Coyote Bush
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ISBN 978-0-9778429-5-7, 69 pages, paper
Coyote Bush is a book that pays homage to the earth. Nash praises stars and their constellations, clouds and the wind and on earth, the horses, cows, deer, and dogs, who blessedly live without language. In these poems of place, Nash traces and retraces his time-worm paths into the hills of Northern California. He is content at times just to watch the light change or lie down in the hollow a pregnant doe has made the night before. These are poems of refuge but also of the discovery -- Nash finds his place among the elements, firmly rooted between earth and sky.
Beirut Again
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ISBN 978-9778429-4-0, 75 pages, paper
Allen West’s new book of poetry, begins with his childhood in Beirut where he was born in 1930. The poems follow the trajectory of his return to the U.S. and his life through marriage, the death of his father and his wife, the return to Beirut in the 21st century. West’s roots in the Middle East are deep: his father was born in Beirut, his grandmother in Damascus.
All through this sensuous, graceful book West retains a childhood freshness. He treats life’s hardships with a light but serious touch, moving deftly from the dizziness of first love to the pathos of tending his dying wife.
A Darker, Sweeter String
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ISBN: 978-0-9778429-1-9, 75 pages, paper
In this poetry of the moral imagination, Lee Sharkey explores the psychic landscape of cruelty, violence, and war. Her lyric poems draw their imagery from Israel/Palestine, Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, and small town USA, as well as from the intimate domains of sickness and birth. Sharkey responds to our endangered post-9/11 world with courage and clear-eyed tenderness. In a political climate that threatens sanity, she has composed a music of daring empathy.
Loyalty
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 0- 9778429-0-8, 123 pages, paper
The poems are strong, impressive, learned without needing to be scholarly; loving and often surprising in the way they pull a conclusion out of darkness. . . . The work is very rich and diverse, although [he] keeps to his style faithfully. . . . [His] style is there, very solid—and bless it! . . . Wonderfully concise bringing together of wonder, closeness and immense distances!
Staircase of Roots
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ISBN: 978-0-9778439-0-3-3, 77 pages, paper
In her first full-length collection, Janet Winans brings an astute eye to two lives: urban beginnings in San Francisco and her present life in an Arizona hamlet, amidst thin populations, scattered tribes, and lost towns. What holds the two worlds in common is her way of finding habitats “between the cracks, / beyond the lines.” In both worlds, her chutzpah is a joy, whether as a child dashing down a beach in the knowledge that “No one was ever swifter nor / surer, no one more resolute” – or as a woman riding toward home down a familiar horse trail “over a staircase of roots,” she and the horse sometimes stopping to “lick drinks from shale / slick and gray as clay.”
Adam’s Ribs
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ISBN: 978-0-9778429-2-6, 80 pages, paper
In these poems Adams stakes his claim to be the new American Adam, and his bona fides is an eye and ear that perceive and shape with the double perception of innocence and experience. Reading Adams’ poems is like riding with him on his Harley, “footpeg scraping sparks from the concrete. . . .”