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Take Me Home to Pringus: Selected Poetry of Zyskandar A. Jaimot
"She said: I WANT TO TAKE YOU HOME TO PRINGUS / Wherever that is in the galaxy / or perhaps it materializes / only in those possessed / by a symphonic poem of "Homecoming" " Whereas the speaker of these lines is reported by the poet to be drunk, surely we may read into this drunkenness, aside from an appeal to the realism of modern poetry, a metaphor also for divine intoxication. These highly charged lines in Mr. Jaimot's stupendous title-poem bring to mind the brilliance and beauty of Dante's Inferno when Beatrice makes an apparition to Virgil in Hell. They evoke also something of the profoundly-moving simplicity of the poetry of "homecoming" in Homer's Odyssey. One hundred per cent a modernist in style and temper, Mr. Jaimot, like T. S. Eliot, is keenly aware of roots and likewise embraces traditional values. May his poetry resonate chords in the innermost depths of many a searching spirit . " Joe Ruggier (editor & publisher)
Paperback, 132 pages Published by Multicultural Books, (February, 2006)
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The Porous Desert by David Chorlton
An extraordinarily rich collection of poems from the Arizona desert.
Paperback, 60 pages Published by FutureCycle Press, (August, 2008)
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Museum of Parallel Art by Robert Wynne
A collection of poems which imagine well-known works of art as if they had been created by different artists than the ones who made them famous.
"Magical things happen in Robert Wynne's Museum of Parallel Art when its narrator, acting as a museum docent, brings to life the back story and thematic poignancy of each painting on display, and, in an unexpected twist, also interprets each one through the unique psyche and vision of an ingeniously chosen guest-artist e.g., Norman Rockwell does Goya s Saturn Devouring One of His Children. The project as concept is ingenious but the poetry is even better: clean, subtle, authoritative, and inspired. It could be a textbook on ekphrastic art."
..............Jack Myers, 2003-2004 Texas Poet Laureate
"Robert Wynne's Museum of Parallel Art is a sharply written, wonderfully imagined collection of poems. To think that visual art could invite such delicious speculations. The sheer variety of tones and perspectives found in Wynne s work are good fuel for the heart, dazzling remedies for the hum-drum ho-hum so common in our reading lives. Few poets feature his capacity to entertain human desperation and comedy so convincingly and sometimes within the same piece! If we read poetry to extend our vision, to see what is often missed, then this is a must-have, gotta-get book of poems."
..............Tim Seibles
Paperback, 60 pages Published by Tebot Bach, (February, 2008)
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Grit by Corey Mesler
From the foreword by editor Laura Wackerly: Mr. Mesler's work has a feeling of history residing within. Spirits flutter here and there, telling of fairy tales and of that which once was. It is this juxtaposition of past presented in minimalist form which speaks of the poet's place in history. His work is not only accessible, but relatable as well.
The act itself of reading poetry is tremendously intimate. Mr. Mesler's work here lends itself to this intimacy with its immediacy. There is no pretense here, but rather a quiet invitation to breathe and drink in. Corey Mesler has been a book reviewer, fiction editor, university press sales rep, grant committee judge, father, and son. With his wife he owns Burke's Book Store, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.
Paperback, 29 Pages, published by Amsterdam Press, (March, 2008)
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The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow by Annette Marie Hyder
The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow is a collection of short stories, poems, recipes and mythos miscellany inspired and informed by Fairy Tales, Folklore and Mythology. With influences such as Jung, the Brothers Grimm, Marina Warner and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, the collection's voice is modern and feminist in nature. Annette Marie Hyder is the Literature Editor for INTHEFRAY Magazine. Her poetry has been translated into German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish, included in numerous anthologies and published in book form. Her magazine articles appear in print throughout the United States and internationally and she is the founder and curator of the international feminist project Facing Feminism: Feminists I Know.
Paperback, 168 pages, published by Twilight Times Books (October, 2007)
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Iron Man Family Outing : Poems About Transition Into A More Conscious Manhood by Rick Belden+
Inspired by a puzzling series of dreams about a favorite comic book hero from his boyhood, the author embarks upon an arduous but ultimately healing odyssey into a dark and damaged internal landscape, the wreckage of a childhood spent with an angry, abusive, distant father. As he begins to understand these dreams, and allows them to lead him forward, he also begins to accept his unique personal history, understand its consequences in his adult life, and take responsibility for his own healing. Iron Man Family Outing is widely used in the United States and internationally by therapists, counselors, and men's groups as an aid in the exploration of masculine psychology and men's issues, especially for men who are adult survivors of childhood abuse.
Paperback, 106 Pages, published by Richard M. Belden, (November 1990)
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A Goodbye To My Little Troubles by Vusi Moloi
Vusi Moloi encapsulates humanity with its universal emotions and feelings in a pulsating rhythm of a symphony. Flavored uniquely with African condiments of benevolence, compassion, and forbearing (Ubuntu) in his A Goodbye To My Little Troubles, the author gives us the lay of the land in terms of the purpose of the writings. In this poetry, we experience a cavalcade of grief and joy, darkness and light, despair and hope. See the depths of grief in 'It Was a Victims Fault'. Here is a heart-wrenching example of man's inhumanity to man. Despite that, life has to go on, and one has to persevere. Hence, three poems later we watch and enjoy 'Beautiful Canada Dancing in the Rain'.
Paperback, published by Third Millennium Publishing, (2008)
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Sugar Fish by Douglas Richardson with illustrations by Erica Erdman
Sugar Fish is iPod Biblical in scope, replete with sophisticated parables and lyrical parallelisms. Douglas Richardson writes like the William Cullen Bryant of our post-millennial complicated and polished times, except with extra added windows through which to scrutinize life and reflect, literally, emotionally, and in digital high-definition. This is a brilliant work of art that will resonate and reverberate and endure. --Angel Uriel Perales, poet and journalist
Under the fey mantle of a gentle weirdo, Ricahrdson transports the reader from the noise and cacophony of everyday insanity into the heart of the primitive, quixotic, and stunning nature of the human predicament. --Marie Lecrivain, author of Nihilistic Foibles
There are major league words coached into World Series rings of meaning that loop Sature for good measure. Follow Doug and you will cross fields and forests, visit loneliness in its home, find pop culture shards in ashtrays, and see yourself at the bottom of a glass eye staring right back at you. --E. Amato, poet
Paperback, 60 pages, published by Sacred Beverage Press, (January, 2007)
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The Secrets of Falling by LaDonna Witmer with illustrations by LadDonna
The Secrets of Falling is a collection of poems that chronicle a woman's fall from grace, her climb back up, and everyone she meets on the long way down. Written with equal parts razor and lipstick, this book includes poems that span nearly 10 years of falling and climbing and falling again. Designed by artist Kathy Azada and featuring the photography of Patti Monaghen and Bruce Willems, Secrets is a different kind of poetry book - a book that tells a story not only with words, but with moods and with moments and shadows of hope. Inspired by the seemingly ever-present San Francisco fog, LaDonna Witmer writes about things that live in grey spaces and on the tips of tongues. She has published two other books of poems, Shedding the Angel Skin in 2000 and a limited edition chapbook called She is a Death Star in 2007.
Paperback, 122 pages, published by This Blank Page Productions, (May, 2007)
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The Porous Desert by David Chorlton
The Porous Desert is a collection of poems rooted in the Arizona desert with a few detours to higher ground. David Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in England, and spent several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in 1978.
Paperback, 60 pages, published by FutureCycle Press, (February, 2007)
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Roomful of Navels by Craig Kirchner
In Roomful of Navels Craig Kirchner removes veils and ceremony as well as labels in acknowledging in very readable poems many of the navels he has known. He finds stories and mystery in ordinary moments extraordinarily told.
"Incisive observation and deft wit inform this fine debut collection. Kirchner is able to move from the visceral to the profound with the flick of the pen and without ever losing sight
of those twists of irony that keep him grounded and engaged with the world"
.....--Dr. Jan Fortune-Wood
.....--Editor, Cinnamon Press & Envoi
Paperback, 116 pages, published by CreateSpace, (February, 2008)
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Driving With Dante by Brian Michael Tracy
The book begins with a series of meditative poems. It expands to the comic and there are explorations of of history, religion and politics. We seem to meet the shade of Wallace Stevens and talk to Larry Levis. Finally we take a ride through Los Angeles with Dante at the wheel, culminating in a noir-ish, apocalyptical vision of the past, or is it the future? Either way it's quite a ride.
.....--Richard Garcia
Brian Tracy's poetry gives the reader that instant feeling of recognition derived from the realization that one has just encountered something universal, something uniquely human that resonates with all of us. It is the kind of poetry that captures a piece of the essence of what it means to live life and connect into the common energy that binds us all.
