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The ancient Chinese poets loved ambiguity, loved paradox, and would have loved the puzzling, reality-defying entanglements that frustrate and fascinate us today. Rob Jacques hears these poets,...

The world is full of mysteries: things that appear on our path momentarily and then are gone. These poems pay close attention to both the surprising and the ordinary mysteries of life, responding...

Emmett Wheatfall's As Clean as a Bone is a collection of poems for both the heart and the mind, a collection seasoned with the vital and invigorating salt of poetry and wisdom. "Can we sing a new...

The poems in Jeffrey L. Johnson's collection, Babylon, trace paths we travel and describe places we occupy. These poems explore aspects of our perceptions of place.Author: Jeffrey JohnsonPublisher:...

blue and blue and blue conveys the overwhelming importance of having (every so often) a complete washing off of your desire for success. Heading to the sea or the ocean on a trip is a classic setting...

Bower Lodge : PoemsAuthor: Paul PastorPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Dec 10, 2021Number of Pages: 156 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1594980748ISBN-13: 9781594980749

Bornman's poetry exudes a wisdom drawn from introspection and solitude that is reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's. Bornman's poetry reveals what readers of scripture should have seen all along:...

But There's So Much DIY in IVF That We Can't Be Sure brings together the story of two couples, finding overlap in the grief of infertility even as their lives are seemingly far apart.Author: Toby...

An invitation into the lives of women in the church-prophetesses, wives, saints, mothers, martyrs, daughters, and anyone who has been a tender of a family or community. Through lush descriptions,...

For years, Bryan and Bethany Lee dreamed of traveling by sailboat in the Pacific Ocean. They spent a decade preparing along with their two young children, and finally, when their kids were in middle...

Coral CastlesAuthor: Carol BialockPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Jun 28, 2019Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1594980608ISBN-13: 9781594980602

Franchot Ballinger shares his experience of the Ohio River Valley, what it means to live aware in a place, to be rooted and anchored to Here and, therefore, also to Now.Author: Franchot...

In death will come, poet Bill Denham attempts what is nearly impossible, coming to terms with the approaching end of life without nostalgia or sentimentality. And in this collection, he succeeds,...

Dervish LionsAuthor: Tiel Aisha AnsariPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Jan 28, 2022Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1594980829ISBN-13: 9781594980824

Consciousness and the body cooperate with each other as well as oppose each other as they move from their union at birth through the dust and dragons of space and time to their separation at death...

Begin here, says Bethany Lee, in her inspirational new collection, Etude for Belonging. "Now is the time for us to take courage." And as you answer this invitation, you will find courage indeed, here...

Every Transmission is about the erosion of our mechanical relationships and the movement to natural forms. This book is not a linear narrative but a collection of moments in lyric that world-build,...

These poems, rooted in the mountains and forests of Appalachia, wonder after the insecurities of growing up, the fragility of fatherhood, and the longing that haunts us as we search for stability and...

Carolyn Adams invites you to explore the secret places of the natural world, carrying with you the fears, wonder, and curiosity of what it means to be human. Layered within the four seasons, the...

Andrea Potos's poems are permeated by an expansive sense of kinship. Blood family are precious, but equally intimate are luminary writers with whom she finds soul connections. Although most of these...

Hollow - 9781594980794Author: Mesa&Ndel Virtusio ArguellesPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Feb 04, 2022Number of Pages: 142 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Home Beneath The ChurchAuthor: Lauren DavisPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Jan 28, 2022Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1594980810ISBN-13: 9781594980817

This book is dedicated to those suffering from mental illnessAuthor: Sherri LevinePublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Aug 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

to the water signs who made me to the loves & lovers who've held me to every version of my self I am trying to love this is how I feel the worldAuthor: Juniper KlattPublisher: Fernwood...

When the ex-wife of an ex-cop with a penchant for TV detectives speculates about her own disappearance, the result is the poems in "If I Go Missing".Author: Carol Lynne KnightPublisher: Fernwood...

The poet leads us on a journey riddled with puzzles, on a search for the narrator. Written, as the poetry says, in a "Braille of clean air."Author: Margaret KogerPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication...

In the Cities of Sleep is a collection of poems centered on the ramifications of a warming world, a world where not only the climate is changing but also the social contract as regions and nations...

Alex Van Huynh's first collection takes us into the deep inquiries of a mind fully engaged with both the known and unknowable. Informed by mythology, history, religion, and science, these poems...

Insistent GraceAuthor: Elizabeth HerronPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Dec 21, 2020Number of Pages: 138 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1594980705ISBN-13: 9781594980701

Moments of ecstatic violation live on, unacknowledged, but making their claim in crippled emotion and an incessant search to master their source. Ahab had his whale, and Ishmael was taken up in the...