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, 72 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2005, ISBN-0-932412-35-1 Aunt Maggie Mae Harrison-Norton October 8, 1900—May 30, 1977 by Suzanne Keyworth after Bobby’s death, 1936 At the edge of a highway a child waits to cross over. He is difficult to see through the whirring layer of years, almost impossible to feel. Dressed…
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, 92 pp $5 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-25-4 To order, send email to andydylewis@yahoo.com Paradidomi 2 A semi-annual literary magazine of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and reviews. Poetry Daniel Crocker M.L. Liebler Skip Renker Kristen Garcia Leigh Grant Theresa Rosado Megan Michelle Ward Larry Levy Helen Raica-Klotz Nancy Tolson Judith Kerman Patricia…
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…
Bilingual (Spanish/English) Paper, saddlestitched, 52 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-23-8 A bilingual collection translated from the original Spanish by the author. This is the first title in our new Mamey Editions project, focused on bilingual publications and Caribbean literature. Judith Kerman comments: “The poet’s voice explores the distances of desire with a quiet…
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…
