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Visited by the hard weather of melancholy and harsh truth, the terrain of this collection fills with shadows and stone, sorrows and ash - its world broken by a daughter's violent death. But such...

A Spirited Escape: Wilderness Empathy Teaches Response to Sociopathic Vendetta Fabulous book! I loved this story. It brought back to life that summer, my experiences at Holden (2002). Nancy A...

"A Walking Cliche Coins a Phrase is an utterly unique book of poems. Despite the subtitle, this is a book of poems, filled with true wit (strange things go on in this man's head!), strong music, a...

With the sprawling celebration of Walt Whitman and the meditative concentration of Mary Oliver, Accidental Joy is more than a poetic monologue-it is a personal epic. It is private prayer and public...

In these poems of a life well lived, Stephanie Kaplan Cohen shares feelings and observations most people choose to deny. She gracefully gives her reader permission to feel and become as authentic as...

Most of the time, as a poet, Lynn Strongin is rather up in the abstract clouds as a poet. Magnificent, but off in the world of decipherable beauty that isn't all that easy to decipher. But here in...

In the spring of 58 BCE the Celtic tribe of Helvetii, then settled in present-day west -central Switzerland and pressured by Germanic tribes from across the Rhine River, voted to migrate to lands in...

Julius Caesar's political successes at Rome earn him governorship of two provinces and three legions. Although absent, he effectively runs the government with Pompey and Crassus. After Caesar's...

Altars of Ordinary Light, in part, revives powerful memories of a coastal childhood with imagery as sharp as the scent of low tide in a salt marsh. June Sylvester Saraceno focuses a subject, adjusts...

Today, cancer seems to touch every family. This anthology of poems from local, statewide, national, and international poets explores the feelings of cancer through the eyes of cancer victims and...

America Abroad is part adventure and part history, told in crisp narrative poems rich in imagery. With the keen eye of an historian, David Radavich explores America's complex history of discovery,...

In this richly polyphonic text, Radavich couples narrative verse with interlocking dramatic monologues to deliver a revisionist history of America since the second World War - an account across...

Norton flexes his literary muscles and takes on an impressive breadth of topics in these gritty, passionate tales. He turns genres inside out, has a hell of an ear for dialogue and knows how to tell...

Ancient Water invites the reader to think about the Earth's growing water crisis and the corporate giants willing to do almost anything to control water in the name of higher profits. A scientist,...

Nadell Fishman takes the subjects of ordinary women's lives and not only delves beneath them but sets them slightly askew so that we see them from fresh new angles. In this world, for instance,...

. . . dramatic, tender, funny, frightening, earthy, quirky, wise and heart-warming. The tale of young Christa and her family as they leave a comfortable home to become penniless immigrants in their...

When Professor Robin Greene tells a freshman composition class about her scholarly interest in women's narratives, Samantha Henderson, an African American student, invites Greene to meet her...

Kudos to Eleanor Swanson. In this suspenseful family tragedy, she renders in affecting detail the existential mesh of human interaction in which our intention to protect others unleashes the anguish...

These are the poems of an honest seeker. In an age when so many poets hide behind the wall of irony, I'm grateful for a young poet who is willing to stand out in the open and risk a sincere approach...

"The narrative is powerful, well-written, often hair-raising. It is energetic and sorrowful writing." Robert Bly, National Book Club Award winner and author of #1 NY Times Bestseller "Iron John" ...

Carefully crafted poetry capturing a still point within as it is reflected in nature - alongside a pond, a flock of birds, light in the sky of the mind. "Transforming her daily moments into flowers,...

Walking Home at Dusk Fireflies trail like sparks from a still-smoldering day. The crescent moon harvests clouds while corn falls quiet under evening mists. Crickets have one thing to say: this, this...

Stephanie Kaplan Cohen's poems are indelible because they are incredibly funny, genuine and are rooted in a complicated sympathy for herself and all those she thinks about and loves. She blurts out...

"Now I know Bertie Stroup Marah is as heartfelt and talented a writer as she is a painter. I cannot convey how touched I was by her story. We are a product of our families, aren't we all? We take the...

A cycle of poems spoken in the voice of a commiunity of swimmers and environmentalists who gather at one of the most beautiful natural springs in the US. "Breathing Under Water" is an anthology of...

Though a novel, Bringing Vincent Home reads like the finest memoir, so authentic and convincing that at times I found myself turning back to the title page to be sure it was a work of fiction. Rarely...

An American poet, repatriated in the land of her ancestors, Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a consummate storyteller. Lucid, precise, and unflinching, Broken Greek stands up to comparison with previous...

Jack Coulehan's latest collection of poems arises from the uncertainties, pain, and limitations of medical practice where moments of insight and joy are bursting with danger and music. ---------- ...

A butterfly-this butterfly, Evelyn, has moved out of the painful cocoon of abuse to fly! Her memoir is a powerful testament to courage under fire. What a testament of grace and guts! Evelyn's...

The poetry of Eileen Berry distills recollection into its essence, and this present collection reminds us once again of how good she is at this. As she plunges into deepest memory, her images are so...