Finishing Line Press

A beautiful and uplifting short story collection featuring thirteen unique journeys of self-discovery and healing.The Healing Book is a collection of short stories about characters searching for...

The poems in Heart Contracts, Sarah Carey's debut collection, are not simple. Spare as candlelight, they are true and they shine. Do not miss this book.Author: Sarah CareyPublisher: Finishing Line...

The Heart Is Not a Pump is a collection of poems that reads like a journal of confidences, mingled with poems that speak to the reverence of the human body and experience. From moments of heartache...

The Heart Never Pretends to Be a Beautiful Muscle is an Ouroboros of the tangible and uncanny. In this visceral collection by Amanda Hartzell, every pleasure features a knifed edge-ice cream cones...

The Heart Never Pretends to Be a Beautiful Muscle is an Ouroboros of the tangible and uncanny. In this visceral collection by Amanda Hartzell, every pleasure features a knifed edge-ice cream cones...

Through the lens of a poet and surgical nurse, The Heart Room explores how the human heart bears witness to the complex realities of love and relationships. "How to Handle a Heart" won first prize in...

To read Christina Quintana's work is to be filled with clarity in the blur and din of our cities, when having 'nothing to mourn' is an 'excuse for an adventure.' Each poem is 'a reminder, an urging'...

These poems are luminous and generous, making room for newts, crickets, stars, and a boundlessly tender view of the human condition. Each poem is laced with affection for humanity, and has a curious,...

The Hidden Wilderness is Linda Ann Suddarth's exploration of "other places" as she calls them. Listen to their litany: sacred space, behind a story, where happiness reigns, some wild space, forever,...

The Hollows Of BoneAuthor: Isabella J. MansfieldPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jan 11, 2019Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163534817XISBN-13:...

The poems in Isabella J. Mansfield's The Hollows of Bone oscillate between caring and not caring, between apathy and "its hands around a heart" - the speaker's heart - and the pain this 'not caring'...

The poems in Isabella J. Mansfield's The Hollows of Bone oscillate between caring and not caring, between apathy and "its hands around a heart" - the speaker's heart - and the pain this 'not caring'...

Author: Kristina HakansonPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 11, 2022Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646627571ISBN-13: 9781646627578

The Hour Of DepartureAuthor: Sonja de VriesPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jan 25, 2019Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163534820XISBN-13:...

Take a journey with Chris Arvidson from the English Lake District to Jerusalem, El Salvador, and the North Carolina mountains. Arvidson's poems will provoke both laughter and thought.Author: Chris...

In The House Was Quiet, But the Mind Was Anxious, Nancy Dafoe makes a palimpsestic variation with the title poem that both acknowledges and redresses one of Wallace Stevens' seminal poetic...

In The House Was Quiet, But the Mind Was Anxious, Nancy Dafoe makes a palimpsestic variation with the title poem that both acknowledges and redresses one of Wallace Stevens' seminal poetic...

The Hundredth Hour explores the experience of becoming a mother, in all of its delirium, joy, magic and brutality. The poems are both heartfelt and absurd, particular and universal. They both...

The Idea of Leaves Within the Dying TreeAuthor: Brendan TodtPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 29, 2015Number of Pages: 40 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Like the best songs, Julie Choffel's The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love is a poem fueled by desire. To have "so many / ways to say I want" is dangerous and selfish, we've heard: we should...

The Invented Mother explores cultural notions and daily realities of our most elemental relationships, as well as gender, sexuality, nature and creation. It's poems are full of wonder: What is a...

Author: Amber Rose CrowtreePublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 05, 2021Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646626818ISBN-13: 9781646626816

Author: Elaine OlundPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 06, 2020Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646623479ISBN-13: 9781646623471

Author: Michael WilliamsPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 22, 2017Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635343739ISBN-13: 9781635343731

Author: Marcia BlackerPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 14, 2018Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635348129ISBN-13: 9781635348125

The Lady of the Lake Had Bouffant Hair is a book of poems which explore the life of a neglected girl, growing up in the 1970's and 1980's, who suffered a tragic childhood at the hands of her broken...

The Lady of the Lake Had Bouffant Hair is a book of poems which explore the life of a neglected girl, growing up in the 1970's and 1980's, who suffered a tragic childhood at the hands of her broken...

Author: Rose BrombergPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jun 08, 2018Number of Pages: 28 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/PoetryISBN-10: 1635344913ISBN-13: 9781635344912

Whether its serving those who come to a soup kitchen to receive a warm meal and some respite from the streets, taking solace in observing birds in nature, dealing with her own son's addiction as he...

The Last ExileAuthor: Gustavo Pérez FirmatPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2016Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944251715ISBN-13:...