Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62 pages 2014, ISBN: 978-1-936419-34-0 $14.95 plus S&H The poems in Kindred’s second full-length collection look to daisies, goldenrods, sunflowers, ironweeds—all the members of the family asteraceae, or aster family of flowers—to explore family and memory, and to search the tender edges of marriage, infertility, and motherhood. Like the children in…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages 2014, ISBN: 978-1-936419-32-6 $15.95 + S&H Combine a life-long love of literature, an amateur (loving) interest in and study of Natural History and a professional career in soil conservation, and you will arrive at Under Foot, a book-length series of poems and essays by Stephen Lewandowski. Under Foot has…
Fiction in translation (Spanish / English) Paper, perfect bound, 122 pp 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-31-9 $16.95 plus s&h “Between Two Silences / Entre Dos Silencios” is a book of remarkable short stories by the great Dominican writer Hilma Contreras. These short stories (some very short) are often mysterious and quirky, with a shimmer of heat and…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 86 pages 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936419-35-7 $15.95 & S+H About Eleanor Lerman’s “Strange Life” Perhaps it’s a little late in the game for the Woodstock Nation to be looking for signs that their spirit guides are still alive and casting dangerous spells. But in this new collection by acclaimed poet Eleanor Lerman,…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 90 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-30-2 $19.95 About “Written on Water” Note: this book includes a bonus CD! The Allegheny River is the easternmost west flowing river in the United States and was a major thoroughfare for early settlers. This anthology looks at the Allegheny historically, and as both a recreation area…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-29-6 $14.95 This collection of poems explores the thin line between saint and sinner. The poet asks the reader to consider, “Who is the saint here? Who is the sinner?” A few well-known people appear in poems as well as a few genuine saints, but mostly the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 78 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-28-9 $15.95 Perhaps it is best to picture this book as a gallery space, for in Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist, Gerry LaFemina curates an exhibit of the curious and quirky. Surrealist art, big foot, magic shows, mythological creatures, love in all its manifestations hang side by…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58 pages $14.95 plus S+H 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-26-5 Who is Miss Unthinkable? In this latest collection from Chicago poet Pamela Miller, she’s a shape-shifting sorority of mysterious, funny and wise female characters who don’t let anything get the better of them—from undependable husbands and lovers to breast cancer, aging or even…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages $15.95 plus S&H 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-27-2 Feeding Wild Birds is a collection of poems rooted in the Michigan landscape, as seasons and lives undergo their seamless and subtle transformations. These are meditative poems in spare and simple language that examine the energies in animals, woods, lakes, land, weather and…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 90 pages $15.95 plus S&H 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-25-8 A serious treatise on sacred sex. A history of prostitution. A chronological-geographical-psychological survey of contractual copulation. The uncensored autobiography of an articulate whore. The innate and irreverent humor of humping. How women survive. These are the stories told in this series of connected…