Sara Franklin of Roanoke, Virginia, has been threatened with incarceration in a mental institution by both her father and her husband. But when she is captured by Apaches in eighteenth-century New Mexico and called “Crazy Woman,” Sara begins to see her so-called insanity as power.

Crazy Woman

Literature & Fiction

Kate Horsley

United States

La Alameda Press

These poems, quick-flash snippets culled from several years of writings--in solitude, while traveling, in work-a-day routines or high-country switchbacks--spring from a tradition as old as the Japanese poet Basho and still just as lively. Falling somewhere between haiku and senryu, John Brandi calls his three-liners "twists"--bringing to light a distinct American style with roots firmly planted in the natural world and the seasons of the human heart. "Here are poems which leap into the center of gravity. They bring your own world home and give you a fresh taste of wonder. As delicious as discovering the moon over and over again, this book says--Wake up! Be amazed at what happens, no matter what."--Natalie Goldberg

Weeding the Cosmos

Brandi, John

Poetry

Poems that reach deep into the mythos and heart-- lines of marriage, motherhood, Jewish heritage, city, mountain, female desire, and the beauty inhabited by Matisse, Garcia Lorca, and Pocahontas.

The Art of Love: New and Selected Poems

Sagan, Miriam

One of the first questions asked in examining the root causes of discontent should be: When did you stop singing? or: Why aren't we in touch with this vital part of our being? In such an inquiry lies a journey toward the essential qualities that give happiness to the way we lead our daily lives. Throughout Song and Silence, Susan Hale explores the meaning of song and the cultural estrangement from our own voices. She shows us how singing can restore a relationship with ourselves, the natural world, and the many human worlds around us. What belongs to each of us coming into life is an ability to express inner feelings through sound. Using this most basic part of human existence can connect us with our deepest spiritual joys. This insight is often forgotten, but still functions in tribal cultures around the planet. Reaching into our common global matrix, Susan Hale shares experiential truths and lessons of the healing power of sound, song, and silence learned in her own journey as a singer. This book offers a fresh point of view, which leads to simple, yet profound, personal growth.

Song and Silence: Voicing the Soul

Hale, Susan Elizabeth

A good rat is hard to find, and an even better one will come back to those who love her. Love finds a way, or a scent, or whatever it takes. Written and illustrated by a seven- and eight-year-old sister and brother, this book is hard to resist no matter how you feel about rodents.

The Story of Rosie's Rat: A True Story

Swentzell, Porter P.

Swentzell, Rose

Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, nineteenth-century edge of the future. Fear, greed, and real estate turn the windmill into a hanging tree. Each train into this booming railroad town unloads a cargo of carpetbaggers, entrepreneurs, seekers, Civil War veterans, and strong, lonely women--like Eliza Pelham. Good mother, drunk and unfaithful wife, Eliza stands at this juncture of raw change and random justice, caught in a reality of callousness and redemption. As Eliza searches for her stolen children, she discovers three allies: an Irish saloon girl, an Apache man who reads Melville, and La Llorona, the weeping mother, fierce in a black dress, thousands of years old.

A Killing in New Town

Horsley, Kate

Long-term relationships are a subject we don't hear much about today, but this book of love poems is a realistic and eloquent account of marital tenacity. The fifty poems in the collection move from the earliest "Taking Vows" to deal with "The Middles" and such subjects as not committing adultery. This book was a finalist in the 1995 Western States Book Awards competition. 
"A passionate, fragrant feast, a vast embrace. I love the wacky, wise humor of these poems best of all."--Naomi Shihab Nye 
"Logghe has done more than hang her marital laundry out for everybody to see. She has touched it all with poetry in abundance and variety and with a generous heart to give it a life of its own."--Rio Grande Sun 
"In the tradition of Neruda, Joan weaves the everyday stuff of life--'Two for One Cokes,' 'Oil of Olay,' and the 'One Vine Loaded with White Grapes'--into shimmering garments of beauty. They are not one-size-fits-all, and that is the measure of their wisdom, and yes, their longevity."--Jim Sagel

Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man

Logghe, Joan

"How to see her" is a question that runs through-out this suite of anecdotal poems about Georgia O'Keeffe. Carol Merrill, her cook, librarian, reader, nurse, and companion from 1973 to 1979, offers a unique portrait."These intimate images convey the delicate shape of O'Keeffe's final years in New Mexico."-- Joy Harjo"When I got O'Keeffe mss I sat down after mid- nite at kitchen table when I should've been in bed and read thru in an hour because it was interesting, curious, distinctive, focused, condensed, epiphanous, ordinary and understandable."--Allen Ginsberg

O'Keeffe: Days in a Life

Merrill, C. S.

This web of poems of longing digs within raw character: Orpheus and Mr. Lucky in slow tango as the heart spins on a table under hot lamplight. These are not love poems but reflection upon reflection of what we suffer lovingly. Pearlman writes into and out of a language of drama and wry belief. His poems are turbulent contemplationsï¿½sources of prayer and grit and flinging the crutch into the sky. They join the inner salt of need with a sweet leaven of hope redeemed in the midnight hour.

Flareup of Twosomes

Pearlman, Bill

We stand on the turtle's back and ask for the wind. We fly through the turtle's mind and drink the sky. We walk through the turtle's home and know we are alive with others who are alive. Something like water, something like blood flows through all of us as the sun lifts up its great eye each morning. We do not move through this world alone. Penny Harter's poems mingle patient alertness with animal choirs, reading prophecy in shells, bones, fallen leaves. "Penny Harter speaks with the wisdom of her kinship to the greater biotic community. Her meld of intuition, intelligence, talent and command has resulted in an exceptional and complete collection of poems that reflects great reverence for the spirit of Nature while offering glimpses of the frightening hubris that characterizes our own species. This elegant volume is very important both poetically and philosophically."--Jack Loeffler

Turtle Blessing: Poems

Harter, Penny

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