarantee explodes like a thoroughbred from hell out of the starting gate and never lets up. I guarantee it." -Roger Weingarten |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Çrist-Evans,Craig -- Craig Crist-Evans is the author of North Of Everything, Moon over Tennessee, Amaryllis, and Manthology. He died in 2005. A remembrance published in The Bloomsbury Review can be found at http://www.bloomsburyreview.com/Archives/2005/Craig%20Crist-Evans.pdf |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232074 |
| Title: | Northern Latitudes |
| Price: | $14.95 |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
| Trim Size: | |
| Pages | 96 |
| Book Description: | Noted travel writer Millman conjures up the people, tales, and stark, fantastic landscapes of the far north, including arctic Canada, Greenland, Labrador, Iceland, and the northern fastnesses of the British Isles. With an ear for the subtle and a weakness for the outrageous, Millman skillfully weaves lush vocabulary, wild stories, and tribal traditions into his poems. "These prose poems respond to our ancient need for news from far places. Each of Millman's compelling reports from the frontier arrives with the chill and odor of strangeness wafting from its clothes." Ted Kooser Millman is the author of eight other books, most recently An Evening among Headhunters, and hundreds of essays, short stories, and poems published in hundreds of magazines, as well as the editor of several anthologies. This is his first book of poetry. |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Millman,Lawrence -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 089823171x |
| Title: | On the Road to Patsy Cline |
| Price: | $11.95 |
| Year Published: | 1996 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | Celebrating life in small towns and cities with poignant lyricism, Reinhard sings to us of jukeboxes, skinny-dipping, and burger shacks. His poems are set along the Patsy Cline Memorial Highway and the Tongue River, and reverberate with small town Americana. "John Reinhard's new book of poetry comes to us with its sorrow and humor intact. How it combines extreme desolation and tenderness, wonder and disillusion in quite this way I'll never know, but it does, and the poems carry forward their accounts of loss and recovery with a fine lyric eloquence." Charles Baxter, author of First Light and Shadow Play |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Reinhard,John -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231264 |
| Title: | Pictures of Three Seasons |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1991 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 67 |
| Book Description: | In her first collection of poetry, Gail Rixen introduces the reader to an unforgettable landscape. This is the world of rural western Minnesota, a world bounded by stone, field and water, by season, and by the human heart. Her melding of grace, humor, and trenchant observation won the author a 1989 Minnesota Voices Project award and this exceptional collection. "Gail Rixen's poetry reaches beyond gender, ideology or politics to larger matters: stone, water, field, season, heart. These are good poems." Will Weaver |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Rixen,Gail -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231256 |
| Title: | Pieces from the Long Afternoon |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1991 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 61 |
| Book Description: | The imagery of a midwestern childhood -grand pianos, library doorknobs, sidewalks, a grandfather's eyes make up this remarkable collection of poems, recipient of the 1989 Minnesota Voices Project award. The author has the power to transport the reader back into an archetypal childhood, but speaks with the mature vision of a woman who has lived as daughter, mother, wife, writer, and keen-eyed observer of human nature. "Read this book aloud slowly and allow yourself the delicious pleasure of being transported back and forth in the dazzling blink of an eye - back to the 1940's in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, where the child Monica sits under her mother's grand piano, looks out with wide brown eyes, and sees those truths we all knew in childhood, but may have forgotten - and forth to the present moment where the poet Monica Ochtrup remembers what she once knew and lets us in on it." Phebe Hanson |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Ochtrup,Monica -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230349 |
| Title: | Precinct Kali & The Gertrude Spicer Story |
| Price: | $4 |
| Year Published: | 1981 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 116 |
| Book Description: | "While most contemporary poems are meditations on energy that is distant, or kept at a distance, Bertolino's poems are unique in being part of that energy. He is one of the best poets now writing in America." Bill Knott |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Bertolino,James -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232023 |
