In response to the success of the original edition of SELECTED POEMS, Concrete Mist Press is pleased to release SELECTED POEMS: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT...an enhanced, enlarged, expanded edition of the original volume, with 172 added pages...82 additional poems...and illustrations by internationally acclaimed artist Janne Karlsson. This book, edited by Eileen Murphy, contains poems chosen from the 5 decade career of this highly influential minimalist icon. 
Praise for this book includes:\n“Stark, painful, vulnerable, between the spaces of his lines, John Yamrus reveals his true self.”\nMaxim W. Furek, rock journalist and paranormal researcher\n"John Yamrus chips away at the clay of life leaving only honest words carved into the pages of time."\nJake St. John, author of Night Full Of Diamonds\n"In spite of his extensive catalog, John Yamrus doesn’t identify as a poet . He’s like Schrödinger’s cat in that he is and isn’t at the same time, depending on definition and time of day. Without titles, Yamrus’ words are sparse yet plentiful. Each poem a morsel, satisfying but leaving you saying, Why not another?"\nTim Heerdink, author of Final Flight as the Fog Becomes Night\n“Yamrus’s poems endure.”\nDon Botch, Reading Eagle\n"John Yamrus is a poet who asks very little. Read the work, it speaks for itself."\nTohm Bakelas, author of Punk Poets Are Pretentious Assholes and editor of Between Shadows Press

Selected Poems: The Director's Cut

Literature & Fiction

Yamrus, John

Literary

Concrete Mist Press

Tangential Dithyrambs

Brocker, H. Atom

Poetry

Silvia Scheibli new book of poetry, "In the House of Rain," contains nature poetry inspired by locations in the southwest United States. Shy is an internationally acclaimed poet who is the author of six previous collections of poetry.

The Abandon

Focks, Red

Humor & Satire

After the huge success of his acclaimed trilogy of slim memoirs (FIVE DOGS, RMA and MEMORY LANE), John Yamrus returns to poetry with SMALL TALK, which continues and expands the scope of his highly innovative, conversational verse.

Small Talk

Sex & Ketchup

Murphy, Mish

Hot on the heels of his hugely popular memoirs RMA and MEMORY LANE, internationally known poet John Yamrus shines his light on the five dogs he's shared his life with over the years. Touching, tender, heartfelt and funny, FIVE DOGS is a wonderful reminder of why they're known as man's best friend.

Five Dogs

The Dialogics remains an investigation that blazes with insight. Heller Levinson and Will Alexander condense dialogue to such a degree that its internal beacon dazzles with ideas. They spontaneously retain natural inevitability igniting idea after idea so that they seem to blur and then crystallize ad infinitum. This brief book of condensed insight seems always to conjoin with the reader not through didactic engendering but via lingual spell that is vertiginous by nature and so by its power of verbal irrigation leaves internal identity powerfully cleansed.

Dialogics

Politics & Social Sciences

Alexander, Will

Levinson, Heller

Philosophy

Gunpowder for Single-ball Poems

Britt, Alan

In Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Beukes sets the sights of his moral compass straight at the corrupted systems and institutions that control the global levers of power. His poems pour out with laments that decry the injustices perpetrated against everyday citizens by governments, financial oligarchs, big tech monopolies, and military adventurists who have upturned modern civilization through their craven lust for complete dominance over the earth's terrain as well as in the minds of its people. In other selections, Beukes journeys into the spiritual realm, pondering about God, exploring the meaning of faith, spiraling with the DNA of generations past, and tuning into the echo communicated by lost loved ones that reverberates back beyond the veil to comfort those who carry on in memory of their cherished legacies. Throughout the pages of this collection, no matter the daunting nature of the problems detailed, there remains a persistent will to shine ever brighter despite the dark forces that seek to dampen the spirit of humanity and its collective destiny of awakened ascension. - Scott Thomas Outlar, author of Abstract Visions of Light and Of Sand and Sugar

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI: Thus Passes the Glory of the World

Beukes, Don

Concrete Mist Press Anthology

Writers, Contemporary

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