Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp $16.00 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-40-8 In these richly sensuous poems, Lynn Pattison explores the natural world, body politics, the life and work of Marc Chagall, Asian cultural influences filtered through an American sensibility and more, within an overall sequence loosely structured as a journey. The book’s stunning imagery…
Paper, perfect bound, 114 pp $16.50 plus s&h 2005, ISBN 0-932412-36-X The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art. It continues to inspire reproduction, parody and countless theories. We see facsimiles of it everywhere: on buildings and mugs, on computer ads, in cartoons. In honor of her 500th birthday, 2003-2006,…
2015 marks the 10th Anniversary of the publication of In Drought Time Paper, perfect bound, 114 pp Includes 62 full color and black & white illustrations $27.00 plus s&h (First edition 2005) This edition 2015, ISBN 978-1-936419-57-9 (Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account to use this button, just a credit card) In…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 98 pp $16 plus s&h 2005, ISBN-0-932412-31-9 This selection, reaching back twenty years, establishes John Palen’s quiet eloquence in poems which convey a deep, straightforward honesty about the fumblings, failures and occasional radiance of human life. Prurience by John Palen “It’s like playing the slots,” my doctor says. “The right allergens…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 32 pp $10.00 plus s&h 2005, ISBN-0-932412-33-5 Oboe by Conrad Hilberry Your lips move moist around my double reed, and I feel the sad wind rising through your throat. Some child of yours is lost. If I were your psychiatrist, I’d listen, nod, prescribe. Instead, I take your breath, shape it,…
Paper, perfect bound, 40 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-27-0 In these musical poems, John Repp’s Zen eye and moral sensibility transform the landscape of American home places and human relationships. White Doe by John Repp Sleet driving down, the white doe browses in my rented field. I take a step & she bolts…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 54 pp $12.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-30-0 With an intensity of vision sometimes touching on the mystical, Susan Portfield crafts poems rich with strong imagery and compelling music. Perhaps I Can’t Explain by Susan Azar Porterfield I was about to say that my hand rimmed like this with light from…
Paper, saddlestitched, 36 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004 , ISBN 0-932412-29-7 Betsy Johnson’s poems speak about being on the edge, about being on the border of loving and not-loving, of faith and no-faith, of acceptance and resistance. Psalm: my daughter’s drawings by Betsy Johnson Arise O people of seventy legs and afflicted hair. Lift up…
Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-26-2 Christine Hume comments: “For Hinrichsen, paradox is a way of knowing. He enacts this philosophical stance in the quick yet attentive movement of his lines…. Hinrichsen’s unhinged singing lets momentum have its way. Yet we are moved in the old sense–by empathy.” Message to…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $10.00 plus S&H 2004, ISBN 0-932412-28-9 Based loosely on the Catholic Rosary and other devotional prayers, this collection of poems is quiet and intense, walking the mysterious line between sacramental and sacrilegious. Sleeping with Grief by Martin Achatz I don’t know what to do with my wife’s grief, How she…