| Title: | Rafting on the Water Table |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Book Description: | As the title implies, these poems are concerned with exploring the implicit in our world, the common elements that nourish and connect us, things we may not understand until someone with great vision-like Welsh-shows us. The poems compare buoyancy to wisdom, water to the inevitabilities of life. They express awe and admiration for children and science and the nature of the world. Susan Steger Welsh is a native of St. Paul. She is a freelance writer of video scripts and executive speeches for corporations, and her work has been honored with many national and local awards. This is her first book. A banquet of style and wondrous wisdom "Minnesota Voices does it again! Rafting, on the Water Table launches an exciting new poet who promises to have a long and distinguished career. With sure line and deft grace, [Welsh) sets her simple poetic table as if it were a banquet. These are poems that will not tire or grow homely in time they possess the emotional authority of the well-made object." -Jonis Agee, author of The Weight of Dreams and Taking the Wail "Here's a book about finding one's place inside the unit of a phrase, a sentence, a family, community, the natural world, history. The book's large ambitions are disguised with a sometimes breathtakingly light touch. Susan Steger Welsh knows about gravity, Cicero, Custer, prairie, the edge between land and ocean, neutrinos, and jack pines. In her voice she holds all that she knows lightly, and folds that knowledge into lines and stanzas about what she wonders, considers: love, communion between the living and the dead, hatred and its antidotes, pride, joy, sorrow and grace. This is a fine first book, written with style and wisdom." -Deborah Keenan, author of Happiness. Poems |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Steger Welsh,Susan -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0-89823-226-0 |
| Title: | Real Karaoke People |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2005 |
| Trim Size: | 6 X 9 |
| Pages | 99 |
| Book Description: | In Real Karaoke People: Poems and Prose, Ed-Bok Lee offers a faded, dog-eared playlist of love’s conflicting colors and invites us to sing along. From a Buddhist temple in the mountains of Korea, to downtown Minneapolis’ Sex World; from the smoldering L.A. Riots, far beyond to a tornado touching down on an Indian reservation, the poet ushers us through a world where people can’t help but gather to worship the stranger parts of themselves. As a second-generation Korean American, Lee’s new urban Midwest is fed equally by Lermontov’s Caucasus Mountains and Ginsberg’s San Francisco Bay, Hip Hop and Confucian philosophy, and Slam Poetry and Shakespearean sonnets. His perspective as neither Black nor White sheds a unique light on the personal and public wounds that history, politics, race, migration, and popular representations have created for his family and all Americans. At every unexpected turn, trading polemics for humor, autobiography for lyricism, drama for metaphysical inquiry, Lee maps a passionate journey of consciousness seeded in personal event yet never without colorful, masterfully drawn backdrops to illuminate an increasingly divergent nation’s greater struggle to create a new, strange, beautiful music and way of singing it. |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | “In Real Karaoke People Lee takes the rich immigrant experience of our urban centers and gives it both a quiet grace and the energy of hip-hop. ‘What feeds your soul?’ the poet asks, and he answers with the pungent smells of Asian cooking, the off-key voices of karaoke, and a ‘girl’s wicked drawl that first crackled through a KFC late-night drive-thru speaker.’ Here are the delicate lyrics and verbal tours de force, side-splitting ‘poelogues’ and plangent voices reinvigorating the Whitmanian tradition for the twenty-first century — one of the most impressive debuts in recent memory.” |
| Review Source: | —David Mura, author of Turning Japanese: Memoirs o |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Lee,Ed Bok -- ED-BOK LEE, a Korean-American poet, short story writer, playwright, and former North Dakota Grand Slam Poetry champion, is the author of Real Karaoke People: Poems and Prose, an award-winning collection to be published in Fall 2005 by New Rivers Press.
After attending kindergarten in South Korea, Lee grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and studied Russian Language and Literature at the universities of Minnesota; California at Berkeley; Kazakh State, Almaty, Indiana; and Brown University, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing.
Major awards for his poems, stories and plays include support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center, the New York Theater Workshop, SASE, the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation.
Lee’s work has appeared in various journals, magazines, and anthologies, such as Take Ten II (Vintage Books), Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture, Crab Orchard Review, Water~Stone Review, The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2004, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Mizna, Ache, Spectator, and Manoa, among others.
Currently based in Minneapolis and New York, he regularly performs his slam/spoken word poetry, conducts workshops in prisons and centers for the elderly, on American Indian reservations, and at universities. His plays have been commissioned and performed by various theaters, among them the New York Theatre Workshop, the Guthrie Theater, and Ma-Yi Theater.
