The Mojave Road At Last

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Conflux Press

Brian Tracy’s exquisite poems evoke those “ghostlier demarcations” summoned by Wallace Stevens, another poet for whom the sea is muse. Because Tracy is a poet of powerful restraint and beautiful nuance, The Distance Between Shores is a book of delicately suspended, liminal spaces, spaces in which one hears whispers from the other world as well as “the howl and hunger” of this one. — Gail Wronsky, author of Poems for Infidels and Dying for Beauty.

The Distance Between Shores

Brian Michael Tracy

The poems in Keven Bellows' latest collection, The Blue Darter, are consistently profound and surprising, highly visual and honest, full of grace and pain and humor. Wonderful! Anne Lamott Keven Bellows' exquisite sequence of elegies, The Blue Darter, emerges also as a chronicle of a charmed courtship, a powerful portrait of a marriage, and a clear-eyed reckoning with the final stages of unrelenting illness. Her husband, the famed and incomparable newspaper editor Jim Bellows, is reflected with his brilliance and wit in full glory, and his passion for the world-and for his wife--the envy of us all. There are few poetic records of human passage that so skillfully recount the sifts of the mind and the body in aging with such little sentimentality and with such a lyric courage. Just as only the very finest elegies allow us to experience the devastation of loss alongside the daily triumph of a life, The Blue Darter returns us--with a renewed sense of hope and possibility--to our own worried lives. David St. John

The Blue Darter

Literature & Fiction

Keven Bellows

Poetry

The range of experience embodied in this anthology speaks both of history and of lives lived close at home, the variety of voices reflective, rueful, harsh, yearning, and contemplative. The reader is invited to consider the echoes, the invitations to dance, the ineluctable destinies woven into the long ago, the not so distant past, and our own present.

Chapter & Verse: Poems of Jewish Identity

Margaret Kaufman

Melanie Maier

Susan Terris

Sim Warkov

Rose, Black

A Different Woman, The View from Ninety

Joan Kip

Keeper of the Pond

Margaret Stawowy

Critically acclaimed author Nancy Smiler Levinson has written a beautiful, wise, and honest book, taking us on an emotional journey of a woman caring for a husband with Alzheimer’s disease. 
She began writing this poetic memoir in 2004, after he was diagnosed, and continued following the course of their lives. 
In the midst of maintaining a “new normal” together, she battled her own disease of breast cancer. She also lost her aging mother, who ironically, possessed an amazing memory to her end. 
Of her husband, the author recalls at the start: “Once you were a physician, mending the lives of others, but there are no cures for you / Once you were a teacher, generously sharing your knowledge, but you are the small student again, needing the most rudimentary of lessons / Once you were a sailor adept with a boat and its tangled riggings. . . now there is no lifesaving float to be tossed, no inlet to tie up to. Denial is your survival for a while.” 
Moments of Dawn, with its instances of anguish and despair, also tenders many blessings and moments of levity. 
Nancy Smiler Levinson offers a tribute and celebration of family, friends, and courage. Her diary reaches a crescendo of empowerment, enlightenment, and especially love that becomes every caregiver’s universal song.

Moments of Dawn: A Poetic Memoir of Love & Family, Affliction & Affirmation

Nancy Levinson

I Want to Go in Motion

Bob Foster

As Butterfly to a River. New & Selected Poems

Gedda Ilves

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