A novella "for women pushing swings and strollers." "Iy's fresh, yet familar. A little crazy, yet full of healthy humor. Dreamlike and very real. I enjoyed Mother Earth, Father Time very much," stated the writer Dorothy Bryant.

Mother Earth, Father Time

Literature & Fiction

Duane, Kit

United States

Kelsey Street Press

Elephants & Angels

Rosenwasser, Rena

Poetry

Poetry. " In this inspired collaboration all id fugitive, perishable, mortal - drawing one into the mind of pure longing as natural and imagined landscapes extend each other's tenuous fictions"-Kathleen Fraser.

Musicality

Guest, Barbara

Felter, June

Poetry. "Read these roads. Never will it be more apparent that space not time makes value. Passing glances amount to the whole story - that is, women, not judges. The measures are the airs; they build a city of music" -Fanny Howe.

Like Roads

Moriarty, Laura

Poetry. "Where the light pulls back, Elizabeth Robinson's glyphic text is vividly relieved. The sudden pronoun, verbal ersatz, opposing juxtapositions describe her oddly ambiguous clarity. Rock filters, water conveys, advancing light obscures. In these deft, subtle poems meaningful associations arrange themselves. Like 'bones in a sand diff', like 'that bed whose middle is lowered by the body,' Robinson's impressions last-C.D. Wright.

Bed of Lists

Robinson, Elizabeth

Poetry. Art. Rosmarie Waldrop's poetry draws on the languages of geographical terrain, national histories, painting, music, the body, and the self. Her compositions change from book to book as from day to day. The peculiar motions of the title, are those of an "I" and an "eye," of a poet and a visual artist in dialogue. They define the "self" as "peculiar motions in the head and between the head and throat," a concept attributed to William James. The collaboration preserves the grace of the natural world and the mysterious orders of the ephemeral. Drawings by Jennifer Macdonald.

Peculiar Motions

Waldrop, Rosmarie

MacDonald, Jennifer

Poetry. Art. In ISLE, Rena Rosenwasser continues her explorations of prehistory, the body, and the aesthetics that arise from sensations. Written from notes taken during a tour of the Greek islands, the poems incorporate fragments from journal entries, guide books, archeological texts. That she travels alone suggests a spiritual journey, but it is not an ascetic one. Feelings of pleasure and curiosity are cultivated as links to the ancient world. Kate Delos's six drawings, preproduced in graphite and wash, are talismans for the text. Scratches, marks, white space, washes of color become an imagined place, another record of abstraction.

Isle

A first collaboration between poet Barbara Guest and artist Anne Dunn. Longtime friends, each has enjoyed a distinguished career in her own field. Certainly Guest is one of the most respected and influential contemporary poets in the US. STRIPPED TALES brings the same crystallizing impulses found in her poetry to a series of poetic narratives.

Stripped Tales

Fiction. "THE WOMAN WITHOUT EXPERIENCES is an intimate composition, unsettling in its artfulness, quietude, probing. We perceive a solitary figure surrounded, as it were, contained 'inside the field of her own creation,' holding each word up to the light as an egg. Intersecting the lines between Genet and Weil, she is 'conducting the daylight through the layers.' She prepares an opening. It is a lovely door" - C.D. Wright.

The Woman Without Experiences

Dienstfrey, Patricia

Poetry. "Laynie Browne's alchemically applied linguistics unfold the space between poem and prose, revealing a crepuscular zone 'where it's warm enough to stop on the street'" -Lee Ann Brown.

Rebecca Letters

Browne, Laynie

History & Criticism

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