Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-959 In Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems), Jeanne Larsen offers us poems filled with sustenance and surprise. In precise, meditative language, she investigates a full range of experience and feeling, from bodily desire to rage to astonishment at the wonders (and betrayals)…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-867 Writing about life’s absurdities, Betsy Johnson-Miller infuses her lines with a winning sense of eros. In this beautifully crafted collection, she explores the fragile grace that is earned by finding a necessary voice in contrasts: mother/daughter, husband/wife, humor/sadness, faith/skepticism, the world of the…
Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-881 The Angel Voices is a sort of “luminous dream,” sometimes so real you can feel the heat. In this elegant and haunting work, William Heyen pours forth prophetic words of an almost divine nature. The poems search through images of grace and beauty as…
Paper, perfect bound, 110 pp $16.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-928 The Perfect Heart documents 45 years of extraordinary work by a poet who, according to David Ray, “is a true heir of Frost and Carruth, their tonalities and breadth of concern and vision, and shares their grounding in mythic Vermont. [Hewitt] is open to…
Prose. Paper, Perfect Bound. 124pp. $16.95 plus S&H 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-966 “Metal and Plum: A Memoir” by Andrei Guruianu is available on Kindle. Download from Amazon here Metal and Plum: A Memoir by Andrei Guruianu reviewed at New Pages Soccer balls putter down dusty streets, classmates forage through dumps for toys, while friends carry…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 36 pp $12.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-799 Mary Alexandra Agner’s The Doors of the Body travels through ancient Greek mythology to more recent folk tales to ascertain and exclaim in the vatic, sometimes fierce voices of women: Athena, Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and even darling Clementine. Poems like “Sweets” and “Oh…
$14.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-768 Meditative, fierce and direct, these poems explore what constitutes identity in our contemporary society. Mayo takes us on journeys across the globefalling off a motor bike and finding refuge with Italians, honeymooning in Athens, and discovering an ammo belt in St. Jean de Luz. Each of these poems reflect…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-836 With grace, intelligence and wit, this lyrical collection illuminates the emotional and psychological subtleties of deeply personal relationships. Potholder by Toni Mergentime Levi Lovely Olivia has made for me a potholder. I have hung it in the center of my kitchen and will…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 164pp. $16.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-737 “The Blonde on the Train” by Eleanor Lerman is available on Kindle. Click to download from Amazon. From Greenwich Village in the ’60s to Woodstock, NY, to an airport in the Midwest, Eleanor Lerman’s stunning short stories explore the disenchantment of this world,…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 86pp. $14.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-744 These poems discover the answers to the fantastic questions of the world: the value of divining rods and other inventions, termite love, a Babylonian god, or what types of things can be found in Loss Universe. Vampires at the Laundromat by Josie Kearns All…
