Paper, perfect bound, 60 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 0-932412-50-5 Special Pop-up Edition $19.95 plus s&h This is a double collection of playful and surprisingly moving poems on themes of clowning and circus life. The Book of Clown Baby relates the fantastic character of Clown Baby, occupied by visions of trick horses, parades and…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 76 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2007 ISBN 0-932412-51-3 ISBN+13 978-0932412-515 In a dark world of loss, betrayal and regret, Kathryn Kirkpatrick powerfully reveals experiences that we find recognizable yet surprising. These poems weave together the obsessions of a woman’s mind with the physical passion she experiences. Finalist, 2007 SIBA (Southern Independent…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp. $12.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 0-932412-47-5 In richly detailed, exuberant poems, Zilka Joseph embraces the vivid passions of her childhood home in Calcutta and the complex hopes and fears implicit in her move to the Midwest. These poems capture in evocative and specific ways the living-in-two cultures of America…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 978-0932412-546 Chris Green is a wonderful poet of contemporary American life. Compassionate, candid, funny and smart, these poems explore things we know but are often unable to say about our everyday lives. Encountering other poets, books, animals, marriage, family, even the suburban strip mall…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 0-932412-49-1 Beautifully honest and heartbreaking, Parts That Were Once Whole boldly exposes the human psyche. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous…
Paper, perfect bound, 130 pp $17.95 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-41-6 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee With a Cherry on Top: Stories, Poems, Recipes & Fun Facts from Michigan Cherry Country by Angela Williams Do you know: How maraschinos are made? Why there aren’t any pitless cherries? What makes a great cherry margarita? Cherries are to…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-43-2 Why I Left Florida by Kathleen Tyler One Saturday afternoon at the bowling alley when I was eight, I ran off. Shrieking with cleverness, I hid behind racks of shoes, flashing pinball machines. The thunder of balls rolling down lanes, smashing into pins,…
Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp $18.50 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-38-6 “Detroit Stories” by Rhoda Stamell is available on Kindle. Click to download from Amazon Mayapple Press’s first fiction publication. As Charles Baxter says, “All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit” can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling…
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…
