Winner of the 2009 Sinclair Poetry Prize from the Evening Street Press. This is one of the most original and powerful books of poetry you can find: a series of independent, inter-related, flowing expressions of ways of seeing the world and all life in it that makes existence an experience of a fantastic reality--not a fantasy but a reality that is more like--in Thoreau's words--"an Arabian Nights Entertainment" than we think.

The Gaian Odes

Science & Math

Howard W. Robertson

Biological Sciences

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Bloodline

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Clela Dyess Reed

Thrillers & Suspense

Winner of the Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize for 2009. This book, a stunning sequence of sonnets, explores the poets relation to his mothers dying, and through it, a deeper relation to what it means to be human. A brilliant literary achievement!

Recite Every Day

Myles Gordon

Break us, says Donna Spector, and love pours out. In The Woman Who Married Herself, poetry pours out as well, in poems of heartbreak and nostalgia, irony and laughter, reverie and acuity. This is a poetry that probes at life, discovering in the dramatic encounters with the past and present a knowledge of the world and of oneself that deepens and enriches our lives, too, marrying sensitivity with intelligence. Paul Kane, Work Life In the Woman Who Married Herself, Donna Spector gives us the gift of honesty and specificity to create powerful and rooted poems that bring us to tears. She makes us believe we know the people she writes about, know the complexities of life with all its confusion and shame, love and loss. These poems teach us how to survive. You ll want to read this book again and again. Maria Mazziotti Gillan, All That Lies Between Us Donna Spector s book is wonderful--surreal, quirky, comical, full of life. Poems of childhood and family history, lovers and longing, travel, love as a search for life. Poems about her teachers--John Berryman, Thom Gunn, Louis Simpson. The Woman Who Married Herself [o]pened boxes of china/so fine she could hold/a plate to the light and see her own/life beyond. A perfect description of this book. Sharon Doubiago, Selected and New Poems This is Donna Spector s film of The Woman Who Married Herself. Made by an auteur with a flair for art direction and cinematography, each poem is an illuminated scene in this Life, the Movie. Filming her story her LA childhood, her complex ethnicity, The White Rose of her mother as Blanche Dubois at Penn Station, lovers, travels, John Berryman dissecting his students dreams, or the heroine sewing her own wedding gown out of parachute silk Spector aims her camera at authentic particulars and does so with humor and sensual craft. Janet Hamill, Body of Water Spector shakes the family tree, and out fall myths. In lavish detail, she also ushers in lovers, friends, mentors, and strangers in settings as diverse as Greece, New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley in the 60's. Losses do not add up to despair; she embraces both the beauty and sorrow of her world. This woman who marries herself is resilient, wry, steely, compassionate. If all the world's a stage, "The Play Is Love." Mary Makofske, The Disappearance of Gargoyles

The Woman Who Married Herself

Travel

Donna Spector

Europe

Dion Farquhar straddles the experimental and the traditional with a gutsy, funny, raw, heartful, in-your-face New Yorker stand up, stand out style. She does so brilliantly with a voice that seems to rise out of the Metropolis itself, one that catches the speed and power of the city and that delights in the play of contradictions. Meshing indictment with celebration, her solidly historical poems speed readers through the decades without being shrill or doctrinaire and with humor, irony, wistfulness, and always--the high-energy of an omnivore. Robert Sward, New &amp; Selected Poems, 1957-2011 (forthcoming, Red Hen Press) ------- The poems in Feet First constitute a spiritual autobiography of sorts, exhilarating and eclectic, in which Farquhar, as if in a dire debate with the forces of abnegation and despair, complacency and blankness, musters a barrage of remembered intensities from her childhood in the fifties and youth in the sixties and early seventies which she concretizes with an abundance of details, spotlighting fleeting transcendencies (of sex and music and protest, i.e., friendship and fellowship) and making virtual memes of the minutiae of Baby Boom material culture the better to celebrate the deeper triumphs and quieter joys of achieving a productive and nurturing middle age. These poems are too urgent to settle for mere scorn of the alienating political context in which many of them are placed; at the tragic divide that every work of art is poised at at every phase of its realization, the self-indictment Farquhar, we gather, stands in greatest horror of is Too little too late. Anyone who ever ran way faster for wearing their Red Ball Jets will feel clutches of recognition while reading these poems. Jeffrey Gustavson, Editor, Epiphany

Feet First

Dion N Farquhar

The Life and Opinions of a Socialist Professor A boundary-breaking book that moves subtly between genres, from memoir and Bildungsroman to social activism and cultural critique. Julian Markels has taken the Chinese curse, May you live in interesting times, and turned it into a blessing for his readers in this rich and compelling account of his life inside the academy and out.

