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…
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…
