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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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, 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…