From Buchenwald to Havana

Julian Markels

"In lines that are taut, lean and lucid, Gordon Grigsby s poems embody the substrate and the epic story of the world from which we came and in which we now struggle to survive. This is a necessary, indeed an essential book for our time." Ernest Lockridge s most recent book: Skeleton Key to the Suicide of My Father Ross Lockridge, Jr, author of Raintree County  "In poem after piercing poem The Light Here, An Ocean Sound, Nancy s Sandwich Shop Heightened Consciousness Grigsby weaves our intense human moments of love, sorrow, or joy into the beauty and grandeur of our indifferent earth. The art of his vision is unique and invaluable." Julian Markels, author of The Marxian Imagination  "Like James Wright before him, Gordon Grigsby is an essential Mid-Western poet, a hard-scrabbled farmer of words, a steel-worker tending to the furnaces of an imagination that flares in darkness: "the praised madness that trembles the air." The geography of Ohio, the names of its vanished Indian tribes, the smell of a dead child and the poisoned rain, are here given their full measure of terrible beauty." Michael Salcman, author of The Clock Made of Confetti and The Enemy of Good Is Better  "Dawn Night Fall explores the interplay between sorrow and hope, tragic realities and the mind s freedom, through startlingly original images and ideas. As in Walden, Grigsby uses his house on a small river in Mt. Air, Ohio as a way into the natural world, ancient and personal history, world travels, and complex combinations of pain and luminosity: ashes of a premature baby, woman and children waiting in corrugated tin shanties, a loved father lonely in Sun City, the glow of needles on a forest floor, streetlamp glint on everyone s hair. Readers are richly rewarded for his extraordinary vision." Jan Schmittauer, Associate Professor, Ohio University

Dawn Night Fall (Evening Street Press Chapbooks)

Literature & Fiction

Grigsby, Gordon

Contemporary

Secret Rivers

Marilyn Cavicchia

There was a place for girls like me...That place was the Booth Memorial Home for unwed mothers. From her opening in Post Summer Blues This was in the mid-sixties/girls didn't keep their out of wedlock babies/my crime was being stupid and trusting, to her stunning afterward In those first days/weeks months years/ after she found me/I couldn't stop saying /Daughter Patti Sullivan's work is simply unforgettable. Her poems collectively constitute a portrait of a culture: mid-twentieth century, still-Puritanical, Southern California. Match-strike moments, achingly painful, sometimes darkly humorous, plunge us into a young woman's cultural transgression and punishment. In Booth Memorial, Sullivan transcends era and location, to illuminate a timeless and placeless dilemma: how to say yes to life and dignity in the face of exile and unbearable loss. Long after turning the last page, we are left grateful and larger in spirit. Maía, author of The SpiritLife of Birds, Adder's Tongue Press ____________________ Patti Sullivan is our guide into the lives of dispossessed girls behind closed doors at the Booth Memorial Home; through her words their elemental loss finds its way into language, both sorrowing and redemptive. Her voice is clear, courageous, and achingly honest these are poems that open the heart. Marsha de la O, author of Antidote for Night, BOA Editions ____________________ Patti Sullivan's poems are arrows, swift and quiet, hitting their mark, sinking deep. Powerful and necessary, these poems make me say when reading, This is what poetry is for! In Patti's passionate, honest voice, I hear generations of silent women who nod their heads, murmur agreement, urge her forward. Why didn t we ever talk about the truth, she questions the silence imposed upon her as a young unwed mother, would we die or catch fire. Mary Kay Rummel, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, CA, author of The Lifeline Trembles.

At the Booth Memorial Home for Unwed Mothers 1966

Patti Sullivan

Peggy Trojan was there on the Home Front, an eight to twelve year old girl from northwest Wisconsin as the world was burning ( Winter Hill 1943 ) thousands of miles away. We see through her eyes as she witnesses the heroes at home ( Home Front ), the rationing and the tragedy of neighbors switching the Blue Star for the Gold Star in the window. These are poems of great tenderness and simplicity, powerfully remembered... the girls played house and the boys played war ( Playtime ). Bruce Dethlefsen Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2011-2012) author of Small Talk, Little Eagle Press Peggy Trojan's poetry is straightforward and focused, yet lyrical and poignant. Through clean images and sharp details, she takes us to a time when war was a daily reality. This book is both a poetic and historical treasure. Jan Chronister Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College author of Target Practice, Parallel Press What a pleasure this collection is! Clear-eyed and perceptive, these narrative poems in Homefront by Peggy Trojan tell the story of a child in small Midwestern town during World WWII: the music, the girls playing jacks, the buttons on underwear, the ration books, the small town general store, and for the first time/ questioning if man was kind. It s a chronicle of the war effort, and readers will be delighted with the sharp images of growing up, the privations and pleasures, the interesting portraits of people, and the news dispatches of the war and Holocaust seen through the eyes of a child. Every poem is necessary to this collection, and each captures a time and a place, returning to us the stories and strengths of our parents and grandparents. She paints with words, and her language is both plain-spoken and beautiful and full of pathos. These poems are lit with love. Sheila Packa Duluth Poet Laureate 2010-2012 author of Night Train Red Dust, Cloud Birds, and Echo &amp; Lightning

HOMEFRONT: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WWII (Evening Street Press Chapbooks)

Trojan, Peggy

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