.....--Martin Hughes
Paperback, 44 pages, published by Midnight Tea Publishing, LLC, (November, 2007)
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Psyche's Weathers by Cynthia Atkins
"Cynthia Atkins knows well that we live at the mercy of the unalterable systems of time and weather, and that our minds are full of 'intangible ache' and 'interior storms.' Her response, and the inspired industry of these poems, is to summon metaphor to the work it is best suited for: pursuing the ineffable and reconciling the contradictory. Atkins takes on both of these necessary tasks and writes her way (and ours) toward a more salutary climate. 'The weather always has something to say," one poem claims. As a keenly perceptive and passionate channeler of inner and outer weathers, so does Cynthia Atkins."--Jeanne Marie Beaumont, author of Curious Conduct and Placebo Effects
"For Cynthia Atkins, the weather is both an external and an internal state. The poems in Psyche's Weathers pay attention to the natural forces that govern our days, the procession of the months and the seasons, the progression from cradle to grave. Here are snow and rain, constellations and darkness, the 'heady light' of April, an 'atomic winter.' Atkins's poems remind us of the confluence and the argument between what is within and what is without, what is beautiful and perilous, expected and unexpected, mysterious and ordinary about human experience."--Carrie Brown
Paperback, 116 pages, published by WordTech Communications, (November, 2007)
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Duties Of The Spirit by Patricia Fargnoli
Readers will discover many facets of Fargnoli's voice, but two attributes that will most impress readers are, first, the almost shimmering gladness with which Ms. Fargnoli replies to the gifts of beauty and of human love; and, second, the compassion with which she addresses whatever is beyond her own intimate surroundings."-Mary Oliver
Duties of the Spirit comprises deeply moving, lyrical and unforgettable explorations of the joys and fears that come with growing older in America.
Patricia Fargnoli, a retired psychotherapist, is a Macdowell fellow and associate editor of The Worcester Review. Her first book, Necessary Light, was selected by Mary Oliver for the May Swenson Poetry Award, Utah State University Press, 1999.
Paperback, 80 pages, published by Tupelo Press, (April, 2005)
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A Poet's Guide to Divorce by David Breeden
Dad, JJ Wade, is a used bookshop owner. Son Buck is a screenwriter trying to make it on the west coast. Between them is the long shadow of a divorce. When Hollie Ivie, a Goth grrrl, becomes the obsession of JJ's life, Buck steps in with shock therapy-he steals Hollie. Mixing journals, email, and third-person narration, this novel tells the story of a wasted, bitter artist who still might pull it out, his son headed in the same direction, and a woman who doesn't intend to be owned by anyone. Where does Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher fit in? A frumpy professor and email, of course.
"If Jack Kerouac were from Texas, his name would be David Breeden."
...................Kinky Friedman
"A joyous and thought-provoking journey that probes matters of the heart in the midst of various collisions we call ‘relationships.’"
...................JJ Sargent
Paperback, 288 pages, published by Fine Tooth Press, (April, 2005)
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Diminishing Returns by Karl Koweski
In his latest collection of poetry, Karl Koweski puts the fun back into disillusionment and adds charm to dissolution. Able to laugh at himself as he laughs at others, Diminishing Returns is layered with humor and Koweski s observations of a world quickly losing cohesion--and an appreciation for baseball s greatest .236 career hitter. Karl Koweski was born in the north to die in the south. From his house trailer atop Alabama s second highest mountain he lives the life of a country boy as dictated by John Denver. He writes all manner of stories both pornographic and non.
Chapbook, 40 pages, published by Sunny Outside, (September, 2007)
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The Astonished Universe by Helene Cardona
"The Astonished Universe is a tour de force of language and phonetics; a deeply felt and deeply spiritual collection which explores the universal human experience from a very personal point of view. This is intimate poetry, and yet it transcends the mundane through its lyricism and its glory in language. Hélène Cardona's pen moves from the human to the divine and back in a single sentence, and the result is uplifting and magical."
.......--Joanne Harris, best selling author of Chocolat.
Paperback, 104 pages, published by Red Hen Press, (October, 2006)
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Imbalance: An Experimental Collection of Micro Stories and Poetry (Paperback)
by Christine McGuigan
This fine collection of poetry and micro-stories, a form developed and mastered by the Author, offers the reader a very simple challenge: "This is truth. Can you face it?". Christine McGuigan examines the underbelly of western culture and addresses a myriad of barbed issues including the human obsession for damaging the planet, the last taboo that is mental illness,dollar worship, addictions, TV voyeurism and prostitution. The Author combines a sledgehammer honesty with genuine sensitivity for her subjects. The haiku, whilst paying due respect to tradition, is skillfully employed as a vehicle for her powerful presentation of subject. This is a unique, conscience provoking book, crafted by a blazing talent who is surely destined for high literary status.
..........Stephen Cree, UK
Paperback, 64 pages, published by Easy Break, First Time Publishing, (February, 1998)
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Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter by Anthony Liccione
Poems by Anthony Liccione. A book filled of bloodshed, spellbound, impure thoughts, impulsive urges and untimely wordplay; that twists back to our starving reality.
Paperback, 112 pages, published by Lulu.com, (February, 2007)
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Letters from Portugal by Jan Oscar Hansen
"I never saw the beauty of the sea." "My tree atop the hill murmurs its gratitude." "Olive trees drip slow tears of immense sorrow, knowing they can never embrace one another." Jan Oskar Hansen's attitudes are evident in his poetry: his wish that people were kinder and gentler; his abhorrence of war, his sense of humour about the senseless things people, including himself, have done. But it's his love of plants, animals and all of nature-such a great admiration that he often uses personification, giving nature human qualities and emotions in his poems-that is most evident. Perhaps it's this quality-along with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour-that makes his poems so unique and endearing. Letters from Portugal is divided into six chapters: On Love, On War, On People, On Poetry, Hansen Snapshots, and Letters from Portugal: actual letters from the poet to his editor. There's something for everyone here. Even those who aren't frequent readers of poetry will be moved by Hansen's passion, amused by his sarcasm, and delighted by his ability to paint pictures of the simple things in ordinary life-making them extraordinary.
Paperback, 160 pages, published by Bewrite Books, (May, 2003)
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Gunpoint by Peter T. Ely
Gunpoint is about a young woman, Ellen Turner, who works as a reporter for a newspaper in Philadelphia. After working on a series of articles about a city program to reintroduce convicts into society, Ellen is accused by an ex-convict of incriminating him in one of her articles and finds herself terrorized. The threats to Ellen and to her family quickly escalate, and she is forced to purchase a handgun to defend herself. The terror spreads to Ellen's home and to the Schuylkill Expressway. In a final confrontation with her enemies, Ellen learns that the plot against her life is more widespread than she had guessed.
Paperback, 123 pages, published by PublishAmerica, (May, 2005)
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Child's Play by Robert Klein Engler
"Engler...is...not only one of today's premier gay writers, but...an inspiring wordsmith for all audiences."
...........--J. Masiulewicz, U-Direct
"...a poet of the first rank."
...........--Michael Morgan
Paperback, 160 pages, published by iUniverse, (May 30, 2006)
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Balancing Acts by Rochelle Ratner
Rochelle Ratner explores the forgotten corners of one's life, the bits of nourishment one finds but is not given, or is given only to hunger for more... The effect of this narrative in prose poems is unsettling, as if the cobwebs in the corners of our own lives had been pulled aside.
.....Jessica Treat
In writing as in life, this poet seems to have no use for undue exuberance but is plainly too strong to let herself get bogged down in the maudlin... The result is honest and unaffected writing refreshingly free of the self-conscious angst that mars the writing of some of her colleagues.
.....Library Journal
Paperback, 102 pages
Published by: Marsh Hawk Press
Publication date: September, 2006
ISBN: 0978555503
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 Ex Literotica by Peter Magliocco
Out of an imaginary hotel called Ex Literotica, located in the gambling mecca of Las Vegas, the author-in-residence presents ninety-eight poems dealing with life, love, art, and many other pivotal subjects that emanate from his experiences in Sin City, where the struggle to advance human values is, at times, threatened by a culture whose primary focus is the mighty dollar. There are also several other poems presenting different locales wherein diverse poetic techniques come into play that attempt to reveal for the reader the panoply of inner visions existing everywhere in our daily lives—if only we'd stop and appreciate them, that is. Realizing that the quest for love and for proverbial meanings in life motivates many people, this book gives an artful blueprint for exploring the endangered and complex interior experiences of us all
Paperback, 144 pages
Published by: PublishAmerica
Publication date: August, 2006
ISBN: 142415006X
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 Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami by Joan E. Bauer, Sankar Roy, and Judith R. Robinson Two weeks after the tsunami hit South Asia, taking more than a quarter of a million lives, three Pittsburgh poets - Judith Robinson, Sankar Roy and Joan Bauer issued an international appeal for poetry addressing the tragic event. The poets became editors, reviewed hundreds of poems and published a collection of works of 80 poets called Only the Sea Keeps. The poems deal with shock, loss, and grief and survivorship. The belief is that poetry can deepen understanding and provide a measure of healing. Royalties from the sale of the book will be distributed to the Library Disaster Relief Fund, affiliated with the American Library Association, and Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian organization that has been active in tsunami-related relief and rebuilding. With the tragedy in the United States of Hurricane Katrina, the editors have added Hurricane 2005 Relief, through the American Red Cross, as a beneficiary of funds. About the editors: Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and award-winning poet from Pittsburgh. She was editor of Living Inland, 1989, Bennington Press and author of The Beautiful Wife and Other Stories, 1996, Aegina Press. She is poetry editor and contributor to Signatures, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, 2001, 2003, 2005, Academy for Lifelong Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and Ring Road Press. She is editor of Only the Sea Keeps. Joan E. Bauer, of Pittsburgh and Laguna Beach, CA, grew up in Los Angeles. She was educated at UCLA and UC Berkeley. For some years she taught high school English and journalism in public and independent schools. Her poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, 5 AM, Janus Head and other journals. She serves as associate editor of Only the Sea Keeps. Sankar Roy is an engineer, MBA, web artist, poet, translator and an immigrant from India. Mr. Roy is honored to live and work in Pittsburgh, PA.
