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…
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…
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. 36pp. $12.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-751 This enjoyable collection further demonstrates Allison Joseph’s uncanny grasp of language and image, along with a kind of playful and soulful voice that makes her poetry accessible to all. Allison Joseph interviewed at LunchTicket Extraction by Allison Joseph If there’s a poem in you,…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 58 pp. $13.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-829 Adam’s Christmas by Conrad Hilberry Too small to know a gift or give one. Too new to understand annunciation, a peculiar star, a crowded inn. Like the first Adam, you’re setting out to name the colors, faces, lights— this blurred and lushly peopled…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-805 Chris Green is a poet who writes with wings. His clear-cut honesty embraces his subject matter. Epiphany School, penned with all the wonder and curiosity of a wise child, is not a book for the timid, the slack-minded, the duped or sleeping. These…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 38 pp. $12.95 plus s&h 2008, ISBN 978-0932412-720 Rivkin’s keen and unblinking eye, great verbal energy, and wry wisdom confront her subjects with continuous, genuine surprise. My Mother’s Lace Curtains by Sophia Rivkin My Mother grew with a pitchfork in her heart— something planted by the Russian peasants. Surrounded by enemies,…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp. $15.95 plus s&h 2008, ISBN 978-0932412-591 Ghostly and energetic, Jayne Pupek’s poems range in content through an ambivalent abortion, a lover’s abandonment, childhood abuse, a bad case of the flu, and her own longings. Each poem’s graceful and intense meditations connect to the reader’s own world. Forms of Intercession…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2008, ISBN 978-0932412-676 Intimate, tender, at times funny and at others erotically charged, Porter’s poems dwell on the subjects that affect us deeply: relationships complicated by circumstance; childbirth; illness; unseasonable death. She reminds us that it is in the everyday entaglements that we find poetry. The…
