Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 81 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-1936419-029 In response to the unexpected death of her sister Katharine Washburn, Mary Winegarden has taken on the challenge of translating their lives into living language. Using phrases from Washburn’s work as her foil, Winegarden creates a moving meditation on the bonds of sisterhood.…
Memoir. Paper, Perfect Bound. 104pp. $15.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-10-4 The Russian Writer’s Daughter by Lydia S. Rosner is a collection of lively autobiographical stories about growing up in a Russian-American Jewish household in the stifling political atmosphere of the Red Scare. At the center of these memories is Lyduce’s father, whose complex personality…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-08-1 The pieces that make up Kibbe document a life spent journeying “Between Two Worlds”: the author’s America and the Lebanon of her family heritage. In Porterfield’s vision, people and places long departed can be conjured back through memory and language; “the land of the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-07-4 Susan Kolodny draws on her work as a clinical psychoanalyst in her first collection of poetry, After the Firestorm. Kolodny’s evocative style arises from an imagination both sensory and analytical. The poems suggest the unity of love and suffering, and walk a difficult line…
Fiction. Paper, Perfect Bound. 208pp. $17.95 plus S&H 2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-067 “Janet Planet” by Eleanor Lerman is available in a Kindle edition. Click here to download from Amazon Janet Planet is a unique work that attempts to showcase the young and rebellious spirit of a Woodstock generation that eventually grew up-and away-from those glorious…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 84 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-1936419-036 Stacie Leatherman’s dynamic poems inhabit the cusp between the domestic and the utterly strange. To read them is to travel where we haven’t been before, where things seem lost or on the verge of disappearing. To make something from nothing, out of the…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 70 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-0932412-980 The poems in No Eden merge the landscapes of a rainy girlhood in the American South and the mythic world of Noah and the Flood. In these poems, a backyard stretches between a mother and daughter–the lessons of “distance tender and biblical.” The…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 76 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-850 This book is a record, not so much of making life one’s own as of allowing it to emerge. Evoking the journey of a long life, Geraldine Zetzel’s accomplished poems express a potent, often playful imagination that reaches through strictures of propriety and…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 80 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-973 The Other Place You Live explores “the world’s slow unwinding.” With intensity of language and a bounty of imagery, she reveals those other places wherever she is in the world. The poems move effortlessly from metaphor to metaphor, gradually building an atmosphere of…
Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-904 Melding the language of sci-fi and sensuality, Cyborgia, Susan Slaviero’s redolent, ambitious debut, wallows delightfully in its rhythm and vocabulary yet remains sharp and meticulous. In this lyric guide to cyborg feminism — complete with robosexuality and teledildonics — Slaviero traverses traditional female tropes,…
