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The poetry of Eileen Berry distills recollection into its essence, and this present collection reminds us once again of how good she is at this. As she plunges into deepest memory, her images are so powerful, we are helpless not to go with her. We are in the house at Marshside, "always cold especially in summer when no fires were lit, and the air felt thin, " we are there in the dry, overheated desert, we are at the funeral when there was "a s...

In these poems of a life well lived, Stephanie Kaplan Cohen shares feelings and observations most people choose to deny. She gracefully gives her reader permission to feel and become as authentic as these poems. This book of laughter, tears and wry insights is the work of a wise, wonderful and insightful poet in her prime. Linda Leedy Schneider Author of Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist What a pleasure it is to read Stephanie Kap...

This is the autobiography of a courageous woman who didn't let life's adversities stand in her way as she marched toward economic independence. This is the story of a woman who started out selling tacos out of a cart, and turned the business into a beloved Austin institution. This is the story of a self-made woman who has become a South Austin legend. John Kelso, journalist, Austin American Statesman María is South Austin's Taco Queen. Virgini...

With rare, discerning humility, these poems startle, unsettle, and move readers.

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...what I like in the undervoice and the subterranean narrative threading it all together, the world speaking its mind only as a conduit for stark awareness of the damaged and beautiful self...(selves). All the big themes here, in an intimate whisper, in shocking disbelief, gushing with desire - amazing lyric poetry. David Dodd Lee, poet and editor, Half Moon Bay Editing These unexpected and often category-breaking lines give us Stella Radules...

Sandra Drake's provocative A Kind of Wrath offers a new take on the mixed-race experience in the relationship between Paula Kajiyama and Will Cawdry, set in contemporary multiracial, multifaith, multilingual Hawai'i. Like Kiana Davenport's Shark Dialogues, Drake's novel challenges traditional assumptions about race and sexuality, and demonstrates the way colonialism, violence, power and hope powerfully impact the experience of people of mixed ...

Though a novel, Bringing Vincent Home reads like the finest memoir, so authentic and convincing that at times I found myself turning back to the title page to be sure it was a work of fiction. Rarely does a book of any sort touch me as this one did. Madeleine Mysko has created a vivid, beautifully written, and deeply personal piece of literature. Tim O'Brien, author, The Things They Carried, and Going After Cacciato (National Book Award Winner...

One of the century's great voices. One thinks of Emily Dickinson more than any other poet. Cassandra Robison, poet and editor The Artistry of Life Strongin's pigmented words flow in linseed. She explores rivers of language like a stalwart oars-woman who pulls with the current. Beneath, there lies a tremendous body of movement and music. Readers float - securely protected by Strongin's mastery - just above it. Eve Anthony Hanninen, artist & edi...

Altars of Ordinary Light, in part, revives powerful memories of a coastal childhood with imagery as sharp as the scent of low tide in a salt marsh. June Sylvester Saraceno focuses a subject, adjusts the light and angle until it reveals what we have been too busy to see-the eloquence and sanctity of the everyday. These poems nicely balance light and dark, humor and sorrow. In "Scars, " she writes: "My body is a book / I reread the lines to find...

The author insists on peacemaking instead of war mongering and mocks the rhetorical nonsense our leaders use to justify carnage as he uses space and even spelling as a mirror of intent exploring the relationship between how we use words to how we act in the world.The world needs this book! Susan Bright, author, Breathing Under Water Mike Maggio's poems unpack the language of the propagandists, demonstrating how the corporate-government-adverti...

In Signal Moments, Marilyn Kiss invents her own chronology of loss, from family and pets to Neruda and Janis Joplin, to her own aging. Time sways back and forth, personal and mutable. It is the poems that hold, unchanging and clear. Bob Holman, Poet Founder, Bowery Poetry Club Where there is death, there is life as Marilyn Kiss' work testifies...an unforgotten friend, a desperately loved mother, father, aunt or dog ­- who has left this world -...

This anthology of poems from local, state, national, and international poets explores the feelings of cancer through the eyes of cancer survivors and their friends.

Hall takes us from Texas to Vietnam and back again, treating us over and over to exquisite evocations of place. We get lost in the East Texas Big Thicket, with its mosquitoes, sloughs, feral hogs, armadillos, and carnivorous plants, and wind up enjoying the pollution-enhanced beauty of a sunset. In Vietnam we sit with Hall on his berm, watch napalm explosions, and drink Chianti on Christmas. We meet local people with whom, as an interpreter, H...

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Hans Christian Andersen brings a silly sensibility to stories that showcase the triumph of the downtrodden (the ugly duckling that turns into a beautiful swan) and the downfall of the triumphant (the emperor whose arrogance won't allow him to admit that he's parading in public without any clothes). His stories appeal not only because of their universal themes, but because of Andersen's simple, realistic language, and his ability to capture a b...

Some stories are so timeless we can't wait to share them with our children. You'll find five such classics in this collection from PlainTales, including the tales of the naughty Gingerbread Boy, the clever Billy Goats Gruff, the enchanted Frog Prince, the stalwart Little Red Hen, and the courageous Bremen Town Musicians. All are told with simple, engaging language perfect for the littlest listeners.

A Spirited Escape: Wilderness Empathy Teaches Response to Sociopathic Vendetta Fabulous book! I loved this story. It brought back to life that summer, my experiences at Holden (2002). Nancy A. Johnson, Registrar, Holden Village, WA Johnson has woven together some harsh but treasured experiences, cartoonishly alarming dreams, daytime musings and words of wisdom to fashion a tapestry of understanding and forgiveness. Lani Steele, International E...

It's my job to remember things I never saw, " Karen Douglass says in one poem, and she does - remember and see through the imagination's eye. In beautifully detailed poems, succinct and meditative at once, she shows us food as delight and weapon, necessity and art, gift and punishment. The many dynamics of hunger, both physical and spiritual, what we need to be nourished and to nourish, as individuals and global citizens - ­these are the cruci...

Months after World War II officially ends, a 15-year-old boy still hides in a potato field. The horror of the Holocaust is followed by the horror of survival. The question "Why me?" haunts survivors for the rest of our lives. For some of us, life is only possible under the anesthesia of silence. After 63 years, Leon Rubinstein has broken his silence with this book. As I Am Presently Known is a remarkable story of life's victory over death an...