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With stunning clarity, power, and affection, the poems in Paul Martin's River Scar chronicle the coming of age in a Catholic, immigrant family during the middle of the 20th century.Author: Paul...

Rough Sea is a collection of poems that do not shy away from life's complexity. J.P. White's poems vividly portray the natural world as well as human society, both worlds full of cruelty and beauty...

In Ruined Music, the failures that come with living are redeemed by the lyricism, tenderness, and humor of their telling. Valentina Gnup says in one poem, "I want the rain to fall like petals / every...

Sea Nettles: New & Selected PoemsAuthor: Sue Ellen ThompsonPublisher: Grayson BooksPublication Date: Jan 07, 2022Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Shake and TremorAuthor: Deborah BacharachPublisher: Grayson BooksPublication Date: January 12, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733556877ISBN-13: 9781733556873

The poems in this collection consider the "slow wreckage" that comes with advancing years. As well as considering the travails of an aging individual, Barbara Crooker uses a wider lens to examine the...

Song Of The Middle Manager : PoemsAuthor: Richard ColePublisher: Grayson BooksPublication Date: Jan 03, 2022Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1736416847ISBN-13:...

The lyrical poems in Surfacing follow a woman into the wilderness of childbirth and child-rearing. Imbued with vivid details and with elements of the natural world, they are poems of spirit, of...

This collection of poems addresses global warming and climate change. The Biblical figure Noah appears in many of the poems, seeming as real and contemporary as your next-door neighbor. The...

The Ferry Keeper is the winner of the 2024 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest. Judith H. Montgomery cared for her mother and father in their declining years, as well as for her husband in his cancer...

The Full Moon HeraldAuthor: Phyllis KleinPublisher: Grayson BooksPublication Date: Jun 05, 2020Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733556826ISBN-13: 9781733556828

Lovers of art and of poetry will enjoy this poetry collection immensely. Lush poems about specific paintings and artists populate The Goldfish Window and leave the reader wanting more.Author: Lisa...

A tree is cut down and one listens to the silence of its falling after the noise of the chainsaws that cut it down...a slow drench of effort forms itself into sweat, followed by the relief of rain.....

The poems in Patricia Horn O'Brien's collection reflect on the past and impart wisdom for the future. With knowledge and compassion, and many deft turns of phrase, these poems display keen insights...

Poems in The Weight of Kindling focus on three stages of a woman's life: her childhood experiences with a beloved grandmother, her young adult adventures as she backpacks through parts of Europe and...

Thief: poemsAuthor: Jennifer Stewart MillerPublisher: Grayson BooksPublication Date: January 18, 2021Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733556869ISBN-13:...

In her evocative, strikingly beautiful poems, Martha Fox treats a variety of topics with honesty, empathy, and close observation. This Arc of Assurances includes a section of poems that respond to...

Ward Rounds: PoemsAuthor: K Dale BeerninkPublisher: Grayson BooksPublication Date: Feb 15, 2022Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1736416871ISBN-13: 9781736416877

What I Am Always Waiting For: Selected PoemsAuthor: Malcolm MillerPublisher: Grayson BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Each poem in What Word for This explores a word from another language that expresses something we have no term for in English. Certainly language shapes our experience even as it attempts to express...

Poems in this book take the long view. They relate a young woman's escape to American before the Holocaust, although her family, including several sisters, remains in Europe and perishes. Other poems...

Rivers and streams flow through many of the poems in this eloquent book, their quiet currents taking things with them and leaving other things behind. All that is in danger of disappearing from our...