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Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem
By Peter Neil Carroll
"A narrative, book-length poem that flows the length of America,
spiced with quotes from Mark Twain. A poem of people, and places, and a historic
surprise – but you'll have to give yourself the pleasure of reading
Riverborne to find out what it is."
"A journey through memory and time ... a clear-eyed and
saddening look at what America's great river, the Mississippi, has come to..."
"A fine eye for the found poetry of the small towns and the
natural power of the river." Price: $12.95 |
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Peace/La
Paix: Ballades et contes en quete verite
Poems by Hugh Fox Sharpening his insights ever more rigorously, this mature poet continues his experiments in two languages and intensifies his focus on the harsh and destructive aspects of American culture.
"One of the most active and enlightened minds in the
contemporary poetry scene." Price: $12.95 |
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The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations
Poems by Jared Smith
Jared Smith, scientist and acclaimed poet, offers his seventh volume of verse.
"He will be compared to Sandburg and Whitman... Readers will see his spiritual kinship to C.K. Williams and compare his work favorably." --Harry Smith, publisher, The Smith, NY
"Smith's work, carefully read and meditated on, is a course in cosmic-personal sanity." --Hugh Fox
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Glass-Bottom Boat
Poems by Herman Asarnow
“Maybe these poems are glass: furiously made, blurred, coming clear. Through them, we begin to see what the poet sees - flashes of childhood and married love, nature and art, how what is mortal in us locks and unlocks. There’s a genuine quest in this work, musical and layered-rich.” - Marianne Boruch
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Defiance
Poems by Hugh Fox
“There are no barriers here, for Fox
is a shaman who walks through walls, ignoring all social rules and regulations.
Fox is a poet who paints without inhibition or games. These are poems of human
history, which cry out to be heard and read…”
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Firmament
Poems by Kathleen L. Housley
In the sacred dimension between faith and science, awe retains its terror and wonder. The poems in Firmament are like iron filings between two magnets, revealing lines of force that are both scientifically complex and beautifully simple.
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(2006) Poems by Sarah Getty These new poems focus on the pain and joy of creating art, the endurance of love, and the prospect of old age and mortality. By turns thought-provoking, witty, and deeply felt, the pieces evoke realms as disconnected as ancient Greece and Snow White's cottage, and offer vivid imagery, meticulous structure, and a sly effort to dismantle stuffy ideas about literary history.
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In Memoriam: Hugh Ogden
(1937-2006)
Bringing a Fir
Straight Down -- Franklin Reeve, author of Concrete Music Price: $12.95 |
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Turtle Island Tree Psalms Poems by Hugh Ogden "I have seldom been as touched by the sincerity and quiet certainty of a collection of poems as I am by this." —Joseph Bruchac, author, Breaking Silence Pleading for focus on the world of trees, this collection of modern poetry implores humankind to reevaluate the destructive nature of society. In the voices of many species of trees—including box elder, sugar maple, mountain ash, and walnut—the poems ask that humans heed their warning of environmental deterioration while celebrating the life and majesty of nature. Hugh Ogden published seven books of poetry, including Bringing a Fir Straight Down, and 500 poems in 300 periodicals. He taught at Trinity College, where he co-founded the creative writing program. “He believed poetry could save lives. He believed everyone's voice was important as was finding one's voice—the true voice in deep places inside that we all need to listen to. He made the voices of the unheard heard.” –Pamela Nomura Price: $12.95 |
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Transcendence: Seers and Seekers in the Age of Thoreau
An incisive intellect illumines these dazzling essays on Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and other artists, many translated for the first time.
"Specq's multiple perspectives as a French Americanist with a Thoreauvian angle of vision are what make these essays so refreshing. Though shot through with great breadth of reference and knowledge, they have a winning intimacy of tone." --Laura Dassow Walls, editor, The Concord Saunterer; author, Seeing New Worlds
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A Sounding Mirror: Courage and Music in our Time by Thomas Stumpf (2005)
"A fearless attempt to tackle
thorny issues. Stumpf is uncompromising in his search for honesty and in his
analysis of our responses to music; his prescriptions are tough and demanding,
but offer rich rewards. He sheds enormous light on the link between music and
spirituality, and offers fascinating comparisons between the two. Enlightened by Stumpf's
palpable honesty, integrity and humility, this is a truly outstanding book
that will tell you things about yourself, your reactions to music and your
spiritual nature that you have never examined."
"Many thanks for the collection of your sermon-essays. Such
insights and experience, such varied quotes and great footnotes. I am deeply
enriched." Price: $17.95
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Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche by Michael Sperber M.D. (2004)
"This intriguing and very
interesting book brings a neuropsychiatric perspective to the well-described
mood swings and oddities of personality peculiar to Thoreau's genius. Sperber incorporates
literary and mythological perspectives into his understanding of this complex
figure."
“Elegantly written and filled with surprising insights — adds a new chapter to our understanding of Thoreau.” —Alan A. Stone, Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Harvard University
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Flotsam: A Life in Debris
Essays by Denis Horgan Illustrations by Merle Nacht
“The same personality with
the same blend of wisdom and wit shines from all of these essays, the same
generous love of the world and its beings.”
"This is a long way from
flotsam. In fact, it's downright lyrical.”
