Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 54 pp $12.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-30-0 With an intensity of vision sometimes touching on the mystical, Susan Portfield crafts poems rich with strong imagery and compelling music. Perhaps I Can’t Explain by Susan Azar Porterfield I was about to say that my hand rimmed like this with light from…
Paper, saddlestitched, 36 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004 , ISBN 0-932412-29-7 Betsy Johnson’s poems speak about being on the edge, about being on the border of loving and not-loving, of faith and no-faith, of acceptance and resistance. Psalm: my daughter’s drawings by Betsy Johnson Arise O people of seventy legs and afflicted hair. Lift up…
Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-26-2 Christine Hume comments: “For Hinrichsen, paradox is a way of knowing. He enacts this philosophical stance in the quick yet attentive movement of his lines…. Hinrichsen’s unhinged singing lets momentum have its way. Yet we are moved in the old sense–by empathy.” Message to…
Bilingual (Spanish/English) Paper, saddlestitched, 52 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-23-8 A bilingual collection translated from the original Spanish by the author. This is the first title in our new Mamey Editions project, focused on bilingual publications and Caribbean literature. Judith Kerman comments: “The poet’s voice explores the distances of desire with a quiet…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $10.00 plus S&H 2004, ISBN 0-932412-28-9 Based loosely on the Catholic Rosary and other devotional prayers, this collection of poems is quiet and intense, walking the mysterious line between sacramental and sacrilegious. Sleeping with Grief by Martin Achatz I don’t know what to do with my wife’s grief, How she…
Paper, perfect bound, 30 pp $8.00 plus s&h 2003, ISBN 0-932412-21-1 The poem as a form of prayer is one of poetry’s earliest traditions. In the lyric poems of this strong first book, Adrienne Lewis explores the nexus of faith and sexuality as experienced in the dilemmas of marriage and family life. Repose by Adrienne…
Paper, perfect bound, 66pp $12.00 plus s&h 2003, ISBN 0-932412-19-X A collection of tough, extremely funny poems by a woman whose imagination never runs dry. Quirky, edgy, sometimes poignant and sometimes uproarious. What Makes a Man a Man by Pamela Miller for Richard I tried to make a man out of diamonds and quartz, with…
Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2000, ISBN 0-932412-18-1 Taking on everything from Persian prophets to Bigfoot, Jim Nabors to UFO’s, Berlitz tapes to the George Forman grill, these prose-poems elevate the notion of unpredictability and delight. Early Experiments in Ingesting Fire by Gerry LaFemina I was born in the month of multiple…
Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp $5.50 plus s&h 1992, ISBN 0-932412-05-X These visionary erotic poems imagine the world of the geisha house with a female client and both male and female geishas. Home by Evelyn Wexler I have been lost too much in temporary places: hotels, weather, children, time. Geisha house, long unvisited, waits. The laughter…
Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat (formerly Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Retreat) Tired of the “star system” at writers’ workshops? Looking for a place offering time to write as well as fellowship and critique from other professionals? The Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat, formerly The Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Retreat, may be for you! Designed for the “mid-career” literary writer,…
