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…
$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 globefalling 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…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-836 With grace, intelligence and wit, this lyrical collection illuminates the emotional and psychological subtleties of deeply personal relationships. Potholder by Toni Mergentime Levi Lovely Olivia has made for me a potholder. I have hung it in the center of my kitchen and will…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 164pp. $16.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-737 “The Blonde on the Train” by Eleanor Lerman is available on Kindle. Click to download from Amazon. 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,…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 86pp. $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. Vampires at the Laundromat by Josie Kearns All…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 36pp. $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. Allison Joseph interviewed at LunchTicket Extraction by Allison Joseph If there’s a poem in you,…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 58 pp. $13.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-829 Adam’s Christmas by Conrad Hilberry Too small to know a gift or give one. Too new to understand annunciation, a peculiar star, a crowded inn. Like the first Adam, you’re setting out to name the colors, faces, lights— this blurred and lushly peopled…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-805 Chris 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…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 88 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2008, 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…
Illustrated by Marcelo Ferder Jewish Fables. Paper, illustrated, perfect bound, 104 pp. $19.95 plus s&h 2008, ISBN 978-0932412-669 Buy the Fables and the Teacher’s Manual together and save! Get both books for $29.95. Fables from the Jewish Tradition reviewed on Examiner.com Fables from the Jewish Tradition Compiled and edited, with commentary, by Rabbi Manes Kogan…
