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,…
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…
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,…
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, 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…