For more information about Ed-Bok Lee, see his website at www.edboklee.com
|
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 089823090x |
| Title: | Reception at the Mongolian Embassy |
| Price: | $4 |
| Year Published: | 1987 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | Nicholas Kolumban, now an American citizen, grew up in Budapest, Hungary and came to this country during the devastating 1956 uprising against Soviet domination. The first section of the book vividly details the young poet's initiation into American society. The third and final section contains poems about the exile's return to his homeland the two together presenting a truly double, international perspective. In between is a section containing his superb translations of two major contemporary Hungarian poets, Sandor Csoori and Elemer Horvath. "Kolumban has a fine eye and a fine ear his poetry thrives on sound and description. With the addition of humor and intelligence (also a rare mix these days) his poems develop their own interesting world whether in his native Hungary or adopted New Jersey. The reader can with confidence expect a delicious adventure. the bonus of his Csoori translations only adds to this." Robert Vander Molen |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Kolumban,Nicholas -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232082 |
| Title: | Red Cross Dog |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
| Trim Size: | 5x7 |
| Pages | 72 |
| Book Description: | This second book of poetry by Patricia Zontelli is a collection in three parts, the first being Red Cross Dog. These poems focus on one character, the Red Cross Dog, who is an unwilling savior of people and who reflects our complex human fears, emotions, and needs with stunning clarity. The Red Cross Dog is, he tells us, "your nightmare: yourself/ as beast." What spooks the Red Cross Dog is what he knows humans are capable of, but humanity is also what soothes him. The rest of the book, including a section showing the poet in nature, and another section, The Morton Salt Girl, about a young woman abused by her stepfather - is equally inventive, bold, and complex, but each poem maintains the straightforward, nonjudgmental touch of the Red Cross Dog. Patricia Zontelli's first collection of poems, Edith Jacobson Begins to Fly, was published by New Rivers Press in 1992. She teaches art at the University of Wisconsin, Stout. |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Zontelli,Patricia -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231841 |
| Title: | Rootbound |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1998 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Book Description: | "Jeanne Emmons's fine ear and delicate eye subtly untie knots of language so that each word lovingly illumines and clarifies the extraordinary in the unexamined clutter of our daily lives. Notice the clumped root of your heart as it is nourished by her exquisite art; feel how it uncurls slowly in this welcome watering." Michael Carey, author of Honest Effort "What exemplary poems these are! At once graceful and meticulous, articulate and intense they seem not so much made as grown, ideas taking seed in the heart and at any moment blossoming into song and the richness we hadn't thought to ask for. Poets like Jeanne Emmons reaffirm why we have poems and will keep on having them as long as we are human." Phil Hey |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Emmons,Jeanne -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231345 |
| Title: | Sea Among the Cuboards |
| Price: | $7 |
| Year Published: | 1992 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 69 |
| Book Description: | The Sea Among the Cupboards , winner of the Capricorn Poetry Prize, is a melodic, bold, and unflinchingly honest collection of poems. "Both heart-rending and funny, The Sea Among the Cupboards explores the dark politics of the patriarchal family. Seaton's compelling voice is a storyteller's voice of health and wisdom, a road map inspiring a brave escape!" Denise Duhamel, author of Skirted Issues |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Seaton,Maureen -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231434 |
| Title: | Second Thing I Remember |
| Price: | $7.95 |
| Year Published: | 1993 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | This is a collection of poems about young women written by an adult poet, navigating through life, who has learned "to welcome/ the sanity of each mile, to love the woman/ inside this engine who reinvents the wheel/ daily and now has important places to go." "In The Second Thing I Remember , Judith Hougen's compelling first collection of poems, we begin our journey as readers on an empty planet, with the sun working hard, dreaming complicated dreams, in order to create a world worth contemplating. This is the task that Judith Hougen has set for herself to imagine beginnings, to re-imagine parts of the world, large and small, so that we hold in our hands, by the end of her book, new ways to think of old stories, new narratives imbued with lyric truths. Judith Hougen loves the real world, with all its beauty and tragedy, and she honors poetry and her readers by taking the world, and the possible heaven above us, seriously." Deborah Keenan, author of The Only Window That Counts |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Hougen,Judith -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 089823185x |
| Title: | Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1998 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Book Description: | A collection of poetry that describes Bryant's experience growing up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950's. His poetry is alive with jazz music, and "the warm and intimate/ of great notherns simmering in/ smoked ham hocks/ and sizzling bacon grease," and the light pouring through church windows. Funny, warm, and humane, the poems in Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day lead us back into the heart of family and home. "Philip Bryant is one of the liveliest poets currently writing, with a deep well of experience to draw from, a vibrant imagination, depth of feeling, and a distinctively expressive voice. Full of warm bodies and intense spirits, Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day is an especially fine addition to the extraordinary run of fine books in the Minnesota Voices series." John Rezmerski |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Bryant,Philip -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231892 |
