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Lynn Strongin is a poet and mystic ¿- decoding the unseen messages of this life. One can see oneself in the protagonists of Star Quilt: The Seventh Jump - photographer Maggie, upstart pioneer, pushing the envelope of her art, and Rachel, a retired postal carrier with back problems who could once walk the length and breadth of a small town with a heavy letter sack on her back. All Strongin's characters are, to one degree or another, visionaries...

At Home Abroad is a stunning autobiography of Nancy Henderson-James's youth in Africa. Heart-wrenching is her uprooting at age 15 when the war for independence began, from Angola, whose natural world, people, customs, languages she so loved. Nancy bravely and articulately recounts a true saga of personal loss and bereavement. But out of the crucible of conflicts between herself and her parents, the Africa she loved and the America from which s...

Paulson's poems are a kind of stillness, a quietly examined life in lines as clear as a mountain stream.--David Mason, Professor of English, The Colorado College.

There are 2, 600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as "Mission Hospitals" - far off the beaten path, providing basic medical service to the poorest people of the world. The Hospital at the End of the World tells the story of a nurse from the USA and his first experience as a teaching nurse in Nepal. Joe Niemczura brings to life the day-to-day realities of life in a rural teaching hospital, lite...

Mike Sweeney delivers hard-hitting, power-packed poems that are apocalyptic in their vision of a world gone wrong, a broken world in which "pipelines explode in Iraq & Babylonian artifacts/ litter the promenades." His heaped-up images plunge the reader into toxic skies, turnpike jazz, and the pain that comes from the knowledge that "no matter who you ever were they get you in the end." Yet there is, throughout, the energy and saving power of l...

With her keen, intimate sight, Dacey welcomes us as relatives of the natural world, inviting us to melt into the ecstasy of intense beauty and rise in urgency to defend the health of our earth family.--Sandy Spieler, artistic director of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.

Nancy Scott's voice is unique and unforgettable. In One Stands Guard, One Sleeps, we are allowed entry into the dramas of both ordinary and extraordinary lives, her work rendered in plain diction, infused with humor. These well-crafted, powerful and poignant poems flow beautifully and carry a punch. At work here is a sure hand, a caring heart, honesty. Wanda Praisner, prize-winning author of On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona In this volume ...

Partita is a psychological mystery as complex as the extraordinary violin solo music by Bach. Ernst Feidler-a brilliant linguist, psychologist, and violinist-commits a shocking and unexplainable suicide at the height of his career. His devastated wife, Manou, is left to raise their four children and piece together the hidden motives behind the death of her beloved Ernst. The iconoclastic European couple rode the intense post-World War II world...

Creative non-fiction or fiction, Tales from Colonia Popular seeks to describe the lives of people the author met in a squatter settlement in Mexicali, where she lived from 1988 to 1994. They are meant to depict the struggles of the poor in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. They tell the stories of women who live in the colonia, including a woman who received Special Agricultural Workers' amnesty for working in the fields in the Imperial...

Paper Song is beautiful. I particularly enjoyed his poems on Mexico and Central America" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Paul Lobo Portugés's poetry sheds light on the myopic consciousness of a dark American night." - Allen Ginsberg ".the mingling of history with invention, out of which myth can be born, is the essence of Paul Lobo Portugés's poetry. " - Peter Whigham "Portugés's poems are where the strength of future discoveries with language must c...

Adrienne Rich chose Cervine's poem The Jeweled Net of Indra as the winner of the 2005 National Writers Union contest, as well as his poem Holography for Honorable Mention. She comments that "each has a fine sense both of language and the inter-connectedness of human lives that for me is at the heart of poetry." In the great fields of his country-not just the U.S. but the country of the heart, the country of poetry. Dane Cervine sits with and q...

Ancient Water invites the reader to think about the Earth's growing water crisis and the corporate giants willing to do almost anything to control water in the name of higher profits. A scientist, his wife, her environmentalist ex-lover, and a corporate executive caught in the evil schemes of a global water cartel question whether they should take up arms in defense of the Earth or to leave the Earth to rid itself of the scourge of humanity. B...

Martha Deborah Hall's Two Grains In Time is a journey from innocence through loss toward wisdom. These are poems of careful observation. The voice is direct, intimate, certain. The title poem refers to the narrator's identical twin sister and closest companion who predeceased her, but who she knows will be waiting for her at the end of her life with "a cup of tea in hand." All of the senses are sumptuously attended to in this rich first collec...

In Remembering Fireflies, Pamela Laskin loosens the knot of familial relationships enough for us to lean in close to the fault lines inherent with all sorts of love and longing. Without sentimentality, in clear and precise language, Laskin traces and pierces the desire and disappointment of being a daughter, of becoming a mother. These poems offer surprising jolts when experience does not meet expectation, when pessimism hovers over hope or cu...

After her father is tried for murder, Rachel lives in denial of her family's trauma until she becomes a stranger even to herself, a process she must reverse when she understands that her brother's obsession with a long-ago crime threatens his sanity.

Falk's work seamlessly bridges poetic landscapes often thought at odds: free verse and narrative, the confessional and the sociopolitical, the interrogative sensibility of the avant-gardist and the musical ear of the of the lyricist. Crazy Jane sings to us while simultaneously disrupting the flow, the poems.manage to dislodge us from complacency, not through an outer violence, but through a quiet, though raging, inner sense of desperation. Suc...

Poems for and of those shining beings who find their way to communities of seniors whose lives resonate together as they fall or drift or walk or dream their final time with us, with each other, with themselves - Susan Bright, poet

The narrative is powerful, well-written, often hair-raising. It is energetic and sorrowful writing." Robert Bly, National Book Club Award winner and author of #1 NY Times Bestseller "Iron John" "Will Stone is an Everyman in search of the meaning of life amid the ravages of war. This author still remembers what every day was like in uniform. Whether it's puking troop ships, stinking latrine details, sandbagging or card sharking, KP's or LP's, d...

Migration Ballads embraces the reader with a symphony of natural sound which purifies the inner world. It is the poet, gusts of wind from the Taurus Mountains, days and nights spreading out and a harvest of dreams. Happily, it is the sea bitten off and kissed by the moon. It is the color of death. And it is as if you could listen to all of this in the distilled voice of an old timer, or from the heavenly host of the mountains themselves. Umit ...

In poems that range from the tragedies of the atomic bomb to the passion of domestic love, Dougherty offers habits of attention.'"--Phil Terman, author of "House of Sages" and "Rabbis of the Air.