Hardcover, 80 pages
Published by: Rupa & Co, Indi
Publication date: 2005 ISBN: 8129107457
 The Looking Glass Poems by Ulrike Gerbig A mirror can be enticing...even more so when it is human and we believe to see our true self. A collection of poems on finding one's other half. Ulrike Gerbig is a poet who lives and works in Germany. She writes concise, sensual poetry in the manner of the American Beats. She is widely published on the internet and in magazines. This is the complete collection of the Looking Glass poems. It contains all three volumes: 1. Through the looking glass 2. Behind the looking glass 3. Down the rabbit hole. In them a modern European woman discovers the world behing the mirror.
Paperback, 80 pages
Published by: Lulu Press
Publication date: 2005 ISBN: B000H848QW
 Cherry Poems by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers Poems of Cherries and Fascination written by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, a poet and photographer whose poems have appeared in Hammers, Strong Coffee, Erie, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Newsletter Inago, The Dallas Review, The poetry Victims, Kritya, The International Poetry Project, Unlikely Stories, Black Medina, Poetry Magazine, Abalone Moon, The Coffee Press Journal, Lily Literary Journal, Poems For You and twice previously on The Poetry Super Highway. Jeff's poems appear in 3 anthologies, Chicago Saloon Poets, Step Into The Light and Voices Israel 2005. His first book of poetry is Fear of Heights (1984). Jeff is the Editor and Publisher of The Poetry Victims.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published by: Lulu Press
Publication date: 2006 ISBN: 1411685792
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 The Poet Slave of Cuba : A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle
Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young Juan still showed an exceptional talent for poetry. His verses reflect the beauty of his world, but they also expose its hideous cruelty. Powerful, haunting poems and breathtaking illustrations create a portrait of a life in which even the pain of slavery could not extinguish the capacity for hope. Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet, novelist, and journalist whose work for adults has been published in many countries. She lives in northern California.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published by: Henry Holt and Co
Publication date: April, 2006 ISBN: 0805077065
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 Typical Girl by Donna Kuhn
Birds, moons, words, water, skies: with these basic elements Donna Kuhn creates a voice swirling down a hypnotizing stream of thought, thought addressed to "u", which could well be the "I" of these poems. Or of this single long poem which seems to wrap a conscious presence in a veil of motion, as if to hide something, but revealing all. Outside a "geometric beauty salon" she is "shaving inside birds"; a "typical girl" dreaming from the outside in. A beautiful and mesmerizing book.
Paperback, 88 pages
Published by: Fine Tooth Press
Publication date: November, 2005 ISBN: 0976665271
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 Sifting the Visible by Skip Renker
Skip Renker's work has appeared in California Quarterly, The Passages North anthology, The Witness, and many other publications, as well as Birds of Passage, a chapbook. His poems have won national contests judged by William Stafford, Linda Pastan, and Janet Kaufmannm and he co-developed a radio program featuring interviews with writers that received an award from the Public Broadcasting System. He teaches at Delta College in Central Michigan.
Paperback, 36 pages
Published by: Mayapple Press
Publication date: January, 1998
ISBN: 0932412130
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 Tentatively by Ashok Niyogi
A tangential look at life in America through the eyes of an enchanted explorer disenchanted with life. An acerbic but optimistic commentary on Life presented through a succession of vivid visual images. Later, the author returns to himself in Kolkata, a paradoxical phantasmagoria, which never ceases to amaze him and seize him. Tentatively is a tribute to the indomitable human spirit which survives in the filth that is Kolkata. Ashok’s poetry follows no particular grammar but is a spontaneous expression of what he sees, hears, smells, touches or feels. His English is abundantly Indian (with its colonial burden) but because of his travel, the odd Russian, European or American ‘ism’ has crept in. Ashok Niyogi was born in Calcutta, India in 1955. After graduating with honors in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta University, he spent more than 25 years in trade and commerce working in different parts of the world. For over a decade he was in the USSR and Russia.
Paperback, 238 pages
Published by: iUniverse
Publication date: February, 2005
ISBN: 0595339352
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 We Are Billion Year Old Carbon: A 60's Narrative by Corey Mesler
This book defies description, in my opinion, when it comes to what genre one would place it under: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, even music reviews...it has it all, and more. Mr. Mesler writes with a new voice, one that conjures up images that require the reader to catch his breath every so often. Already having released a very fine novel a couple of years back (Talk) which featured a unique dialogue form throughout, this work goes several steps further, describing fictitious (or not?) occurances in his native Memphis in the 60's, with a host of quirky characters that show up in the prose and poetry...and the result, to me, is sublime. You must read this book, because Corey Mesler will be a name you hear again and again in the future. He is a brilliant writer who deserves attention. This book is well worth your attention, as well!
Paperback, 200 pages
Published by: Livingston Press
Publication date: December, 2005
ISBN: 1931982627
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 Driven Into the Shade by Brandon Cesmat
Driven into the Shade is a look over a life, a look back into sources, a look into influences and confusions, a look at where this life comes from and how it goes where it goes. There is duende here for sure, blood root dark and violent that feeds into so much beauty rising from the ground of Brandon's history. This work cannot be let go because his passion is so elegantly unstoppable. Real art has certain elements: craft - by all means, if it is not well written we do not take the artist seriously; a story you can connect with - it draws you in because it tells you about yourself; a passion that drives the work and tells you that the emotions are real; and duende. In this work these elements are full and present, scripted and yet unnoticed and we marvel at how the art is brought forth and for what purpose the work is held.
Paperback, 104 pages
Published by: Poetic Matrix Press
Publication date: August 2005
ISBN: 0971400334
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 Cheating the Sphinx by Howard Camner
Cheating the Sphinx is a collection of selected poems by Howard Camner. Many of these poems have been published in literary journals throughout the U.S. and Great Britain. In addition, there are many new works. This collection is a solid superb sampling of Camner's bizarre take on things.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published by: Tri-State Books
Publication date: November 2005
ISBN: 0970649215
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 Back Words and Forward by Anthony Liccione
At most, I am intrigued at how life can play out its role, the fates we face on a day-to-day basis, and consequences that later define who we are and what we were. Life really does have a purpose and much to serve; the sad thing is most people don’t ever find their passion. I have learned that it is the hope inside that enables me to word my past, move on in life, and go forward. One can go through life through the motions of survival, all the while neglecting what God has uniquely gifted for that person to require and establish. I believe there is a reason for everything, whether the cards were dealt for a life to be born with abundance or in destitution. In a world that is vague and raw, Back Words and Forward depicts the discrimination, fears, death, love, and lacks of life that touch us every day.
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by: PublishAmerica
Publication date: December 2005
ISBN: 1424113563
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 Hiawatha Rocks by Peter Magliocco
A novel of depth & passion set in the California-dreamin' environs of the early 1970's. Hiawatha Jones begins: "Nem awoke in the hospital, thinking of himself as Hiawatha Jones and remembering medicine chants” Only recently he held great aspirations for becoming a great Rock & Roll musician " now, how could he have sunk to this?” His story is one shared by many young Americans during a Viet Nam war era dramatically affecting the lives of returning Vets and countercultural types against all wars as well. Peter Magliocco, writer/artist/editor, was raised in Southern California but has spent over 20 years editing the underground lit-zine, ART:MAG, out of Las Vegas, Nevada. His poetry chapbook, This Junkyard Heaven, is from Pudding House Publications, and his futuristic novel, Nu-Evermore, was published in 2002 by Trafford Publishing in cooperation with his own Limited Editions Press.
Paperback, 254 pages
Published by: Airleaf Publishing
Publication date: October 2005
ISBN: 1594537976
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 All the Ways We Could Have Met by Susan Culver
"Real life, real love, real poetry."
-Patricia Gomes, Editor In Chief of Adagio Verse Quarterly and Author of Stroking Castro's Beard.
"Susan Culver writes the way we all would write if we could."
Craig Murray, author of The Banshee.
Susan Culver's first full length volume of poetry, All The Ways We Could Have Met, is a collection of love poems that travel beyond the romantic here and now to explore love's place in the world of maybe.
Paperback, 72 pages
Published by: Lulu Press
Publication date: October 2005
ISBN: 1411648668
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 Flowers Half Blown by Cheryl Snell
"Flower Half Blown" chronicles the unbridgeable distances and unbreakable loyalties of middle-aged love.From the title poem's riff on innocence to the scathing, final "Retiring to Boca",these two dozen pieces remind us that daily epiphanies bring renewal; and reassures us that"when you wade out too far/ I'll snatch you back/laughing like an impostor". This book has been nominated for the Ohioana Book Award.