| Title: | Sojourn at Elmhurst: A Poem Sequence |
| Price: | $14.95 |
| Year Published: | 1998 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Book Description: | The poem sequence of Sojourn at Elmhurst presents the quest for understanding and enlightenment of Frank Goldin, a successful research biochemist and medical school professor who is admitted to Elmhurst, a fictional psychiatric facility. There, he eventually comes as close to realization as he will ever get. Goldin is middle-aged, married, and Jewish. His struggle is everyone's struggle the search for meaning in a chaotic universe. Goldin finds no answers, but discovers the value of questions. "Michael Lieberman's Frank Goldin is, by his own judgment, insane. He's a biochemist by profession, a husband, now a hospital patient, an entertainer of visions. He IS visionary, in fact, one might say holy, as only one of God's fools can be. Goldin suffers the poet's plight/blight, distracted and fascinated by the 'endless detail of the world' overwhelmed, in fact, as the body is by strychnine's heightening of the senses. In this brilliant book of linked poems, dualitys are described and suffered as 'the soul of the poet mediates the transactions of our life on this dearth' while 'caught in the disorienting whirls in which order can be glimpsed.' "Science and art teach us to love the questions, as Rilke noted. Lieberman's Goldin asks and asks in a language we love, rich as his name." Hilda Raz, author of Divine Honors |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Lieberman,Michael -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 978-0-89823-241-7 |
| Title: | Sound of It, The |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2008 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 87 |
| Book Description: | Poems that are "generous and expansive like Whitman's, at home in the 'easy suit' of the body and yet always surprised to be a part of the here and now..." Joyce Sutphen "Tim Nolan's voice is funny and serious at once, sly and direct, wry and heartfelt." Jim Moore |
| Excerpt: | Waiting for the Song No matter what corner of the world- we wait for that song at dusk- the one that will tell us how the sun goes down-how it eases into the ocean- or slips behind the mountain-or- silhouettes the singer on that balcony above- the one who wails in that strange voice to Allah- or to our own operatic Yahweh- or to the Buddha-then the song seems smooth as those stones that rattle and tumble underwater-with fluid clicking-like tapping on the skull- |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Nolan,Tim -- Tim is a lawyer who lives in South Minneapolis. His poems have been widely published and have often been read by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac" |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231736 |
| Title: | Sustenance |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1997 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | These carefully crafted poems speak to us directly of people who are terrified of love, of dying, or the hundreds of other destinies that await us. Anstett tells the lives of the homeless, the tattooed, or those who make change in ticket booths with compassion and watchful detail. |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Anstett,Aaron -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 089823073x |
| Title: | Tap Dancing for Big Mom |
| Price: | $4.5 |
| Year Published: | 1985 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 110 |
| Book Description: | "She speaks of untouchable topics - incest, child abuse with the courage and tenacity of a bullfighter until they bleed all over her shoes. Then she dares her readers to evaluate their own lives and come out looking any less clean." Minnesota Monthly |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Lloyd,Roseann -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 978-089823-236-8 |
| Title: | Tender, Wild Things, The |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2007 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 103 |
| Book Description: | "With an unflinchingly organic lyricism, explorations of immigrant diaspora and the negotiation of evolving family histories are juxtaposed against the timeless ebb and flow of the natural world, the seeding and blooming of plants, the migrations of birds, or the restless cycles of the ocean revealing the interconnectedness of human hungers, migrations, and cycles to the earth..." Lee Ann Roripaugh |
| Excerpt: | Hiding the switchback trails,/ sweet bay trees and redwoods tangle and stud/ the cliffy shoulders of Mt. St. Helena,/ the fragrant chaparral holds pale moths/ that spread and close their wings/ like children's hands making prayers. |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Jarvenpa,Diane -- Diane Jarvenpa is a Minnesota native whose grandparents all emigrated from Finland. Her first book, Divining the Landscape, was published by New Rivers Press in 1996. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and, as Diane Jarvi, is a versatile performer of folk and world music in Europe, Australia, and the United States. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232309 |
| Title: | Terrain Tracks |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2006 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 71 |
| Book Description: | |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | “In these poems Purvi Shah’s voice moves through desire, memory, dream, the blossoming of delight, the pain of loss, the measure of our everyday lives laid out in fine detail—whether it’s growing grass in a tin in a Brooklyn apartment, or flying kites in India—as she tells of a woman’s life lived across borders, the longing for home |
| Review Source: | — Meena Alexander |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Shah,Purvi -- Born in Ahmadabad, India, Purvi Shah moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois, around the age of two. She experienced childhood in a number of states including Florida, Georgia, Indiana, and Virginia. Currently she lives in New York City and serves as Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based anti-domestic violence organization.
