The Groggs Have a Wonderful Summer

Bentley, Roy

Bentley, Anne

Children's Books

Dutton Childrens Books

Captain Rottenteeth attacks the harbor of Safeport and demands tribute from Queen Preen, who offers Everett Dymme a reward if he can drive off the pirate

Rottenteeth

Needle, Jan

Moonquake

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Us

A marvellously varied collection of 77 songs, from traditional folk to brand-new pop. There are songs for every mood and every taste - hilarious, sad, merry, thoughtful and richly ridiculous. With guitar chords and simple piano accompaniments. A marvellously varied collection of 77 songs, from traditional folk to brand-new pop. There are songs for every mood and every taste - hilarious, sad, merry, thoughtful and richly ridiculous. With guitar chords and simple piano accompaniments.

Jolly Herring

A & C Black Music

<p>Humor, memory, violence, and elegy twine and separate in these peopled, story-filled, beautifully realized poems filled with characters pressing on through all the loss, disappointment, and ordinary confusions of living.</p>

Starlight Taxi: Poetry

Poetry

Lynx House Press

Any One Man (Midwest Writers Series)

Bottom Dog Pr

An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem “Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July”: Now I’ve lowered a mask over my face The eye-slits don’t fit, and I can’t see. I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone, that neighbors fed us after he left. I’m feeling in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave between us. He tells me to stop horsing around: this close, one of us is likely to get hurt.

Strange Privacies: Poems

Southeast Missouri State Univ Press

<i>American Loneliness</i> is peopled with the famous and the not-so-famous. It is a book tenanted by the Wright Brothers and Nettie Potter Bentley, Joseph Kennedy and James Brown and Jay Gatsby. America, as presented, bests brave women and men alike: "My mother is comfortable with fury. She accepts it. / Like she accepted the contents of the pockets of her / dead brothers, miscellanea handed her in a morgue. / She is a woman who does not defer readily to men." Roy Bentley shows us the world as a kind of Wright Flyer soaring above an Ohio field, the hoped-for miracle we let be enough for now.

American Loneliness

Lost Horse Press

Finalist, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeWalking with Eve in the Loved City is an ambitious collection. Using a variety of male figures—Jeff Goldblum, Ringo Starr, the poet’s uncle Billy, to name a few—these poems skillfully interrogate masculinity and its cultural artifacts, searching for a way to reconcile reverence for the father figure with a crisis of faith about the world as run by men. And yet, despite the gravity of the subjects these poems engage, this is a hopeful, frequently funny book that encourages the reader to look deeply at the world, and then to laugh if she can.Roy Bentley often accomplishes this work through a careful balancing of honesty and misdirection, as when in the poem “Can’t Help Falling in Love” the real drama of the narrative—the appearance of an affair between the speaker’s father and a drive-in restaurant carhop—operates as a backdrop for the eight-year-old speaker’s puerile attraction to the woman; or when the vampire Nosferatu (a frequent figure in the poems) materializes in a trailer park, his immortality becoming a lens through which to process the speaker’s righteous anger about wealth and poverty.God too features prominently—as does doubt. Drawing from the vernacular of his childhood, Bentley accesses the simultaneous austerity and lyrical opulence of the King James Bible to invent stories in which the last note struck is often a call to pay kinder attention. More than anything, these poems serve as humanistic advocates, using the power of narrative—film, interview, imagination, memoir—to highlight how people matter.Walking with Eve in the Loved City invites the reader to join in this watching and witnessing, to take part in renewing how we see.

Walking with Eve in the Loved City: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)

University of Arkansas Press

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