Paperback, 80 pages
Published by: Finishing Line Press
Publication date: 2002
ISBN: 0971892210
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 Billy Last Crow by J.P. Dancing Bear
J.P. Dancing Bear is an accomplished poet. His poems are included in hundreds of publications and he is the author of five poetry chapbooks: From a Reconstructed Dream (1996), Disjointed Constellation (1998), Prospero in Therapy (1999), Gods of America (2001), Blue Hand (2002), and What Language (2002), which won the 2002 Slipstream Press Poetry Prize.
Bear's debut full-length collection, Billy Last Crow, is an engaging and powerful poetic sequence depicting the life and struggles of a contemporary Native American in a country where he is stereotyped, marginalized, and discriminated against. Billy Last Crow brings to the forefront the plight of many in accessible (yet striking and multi-layered) language, symbolism, and imagery.
The collection vividly portrays relevant issues of poverty, alcoholism, violence, and unemployment, among others, through the eyes of Billy-a wanderer who is denied a place to call home in his own native homeland. Desperation, and at times resignation, are intermingled with the understated determination to forge a better tomorrow in spite of the monumental difficulties and obstacles that are placed on the symbolic protagonist's path. Bear's poetry refuses to accept the universal reality of many by recording and decrying the deplorable human conditions in which they exist, and by subtly confronting the indifference of mainstream society.
Billy Last Crow forces the reader to take an introspective look in order to understand and accept both past and current histories, inviting us not to forget still raw wounds. As in the concluding poem "Billy Ghost Crow," the entire collection demands our attention, and by implication our actions, because injustices continue. Too many souls exist like Billy, and collectively, we continue to look the other way: "He is like the crazy blue- / green ribbon of landscape // flying past the passenger window, / racing into the ghost world."
Paperback, 92 pages
Published by: Wordtech Communications
Publication date: May 2004
ISBN: 1932339213
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 Lyrics of Lebanon by Kaye Voigt Abikhaled
Out of rich, multi-colored, and multi-textured bolts of cloth Kaye Abikhaled has woven a shawl of words both complex and simple, heart-breaking and sublime. Lyrics of Lebanon is an honest, true, grief-and-hope-filled view of a torn region, bathed with tears, and, yet, not devoid of hope. From cherries to cigarettes to strong coffee to cedars it is the smallest of images that will stay with you, images that do not mean to be metaphors but, couched in such a war-torn environment, cannot avoid it. ... For not only is this a book of war and mourning, it is also a book of generosity and beauty and unquenchable spirit. The details in almost every poem are what give the book its power. Ms. Abikhaled writes of Lebanon with all its history, richness, and culture. But, like in the poem, ¿The Orchard¿, she writes with the intimate knowledge of one who knows the land. You will find yourself revisiting many of the poems, not just because you want to, but because you must.
.....-Alan Lee Birkelbach, Poet Laureate of Texas
Paperback
Published by: Westlake Publishing Partners
Publication date: 2005
ISBN: 097600531X
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 Spritz by Stephen Kopel
Inebriated from a hurdy-gurdy wordy brew, these slightly dippy, very much witty poems inhabit their own distinct universe in which the reader is invited to recreate. SPRITZ is the quintessential American pop culture collection as its fanciful poems - 82 in number - wiggle a sassy confidence that addresses the main concern of our citizens: what's wrong with having so much fun? In this book, the reader's associative imagination is the active catalyst to spark the effervescence this poetry is crafted to create. No contemplative musings, speculative notions or personal rants here. The verbal hijinx are purposely unsettling, yet, the astute reader will sense Mr. Kopel's tender bombast to imply never take oneself too seriously. These poems reflect that spirit.
Paperback, 93 pages
Published by: Regent Press
Publication date: May, 2003
ISBN: 1587900483
 Shards: A Handful of Verse by Tom Berman
A collection of poetry written by a professional scientist and long time member of an Israeli kibbutz in the Galilee presenting somewhat different perceptions of life experiences.Some serious,some humorous, some lyrical, some whimsical, none too obscure to understand. Add a pinch of salt and enjoy! Tom Berman has been a member of Kibbutz Amiad, Israel for almost 50 years... He grew up in Glasgow, Scotland having arrived there aged 5 from Czechoslovakia. Most of his publications to date have been scientific but now and again he has had some poems appear in press.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published by: Writers Club Press
Publication date: August 2002
ISBN: 0595241972
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 River Voices: Poets of Butte, Shasta, Tehama, & Trinity Counties, California edited by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
28 poets from four counties at the north end of California’s Great Central Valley write of many things.
Poets of Butte, Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity Counties.
Paperback, 97 pages
Published by: Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Publication date: March, 1997
ISBN: 0939221136
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 Unscrambled Eggs by Nadia Brown
The poems in this book were written over a five year period and reflects either my own experiences, those close to me, and issues that I feel very passionately about. Unscrambled Eggs, is an honest and thought-provoking book that deals with everyday life issues. It is a compilation of poems about living your dream and finding purpose.
Paperback, 72 pages
Published by: Publish America
Publication date: July, 2005
ISBN: 1413781691
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 I Am Spam by Larry O. Dean
A great journey through the mind of an evolving poet who uses quirky observations in his poetry and performances.
.....-Pam Osbey, Author, "Black Orchids"
Bob Dylan meets George Carlin. "I Am Spam" is a subversive romp for the articulate cynic.
.....- Nighttimes.com, November 2004
Paperback, 28 pages
Published by: Fractal Edge Press
Publication date: September, 2004
ISBN: 0972255362
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 Wall to Wall by Lori Romero
Review by Ann White / Gumball Poetry:
Lori Romero's chapbook is a cross-stitch uniting the threads
that create family. Her voice is delicate and colorful, suggestive and realistic. She allows her readers breathing room and yet enough imagery to linger long after the reading.
Paperback
Published by: Finishing Line Press
Publication date: 2004
ISBN: 1932755470
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 How to Burn by Christopher Locke
Locke's writing is fresh and original. His poetry will slap your senses awake with images of 'her hands folded together like origami', and 'the glorious potato, tucked into its fetal position; a silent brown fist...' A truly outstanding collection!
Paperback
Published by: Adastra Press
Publication date: January 1995
ISBN: 0938566709
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 Cells by Scott Holstad
"Scott Holstad thinks in poetry, in rhythmical waves. His imagination surges ahead, large and generous, the cut of his lines always clean and firm. These fervent, honest, well-made poems carry the reader through the underworld and back in a healing action that reminds us of Rimbaud's 'Drunken Boat' or Odysseus' journey with the golden bough. 'Tegretol' is destined to become a contemporary classic. 'Tennessee Football Saved My Ass' reminds us of Holstad's unfailing, albeit dark sense of humor."
----------Marilyn Kallet
Paperback, 207 pages
Published by: Publish America
Publication date: November 2004
ISBN: 1413741800
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 Club des Poètes by Kaye Voigt Abikhaled
Kaye Voigt Abikhaled slips into Paris in the shadow of other "pilgrims" and brings the reader with her in full force. Her portraits of people, events, art, and the city itself, are poignant and vital without the imposition of her own emotional attachment. She allows the reader to become intimate with the past as well as the present that is the vibrant amalgamation of the Paris she obviously loves and illuminates with well-chosen words and phrases.
~ Clarence P. Socwell, past president, National Federation of State Poetry Societies
Paperback
Published by: Westlake Publishing Partners
Publication in: 2004
ISBN: 0976005301
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 Notebook and Sheaves by Christopher Mulrooney
The poems in this volume were written in the last year of the twentieth century. A long overture with a surprising close, various ?occupations,? songs, tricks, puzzles, gags of all sorts, comprise the work. An amusement for the cultivated reader, intended to allay the worrisome cares of a tired epoch, if poetry may be said to have a purpose. A savage, witty set of satires, a spoof and a song.
Paperback, 127 pages
Published by: PublishAmerica
Publication date: May 2002
ISBN: 1591291763
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 Hands Collected: The Books of Simon Perchik Poems : 1949-1999 by Simon Perchik
With only one of Simon Perchik's 16 previous small-press releases in print, Hands Collected: The Books of Simon Perchik gives the work of Patterson, New Jersey's latter-day poetic son a more permanent form. Readers will find his signature use of the colon (" only the moon :hope/ carved into each gravestone") much in evidence in poems from I Counted Only April (1964) to These Hands Filled with Numbness (1996) and through to new work, "again a brush sealing this boat/ as wings covered with sun/ sweeter than milk and lush sugar oil."
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Paperback, 593 pages
Published by: Pavement Saw Press
Publication date: November 2000
ISBN: 188635085X
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 Survivable World by Ron Mohring
"Mohring artfully (and heartfully) scours the surfaces of love and loss."
.....-Scott Hightower
Poetry "with an emotional honesty that gives voice to the ever changing vectors of promise and loss in a world marked by the devastation of AIDS" -- Betsy Sholl. Cover Art by Fred Wilkinson. Winner of the 2003 Washington Prize.
