Stones: A book of epigrams

Nickson, Richard

Lithic Press

Short book of poems that ruminates upon the subject of July, literally, metaphorically, and sonically. Strongly influenced by Jack Mueller, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson, Harvey follows his word chops into the heart of Summer, and leaves the winter world of perpetual war far behind.

July

Kyle Harvey

Poetry. GOING DOWN GRAND, the first full length anthology of Grand Canyon poems, gathers the voices and thoughts of explorers, cowboys, river- runners, hikers, artists, geologists, rangers, and others whose words reveal and bear witness to this complex and magnificent place. For readers on the river, the trails, the rim, or beyond, the poems on these pages will make fine canyon company.

Going Down Grand: Poems from the Canyon

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Poetry. Art. California Interest. Limited Edition. THE GATE is a 20-page essay in open form or a poem as essay, as described in an introductory paragraph that lays out the historical and philosophical scene on the San Francisco waterfront where this work was developed. The Gate is an exploration into the origin, evolution, organization and development of Language. Unfolding like a sea voyage on a ship of words, the poem does not linearly display the history of written language as much as become that History. It is a serpent ride in ancient waters, ceaselessly seeking the island of wild logos! This is writing in the Open Field in the tradition of Jack's great mentors, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, and Walt Whitman. It is SUNG THOUGHT. Reading it out loud, THE GATE is an invigoration, a verbal workout, a hard trip up the mountain where it all began. It is a continuation of a philosophical discussion Jack has conducted his entire life. It is a poem of Hope with a capitol H. It's a whale of a good time.

The Gate

Mueller, Jack

Arts & Photography

The curvature of these poems pulls you in, like gravity - waking up in bed wearing hip waders, holy static, Coho salmon pink brassieres and the tight black leather of night. Cast after cast, Kyle Harvey bends his pole to the magnet of Monet's sunrise and reels in fresh catches, clenched fists, the ricochet of ravens at play. -- Art Goodtimes (former Western Slope Poet Laureate, San Miguel County Commissioner)

Hyacinth

These poems embody Jack Mueller s lifelong obsession with language. Personal, universal, heartbreaking, and with a coyote running throughout. From childhood and family life, to philosophical musings into deep time, big space, old history, and the origin of words, this book is Jack - continuing the argument and conversation he has carried on with everything and everyone, forever. Contains new work as well as poems culled from the past thirty years.

Amor Fati: New & Selected Poems

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Juan J. Morales forthcoming book of poems, The Siren World, is a collection at once intensely personal and seemlessly universal. The poems delve into the wonders and horrors of the world, and reveal the mind of a poet open to anything that may strike his widely ranging thoughts. Along with visits to his parents' homelands of Ecuador and Puerto Rico, this very American poet spies on King Carlos V conjuring empire, envisions the murderous mobs of present-day Ambato, and the brutal death of Pizarro. Here are great migrations and conquests. Here are…abandoned Gods…bumping shoulders with our modern world. Here is a detained prisoner of a brutal regime (…buried up to my neck in the yard …I sew my lips shut with black thread…), alongside a father gingerly but powerfully removing a barbed fishhook from the finger of his son.

The Siren World

Morales, Juan J.

United States

Demimonde means, the half-world. This collection of poems is in the voice of women of that other world, on the fringe, in the gauze of one or another apothecary drams. The prostitutes of frontier Telluride, and other Old West mining towns, come alive on these pages with images that evoke a softer grayer time when cruelty could be swept aside.

Demimonde

Bridger, Kierstin

Poetry. Art. Illustrated by Jill Sabella. EVEN NOW pares Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's expansive work down to three lines, each paired with a spare 'japanese-style' brush-stroke drawings by artist Jill Sabella. The image-poem pairs float on the page and evoke fundamental thoughts, feelings of long ago, bonfires burning out of control, tough hope, and the possibility of Spring. "I like this book a lot, EVEN NOW, by Rosemerry Trommer &amp; Jill Sabella. It shows some of their wonderful talent. And the title- poem brings to mind a Rumi translation that I feel is of such worth it may someday appear in every psychiatrist's office—or get tattooed many places."—Daniel Ladinsky

even now

Wahtola Trommer, Rosemerry

Poetry. "It seems you could hold these poems in your hands and feel the heft of night air and snow and chisels and living, in all its hardship and splendor. The wonderfully varied compositions circle and expand: a sequence of couplets, lightly cadenced narratives, and then suddenly verses of gorgeous, heavy wrought stresses. (The pecan boughs in "We in the Republic," for instance, 'stretched and heavy with the hard fruit, stitch shade across the tended plot.') Houle has a gift for slowing down already singular moments, offering us the last hanging drop of childhood innocence in "We'd Learn Later Her Husband Left" and the hard end of a hard work day in "Work/Work Balance." Revealing deep moods and masculinities and finely punctuated with the indifferent wisdom of bees, dogs, wasps, and flies, STRAY exploits every possible meaning of its title—dog, child, what is misplaced or roaming—and settles at last on the imperative." —Martha Serpas

Stray

Houle, Adam

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