Lovingly written, exquisitely haunting, A Return To Emptiness is a portrait of people moving through life and loss, heartbreak and redemption. With echoes of small town Americana, Chris Ransick reintroduces us to people we already know - our neighbors, our friends, our families, and ourselves.

A Return To Emptiness

Chris Ransick

Literature & Fiction

Ghost Road Press

A substantial literary work that leaves readers satiated yet challenged. This collection is literature of the American West in the truest form—it is generational; it is romance; it is political; it is humorous; it is of and for the individual. Liederbach’s characters struggle to make sense of their pasts, smart men and women whose relationships are tinged with detachment, people who’ve been stung by cultural anomalies like religious fervor and sudden violence--Bleeding is a study of the frailty of the human heart and its capacity for love amid irresolvable disappointment and extraordinary beauty.

Doing a Bit of Bleeding

Nate Liederbach

Contemporary

Cultural Writing. Essays. Nature and spirituality. In these contemplative essays written for seekers and wanderers of all kinds, Peter Anderson explores the rich complexity of the scripture of place; the geography of the heart; the landscape of imagination; and the topography of memory. Thoughtful and rich in spirit, Anderson discusses his personal relationship to place and prayer. Dark and serious, joyful and funny -- FIRST CHURCH OF THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS is a perfect companion on a climb or at home. "[Anderson's] journeys reveal the grace of the sacred in those luminous high places, and also in the ordinary moments of life" -- Susan Tweit.

First Church of the Higher Elevations: Mountains, Prayer, and Presence

Anderson, Peter

Biographies & Memoirs

Gregory O'Toole's poetry runs the gamut from love to philosophy to the playful expression of an exuberant and independent spirit. These poems are for vagabonds and dreamers, for anyone who values the freedom of language and the importance of social critique. To be carried casually in a handbag or backpack, for reading poem by poem on the commuter train, cross country rail car, quiet or bustling coffee shop.

Big City Freight Train Blues: Denver Poems

Gregory O'Toole

Poetry

As Orion Falls

Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air

In Denver Poet Laureate and Colorado Book Award Winner Chris Ransick’s  Never Summer: Poems From Thin Air, poetry flows like a stream collecting the debris of love, fear, and frailty. At each eddying current, tiny details of everyday life are exquisitely unfurled and enlarged to reveal a world as familiar as a child falling asleep on her father’s shoulder; as whimsical as an afternoon spent watching girls playing rugby; as unnatural as the dead dancing in the snow. Approachable an imaginative, Ransick’s collection received accolades upon its original publication. Here it is again—with ten new poems—to rediscover or explore anew.

With mischievious wit and incisive prose, former pediatric pathologist Gail Waldstein painstakingly dissects her life and herself while commenting on unforseen obstacles and lifelines--two ex-husbands, the rigorous and often sexist medical culture of the 1960s, and a number of unwavering, lifelong friendships. This is a memoir that weighs relationships and prejudices, charting the bittersweet and harsh realities of Waldstein's creative rebirth as an award-winning writer. She uncoils the dark truths that come with self-discovery, while showing how loyal friendships and a fierce survival instinct helped her overcome adversity, finally allowing her to achieve contentment and peace. Waldstein has won numerous awards for her writing, including finalist positions for the Iowa Review Prize and The Faulkner. She lives and writes in Denver.

To Quit This Calling: Firsthand Tales of a Pediatric Pathologist

Medical Books

Waldstein, Gail

Medicine

Cultural Writing. Biography and Memoir. For almost five years, Chamberlain lived at the remote Horsetheif Ranch in the redrock desert of southern Utah. This searingly honest and affecting memoir is an exploration of place--both harrowing and beautiful, and of the self in its context. In the spare company of horses, a dog, and the occasional human visitor, this book "transports us into the intimate, wild, challenging, and gorgeous world of a woman seeking solitude"--Annick Smith. What she discovers in this wilderness, is not story of loneliness, but of freedom. Chamberlain is an award-winning and widely anthologized poet who has also produced wildlife films for PBS television, and founded several ongoing programs for writers.

Desert of the Heart

Chamberlain, Karen

Regional U.S.

Review\nAcross the High Divide is a triumph of writing. Laurie Wagner Buyer is the real thing. -- David Mason, author of Arrivals, Storyline Press\nIt is a great pleasure to be in the company of this talented, generous, and humble witness. -- Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States\nLaurie has worked hard to find the words that are adequate to her passion, which is palpable and undeniable. -- Alfred Corn, author of Contradictions, Copper Canyon Press\nWinner of the 2007 SPUR Award for Best Poetry from the Western Writers Association

Across the High Divide

Laurie Wagner Buyer

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Colorado Authors' League has collected over 250 tips from published authors on topics ranging from working with agents to finding inspiration to practical tips about money. The advice is succinct and matter-of-fact, suitable for beginning writers and seasoned professionals alike. Chapter topics: Creativity, Style and Technique, Grammar and Usage, Characters, Dialogue, Plot and Structure, Marketing and Selling, Money, Networking, Agents and Publishers, Editors and Editing, Freelance Success, Ideas, Method, Work Habits, Procrastination, Research, Writer's Block, Rejection, Encouragement, &amp; Perseverance. There is a also a resource section that lists writing associations and organizations, web sites and e-newletters, classes and conferences, and recommended reading. This accessible, valuable, and friendly book belongs on every writer's shelf.

Writing, Etc.

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