Paperback, 80 pages
Published by: Word WorksPublication date: January, 2004
ISBN: 0915380552
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 Postcards From a Summer Girl by C.E. Laine
In her third full-length collection of poems, the reader is asked to indulge in a bit of fiction. The setting for this volume involves a young woman who is missing; vanished with no trace, no explanation. What's left is a box of postcards and notes, dumped and spread out on the kitchen table. Postcards from a summer girl....
Paperback, 105 pages
Published by: Sun Rising Poetry Press
Publication date: August, 2004
ISBN: 0975595539
 New York: A Haibun Journey by Marc Awodey
Marc Awodey's "NEW YORK a haibun journey" has been described as "a poetic voyage into a harrowing artistic and spiritual nether world. What Awodey evokes is the kind of pathos and desperate insight of the Consul found in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano." It is also a stunning technical achievement- Awodey has reinvented and redefined the haibun form- traditionally a mixture of narrative combined with a concluding haiku. Awodey’s sections begin with haiku, and are followed by prose narratives that morph back and forth into poetry.
Awodey, a National Poetry Slam haiku champion breaks and rewrites most -if not all- of the haiku and haibun rules. However, New York: A Haibun Journey is more than a technical achievement or chronicle of dipsomania and self-destruction. Its rhythm and pacing are consciously symphonic. It is a personal journey that in a strange, sad, and ultimately redemptive way foreshadows the destruction and reverberations of Sept. 11. It's Awodey's Howl. It's poetry for our 21st century times.
Paperback, 116 pages
Published by: Writers Publishing Cooperative
Publication date: July, 2003
ISBN: 1930149158
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 Cafe Alibi by Todd Swift
Swift’s Budavox: poems 1990-1999 explored sex, violence, art, and memory, to critical acclaim. His new collection, Café Alibi, written while the author lived abroad in Budapest and Paris, extends these concerns with popular culture, history, desire, nostalgia, and the often competing claims of travel and home. Swift’s crisp, elegant, deceptively calm language questions images of 'the child, the adult and the outside world' in ways both witty and disturbing. Café Alibi maps a stylish itinerary through exotic terrain, offering at once hostility and ultimate peace, poetry that puts love to the test and disarms our darkest fears.
Paperback, 76 pages
Published by: DC Books
Publication date: August, 2002
ISBN: 0919688535
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Big Poppa E's Greatest Hits: Poems To Read Out Loud by Big Poppa E
A special collection of dynamic performance poetry by Big Poppa E, perfect for high school and college speech students to use in competition or anyone who mistakenly thinks they hate poetry BPE is a spoken word artist and three-time HBO Def Poet who melds rhythmic verse, stand-up comedy, and dramatic monologue into explosive works that skewer pop culture, politics, and the pain and beauty of relationships. His musings have led to appearances on BET's The Way We Do It sketch comedy series, National Public Radio, and CBS's 60 Minutes (although, truth be told, he was only on for about three seconds... but still...)
Paperback, 128 pages, published by Big Poppa E (July, 2007)
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Fathers and Teachers: Poems 1984-2006 by Robert Demaree
From a daughter's graduation to a young man's funeral, from Louisiana, forlorn after Hurricane Katrina, to the pristine woods and lakes of New Hampshire, where he lives five months of the year, Robert Demaree takes us to the places and events of shared experience, in verse that is ironic, bittersweet, and always accessible. You will say, with Jillian Meyer-Bledsoe, author of "Leaving Newfound" and co-editor of Ghoti Magazine, "I know that place!" "Robert Demaree's poems are resonant, witty, and easy to love. His range of subjects brings life to every page. This is a collection of simplicity and most impressive lucidity." -- Janine Margiotta Robert Demaree was born in Pennsylvania and spent forty-two years as a teacher and administrator in schools in Georgia, Virginia, Louisiana and North Carolina. He is the author of "Lo, Hearts Behold: A History of Greensboro Day School," two collections of poems, articles in educational journals, and more than 250 poems published or accepted by seventy periodicals.
Paperback, 59 pages, published by Beech River Books, (January, 2007)
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 The Paris Journals by Michael Rothernberg
“This is a poignant document, in the tradition of the journal travel writer from Basho to Kerouac...” - Joanne Kyger
The Paris Journals is a bold book of poems delivered journal-style by the poet, editor, song-writer Michael Rothenberg about his travels through Paris, both modern and ancient sights, and his own his own sensual relationship to this part of the world.
Paperback, 89 pages
Published by: Fish Drum, Inc.
Publication date: October, 2000
ISBN: 1929495056
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 Between Absolutes by David Hunter Sutherland
This collection of poetry is a complex, diverse, and masterful work. The poems collected in this book offer a many-layered look at a reality in which perception shifts and parallax supercedes. Sutherland reaps the colors of our waking lives, sundering each vision as if picking apart the seams that bond each atom to the next, and stores these harvested dreams like grain, to wait for a time when we hunger after them, to wait for a "pause in the low rituals of life, where craving is not pagan nor sorrow cryptic."
Paperback, 55 pages
Published by: illiterati
Publication date: January 1997
ISBN: 0965591506
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Kissing the Bees by John Sokol, with illustrationsby Rosemary C. Anderson
Judge, Andrena Zawinski says, of "Kissing the Bees" (winner of the 1999 Redgreene Chapbook Competition): "The poems stand up and praise that which might slip by a common eye -- a girl enchanted with bees, a spider spinning, sex in a sumac grove. The images are fresh, rhythms smooth, language textured, all of which come together to form a lush wordscape."
Paperback, 20 pages
Published by Redgreene Press
Publication date: August 1999
ISBN: 192970612X
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Twisted Cadillac by The Carma Bums
The wild history, high adventures, and poetic lunacy of the West Coast's premiere spoken word performance ensemble, The Carma Bums.
Paperback, 136 pages
Published by Sacred Beverage Press
Publication date: April 1996
ISBN: 0965204804
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Pelt by Daphne Gottlieb
Using the language of the everyday to express the extraordinary, poet Daphne Gottlieb searches for the truths of human experience and finds those truths in relationships, childhood, and a woman on fire. Pelt is a document of survival in a slaughterhouse culture. From preying to praying, the loss of innocence and the innocence of loss, and the most cruel and unusual stuff of all – love – these poems represent a strong, fresh voice in contemporary poetry.
Paperback, 75 pages
Published by Odd Girl's Press
Publication date: June 1999
ISBN: 1887237097
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Who Are We? by Alan Kaufman
Alan Kaufman is an internationally acclaimed poet. His books include American Cruiser, The New Generation and Before I Wake. His poetry appears extensively in magazines and anthologies, including ALOUD:Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt), Identity Lessons: Learning American Style (Penguin Books, Nov.98), Witness, Tikkun and Long Shot. He has been translated and published throughout Europe and in performance has electrified audiences around the world.
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by Wordland Books/Davka Limited Editions
Publication date: January 1998
ISBN: 188182201X
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A Steady Longing for Flight by Joannie Kervran Stangeland
A Steady Longing for Flight won the 1995 Floating Bridge Press Poetry Chapbook Award. This soft-bound collection of 20 poems is the first collection by Ms. Kervran, and presents a new and exciting voice.
Paperback, 21 pages
Published by Floating Bridges Press
Publication date: April 1997
ISBN: 0964719908
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Sacrifice by Cecilia Woloch
Sacrifice is a masterful achievement of language and emotion it's a collection of poems centering on the bittersweet journeys in a person's life. She writes of the passions that keep us moving forward, and the struggles that keep us searching for meaning.
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by Cahuenga Press
Publication date: April 1997
ISBN: 0964924048
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Calamity's Quilt by Janet Buck
The first book of poems from a widely published poet. Calamity's Quilt documents the author's healing from the scars of living with a disability.
Paperback, 84 pages
Published by Newton's Baby
Publication date: December 1999
ISBN: 0966722841
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Watching Wisteria by Duane Locke
Published by Vida Publishing
ISBN: 0963254758
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The Moon's Inside by Ruth Daigon
Paperback, 84 pages
Published by Newton's Baby
Publication date: December 1999
ISBN: 0966722833
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Favorite Songs by Michael Rothenberg
For sheer scope and clarity there's nothing like Favorite Songs, the poems range from a fantasy for the American Surfer to an elegy for an extinct sparrow. In these poems there's a fine interlinking of autobiographical perceptions with acccurate imagery and, at the same time, the author is engaged sending his rhizomes into the broad world of thought and travel.
Published by Small Press Distribution
Publication date: March 1990
ISBN: 1878471007
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Next Exit by Taylor Graham
Paperback, 68 pages
Published by Cedar Hill Publication
Publication date: September 1999
ISBN: 1891812130
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 Seduction: An Erotic Multimedia Experience by Circe
Circe speaks with the wisdom of the ages, echoing the voices in your mind and the passions in your soul." While generally known as a southern California erotic wordsmith with a voice like velvet and the unspoken mystery of a 1940's movie, Circe - the woman, is far more.
