Paper, perfect bound, 92 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-898 Harmless, Myra 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, Sklarew is haunted by…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 80 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 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…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp. $15.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-942 In Jayne Pupek’s poetry, we experience the slipperiness of language, of meaning, of life. She offers stories of mystery, luck, and particularly a humane understanding for the lapse in judgment and love. Her poems are filled with notes and reminders that you might…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp. $16.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-874 Read a review of Love Over 60 at Madison.com Read a review of Love Over 60 at The Verona Press Love Over 60: an anthology of women’s poems Edited by Robin Chapman & Jeri McCormick This diverse anthology includes work by more than…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-959 In Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems), Jeanne Larsen offers us poems filled with sustenance and surprise. In precise, meditative language, she investigates a full range of experience and feeling, from bodily desire to rage to astonishment at the wonders (and betrayals)…
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 that is earned by finding a necessary voice in contrasts: mother/daughter, husband/wife, humor/sadness, faith/skepticism, the world of the…
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…
Prose. Paper, Perfect Bound. 124pp. $16.95 plus S&H 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-966 “Metal and Plum: A Memoir” by Andrei Guruianu is available on Kindle. Download from Amazon here Metal and Plum: A Memoir by Andrei Guruianu reviewed at New Pages Soccer balls putter down dusty streets, classmates forage through dumps for toys, while friends carry…
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…
