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What a remarkable, sweeping collection from writer Ute Carson! This inspired arrangement of poetry, conveys the richness and poignancy of every life stage. Drawing from remarkable experience and striking particulars, she ultimately conveys the light of gratitude-"the clearing you spy / beyond a forest thicket." The poems are love songs to family and life itself, cyclical loss answered always by powerful renewal. -Judith Austin Mills, author of...

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Find relief from back pain with yoga asanas tailored toward rehabilitationBACKED BY modern research, certified yoga therapist Romy Phillips delves into the physical and physiological bene ts of yoga and bridges the gap between traditional yoga and Western medicine.LEARN TO USE traditional yoga routines to relieve the pain from common injuries and conditions such as- Sciatica- Scoliosis- Lumbar sprain- Herniated discs - Osteoporosis- KyphosisWI...

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Marcia Katz Wolf's The Grandmother Poems operates at the fulcrum of her family's history. Some of the poems concern her parents after World War II, inscrutably altered by the Holocaust - her mother fresh from a nose job, "Queen Celeste with her trunk cut off, " her father in the cellar darkroom, "his hands rising ghostly from the developing fluid / retrieving something I could not see." Others embody Wolf's own vivid womanhood, still others, h...

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A twenty-first century trickster, Ken Jones, in "Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters, " makes music from the rubbish left after our rebellions against culture and epistemology. His pastiches are full of justice and play. And song. And that's more than enough. Alan Ainsworth, Chair, English, Houston Community College Central

These are poems that have brought back into Indian English poetry the sumptuousness of emotions in all honesty of experience and, at the same time, are in keeping with the ancient Dravidian aesthetics. Lyricism of the spirit, of being one with the moment, of savouring the wonder of being, shines through them. The robust diction, unusual word-combinations and the ability to transform the most common into the extraordinary, set this poet apart. ...

Narrative meets surrealism and feeling fires intellect in Cave Vitae a place where each poem gives off the fresh scent of the new. Adams understands the just-born image, can flush it out of hiding with one deft turn of a line, one twist of syntax, one startling phrase, and she delights in provoking intellect and emotion simultaneously. Here is where pure lyricism has gone, where it still lives, "in a city of intricate bricks beneath/centuries ...

Questions of Fire is a poet's response to the complex 21st century environment, from work to home to war, in an age dawning with violence. This book offers not quick solutions to dilemmas, but discoveries won through experience, and illuminating observations of contemporary life. Meditation on Washington D.C. in April 2003 During the war, winter thawed in a rapid of hot and cold days, disarming us with a tempest of wind, lull, and rain: Walkin...

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This carefully organized collection leads the reader via poems closely linked by theme, subject, attitude, and metaphor into a gripping, moving, masterfully assembled, deeply meaningful and satisfying story. One poem says, "Sadness, remember the sadness/in the world, in other people." It's what The Paper Rose does, it remembers. This book is a sacred mass sung in the presence of sadness. David Budbill In this new collection of poems by Tom Abs...

A butterfly-this butterfly, Evelyn, has moved out of the painful cocoon of abuse to fly! Her memoir is a powerful testament to courage under fire. What a testament of grace and guts! Evelyn's evolution into consciousness from victim to survivor to pastor is a witness to all who choose to walk away from abuse in any form. Jan Bucher, Spiritual Director In this captivating account of her escape from more than 20 years of domestic abuse, Evelyn D...

Every line in Somerville's verse packs a wallop. Her bawdy piety and divine colloquialism lets us know that truly a bard walks upon this earth. Nava Renek, Author of Spiritland and No Perfect Words Seventy years later, an ocean removed from the churchyard stone where Yeats' epitaph is carved, Michele Madigan Somerville dares to cast a cold eye on life, on death. But she looks deeper: rather than merely sing "whatever is well made, " Black Iris...

With an ear for dialogue and an eye for detail, Patti See brews her poetry with honesty. But it's her clever wit and I-wish-I'd-thought-of-that lines that make Love's Bluff a lot like Leinenkugel's-an intoxicating Chippewa Falls export." - Ken Szymanski, Blue Light Special "Tugged by irresistible detail into Patti See's viewfinder, this Second Wave grandmother saw her own life and her daughter's in the ambivalent relationships with self a...

The Blue Geography" continues the story of the characters in the critically acclaimed short novel, "Wintershine". A mercurial book about the quest for for freedom and the pursuit of happiness, it interweaves four stories which span the 20th century, those of Beatrice, her mother, Louise, her Uncle Robin (all of whom narrate) and that of Beatrice's uncle, Lyman Roy. Louise tells about her youth when she ran away on a wild horse that she loved....

David Filer's poems are like the interior of a warm house-small fire, pleasant chairs, good company waiting for you. Then, he opens the door so you can come in and rest. Filer lets you hear what is coming to his heart is celebratory and satisfying. Few poets write with such understanding of who they are, what they seek and what amounts to meaning in the world. Such plain spoken, clarifying poems." -David Biespiel President, The Attic Institute...

Visited by the hard weather of melancholy and harsh truth, the terrain of this collection fills with shadows and stone, sorrows and ash - its world broken by a daughter's violent death. But such seasons of pain are not relentless. In rich and memorable lines, Ron Talney gives us delight in vivid images, wisdom in striking tropes. Offering respite and solace, he creates from "...rocks and trees/the poems we need." Paulann Petersen, Author ...

Marianne Gage is an old-fashioned writer in the best sense of the word. She develops characters organically through keenly observed gestures and spot-on colloquial language, and soon the reader is sucked into their lives, witnessing and caring deeply about the small dramas and traumas of daily life in Oklahoma. These characters aren't demonstrative in a modern way, blabbing about their inner life to anyone who will listen, rather, they meet li...