CD ROM, 60 pages
Published by: Dead End Street Publications
Publication date: July 1998
ISBN: 0966552156
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 Erratic Sleep in a Cold Hotel by Marie Kazalia
This collection of 46 poems present the vivid reality of a disengaged life through sometimes disturbing yet intriguing images of a woman immersed in the urban struggle, faced with compromising accommodations in run down hotels in San Francisco's Mission District, encounters with street derelicts, homelessness and her own sense of sexuality. The poems capture with poignant vitality the observations of the author as she readjusts to American life on her return to San Francisco from 4 years as an expatriate in the Orient. Like black and white photography these confessional poems explore, without contradiction, the reclusive and sacred, elements akin to the struggling class. They will draw you into a world that is frighteningly beautiful and deeply personal.
Paperback, 72 pages
Published by: Phony Lid Publications
Publication date: November 1999
ISBN: 0967666007
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 Rhymes of Romance; Poems of Passion by Robert E. Kogan
Rhymes of Romance, Poems of Passion has been a forty-year work in progress for poet Robert Kogan. After thirty years in mental health administration, Dr. Kogan, now retired shares his poetry which focuses on themes of intense feelings of love, life, protest and social commentary.
Paperback, 125 pages
Published by: iUniverse Publishing Services
Publication date: November 1999
ISBN: 1583485589
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De La Palabra by Sam Silva
An early work by PSH Featured Poet Sam Silva from the Dog River Review Poetry Series including a forward written by Pulitzer nominee Ron Bayes. Sam Silva has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize seven times.
Paperback, 37 pages
Published by: Trout Creek Press
Publication date: February 1992
ISBN: 0916155153
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 The Melancholy of Yorick by Joel Chace
This book exhibits Mr. Chace's talents in every way possible. It's not just for poetry lovers, but rather a book all readers will enjoy!
Paperback, 64 pages
Published by: Letterpress Edition
Publication date: March 1998
ISBN: 091355944X
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 Bound by Red Clay by Neca Stoller
Chronicles growing up in the '60s in rural Georgia. Author Stoller is an international award winning poet who has published her poetry in many journals and magazines, both in hard copy and on the Internet. This is her first book of poetry. This book is about finding one's roots. These poems are about finding one's roots in nature, history and in other people. When words and events come together in correct correlation, we discover who we are within the framework of what we are. In my poems, my purpose is to leave a place between the lines for the reader to find something of themselves.
Paperback, 73 pages
Published by: Deemar Communications
Publication date: March 1999
ISBN: 0964645084
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 Feelings and Promises by Glenn Fenster
Glenn A. Fenster started writing poetry in 1977 after being visited by a Zulu time travler. This spiritual event enabled him to get in touch with the natural and beyond. Poetry became a means to better understand each experience as they came along.
Paperback, 69 pages
Publication date: October 1999
ISBN: 0935931317
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 The Best of Pif Magazine Off-line edited by Camille Renshaw, Anne Doolittle, and Jennifer Bergmark
A collection of work from Pif Magazine featuring some previously published Poetry Super Highway Featured Poets including Rachel Barenblat.
Paperback, 150 pages
Published by: 1st Books Library
Publication date: December 1999
ISBN: 1928704751
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 Fission by Laurel Ann Bogen
"Fission" follows a two-year "silence" from the author, whose previous book, "The Last Girl In The Land Of the Butterflies" was published by Red Wind Books in 1996. "Fission" is a ground-breaking, long poem with original artwork by Richard Bruland affirming the power of the creative life of the author (and all of us) living in Los Angeles at the end of the millennium and how we survive the stuff and madness of our own lives. With each cover individually painted and hand-sewn binding, this first press from positive i elegantly showcases a poem which chronicles the turbulence of contemporary life seen through the noirish lens of Los Angeles and the hopes of a late 20th century poet who dares to speak her mind.
Paperback, 32 pages
Hand stitch bound edition
Published by: Red Dancefloor Press
Publication date: October 1998
ISBN: 1881168263
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 Seasons of the River by Lawrence Schulz
Lawrence "Larry" Schulz has been performing his poetry in bookstores, coffeehouses, bars and universities since 1992. His work ranges through the broad scope found between a delightful ode to a chili pepper to bittersweet, poignant remembrances of lost innocence. He, himself, has said that the power of poetry is in its ability to heal the writer. This single comment proves that Larry doesn't write for his audience, but rather for the personal necessity of it. Truly, this is the best reason to put ink on paper.
Paperback, 50 pages
Published by: FarStarFire Press
Publication date: February, 2000
ISBN: 1929250150
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 Misfit Motel by Sheila Barrera
This ongoing collection of poetry is inspired by the many folks who stay at our motel. Some come from conversations with the guests or are simply inspired by the guests themselves, their lives, passions, some simply by events or the surrounding area here. Sheila Orick (now Barrera) was born 1954, Schenectady NY, graduated Pratt Inst. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1977, BFA. She is a published and award winning Artist/Poet.
Paperback, 156 pages
Published by: Xlibris Corp.
Publication date: September, 2000
ISBN: 0738831875
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 Piedmont Stubble by Neca Stoller
A book of poems to read by the bright light of one's soul. Neca Stoller fulfills the role of nature poet with refreshing metaphors that shimmer with originality, verve, buoyancy and miraculous uncommon flair for language. A contemporary southern poet who consistently astounds with her many gifts, illuminating the secret inner landscape of the human self.
Ernest Slyman, Reverie;Forum for Creative Excellence in the arts, The Guggenheim Foundation/ArtNet/The NY Council on Arts
Paperback, 79 pages
Published by: Street Saint Publications
Publication date: August, 2000
ISBN: 1931090149
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 Poetry Pathology by Donald Ryburn & Robin Gould
Donald Ryburn is the editor of 4*9*1----Imagination (www.fournineone.com). He is a neo-native visionary artist/photographer. His poetry and photography have appeared in hundreds of print journals, anthologies, and on-line zines.
Published by: Phoenix Access
Publication date: January, 1996
ISBN: 1888406003
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 Sandwalker by Carol Ann Lindsay
When Sandwalker flees her Oregon Territory tribe, she finds herself inside the world of Navy Captain Henry James Whitney who had abandoned ship in Astoria. They hide Sandwalker's heritage from settlers in Newport until bigotry, death, love, war, a corrupt politician, and the Madame of Newport nearly destroy them. CARLSBAD author CAROL ANN LINDSAY is recipient of numerous short story and poetry awards. Her work has appeared in both literary (Old Hickory Review, Mobius, Z Misc etc.) and commercial (USA Today, Leatherneck, The Poet's Pen etc.) publications. She was guest author for Lynx Eye at the 1996 LA Times Festival of Books and she was host/producer of "Carlsbad Corner" 30 minute CCTV television shows featuring local artists and writers on KDCI. Her poetry was part of a month long Art/Poetry Exhibitions at the Poway Center For the Performing Arts and at the East County Performing Arts Center.
Paperback, 356 pages
Published by: Xlibris Corporation
Publication date: September, 2000
ISBN: 0738834785
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 Homeless at Home by John Birkbeck
"The Balzac of American poetry, April 1, 2001" - John Birkbeck reminds me of the old addage that has it, "Show me a funny man and I'll show you an angry one." Birkbeck's poetry seems to have a lot of rage beneath the surface, yet without malice. It is a rage to see life as it is and as it could be. I once met Birkbeck at a conference, and had a chance to talk to him over dinner. He is one of the funniest people I've ever met, even when speaking of horrific things. The poems in "Homeless At Home" remind me much of that memorable dinner so many years ago. I highly recommend this latest work of John Birkbeck.
................Bautiste Monfant from Montreal, Quebec
Paperback, 142 pages
Published by: 1st Books
Publication date: March, 2001
ISBN: 0759603243
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 Vegetables and Other Relationships by Scott Wiggerman
Wiggerman's poems are... well crafted implements of personal and political disruption.
.....Ric Williams, Austin Chronicle
His vigorous poems alternately charm, touch, astonish, and amuse the reader... Hats off to one of Texas'
.....Robert Clark, Houston Poetry Festival
Paperback, 136 pages
Published by: Plain View Press
Publication date: October, 2000
ISBN: 1891386131
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 Perfect Words by Kay Day
Essays on crafting and marketing & a collection of award winning poetry
"I can't think of a book better to buy, time better spent, and a writer you will enjoy more. Buy this book, you'll want to give it to your friends, so
get an extra copy or two!"
.....Shann Palmer
.....Richmond, VA poetry .....correspondent/about.com
"Sonnets are not the simplest things to write but Kay Day writes them with ease. She uses the sonnet form effectively yet they are contemporary, fresh and accessible."
