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'Every
body is a den of dens,' Aronson writes. 'Each thin wall contains its own
warren..' And so, in this remarkable debut collection, 'we cluster and recur.an
echo's echo.' But it is the eye, finally, that, open or shut, navigates these
chambers of self and other-and Aronson's is superb." Selected by acclaimed
author Claire Davis as the first recipient of the Main-Traveled Roads Poetry
prize, Aronson's book is remarkable and promising of a bright poetic career. $16 · ISBN-10: 0911015868 |
Creature Creature Rebecca Aronson |
| Author Mark Doty writes, "Elegy, exorcism,
expiation, charms against dread: poetry's old work is disarmingly vital here.
C. Mikal Oness's poems are steeped in Old English poetics, but bent to a
distinctly modern tune. 'Oracle Bones'is ghosted by fish and by birds, by human
presence and oncoming darkness, but suffused too by a tenderness that does not
deny how deeply haunted these poems are, holding out the possibility of hope
despite, and the actuality of praise." Oness's newest collection of poetry is sensitive and
significant, a pleasure to read and necessary for all readers of contemporary
poetry. $15 · ISBN-10: 0911015639
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978-0911015638
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Oracle Bones C. Mikal Oness |
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According to acclaimed poet B. H. Fairchild,
"'Romanticize the past and lose it,' write Jacqueline Kolosov in her
lovely and wise 'Vago,' where past and present are counterposed in rich
relation and in poetic colors of remarkable sensuosity and elegance. Over all
hovers the spirit of the remarkable Oma, Kolosov's Slovenian grandmother, who
will remain in the reader's memory long after he or she hands the book to a
friend, imploring, You must read this." "Vago" is the most
significant of first collections--powerful, necessary. You must read this.
$14 · ISBN-10: 0911015825
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978-0911015829
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Vago
Jacqueline Kolosov |
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In Holden's latest memoir, the poet/critic discovers an
ongoing competition between his identical twin brother and himself; the book
explores how the writer negotiates his way through the sometimes troubled
territory of sibling rivalry. However, the memoir does not stop there; rather,
Holden delves courageously into the equally tumultuous times of adulthood, of
success in writing and publishing but of failure in marriage. Holden continues
to be a strong and illuminating voice in American letters.
$16 · ISBN-10: 0911015582
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978-0911015584
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Mama's Boys
Jonathan Holden |
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Judy
R. Smith's Yellowbird was the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book
Award recipient. Yellowbird, with its several strands of
intricately woven narratives of a past century's voices, is just such a similar
act, one in which the reader is not only rewarded with a deeper and clearer
understanding of the people in that olden day, but also of our own century and
its multi-faceted assemblage of voices and faces." Yellowbird is an
important collection, essential for readers of Native American Studies,
fiction, and women's studies.
$16 · ISBN-10: 0911015590
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978-0911015591
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Yellowbird Judy R. Smith |
Sarah Kennedy writes that "Suzanne Keen's 'Milk Glass
Mermaid' presents a world both dangerous and beautiful, one in which both
chronology and topography are unexpectedly undermined by perception. Linked by
a series of prose entries, these poem explore moments of domestic life to
reveal the larger historical traces that lurk in the most quotidian details. A
gas jet from an old furnace that is stamped with a swastika, an apple pie being
made on 12 September 2001, a glass figurine with a hollow--and
silent--interior: these small instances echo hauntingly across political and
cultural boundaries." $15
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978-0911015836 |
Milk Glass Mermaid
Suzanne Keen |
| David Ray has this praise for Greg Kosmicki's poems. Greg
Kosmicki shares his life with-out the masks most poets wear these days. He can
make us feel that nothing could be more fascinating than living in a Nebraska
town and observing and experiencing realities others don't even notice, finding
Inscape in what they overlook. And what riches they do overlook, as if leaving
them for Greg to shine up or render with great compassion, as in 'Social Work.' Kosmicki's is a rare and intensely passionate voice; the
poems are consistently forceful, surprising, and new--the way poetry should be.
$15 · ISBN-10: 0911015574
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We have always been coming to this morning Greg Kosmicki |
| About
her debut collection of short stories, esteemed writers have these
observations: "The world in Jennifer Pashley's stories is wicked and
seriously out-of-whack, remarkable and delicious-you never know who you're
going to run into. Pashley writes quick, tough dialog that cuts hard and scars,
and her stories put you in places and circumstances you have little chance of
getting to otherwise. She asks you to pay attention and use your imagination,
and then treats you to the real pleasures of fiction, of character, of
remarkable people in difficult times. Her work always stuns." "Precise. Blunt. Funny. Scary.
Bleak. An inviting and well-carved debut." - Aimee Bender $15 · ISBN-10: 0911015922
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978-0911015928
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STATES Jennifer Pashley |
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Valerie Miner calls Paula Coomer's first collection of short
fiction "witty, hard-hitting, melancholy and passionate . . . . Her fine
work is characterized by a palpable sense of place as well as by a strong
compassion for, indeed love for, her idiosyncratic characters." Idaho
author Mary Clearman-Blew remarks that Coomer's "stories are as sparkling
and unexpected as found pennies, with their promise of pleasure in turning the
next page." Coomer's debut is stunning.
$15 · ISBN-10: 091101585X
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Summer of Government Cheese Paula Coomer |
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Judith Strasser's "The Reason/Unreason Project" is
the 2006 winner of the Expedition Award from Lewis-Clark Press. Wisconsin Poet
Ronald Wallace remarks, "Drawing on the lore and language of science, with
a capacious intelligence, a dark humor, and an always companionable voice,
Judith Strasser explores questions of belief, faith, hope, and remorse.
Roustabout, magician, prestidigitator, she never hesitates to take on the
ineffable, the invisible, the 'lovely mess of life.' In a world best explained
by chaos theory, in which the biology of cancer, the physics of divorce, and
the astronomy of loss invade our familiar landscapes, these eloquent poems have
a natural buoyancy. What this affectionate and memorable collection finally
provides is no less than 'instructions for staying alive.'"
$16 · ISBN-10: 0911015620
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978-0911015621
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The Reason/Unreason Project Judith Strasser |