Garnett Kilberg Cohen (Illinois)
How We Move the Air

Publication date: July 15, 2010

Short fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 110 pp
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-935

How We Move the Air tells the story of musician Jake Doyle’s suicide and how, over time, it affected those who knew him. In seven linked stories, Garnett Kilberg Cohen explores the complex ways in which people choose to remember—or not remember—the past.

Geof Hewitt (Vermont)
The Perfect Heart: Selected & New Poems

Poetry. 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 a multitude of leadings, never with restricted agendas, and fearlessly takes the reader along as a trusted friend and confidante. This book could aptly be called Love Tokens, for that’s what most of the poems are. This is a collection to celebrate with each reading.”

Don Cellini (Michigan)
Translate into English

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 70 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-911

Translate into English is framed with grammatical instructions from a turn-of-the-century Spanish lesson book. Possessing a rare elegance and integrity, Cellini’s poems are intelligent and clever while capturing subtle emotions. From the compelling concept to the fine execution of these poetic vignettes—each work, each poem, every page is necessary to the whole. And the whole is a unique and beautiful experience.

Susan Slaviero (Illinois)
Cyborgia

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-904

Melding the language of sci-fi and sensuality,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, including fairy-tale heroines, mermaids, and brides. Full of lucent wit, imagination, intelligence, and a scathing playfulness.

Myra Sklarew (Washington, D.C.)
Harmless

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 92 pp
$15.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-898

Sklarew’s tenth collection of poetry distills the experience of a life spent in the pursuit of truth. Trained as a biologist, Sklarew draws upon the discourses of science and the arts in equal measure; also versed in history, she is haunted by the cruelties of the 20th century, even as she affirms the present moment and holds out the promise of renewal. This moving book has something important to say, and it says it in beautiful language marked by extraordinary musicality.

William Heyen (New York)
The Angel Voices: A Poem

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-881

In this visionary and prophetic work, Heyen searches through images of grace and beauty as well as the grotesque, such as furrows dug to “drain off / human fat / the pyres congealed / with firefolk / villages of them / cities of them….”

Robin Chapman and Jeri McCormick, eds. (Wisconsin)
Love Over 60: an anthology of women's poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-874

This diverse anthology includes work by more than 80 poets, some well known and others relatively unknown, all over the age of 60. These poems speak of love in particular lives and details. Each poet writes out of her real experience, belonging to this historical time, from a vast array of loving (or nonloving) exchanges—and so each reader will find individual patterns, nuances, and voices. The whole contributes to defining and refining that elusive word, love, in our time, caught in language and breathed into the poems.

Betsy Johnson-Miller (Avon, MN)
Rain When You Want Rain

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-867

Writing about life’s absurdities, Betsy Johnson-Miller infuses her lines with a winning sense of eros. In this beautifully crafted collection, she explores the fragile grace earned by finding a necessary voice in contrasts: mother/daughter, husband/wife, humor/sadness, faith/skepticism, the world of the flesh/the world of the spirit, and so much more.

Geraldine Zetzel (Cambridge, MA)
Mapping the Sands

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 convention to the bedrock of connection. This is mature work in a world where there is great thirst for it.

Penelope Scambly Schott (Portland, OR)
Six Lips

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 88 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN+13 978-0932412-843

Six Lips is an imagistic and offbeat approach to the old standards of love, death, and the planet where they happen. The poems are feisty, thoughtful, fun to read; they riot with original and often dreamlike images: monkeys "who have learned to speak in words," a "broom of violets," and even a child as a horse. The speaker of these poems is nothing if not multiple and shape-shifting. Nimble and tender, sensuous and biting, deliciously daring, and always grounded in felt experience, Penelope Scambly Schott’s poems take us on wild and glorious flights of womanhood. 

Toni Mergentime Levi (NYC)
Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-83-1 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-836

With grace, intelligence and wit, this lyrical collection illuminates the emotional and psychological subtleties of deeply personal relationships.

Conrad Hilberry and Jane Hilberry (Kalamazoo, MI / Colorado)
This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 58 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-82-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-829

What this wonderful little book does is to set in parallel some of the poems of father and daughter—poems which were not written to be read in tandem, but which for that reason are all the more subtle and powerful in their conversing. The poems give upon each other in certain inescapable ways: one sees from different vantages the constellation of a family. Arranged by quiet turns in this slim and generous book, the poems make public the private: the late afternoon inquiries, the depth of pleasure, the relentlessness of memory.

Rabbi Manes Kogan (New York)
Teacher's Manual for Fables from the Jewish Tradition

Jewish Fables. Paper, ring bound, 118 pp.
$19.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-812

The supplement to our Fables from the Jewish Tradition text enhances the original by including classroom activities that reflect current best practices in Language Arts, developed by Dr. M. Patricia Cavanaugh, award-winning Professor of English Education at Saginaw Valley State University. The manual also features background information and discussion questions relating the Fables to Torah and the Jewish ethical tradition, developed for high school and adult students by Rabbi Kogan and for elementary and middle school students by Rabbi Dorit Edut (Temple Israel, Bay City, MI). We encourage you to take advantage of this delightful and useful text in your classes.

Chris Green (Chicago)
Epiphany School

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-80-7 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-805

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 are poems that hold us in their headlights and tap our backs in the dark, that beg us to notice life and death, the big and small moments of illumination in our lives. The poems range from gut-wrenching to heart-breaking, but, throughout the book, a sense of humor prevails. Each turn of thought and phrase arrives unexpectedly with a poignancy that touches on the revelatory. This is the Green movement we've been waiting for.

Mary Alexandra Agner (Massachusetts)
The Doors of the Body

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 34 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-79-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-799

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. Agner's musical writing, in poems both free and formal, lends a melancholy grace to the pageant of famous dead women.

Rhoda Stamell (Detroit)
The Art of Ruin

Novel. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp.
$18.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-78-5

Mayapple Press's first novel. Stamell "is a conduit for disparate urban voices, jamming characters who probably should be kept away from each other into situations where interaction is a demand.... The voices of her people are true to the ear and to themselves."

Marion Boyer (Mattawan, MI)
The Clock of the Long Now

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 88 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-775

Many images here begin with the natural world and end in a human gesture of freedom, of release. Marion Boyer creates a world of imagination. She goes as far as to create a character, Jake, whose life unfolds in the pages of this book. Boyer’s elegance ruminates throughout the lyric in these poems.

Tim Mayo (Brattleboro, VT)
The Kingdom of Possibilities

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-768

Meditative, fierce and direct, these poems explore what constitutes identity in our contemporary society. Mayo takes us on journeys across the globe—falling off a motor bike and finding refuge with Italians, honeymooning in Athens, and discovering an ammo belt in St. Jean de Luz. Each of these poems reflect the complications of understanding oneself with charm and wit.

Allison Joseph (Carbondale, IL)
Voice: Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 36 pp.
$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.

2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award Winner!

Josie Kearns (Clinton, MI)
The Theory of Everything

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-744

These poems discover the answers to the fantastic questions of the world: the value of divining rods and other inventions, termite love, a Babylonian god, or what types of things can be found in Loss Universe.

Eleanor Lerman (Long Beach,NY)
The Blonde on the Train

Short fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 164 pp.
$16.95 plus s&h
2009. ISBN 978-0932412-737

From Greenwich Village in the ‘60s to Woodstock, NY, to an airport in the Midwest, Eleanor Lerman's stunning short stories explore the disenchantment of this world, with love and hope and humor.