Her poems have appeared in a number of prominent journals including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Descant, Many Mountains Moving, and Weber Studies. Her creative work has been recognized within the Asian American and feminist communities through journals and anthologies such as Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (winner of a 1997 American Book Award), Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and NuyorAsian. She served as a poetry editor for the Asian Pacific American Journal for six years. During her undergraduate studies, she won the University of Michigan’s Virginia Voss Poetry Writing Award.
She earned her M.A. in American Literature from Rutgers University. In her spare time, she learns Kathak, a North Indian classical dance form, and performs with the Bollywood Axion dance troupe. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231159 |
| Title: | This Body She's Entered |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1989 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | |
| Book Description: | "Hers is a lively, flexible poetry, combining high and low, body and soul. Rummel has a lyricist's rendering of sky and water, but with a difference: In her poetry the water is always displaced by the body, or the body is suspended in water. . . . Hers is not the pastoral landscape, but the expressionsit." "Mary Kay Rummel's poems have and sustain an oracular voice." Stanley Kunitz |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Rummel,Mary K. -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231531 |
| Title: | This House is Filled with Cracks |
| Price: | $7.95 |
| Year Published: | 1994 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Book Description: | A melodic world combining the raw, intimate emotions of youth and aging emerges in this first collection of poems by Madelyn Camrud. "There's nothing detached about Madelyn Camrud's writing. It's an immersion in flesh and spirit. Camrud is a poet, artist, and lover of her earth and her people. She breaks new ground in this important collection. Her fresh, clear voice clothes the ordinary and the familiar in radiance. The intimacy here is astonishing. The breadth of her vision is extraordinary. This book is a testament to why we need poetry."Barbara Crow, author of Coming Up for Light and Air |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Camrud,Madelyn -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231671 |
| Title: | To Collect the Flesh |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1996 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 85 |
| Book Description: | These poems are finely crafted, deftly phrased, and sometimes outrageously funny. Included in this book is a meditation on Mantegna's painting of St. Sebastian; a tribute to Hewett's father titled Tarzan is Dead; and an ode describing a "love affair" between George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Hewett's poetry is influenced by living in Norway, Denmark, and Japan. "This is not your father's Oldsmobile! Walt Whitman meets Oscar Wilde: From the first line to the last, these poems are bold, unabashed, unafraid. Greg Hewett takes on the argument of eros and comes out in favor of a discourse of love that excludes no one, leaves out nothing. This is an original voice refusing to be rooted in the shame that cloisters the American body politic. Through his startling honesty and the stunning lyrical economy of his language, Hewett makes us face up to George Washington's homoerotic past, the haunting of our landscape by the longing for love, and the secrets of outlawed desire that press the boundaries of male experience. Pushing to find and share the 'language of men,' the poems explore the power of the father as a promise that turns threatening or disappointing, attempt to make the chaos of feeling reasonable in the face of grief, and, in a final act of defiance, celebrate sex and desire. This is the gay voice we've been waiting for one that has the confidence, wit and intelligence to write truthfully and comfortably about love and life, refusing to separate experiences into parts of the self, demanding that he must give and take it all to know himself, to make himself known." Jonis Agee, author of Bend This Heart and Strange Angels |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Hewett,Greg -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 978-089823-237-0 |
| Title: | Towards the Forest |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2007 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 67 |
| Book Description: | "The landscape of Holaday Mason's poems is most often a haunted, nocturnal landscape, a landscape of broken dreaming and failing blossoms, of shadows tht shift with the wind, and erotic and dangerous and beautiful place." Cecilia Woloch |
| Excerpt: | Playing Ravel -the string quartet The bow in his hand is his hand, the crash, and then sometimes, the broken pieces of night. Dizzy with this love-the hours blowing like milkweed on a frozen pool, he is lost-erupted, a captive bird caught in the curve- the cracked lung, the slit vein, the kicked and crooked spine of instrument crowding his skin, sweat parting the body that surrenders everything. |
| Reviews: | Reading Holaday Mason's Towards the Forest, one feels in the hands of someone driven, someone who knows her way around the interior life of the mind and the imagination, one who takes risks and is brave. There's not a false note or false step, each emotion deeply felt and ringing true. |