.....Ruth Daigon
.....Author of The Moon Inside and Payday at the Triangle
Paperback, 110 pages
Published by: GreatUnpublishded.com
Publication date: October, 2000
ISBN: 1588980820
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 Unborn Again by S.A. Griffin
It's Saturday night after curfew, the bars are all closed, you're awake, lonely and dry--the dark is too dark and the light blinds; no, wait, it's the world according to S.A. Griffin. First, he's dealing you savvy urban pathos from the bottom of a beer-stained deck. Then he's beefing it up with homages to that Chinaski dude. Then he's steeping you in the raunchiest need you'll ever want to ponder, or tickling your innards so hard you're wet with laughter. Moments seize you like the eyes of a desperate dreamer. Like the man says, "Oh beautiful nowhere-welcome..." -..........Wanda Coleman
Paperback, 128 pages
Published by: Phony Lid Publications
Publication date: March, 2001
ISBN: 193093517X
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 All Occasions by Walt McDonald
Emily Diskinson said, "I know it is poetry if I feel as if the top of my head has come off." Walt McDonald's collection, All Occasions, is that kind of poetry; his celebration of the ordinary moment turns mundane life experiences into significant events and transforms ordinary observations into profound ideas. In this collection, his skillful use of sound and diction go beyond his previous works as he continues to create fresh images to explore the experiences of childhood, war, marriage and family, ranching, life and death.
McDonald's poetry just keeps getting better in form and content. This collection, All Occasions, is definitely worth buying.
Paperback, 118 pages
Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: September, 2000
ISBN: 0268020051
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 Longitudes by John Birkbeck
You're walking down the richly-appointed hallway of a luxurious Florntine palace, basking in stupefied wonder and awe of your surroundings. Suddenly, one if the lavish tapestries is yanked away and you're left looking at what's really there-- curious water marks on the wallpaper. That's what reading Birkbeck's poems is like; the yanking away of apparent reality, and the glimpse underneath of the virtual reality. This poet is a magician!
...........Frank Battaglia
Paperback, 64 pages
Published by: Camine Creel Press
Publication date: May, 1999
ISBN: 0967175712
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 Facets of the Poet by Leslie Cohen
Poems and short stories that begin on the surface of the earth and end in your heart.
These down-to-earth poems and stories take everyday moments and put them in a framework that transcends time.
The poems and stories in Facets of the Poet deal with everyday situations. They highlight the special feelings and events of the life cycle: the birth of a child, the death of a parent, and all of the rites of passage that intervene. The focus is on commonalities: the shared feelings of human beings across the great divides of culture, continent, and time.
Paperback, 133 pages
Published by: iUniverse.com
Publication date: August, 2001
ISBN: 0595196004
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 Among a Godly Few by Peter Magliocco
This novel deals with a Military Police company in Washington, D.C. during the 1968 riots. The novelist James Purdy called it "absorbing reading..." It includes several B & W pen/ink illustrations by the author. The small press poet Alan Catlin also has complimented it. This will be the novel's 20th anniversary publication date.
Paperback, 180 pages
Published by: Limited Editions
Publication date: December, 1982
ISBN: 0881000035
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 Never Enough Light: New & Selected Poems, 1966-1994 by Sanford Dorbin
Very diverse subject matter & styles; collected work covering the years 1966-1994.
Paperback, 206 pages
Published by: Igneus Press
ISBN: 0962789178
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 Collected Poems:1961-2000 by Richard Denner
“These poems are extraordinary, fantastic, freaky turnings not to be secured with ease, the clarity developed by pursuit, the dark and light of understanding, of misunderstanding, all are here, the eloquence of it as it appears and disappears, whatever it might be, all of it is here.”
............Luis Garcia
Paperback, 548 pages
Published by: XLibris Press
Publication date: February 2002
ISBN: 0962789178
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 What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost by Marc Olmsted
"...one of the few practitioners post-Kerouac [who] picked up on the loose and lucid form that Kerouac had developed."
.....Allen Ginsberg
"This book is a fierce and honest portrayal of the struggle toward realization..."
.....Diane di Prima
"Olmsted's sinuous poetry moves on the page... thoughts at the instant they become muscular movements."
.....Michael McClure
Paperback, 100 pages
Published by: Valley Contemporary Press
Publication date: October 2001
ISBN: 0967071585
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 Shulamith by Julia Stein
These poems treat the condition of Jewish women in the Bible as a prelude to the trials, misfortunes, and victories of the twentieth century. The Biblical women treated in a modern idiom include Eve, Lilith, Sara, Hagar, Leah, Rachel, Shifra, Miriam, Jael, Delilah, Ruth, the Witch of Endor, Bath She-Ba, Tamar, and Vashti. The link between past and present is Shulamith, “the singer of all the songs,” who comes at last to America. She helps us remember the Jewish women who resisted extermination in the European ghettoes and concentration camps, those who continued to struggle against prejudice and persecution in America, and the heroic trade union militants, especially those in the garment industry who fought against sweatshops.
Paperback, 64 pages
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: May 2002
ISBN: 0970534434
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 Talk: A Novel in Dialogue by Corey Mesler
The novel TALK is nouveau sexy, nouveau comic, nouveau chic, nouveau neurashthenic--it's just plain nouveau nouveau as we follow Jim, sesquipedalian owner of a fashionable bookstore who's undergoing just a wee bit of a mid-age crisis. . . . Corey Mesler is co-owner of Burke's Book store in Memphis and one of the judges of the 2002 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest. A short story of his has been chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, (edited by Shannon Ravenel). He has published poetry and fiction in Yellow Silk, Thema, Mars Hill Review and others. This is his first novel.
Paperback, 208 pages
Published by: Livingston Press
Publication date: May 2002
ISBN: 0942979869
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 Playthings by Karl Koweski
Karl Koweski has exploded onto the small press scene the past couple of years and Playthings is the first collection to be released by this funny and entertaining writer. It's sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, with a southern flair. Karl Koweski has appeared in numerous magazines around the country. He lives in Guntersville, Alabama.
Paperback, 44 pages
Published by: Future Tense Books
Publication date: December, 2001
ISBN: 1892061147
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 Steel Umbrellas by David Hunter Sutherland
"David Hunter Sutherland's first book of verse is not for the beginner, the poet-taster, someone looking for a quick emotional fix. If you are a fan of Bukowski or performance poetry, this volume is guaranteed to stretch your mind."
.......C. E. Chaffin, The Melic Review
"Here all language is memorial. Like the black sun at the center of Nerval's lute, this book radiates an eclipsed light, a music lit by the humanizing presence of what it cannot name"
.......Bruce Bond American Literary Review.
"David Sutherland's work is gripping at you with forceps. . .the words quickly become a delicacy, part of a perfect mathematical equation all our own."
.......Guy Shahar The Cortland Review
Paperback, 120 pages
Published by: Archer Books
Publication date: August 2000
ISBN: 0966229940
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 The Moon Makes No Difference To Me by Frances Lemoine
Part erotic surrealism, part bourbon-soaked confessional, these poems thumb a ride along the midnight highway taking the reader on a journey over the edge and into the abyss of the human heart. Frances LeMoine is a poet, freelance journalist and educator living in New Hampshire. She is the editor of Flash!Point, a quarterly literary journal. She currently working on a new collection of poetry and short story collection.
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 Necessary Light by Patricia Fargnoli
Winner of the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award. Now in paperback, is the awarding winning poetry of Pat Fargnoli. Her heartfelt poetry touches the very core of human experience and emotion. A longtime resident of Windsor, Connecticut, Pat Fargnoli has for the last five years made her home in Keene, New Hampshire. In 1998, she retired from her career as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist to devote her time to teaching at the Keene Institute of Music and Related Arts and writing poetry.
Paperback, 80 pages
Published by: Utah State University
Publication date: November 1999
ISBN: 0874212847
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 B(lack) & W(hite) Wet Paint Poems by Gabriel Levicky
The neo-beat poetry from an outsider at its best. Rarely a non-native speaker enriches written and spoken word in such a causal and exciting way as the Slovak-born poet Gabriel A. Levicky who is also known under his art pen name as GabLev (cartoons, assemblages and ´gablevages´). This book indirectly follows a path of his previous samzidat-published books back in the hard-line neo-Stalinist country (since then free) in the 70´s as well as the one done in the USA, his new home since 1979. A must for any modern poetry lover. Czech it out!
Paperback, 148 pages
Published by: Xlibris
Publication date: April 2001
ISBN: 0738868167
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 Nu-Evermore by Peter Magliocco
Partly a sci-fi thrilller, NU-EVERMORE is a novel of suspense, intrigue, and philosophical content, with some fabulist satirical overtones. A strong story-line mostly in third-person sustains the plot throughout. It is inventive enough to bridge the gap between the small press and mainstream publishers of quality literary work ... In NU-EVERMORE, the future is indefinite and plagued by governmental interference, and political wars rule in an era of ultra-techno ambiguity; some extraterrestrial elements enter into the novel's time-frame (where past events in 20th Century history are revived for renewal in the 21st), and the world's weather is bizarrely locked in a neo-Ice Age, making it imperative for the protagonists to succeed before the earth aborts its renewal with deep-and-ultraspace elements.
Paperback, 107 pages
Published by: Trafford
Publication date: November 2002
ISBN: 1553698916
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 The Weight of Dust by C.E. Laine
Powerful poetry from the author of Allegory- C. E. Laine's second volume of poems is polished and precise. These words will cling to the reader; they won't wash off. She captures defining moments with captivating imagery in a voice that is uniquely her own. C. E. Laine's poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Poems Niederngasse, The White Shoe Irregular, 2River View, Kota Press, Absinthe, Stirring, Erosha, Beauty for Ashes, Pierian Springs, AnotherSun and The Melic Review. The Weight of Dust is her second book. She currently lives in Virginia.
