SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE $18.36 + S&H - From Lightning’s Strike is a collection of lyric poems rooted in ancestral Ch’ol Mayan culture and animated by vivid images of the natural world. Written by Juana Karen Peñate, winner of the 2020 Indigenous Literatures of the Americas Award, and translated from the Mayan Ch’ol…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 88 pages - 2025 - Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. If poetry is a container, a place to gather what keeps us alive, what feeds our joy, and eases our sorrow, it is a communal basket, and it is often held by women. "Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them" is a collection of poems exploring what women hold, what they keep, and how they let go— of sorrow, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer, Ellen Stone writes poems exploring motherhood and mental illness, sexual assault, marriage and parenthood—as well as how loss filters down through family generations. The poems investigate daughters leaving home while trying to carry home within them. The moon is the mother in the book, waxing and waning, but always there, always coming back around.
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Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 38 pages 2018, ISBN: 978-1-936419-83-8 $14.95 & S+H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Something an Atheist Might Bring Up at a Cocktail Party explores what it means to encounter crisis in a godless world. The poems…
