Story Line Press

Author: Joan McBreenPublisher: Story Line PressPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1586540637ISBN-13: 9781586540630

The presiding spirit behind Ginger Andrews first book, An Honest Answer, must be William Carlos Williams. When he said he wrote in the speech of Polish mothers, he could have included the American...

Breath in Every Room intertwines parents and children with encounters in the natural world. Ranging from birds in the forest to a boy's captured frogs, from rattlesnakes in the prairie to a bat...

This collection of poetry by the editor of EXPANSIVE POETRY, focuses on life in New York--in language alternately hip, and nostalgic, the ten characters in "Nomads" focus on abortion, divorce, the...

Counterpoint, David Alpaugh's first collection of poems, was selected from more than 800 manuscripts to receive the 1994 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Praised by the judges for their zany energy and...

The poems in Excontemporary provide sharp observations of an inner life formed by daily experiences, both ordinary and extraordinary. Jousting with form and language, they combine image and idea in a...

This book is about Latina identity, a timely subject in today's America. The author's journey begins as she, full of love for Mexico and its culture despite her closest blood connection being her...

One of the leading practitioners of Expansive Poetry, Turner asks in his introduction, Suppose there could be a poetry, even a scientific description of reality, that left undamaged the principles,...

In the forty poems of her first full-length book, House Without a Dreamer, winner of the 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Andrea Hollander explores the complicated emotions that accompany both...

Author: Lola HaskinsPublisher: Story Line PressPublication Date: June 29, 2021Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1586540610ISBN-13: 9781586540616

Hurricane Sisters, award-winning poet Ginger Andrews' second collection, contains poems of fierce candor and sharp, unique awareness from the perspective of Andrews herself, a cleaning woman in North...

Author: NaPublisher: Story Line PressPublication Date: Apr 19, 2022Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1586543571ISBN-13: 9781586543570

Structured like the movements of a New Orleans jazz funeral, this all-sonnet collection deals with death, loss, war, disaster, the binding power of community, and the celebratory spirit that...

Author: John TaylorPublisher: Story Line PressPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1586541048ISBN-13: 9781586541040

This edition brings together selected poems from all six previous editions of Frederick Feirstein's poetry published between 1974 and 1997. Feirstein is one of the founders of Expansive Poetry which...

The precise gaze and chiseled language of the poems in Oldest Mortal Myth authoritatively convey a broad and deep knowledge. Whether a reimagining a Greek myth in order to infuse it with a...

This book-length poem chronicles a family's experience from the 1950s through the 1990s. The 1950s section was selected by Donald Hall for inclusion in the Best American Poetry series. The poet's...

Stephen Gibson's poems are the work of a serious, intent, often appalled tourist. The word might look like a putdown, but his subject is the glamour and horror of history, and when it comes to the...

Scene of the Crime exposes the poet's inner criminality, where matricide and mother tongue engage in diabolic discourse. Confessing her outlaw sexuality, Ransom grapples with feminist theory and...

Six Mile Mountain is the seventh of Richard Tillinghast's twelve collections of poetry. The poems in this book, sometimes political in emphasis, sometimes sensual, sometimes elegiac, are rooted in...

The Adventure is an afterlife voyage like The Divine Comedy. Dante had the law of symbolic retribution and distinct places to put people. The Adventure has neither. If you seek a guiding principle,...

Sharon Hashimoto explores themes of what is heard and misinterpreted, what is left unexplained, and what is passed down in The Crane Wife. In these pieces, the Sansei poet leafs through old...

The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human drama of classical proportions. Behind the facade of antebellum Southern plantation life unfolds a...

The Enemies of Leisure, a collection drawn from a decade of writing, wonders about the odd paradoxes of pleasure and mindfulness, leisure and labor, invisibility and truth. Bound by Aristotle's...

The Island begins with a haunting 1848 journal entry from a man jailed on Spike Island in Ireland: Gazing on grey stones, my eyes will grow stony." Nearly 150 years later, Rosemary Canavan, an...

THE LONG CONVERSATION combines David Dooley's books THE VOLCANO INSIDE and THE REVENGE BY LOVE to create an extended dialogue between past and present, between stories of everyday life and accounts...

Each person lives but a single life--yet this is not wholly true. While our lives progress as a result of the choices we make--this career, that husband, this town, that house--we are left imagining...

Author: John TaylorPublisher: Story Line PressPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1586541064ISBN-13: 9781586541064

Author: Mark JarmanPublisher: Story Line PressPublication Date: Mar 15, 2022Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 158654361XISBN-13: 9781586543617

Alane Rollings's large, inclusive, self-questioning poems meditate on the nature of love and its accompanying mysteries. Here at last is a moving, completely contemporary record, a book of intimate...