| Review Source: | Alice Friman |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Mason,Holaday -- Holaday Mason is the author of two chapbooks: "Light Spilling from Its Own Cup" (Inevitable Press, 1999), and "Interlude" (Far Star Fire Press, 2001). She lives in Venice, California and sometimes serves as artist-in-residence for the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, for whom she co-edited the anthology Echo 681. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231914 |
| Title: | Traffic |
| Price: | $12.95 |
| Year Published: | 1998 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | This is the debut book in the Marie Alexander Poetry Series. The series will include poets with established reputations in contemporary poetry. Jack Anderson has written vibrant prose poems inspired by New York City with its multiple intersections of diverse cultures, history, arts, and the urban landscape. Whether inspired by dreams or fairy tales or the uncanny paradoxes of everyday life, Jack Anderson’s prose poems gracefully evoke a sense of wonder. New York Times Book Review |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Anderson,Jack -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231116 |
| Title: | Turning Out the Lights |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1988 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 87 |
| Book Description: | The poems in Turning Out the LIghts form a requiem at times a jazzy one for girlhood. The subject is not simply the poet's own girlhood, but that state of grace, dangerous credulity, and appealing availability that lie at the heart of lyricism. A gorgeous capacity for wonder is here in profusion of brief still-life poems. So, too, is the authentic, dazed voice of loss, the voice of one who urges, after all, "let us risk enchantment." Patricia Hampl |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Bergie,Sigrid -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231485 |
| Title: | Under the Influence of Blackbirds |
| Price: | $7.95 |
| Year Published: | 1993 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 81 |
| Book Description: | These poems have the formal elegance and diction of the great tradition of English poetry, and the directness, honesty, and vulnerability of the strongest work in our own tradition. "Slitting 'that taut scrim that is always/between us and the invisible world,' Sharon Van Sluys evokes the extraordinary in the ordinary, the marvelous in the mundane. Hers is a poetry of place and season, finding in her midwestern fields and gardens and cities, and in the erotics of spring and the cruel clarity of autumn, the luxuriance of passion and the purity of loss. Hers is also a poetry of reconciliation, illustrating how the things of this world heat and cold, joy and sorrow, body and spirit, wholeness and brokenness faithfully give and take back. In poem after marvelous poem, we find ourselves renewed, exhilarated, rising up, 'a song, a hallelujah.' " Ron Wallace, author of The Makings of Happiness |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Van Sluys,Sharon -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230136 |
| Title: | Unease |
| Price: | $5 |
| Year Published: | 1980 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 156 |
| Book Description: | none |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Rozewicz, Tadeusz, |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231957 |
| Title: | Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 1999 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Book Description: | This collection of poems is sharp and witty and filled with pop culture imagery from a Midwestern childhood spent "Not from the wrong side of, / but right on the tracks." ("The 3:15") "I enjoyed the flair, bawdiness, sensuousness, and plain sense of Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers. There is plenty of trouble in these pages, but it's a'large life.'" -Alicia Ostriker, author of The Crack in Everything "With colloquial verve and a distinct and often hilarious voice, Pamela Gemin builds poems of novelistic detail and stunning emotional depth. Gemin is a genius of memory." -David Graham, author of Second Wind "One hears in [Gemin's poetry) the irrepressible reverberations of rock and roll. These poems make no apologies for their raucous femaleness, their unabashed courage to say,'Here I am."' -Victoria Redel, author of Where the Road Bottoms Out |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Gemin,Pamela -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232171 |
| Title: | Volunteer, The |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2003 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 56 |
| Book Description: | "Set against a Midwestern backdrop of seasonal turnings and yearly migrations, the poems of The Volunteer sink their roots into the rich soil of dailiness, into what William Carlos Williams called 'the ground sense necessary.' These are quiet, confident poems filled with a wise and steady intamacy, and they possess that remarkable and rare gift to say always, and only, what is true." --Robert Hedin |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Black,Candace -- Candace Black was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma , and spent most of her youth on U.S. Marine Corps bases in southern California. She received a B.A. in English from California State University, Chico, and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. Her work has been recognized by several grants, including a 1988 Loft-McKnight Award and a 1988 SASE/Jerome Foundation Fellowship. She lives in Mankato, Minnesota, with her husband, poet Richard Robbins, and their two sons. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898230195 |