Paperback, 136 pages
Published by: Writers Club Press
Publication date: February 2003
ISBN: 0595269435
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 Let My Children Hear Music by Dwight Carson
These poems are more like musical compositions, the soft battered like constructions of some lines and the hard driving B-bop orchestration of others is due to the influence of my being surrounded by musician for the first 10 years of my writing predominantly with musician. I consider my voice just another instrument within the context of the ensemble. The music allowed me the freedom and musicality of the words and sound structure that will become apparent to you as you read. This book is about lost and gain, living and loving even in impossible circumstances. It bring hopes to those whose life have been dashed beneath the weight o f drugs or any other oppression that lies outside the oneness of the soul. Here’s hoping that you find the music compressed in these loving lines of humble offering and that your children too will hear music.
Paperback, 108 pages
Published by: 1stBooks Library
Publication date: February 2003
ISBN: 1403323283
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 Eating and Drinking by Sam Silva
"A work of consequence--. Silva is a courageous, intelligent, compassionate and unwaveringly analytical poet. He is at once an important lyricist and a keen social critic."
.....Ron Bayes
Inexorably, "Eating and Drinking" maps the human condition, employing as compass points politics, philosophy, religion and love. At once almost dismissively critical and yet steeped in the anguish of humanity's self-inflicted suffering, it speaks to our ironies. Powerfully affecting the reader with poignant imagery, it evokes despair-- and finally hope.
"-- an agonizing scream, a lament for America and other western powers--dark stuff, heavy black wine and bloody meat--. In Sam's world Hypocrisy and Sham are the house band; their music never far from the top of the chart. --underlying it all; a deep, sincere love of humanity."
.....Laurence F. Hawkins
"Sam Silva's ear for the language and his knowledge of Latin countries have made him one of my favorite poets over the years."
.....Margaret B. Baddour
Paperback, 268 pages
Published by: 1stBooks Library
Publication date: June 2003
ISBN: 1410738507
 Tomorrow After Night by Lillian Baker Kennedy
Patricia Smith Ranzoni
...Here is a Maine rarely located...These poems dance with the contradictions and consequences of "muscled" lives.
H. R. Coursen
Deft language serves an amused, amusing and perceptive eye...These poems tell us why we read poetry!
Elizabeth Hobbs
...a treasury of powerful images, sharp insights, stark honesty, and often a hint of mystery that leads to deeper exploration.
Book Description
First collection of poetry by Maine lawyer-poet Lillian Baker Kennedy.
About the Author
Maine lawyer-poet Lillian Baker Kennedy's first poem, "Mother", was published in 2001. Since then, her poetry has been published in journals in several state
Paperback, 79 pages
Published by: Bay River Press
Publication date: June, 2003
ISBN: 0972117318
 Flamenco Sketches by Loren Kleinman
Julie Kimmel, Spire Magazine, Spring 2003:
"Kleinman introduces herself as an innovator- breaking into her art with hopes of finding a niche of her own."
Winner of the 2003 Spire Poetry Competition; An excellent collection by emerging poet Loren Kleinman:
Excerpt:
Sometimes silence settles and stays so strong-
a thick blanket resting upon our backs
enshrouds us within this place, buried corpse.
Our lips fold underneath a stucco canopy,
My mind exploding delirium;
it is so easy to find comfort here,
against your lips pulsing love sick love sick.
Paperback, 60 pages
Published by: Spire Press
Publication date: May, 2003
ISBN: 0974070106
 Anywhere But Her by David Herrle
An old man becomes an enlightened Window-Smasher; a Medusavenus hides her heavenly voice; a seductress humbles a young painter; grandmother remembers the lover she never knew or loved; the Smoking Queen just misses clarity; a girl preserves her fleshly dignity; and a man regains respect for monogamy. Anywhere But Her is D. Herrle’s peek into private motives, regrets, and loves through brief narrative sketches and short stories. D. says: “We are pressed for decision and action during moments. Consequences are what last. Life is a stream of pain that is made worthy by glimmers of pleasure and beauty. In meaningful moments we are raised like corpses into Gloria. I am consumed with brief life and how seduction preys on our souls,” D. explains. “While death-awareness is the master anxiety we feel, seduction of all kinds is crucial. Minds and hearts are relentlessly under assault by enticement: power, sex, wealth, prestige.”
Paperback, 108 pages
Published by: PublishAmerica, Inc.
Publication date: May, 2003
ISBN: 1592866476
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 A Talent for Sadness by Jendi Reiter
Jendi Reiter’s first collection is a hard look at the demands and challenges of love. The poems tell their difficult tales with a stunning lyric skill. Reiter's poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry 1990, The New Criterion, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Her work was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award before being selected by Turning Point.
Paperback, 136 pages
Published by: Turning Point Books
Publication date: September, 2003
ISBN: 0971737169
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 Consolation Miracle by Chad Davidson
Consolation Miracle is a book of visceral, image-driven poems that search for the miraculous in the seemingly ordinary. This collection fashions art out of artless objects as a consolation, or perhaps compensation, for their smallness. Yawns and pears, cockroaches and crows resonate against historically conflated backdrops, while our own hands seem suddenly strange as they hide themselves in our pockets, balance a burning cigarette between two fingers, or grip the gun that shot Lincoln. Other poems address the destruction of empire, the end of old Hollywood, and the hyperbolic fizzling out of entire centuries. Here, consolation miracles are rarely the ones sought after, yet they radiate in their neglect. Davidson’s poems help us understand the inner life of cows, imagine the plight of a banished Kama Sutra illustrator, speculate about Cleopatra’s lingerie. With a title borrowed from Gabriel García Márquez, Consolation Miracle contains a magical realism for the twenty-first century.
Paperback, 64 pages
Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: October, 2003
ISBN: 0809325411
 Never-Ending Cigarettes by Scott C. Holstad
Scott C. Holstad has authored eight books of poetry, two technical booklets, and numerous scholarly and commercial articles. His work has appeared in 24 countries and five languages. A member of the Academy of American Poets, PEN, the STC, and The Authors Guild, his work has appeared in magazines such as The Minnesota Review, Wisconsin Review, Pacific Review, Hawaii Review, Exquisite Corpse, Long Shot, Textual Studies in Canada, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Nottingham Review, Arkansas Review, and Southern Review.
"Scott C. Holstad is a first rate poet."
.........-Gerald Locklin
Paperback, 36 pages
Published by: Ye Olde Font Shoppe
Publication date: March 1999ISBN: 188928937X
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 American Lyricon: A Poet Sings of America by Joel L. Young
Follow one man's poetical journey back in time to the budding of a nation. From war-time to peace-time and in between, these historical poems capture the imagination and give pride to anyone who calls themselves 'American.'
Joel Young is a college graduate from a middle class family; father was a Civil Service Man, mother was a Bookkeeper. What Joel says of himself: "As Kris Kristofferson sang in The Pilgrim - Chapter 33, 'I'm a mass of contradictions.' Joel volunteers on AOL as a Board Manager in the Amazing Instant Novelist area, a popular writing site for poets and authors [Keyword: novel]. He's won numerous Honorable Mentions for his contest entries. American Lyricon is his first published work. In October of 2001, he completed a 4-Book Series of historical poetry called With Pen in Hand.
Paperback, 184 pages
Published by: SynergEbooks
Publication date: September 2002 ISBN: 1931540683
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 Better To Travel: Selected Poems by Collin Kelley
Collin Kelley's debut, Better To Travel, is a haunting cycle of poetry dispatched from the teeming streets of London and New York to the decadence of Paris and New Orleans. From these far-flung outposts, Kelley deftly and unblinkingly conveys the end of a relationship and the need to escape to "sights unseen." Readers have compared Kelley's poetry to the emotional work of Anne Sexton and Sharon Olds. This is confessional poetry in its truest form: raw, uninhibited and unflinching.
Paperback, 124 pages
Published by: iUniverse, Inc.
Publication date: July, 2003
ISBN: 0595284094
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Pieces of a Soul by Dr. Hooman Shahkar
Hooman Shahkar is a medical doctor whose poems have been published on various poetry journals and websites. "Pieces of a Soul" is a collection of hundred of the poet's best short poems. His poetry is inspired and vivid in imagery. Although it is deep and insightful, the poetry is also short and simple. Its intention is to make the reader think, more deeply, about love, life, death, peace and God.
Paperback, 105 pages
Published by: XLibris
Publication date: March, 2004
ISBN: 1413435785
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 Unsexy by Tonya Kelley
UNSEXY is the poetic chronicle of a girl struggling to find the balance between love and sex, city and country, faithful housewife and independent woman. The reader follows Ms. Kelley down the streets of New York, up the hills of Connecticut and through the dark corners of everywhere on a path of poetry that is as disturbingly comical as it is frighteningly sincere. From the harsh reality of the book's title poem to the light-hearted look at the downfalls of being an artist in "Broke", the reader leaves each page as though they sneaked a look at a friend's diary - but without the guilt.
Paperback, 40 pages
Published by: Wasteland Press
Publication date: February, 2003
ISBN: 0972918639
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