The Persimmon Tree Carol

Shelby Stephenson

Nightshade Press

David Elliott's third book of poetry, Through the Silence,  gives the reader a meditative, tranquil experience rarely seen in poetry today. Rising through traditional haiku, non-traditional haiku, haiku-esque longer forms, and lyrical poems, Elliott's voice, grounded in precise peceptions, resonates within the reader and rises toward a quiet intensity upon each reading. The poems' many subjects and concerns range from the natural world to family, friendship, travel, language, and poetry itself. This book must be lived and experienced by all who seek meaning through the silence.

Through the Silence

Literature & Fiction

ELLIOTT, David

Poetry

In The Calculus of Imaginaries, Gerard Grealish explores in poetry not only the elusive and transitory aspects of the physical world, but also our misperceptions of what "reality" is and the ramifications of discovering that it is otherwise, and largely unknowable. Within the uncertainties of such inner and outer worlds there emerges alternately from time to time a litany of anger, frustration, sorrow, guilt, pain, tragedy, and death, but also love and beauty. Addressing El niño, the climate phenomenon, as if it were indeed a child, Grealish asks in the poem "El Niño 1997," "Whose child are you anyway?" and receives in Spanish the answer "I don't know! I don't know!" finding the child's words and inflections paradoxically beautiful. Such paradoxes abound as Grealish takes the reader in five sections through the "Imaginary Roots" of things and people, their existence as "Infinitesimals," "The Transfer Principle" that often reshapes them, the "Impossible Conditions" they are confronted with, and the "Transcendent Curves" that take them to another place. Grealish's poetry in this volume metaphorically reenacts Webster's definition of the book's abstractly mathematical title, to wit: "a method of investigating the nature of imaginary quantities required to fulfill apparently impossible conditions, using √-1 [the square root of negative one] as a unit."

The Calculus of Imaginaries

Gerard Grealish

Wood Heat

Rule, Rebecca

Jack Coulehan, M.D., is one of the leading physician-poets of the late 20th Century. In this hand-sewn chapbook collection of narrative poems he captures snapshots of both physicians and patients, providing new insights into the practice of medicine at "heart-level". A great addition to any library of medicine and the humanities.

The Knitted Glove

Coulehan, Jack

SNAKE DREAMS

Presnell, Barbara

White Linen

Pinckney, Diana

This was the winning manuscript of the 1997 William & Kingman Page Poetry Book Award--a tightly written clutch of compelling narrative poems that get right to the bone of everyday life in the late 20th Century. Original cover-art by Lisa Bloomfield.

Mid-Passage

Bishop, Wendy

This collection of narrative poetry was the winner of the 1998 William and Kingman Page Poetry Book Award, sponsored by the Potato Eyes Foundation. Ms. Silano writes snappy and stimulating poems to which modern Americans can readily relate.

What the Truth Tastes Like

Silano, Martha

Dracula's Muse - Book II, begins on September 11th, one of the darkest days in American history. Thanks to the gallant efforts of Countess Bathory, our favorite villain, Vlad Dracula is rescued from the flaming wreckage of ground zero. Unfortunately, the Romanian vampire did not want to be saved, and now he must face the challenge of starting over. Once Dracula accepts his fate, he reunites with his old friend, Jack the Ripper; together they make plans to go back in time to manipulate the past...in their favor. Dracula's first order of business: to save his love, Mary Kelly from becoming the Ripper's fifth and final victim. Through the magic of time travel, Dracula and Jack meet an unexpected new friend, the one and only, Frankenstein. Turns out, he's not a fictional character after all. Mary Shelley discovers this in a most profound way, when he comes to her window and commands she write his life story. Naturally, Mary refuses however, the hideous creature threatens to kill everyone she loves; with no other recourse, Mary Shelley complies. Dracula and Jack both embrace their new friend; for his size and muscle more than anything else. The trio formulate a plan to restore the vampire community to its former glory. Traveling back in time to 1985, they reclaim their old home in Manhattan, an underground sanctuary called Tunneltown. The plan is simple, they need to find a way to prevent the events of 1993; the awful day when most of Dracula's progeny were incinerated by a S.W.A.T. team looking for terrorists.If you're looking for a story with lots of twists and turns, you've come to the right place. Dracula's Muse, will deliver all of this and more. Enjoy the ride!

Dracula's Muse: Book II

Rauch, Pamela J.

United States

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