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New Fiction |
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A Novel by Dick DeBold
"DeBold’s obsession with
the Now turns everything he writes into HDTV believability. Altogether a
great read!" -- Hugh Fox, poet Price: $19.95 |
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Margaret Ross Seward Peters (with Eric M. Anderson)
Told in the first person, this compelling fictional account begins with Tubman’s life as a slave and follows her fearless pursuit of freedom, both for herself and countless others, on the Underground Railroad. Gripping and highly graphic, the novel reveals Tubman’s days as a spy for the Union during battles in the South, presenting a new image of the horrors of war. Margaret Ross Seward Peters was a niece of Harriet Tubman, who inspired much of Peters’s work. E. M. Anderson is a nurse in a surgical clinic for children in rural Ethiopia. Price: $19.95 |
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"A writer of surpassing clarity and grace." –Jim Dodge, author of Stone Junction
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Catch the Light
"Douglas Worth is a visionary dream-weaver of the future global tribe." —Howard Zinn
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Echoes in Hemlock Gorge
An
American Sequence for the New Millennium
“Let the new millennium at
long last bring a sense of humanity to human beings. Douglas Worth's poems
contribute to this new sensibility.” "Like good wine, Douglas Worth excels with age." —Daniel Berrigan
"Bravo!" —Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Weaving together humankind and nature, these poems contain a plea for the human race to attend to the damage of technological advancement that is making the future a literal wasteland. Moving through changing seasons and the incursions of people on the earth, these observations show how we must step back and reassess humanity's assault against the very natural world that created it.
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Poems by
Peter Viereck
"Viereck's talent rises
like a lovely bird ... lyrical, sensitive, distinguished in feeling."
"Possibly
the greatest rhymer of the modern period, heart‑rending, gorgeous, outrageous.
Viereck's art is a brand new art form."
Peter Viereck is one of the most important of our living poets. He takes up anew the ancient task of the poet... He presents a new synthesis, for our own age, of the ideas of freedom, sacrifice, time, knowledge, sexuality, technology, nature, and the divine. And he does it in a way which is startlingly original: both shocking and recognizable, traditional and demotic, lyrical and dramatic. One reads his poetry books with the same amazement and trembling that The Waste Land must have inspired in its first readers. The language blazes out as if it had never been used before. —Frederick Turner, author, The Value of Values. Price: $12.95 |
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Poems by Lois Hayna Winner of the Colorado Writer’s League Award:
Best Book of Poetry, 2005. With lyrics both musical and sharply focused, this collection of poetry concentrates on perceptual restructuring of common realities in an ordinary life. Subjects vary from shadows and storms to wasps and dancing and convey the message that every life contains pain, failure, joy, and love, all of which can only be fully felt with honest self-examination. Conjoined in surprising ways, the subjects of the poems, as well as the words themselves, take on new clarity and vivacity. Price: $12.95 |
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The Long Black Veil Poems by Robert Cooperman "Cooperman once again turns his poetic skill, using the perfect metaphor and the finely crafted line, to create a narrative which keeps the reader turning the pages. . . . A great read!" —Carol Hamilton, former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma "This is the real soup, thickened with sex, violence, betrayal and liberal doses of moonshine—verses for people who like their poetry peppered with polecats, silver daggers, hanging judges and Voodoo Sallys. All told, a rich and satisfying pot of cruel ironies and bittersweet resignations, served up with all the classic ingredients—ignorant pride, misplaced passion and estranged notions of honor. Place this book squarely on the shelf between Harper Lee and Edgar Lee Masters." —George Wallace, editor, poetrybay.com This collection of poems offers a clever take on an old Appalachian folkstory, The Long Black Veil—in which an accused murderer chooses to be hanged instead of admitting that he was making love to his best friend’s wife while the murder was being committed—with more than 90 poems recounting the tale from various townspeople’s points of view, including the best friend, the murder victim, the judge, and the murderer. Price: $12.95 |
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Petitions for Immortality
Scenes from the Life of John
Keats A vivid, unorthodox portrait by the writer of In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains. "Earthy, surprising and original." –Marie Harris, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire "Copperman’s Keats is clear-eyed, earthy, mercurial, achingly young, long-suffering..." —Joseph Hutchison Price: $12.95 |
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Words of Silence
"Gems of elegant precision and vivid suggestion, Patricia Terry's poems instill a deep sense of the larger life that breathes in us and around us - whether in orchids, pine trees, ants, penguins, or deerhounds, in our gardens, or in Ladakh or Antarctica." —Robert M Durling, author of Time and the Crystal
"Patricia Terry's luminous poems display a hardheaded and precise depiction of the world of the senses. But like the best nature writing, Terry's careful descriptions and observations lead us from body to soul, ever higher, ever more beautiful." —Robert Cooperman, author of The Long Black Veil Price: $12.95 |
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Winter by Richard C. Debold (2004) A wide-ranging, always acute look at the society that has shaped us - thirty years of cultural criticism from the author of The Banana Shooter and LSD: Man and Society. Price: $14.95 |
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Ordering: "In its deceptive simplicity of language and tone ... Ken Pobo's poetry bears a family resemblance to Oriental nature poetry." – Charles Rammelkamp, author of I Don't Think God's That Cruel Price: $12.95 |
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Ha Ha Tonka: A Wisconsin poet explores his relationship with his father, the environment in which he matured, and the culture of his youth. Price: $12.95 |
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Restoring America's Failed
Democracy:
"A persuasive case for a multicultural, democratic approach to undergraduate education." – Steven Koblik, President, Reed College Price: $17.95 |
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The Sunshine Soldiers
"Peter Tauber's hilarious diary of basic training is the most likeable work of lightly serious non-fiction." –Richard Schickel, Harper's Price: $14.95 |
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You've Got Mail from
Kazakhstan
"A charming book, told in e-mail… Touching, funny, and heartwarming… A wonderful read and an inspiring story." – Readers Online Price: $17.95 |
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