What I want to say about blood/ is not acceptable. Women/ must not discuss the warm clots/ that slip between their thighs,/ the fear that sometimes/ this won’t stop and soon your life/ will drain away. What I want/ to say about blood has to do/ with men…/ 
Cover art from an original painting by Ann Bowker.

Still Life in the Physical World

Literature & Fiction

Gayle Kaune

Poetry

Blue Begonia Press

There must be a dark the eyes/  have adjusted to, have gained/  employment within,/  measuring the values/  of copper canisters, the stain of a seventh red/  in the rhododendron on the sill./    Cover art from an original Sumi painting by   Priscilla Maynard.

Beethoven and the Birds

Skillman, Judith

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Now the Day is Over (Women's Poetry Series)

Joan Fiset

Biographies & Memoirs

Orgasm is the dark brightness./ Its word doesn’t rise/ easily to the tongue/ nor fall from it gently/ once there./ We shirk its clinical gloss/ of the unspeakable,/ blinking in its laboratory light./ 
from After A winter of Snow,/ We Finally Get Back To Third Beach

Clearwater

Alice Derry

Linda Brown's years of listening to other people's stories serve her well in telling her mother's story beyond the facts of Alzheimer's. She also bears witness to the men and other women who have learned a new rhythm for their days. We recognize ourselves standing just beyond this walled garden. Brown invites us into the corridors of nursing homes. She doesn't gloss over the isolation of the sick and the dying, but tells the larger stories of people she has come to know in her weekly visits to feed a mother who waters plastic flowers, who puts on three blouses at a time. Brown invites us to step into 'secret waters'. Her vision is personal: men and women have names and stories that make us laugh, wince, and wink, sometimes all at the same time. We know these stories. This is our family. That is the secret. Jane Schwab

Secret Waters (Women's Poetry)

Self-Help

Linda C. Brown

Relationships

When I wish for you,/ it is too dark for crows./ Your hand rests in the hollow/ I leave behind. It is two hours/ before light, and this morning/ will last for days. In full light/ you will wrap yourself in fiction,/ turn pages slowly, savor the cut/ of fine print on crisp paper./ 
from In My Most Recent Prayer 
In Everywhere Was Far, Kevin Miller makes our familiar Northwest landscape and seascape altogether new. He resists the quick slide to transcendence…The higher truths await, though: Fleeting herons slip shadow over shadow,/ keep light away in layers, make paper of us,/ We struggle to fasten a place that will keep.

Everywhere Was Far (Shadowmark Poetry Series, Vol. 4)

Miller, Kevin

Loving in Time of War

Aliesan, Jody

The Son We Had

John Willson

Abrecaminos: Opening the Ways: An Anthology of Story, Poetry, Testimony Abre means to open. Caminos means way. An abrecaminos is one who opens the way, who makes a way where there is no way. One who opens one way opens many ways. These young writers explore their worlds in two anthologies accompanied by the literature of the best Latino/a writers. Each book begins with a writing peregrinage/pilgrimage to Macchu Picchu accompanied by Pablo Neruda’s Las Alturas de Macchu Picchu, and this principio/principle: The way up is the way down. Their work here includes long, personal transformational poems exploring border crossings that are geographical, political and personal. Essays and stories are first documents. They witness to loss, migration, arrival. Writers explore archetypal images of women in Latin American culture, by reading and writing to, famous women in the culture, including Malinche, Guadalupe, Sor Juana, Rosario Castellanos, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Interview with their mothers are first family documents in a new country. Telling their stories to their children, the mothers anchor, and give place names to the towns and ranchos from where many of these families have emigrated. They reveal the range of experiences these families bring to a new country. Interviews with farm workers show first experiences in Yakima Valley in Eastern Washington. Written mostly in English, but going back and forth between languages, and sometimes remaining in Spanish, many of these writers are bilingual on the way to becoming bicultural. These books, which include photos of each writer and families interviewed, along with an extensive About the Author and Vocabulario sections that are documents meant to enhance understanding of the talents of these writers, as well as the complexity of the journey. The truths of their lives takes care of a great deal of misunderstanding. The fact of their beauty and stories stands in direct contradiction to their press. Photography by Rob Prout and Jim Bodeen

Seeking Light in Each Dark Room / Buscando Luz en Cada Cuarto Oscuro

"The house next door/  burned down that summer/ and was torn apart./ Even the foundation/  was coming out./ We lived so close,/  a lilac tree touched both houses./ One side of it burned." from In the Easement of Absent Ties

The Reservoir

Peters, Dan

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