The Secret Box – Kathleen Tyler
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-43-2 Why I Left Florida by Kathleen Tyler One Saturday afternoon at the bowling alley when I was eight, I ran off. Shrieking with cleverness, I hid behind racks of shoes, flashing pinball machines. The thunder of balls rolling down lanes, smashing into pins,…

Detroit Stories – Rhoda Stamell
Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp $18.50 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-38-6   “Detroit Stories” by Rhoda Stamell is available on Kindle. Click to download from Amazon Mayapple Press’s first fiction publication. As Charles Baxter says, “All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit” can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling…

The Futurist’s Mistress – Lorraine Schein
Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp $13.00 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-39-4 Enid Dame says, “Playful, anarchic, often hilariously funny glimpses of the world we know from a skewed, sophisticated angle.” 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee The Queen of Velcro by Lorraine Schein The Queen of Velcro is fuzzy and black on one side, and has sharp…

The Transparent Dinner – Christine Hamm
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-44-0 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee Who has not wished her husband into a cat? by Christine Hamm We see how the world enters him without us, how his eyes focus elsewhere when we wear our new dress. Who has not wanted to pluck from…

Little Promises – Rachel Eshed
Poetry. Translated by David Cooper Bilingual edition (Hebrew/English) Paper, perfect bound, 104 pp $16.00 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-42-4 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee My Man by Rachel Eshed My man has burning feet; he treads on holy ground. My nakedness blossoms with him, sated. The soles of his feet on my belly slowly descend with…

Light That Sounds Like Breaking – Lynn Pattison
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…

A Weakness for Boleros – Lidia Torres
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp $12.50 plus s&h 2005, ISBN-0-932412-34-3 A Weakness for Boleros by Lidia Torres The bolero was composed for you and me. For all the ten year olds drawn to the plastic dials of the radio, drooling a bit perhaps, swaying uncontrollably as the air in the room tensed, focused on…

Some Very Soft Days – Margo Solod
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 84 pp $15.50 plus s&h 2005, ISBN-0-932412-32-7 What Is True in This Story by Margo Solod The gold plastic loving cup filled with new pennies, broken, treasure scattered before it could be awarded. The way a print of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers brings the taste of a blue gumball to my tongue,…

In Drought Time: Scenes from Rural and Small Town Life (2nd ed.) – Douglas M. Smith, Melody Vassoff and Karen Woollams, eds.
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…