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. . . dramatic, tender, funny, frightening, earthy, quirky, wise and heart-warming. The tale of young Christa and her family as they leave a comfortable home to become penniless immigrants in their quest to survive the collapse of the Third Reich and flee the horrors that it has unleashed, opens up to universal themes of suffering, loss, love and hope. MICHAEL JOSEPH, Rutgers University Rare Book Librarian, Instructer of Childeren's Literature...

Johnson offers a richly detailed picture of the challenges and hardships confronting indigenous village peoples in contemporary Kenya.

There is a wonderful honesty and flow to Mark Jackley's poems that makes the reader connect with the brief vignettes he creates. His poems are without pretense and don't dance around the ideas with fancy words or too clever cliches. These are poems that anyone can relate to and it's that quality that makes you want to read his book straight through and come back to it a few days later. These are snippets of life without blinders, poems that ar...

Paul Portugés is one of the best writers I have ever had the pleasure to work with, and his Rachel Carson story is the best work I've seen in a long, long time. Bill Benenson, producer The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson is an important, passionate story that needed to be told and hopefully never forgotten. It is a fascinating, moving story, masterly written, about one of the great heroines of the 20th century. Cheryl DuBois, produce...

With a bow to recent masters like Justice, Wright, and even Nemerov, John Morris's poems explore the uncertain footing of middle age. The characters we meet are clear-eyed, straight-faced, occasionally nonplussed. They're uncertain of their allegiance to either comfort or anguish. And their ciphering of the debts and credits of their days creates little dramas we can recognize as something like our own. Cars are "rust-colored, late-modeled, " ...

At the core of this collection, which travels the globe and the neighborhood, is a deep knowledge and respect for both the physical world and the world of the heart. The poems use language, beautifully crafted and finely tuned, to create a space for them to come together.Compassion and craftsmanship come together in that beautiful way that keeps us all crawling back to poetry to learn the truth. Lisa Starr, Rhode Island Poet Laureate The work ...

In Spring Hunger, Keith Liles "arms his thirst" with the outrages of our era and writes a searing poetry that refuses to behave as if the word is more important than the world. Earnest, insightful, and razor-sharp, these poems arise from a sensibility in which ethics and aesthetics are never at odds. What an exciting, skillful, and substantial debut! Richard Hoffman, poet, author of Half the House: a Memoir, and the poetry collections, Without...

Mary Copeland dispels the myth still occasionally surfacing in the shallow waters of the ignorant that domestic life is some sort of refuge from the Big Questions rather than what it is: the very battleground where one engages them. In a language and syntax of stunning grace, vitality, nuance, and evocative power, Copeland­-as mother, daughter, lover, and acute observer of the human dilemma-takes us where the best poetry should, to the heart o...

These are kindly, good-hearted poems. Jim Barton brings to these poems a sweet, delicate, careful attention to detail and a winning love of the Earth and the creatures on it. But he also has a lovely way of weaving rhymes into the flow of the poem so delicately that you'll miss them if you aren't as careful in your attention as he is. Finally, Barton takes a modest delight in teasing gentle humor out of his narratives, nothing forced, just a l...

A Walking Cliche Coins a Phrase is an utterly unique book of poems. Despite the subtitle, this is a book of poems, filled with true wit (strange things go on in this man's head!), strong music, a stone blind love (the only kind of love that matters) of language, and a wild, wild heart." Thomas Lux, author of God Particles "The road to psychic wholeness, Chad Prevost asks, is to 'bury oneself in sweetness like a bee making Heaven in a fallen pe...

In her commanding second full-length collection, Hall offers poetry concerned with the every day, with the acutely experienced moments that make up a full life, replete with joys and grief.

This beautiful book gives you a glimpse of the deep sense of supreme reality that underlies our daily living, unites us all as collective travelers through this journey (of life) in which we have the power to modify reality at every moment. Claudia Torres, writer, Matehuala, S.L.P., Mexico Beyond Light and Dark fascinates and engages me, but in a few short pages, it dragged me into the present moment causing me to forego all the wise and insig...

On one dark blue midnight in the late summer of 1971, I climbed down the ladder of the Evangelistria, a rusty old tub of a ship, and set foot on the soil of Paros, a medium-size island in the Aegean Sea. I had been drawn to the island by pictures of many-colored fishing boats and snow-white cubical houses, and was curious about the people who created such beauty. I intended to stay three weeks. I stayed, the first time, five years. , and have ...

Cilantro, Not Coriander is a love story that also bears witness to El Salvador's violent war and US complicity. From Philadelphia, to Guatemala, to the blood riddled streets of San Salvador, you will be led on a riveting journey that begins with one young man's quest to follow his heart and live out his convictions. Linda Panetta, human rights activist, photo journalist and director of Optical Realities Photography. We find here much about the...

Lynn Strongin a a marathon word-sprinter. Her work is beyond the pale. James LeCuyer, poet & teacher, San Francisco Very much the work of a true poet. Denise Levertov, poet, author of With Eyes At the Back Of Our Head, The Sorrow Dance: Poems, and Footprints What a great poet you are. Kay Boyle, poet and fiction writer, author of Winter Night, and Collected Poems of Kay Boyle All of Strongin's characters struggle in one way or another to find ...

Diana M. Raab's Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems for You is not only a tribute to the late diarist, but also a tribute to diaries themselves. Each of the book's poems, culled from Raab's own journal, offers intimate portraitures, tiny memoirs in verse. Raab's poetry is seductive in its earnestness, appealing in its vulnerability, mystery, and enchantment. Denise Duhamel, poet, author of Two and Two and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems Raab'...

This global tour of grief shimmers with the beauty of the infinite differences among cultural traditions. At the same time it offers comfort through the shared familiarity of human loss.

Sheela Free's voice - totally original and authentic, which is a major accomplishment today - manages anger with energy humor and pathos that avoids the trap of self pity, a funny pathos. The beauty of this new voice is that it deals with disasters by shining small mercies on them. Sheela Free's verse pops and stings, reverberates and soothes. Borrowing from pop culture, politics, and family recipes, so that "the aroma of heaven itself descend...

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