Poetry. &amp; ON THE EIGHTH DAY is a series of poems writted during an intensive spiritual retreat. "Late at night while listening to the sounds outside my cabin, I would record simple observations of the countryside, such as the light through the redwoods, the sparkling morning dew, &amp; the loudvoiced caws of a raven who seemed never to be far away The results are a series of watercolor landscapes."

& on the Eighth Day: On Retreat in the Redwoods

Literature & Fiction

Damon, Stephen

Poetry

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Poetry. "Myrna Stone, in HOW ELSE TO LOVE THE WORLD, seems to ask what can redeem 'the addle and dross the hours devise' (her fine phrase from the title poem). One answer the book provides is 'this carnal life,' whether manifested in human touch or on painted canvas ('stroke of flesh and brush'). The scenes depicted may be tawdry or elegant, voluptuous or corrupt, but Stone's writing is always crisp with precision and civility. Her forms are as diverse as the painters she calls up, from Bruegel to John Singer Sargent. Reading Stone, I think of John Donne. Like him, she delights in wit and desire and the sweet coupling of word and word"--Elton Glaser.

How Else to Love the World

Stone, Myrna

Poetry. Drawings by Peter Szasz. As many have noted, limericks seem to be programmed in our genes. And interestingly, nonbawdy or "clean" limericks, or as Bob Scher calls them, limes, predate the bawdy ones. Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, and W.S. Gilbert all employed perfect or nearperfect limes in their works. However, a lime capable of standing on its own requires a twist or a neat turn in the last line, which is true of none of the above. Nor was it necessary since in these cases the verses are all part of longer works, some consisting entirely of limes. These are limes in form, but not in essence.

There's a Hole in Your Sky: Limericks You Can Tell to Anyone

Humor & Entertainment

Scher, Bob

Humor

Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. In EXILE AND RETURN, the author re-creates the ancient telling of the Passover story based on his lifelong academic interest in comparative religion and longtime experience with Zen. "Listen to this tale that I first heard from my grandmother, who heard it from hers who had heard it from her grandmother and so on all the way back to as far back as anyone can remember. I hope I get it right, just the way I heard it, not adding and not subtracting, just telling."

Exile and Return: Passover Haggadah

History & Criticism

Songs for the True Dharma Eye: Verse Comments on Dogen's Shobogenzo

Leighton, Taigen Dan

Poetry. Both Garison Keilor and Ted Kooser have used selections of these accessible and humorous poems for their radio and internet shows.

Sweeping the Cemetery

David Lee Garrison

Poetry. AS IF THE SKY WERE OPEN is a delightful collection of new and selected poems. Chapter Headings include: The Reality of Words, Love of Many Kinds, Emptiness, and Higher Matters. "Like the door in one of the poems, they open simultaneously inward and outward on the immediacy and momentousness of living and loving, changing and dying, sight and insight"--Albert Gelpi.

As if the Sky Were Open: Selected Poems

Literary

Poetry. Penelope Duckworth's first full collection of poetry, A COMMON GLORY, travels the outer landscape of the natural world exploring her roots in the farmland of southern Ohio; family place as she moved west and traveled abroad; and sacred space as she explored her spiritual heritage through study and priesthood in the Episcopal Church. Her poems also chronicle the inner landscape of grief for the deaths of her sister and father; of women's lives as she probes the stories of women in scripture, as well as touching her own occasions for joy, outrage, forgiveness, and gratitude. Working both in traditional forms and free verse, this accessible collection is a strong companion to her other writings. "Carrying the sound of plain chant and wearing the scent of the sea, Penelope Duckworth's generous, deeply-felt poems record, witness, and celebrate each image, thought, and story they so richly bring forward and keep." —Jane Hirshfield "Penelope Duckworth's A COMMON GLORY is by turns lyrical, elegiac, and narrative. But no matter the form, each poem deftly considers our inherited world with gratitude and reverence, displaying the religious visionary's urge to humbly praise all that God has made." —Ron Hansen

A Common Glory

Duckworth, Penelope

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Yiddish, Edited, and Introduced by Marcia Falk. WITH TEETH IN THE EARTH is the first full-length collection in English of the poetry of acclaimed Yiddish-American poet Malka Heifetz Tussman. Selected from her six books of verse and from a last unpublished manuscript, these poems reflect her love of nature, her deep enjoyment of the physical and sensual world, and her experience of spirituality. "[Tussman's] elegant, deft lyrics subvert the central myth of women's lives: the belief that happiness and fulfillment come from devotion to others.... Marcia Falk has gracefully and intelligently captured Tussman's subtle ironic tone"—Miriam Levine, American Book Review.

With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman

Tussman, Malka

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