| Title: | Wax Lips |
| Price: | $3 |
| Year Published: | 1980 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 86 |
| Book Description: | none |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Nocerino,Katheryn -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231604 |
| Title: | What They Always Were |
| Price: | $9.95 |
| Year Published: | 1995 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 76 |
| Book Description: | Beginning with her childhood in Frogtown, a working class section of St. Paul, these poems trace the poet's own life, recording the maturing of children, the death of parents, and the end of a marriage. Yet through it all there shines a sense of wonder, and a forthright celebration of "the small life hidden in the large." In poem after poem, Dittberner-Jax proves that the commonplace can become radiant in the hands of an artist. "These are the poems of a woman who has learned that ordinariness is the stuff of most lives and that a poet's difficult task is to illuminate that ordinariness without distorting it."Minneapolis Star Tribune |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Dittberner-Jax,Norita -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231361 |
| Title: | White Pine Sucker River |
| Price: | $8.95 |
| Year Published: | 1993 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 82 |
| Book Description: | A collection of prose poems from 1970-1990 that unfold, slowly, into a spare, yet sturdy, meditation. There is an earthiness to the poems, many of which read like short, short stories. "A lucid and totally engrossing book of poems." Jim Harrison |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Alexander,Robert -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898231442 |
| Title: | Wolves |
| Price: | $7.95 |
| Year Published: | 1993 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 64 |
| Book Description: | Jim Johnson explores his Finnish heritage in this collection of poems. And in doing so, he goes to the ancient, traditional, lyrical bone of language and heritage and shapes a body of song that brings heritage his and the reader's alive. "What I especially like about these poems is their spareness and clarity, the pure beauty of some of the lyrics, and the mystical, magical quality of some of the longer pieces. It seems to me this work is far above the ordinary book of North Country poems, reflecting not only nature and a culture, but the sensitivity of a first-rate poet besides." John Crawford, publisher of West End Press |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Johnson,Jim -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232015 |
| Title: | Woman Lake |
| Price: | $13.95 |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Book Description: | These poems about family, men and women, and weather and nature are Broderick's brave embodiments of attributes he implores us to value as much as he does: memory, mystery, awe, passion, and an embrace of fate-those qualities most missing from a market-dominated society. Using both ordinary objects and events (pearl onions and seashells, folding laundry and making pies) and extraordinary ones (funnel clouds, reindeer in the basement, the zoo on fire), he makes sweet and poignant observations about his world and, ultimately, our own. When he paints his family and childhood, he creates more than just nostalgia; he creates wonder, admiration, and regret that are universal. Richard Broderick's collection of short stories, Night Sale, was published by New Rivers Press in 1983 (See page 26). He is currently coeditor of the Great River Review, a columnist with the Journal of Law and Politics, and the former poetry editor of Minnesota Monthly. Reenchanting the world "These are poems of experience and memory. Using Broderick's own words: They burst from their cages like matchheads into flame. There, he is speaking of animals in'Zoo on Fire: but here, I am speaking of the poems themselves. Substituting further I can say... each [poem] is a tower he has built" -Diane Glancy, author of (Ado)ration and The Closets of Heaven "Richard Broderick is not writing pop poems, but sober poems in a long tradition." -Robert Bly, author of Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Broderick,Richard -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu
| ISBN: | 0898232058 |
| Title: | Your Sun, Manny |
| Price: | $14.95 |
| Year Published: | 1999 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 78 |
| Book Description: | This is the second book in our Marie Alexander pros poetry series. In Your Sun, Manny, Marie Harris has created a prose poem memoir that reveals in touching detail her story of adopting and caring for Manny, a child who was abused and neglected until he was fourteen, when Harris and her husband made him a part of their family. "Take this book to your heart and carry it away. The beauty and expressiveness of the author's words will renew your faith in the possibility of using language to capture experience and make it glow with meaning." -Laurel Speer, contributing editor, Small Press Review "This is a complex story of hard-earned successes and brilliantly achieved failures, a story full of humor and wisdom and love:' -Erica Funkhouser, author of The Actual World |
| Excerpt: | |
| Reviews: | |
| Review Source: | |
| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Poetry |
| Author(s): |
Harris,Marie -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
Return to Search Menu