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A Summer Ago is a novel set in the rural South in Polk County, Tennessee in the early 20th Century. One summer in a boy's life stands as a landmark on his passage into adulthood.Author: George...

Robert B. Cumming, the longtime publisher of Iris Press, has been writing poetry for over twenty-five years. After All collects some of Cumming's sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, and free verse. He...

During the pandemic Bill Brown started reading friends' poems that he loved. He chose a quote from each poem, and he wrote a tribute poem as a response. That is how this book, After Reading, got its...

Among the Believers by Ron Rash is a book of poetry set in the mountains of the western Carolinas. The book also has an introduction by Anthony Hecht.Author: Ron RashPublisher: Iris PressPublication...

Available Light is a poetry collection that illuminates what it means to be human. Balancing themes of doubt with faith, and loss with acceptance, the collection remains fiercely hopeful through the...

Black Laurel by Michele Poulos is a collection of poems, intimate elegiac gestures honor landscapes and individuals we have lost to history. Resonant and oracular, her poems travel the world, from...

Music is the motif, the pulse, of these poems. From Americana, Folk, and Bluegrass, to Country, Gospel, Blues, and Rock, Blood Harmony potently depicts the interconnectedness of musical genres...

Body BrailleAuthor: Beth GylysPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: May 21, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1604542608ISBN-13: 9781604542608

Candescent - 9781604542578Author: Linda ParsonsPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2019Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1604542578ISBN-13: 9781604542578

The poems in Darwin's Breath ponder fossils embedded into earth's oldest mountains, explore thoughts of the mockingbird with her distinct cells "rising on the wind," travel through memories of a...

KB Ballentine gathers poems into four sections that honor the ancient rhythms of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Edge of the Echo explores these elements and how they weave through the human experience...

Everything in the Universe, a company founded by Norm Sperling and located in Oakland, California, offers astronomical products and services. The company features books, back issues of astronomical...

Human is a chapbook that consists of four poems dealing with environmental issues and the great difficulties we have in dealing with them. In addition to the loss of species and diversity on this...

In the backhoe's shadow, one takes a brief rest in the midst of responsibilities and needs, considering what comes next. In his debut poetry collection, ... Thomas Alan Holmes offers a measured...

In her new book, Kaleidoscope, as in her other books of poems, Barr is concerned with acts of perception. In Kaleidoscope, Barr's poems reconfigure smaller and larger worlds in the way multiples in a...

The idea of home, the magic of story, and the healing power of nature inform the poems in Late Winter. Yet, Bill Brown understands that loss and grief, breaking and mending deepen the human...

Less Obvious Gods by Lisa Coffman is a book of poetry.Author: Lisa CoffmanPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: May 01, 2013Number of Pages: 84 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Lost on Purpose is a universe of portals, a poetry collection that offers the rare invitation to be both observer and intimate, taking in the reverie of landscape and lover, travel and art. Head's...

Lunchboxes, by Dan Veach, preserves in the amber of poetry a classic 1950s Southern California childhood, complete with Superman capes, coonskin caps, cap pistols, and lunchboxes which, like this...

In Making a Map of the River, award-winning poet Thorpe Moeckel focuses his rueful, tender attention on the spectrum of being-family, work, play, nature, home--sometimes all at once. The river in...

Mother Land is a story told in poetry -- the story of a mother with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, of a grandmother who tried to hold things together, and of a stepmother who took in the young girl...

Old North by Tony Reevy is a book of poems about the places, history and culture of North Carolina.Author: Tony ReevyPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: May 15, 2013Number of Pages: 96...

Passage is a book of poetry. Passage tells the story of a Central European family who immigrated to the United States-what they found, what they gained, and what they lost. The poems in the book show...

Raising the Dead by Ron Rash is a collection of poetry.Many of the poems are set in the Southern Appalachian mountains.Author: Ron RashPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: Feb 14, 2013Number of...

Red Lanterns is a collection of new poetry that navigates a borderland between the seen world and the spirit world. Occupying a tangible world is expected of us humans. We have been taught to trust...

In Socorro, poet and non-fiction author Tony Reevy (Old North, Passage) revisits his childhood hometown, Socorro, New Mexico. Although the largest community for miles in any direction, Socorro is...

The poems in The Book of Awe remind us through images of the natural world--clover, vetch, chickadees, honey bees, rainbow trout--that awe is rooted in the simplicity of awareness. Awe, we're...

The Headless AngelAuthor: Bill BrownPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: Mar 20, 2020Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1604542632ISBN-13: 9781604542639

Ultimately, we all end up losers, at least to the atheist or agnostic, but The Least by Mac Gay documents a sample of the myriad that get a head start, whether as the unfortunate, the infamous, or...

The News Inside by Bill Brown is a book of poetry. Many of the poems deal with the natural world in the Southeastern United States, as well as, the poet's memories of growing up in Western Tennessee...