A compendium of poems honoring all the ways that love comes to us.

Chronicles of a Bee Whisperer

Literature & Fiction

Stobierski, Timothy

Poetry

River Otter Press

"Bones Buried in the Dirt" features a young boy named Peter.  Ranging from ages four to twelve, Peter's stories focus on the sort of moments in childhood that get buried in the mind but never fully get absorbed, the moments that constantly come to the surface later in life and shape identity. The result is a sonar picture of the individual Peter will become.

Bones Buried in the Dirt

Atkinson, David S.

Genre Fiction

The Northwoods Hymnal is full of stories about connecting and coping, hoping that a little community will keep out the cold of winter. Hawley's characters, from young punk rockers to tight-permed, white-haired women, accomplish that in a myriad of ways: drizzling the world in almond bark, a sauna, and a jump in the snow, disinterring loved ones only to bury them closer to home. The stories are wholly Midwestern, unassuming and funny, and you'll find they stay with you through the bleak, help with the coping, without asking much in return. And that's just the stories. The songs, also quiet, also sneaky in the way they win you over, will keep you warm all the winter long. Word of Praise:  "There's nothing new under the sun, so we're told, but that just goes to show how wrong Ecclesiastes can be. Luke Hawley, a man of prodigious gifts, offers us a collection of twice-told tales: stories he's written once in music and once in prose. Not that they match precisely as these are fraternal, not identical twins, but they echo and talk to each other in fascinating ways. Can't read music? Okay then, go for the prose, which is a trip in itself: tough, compassionate, then suddenly wow, funny. Read, enjoy. Then grab somebody who can play the guitar and stick this book in front of him. Really, it's like nothing else."  --Pope Brock, author of the New York Times bestseller Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam  "Luke Hawley is a brand new American voice on the literary firmament who has written a collection of stories that are all but holy in their humanity.   His title The Northwoods Hymnal is so right. Though his characters range from the ancient to the youngest punk rock jerk offs, all I can say is that the emotional range is massive and the music that flows throughout this collection is at heart a hymn that underscores one finding ones way through the most amazing yet commonplace dilemmas (death, aging, love, families) in ways that too many of us have forgotten was even a possibility."  --Patricia Lear, author of Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, and So Forth "A good love song tells a good story, and a good love story implies a good song. In this collection of both songs and stories, Luke Hawley hits all the right notes. His is a true voice of the balladeer." --Karen Gettert Shoemaker, author of Night Sounds And Other Stories and The Meaning Of Names "Luke Hawley's stories remind you of the best of winter. Of leaves losing their color, and the other side of sadness, like when you're in a bar and a song comes on that reminds you of Her of Him, but you get up to dance anyway. It's making snow angels and thinking of those other angels. It's smelling grass burning and feeling your own heart burning. These are the stories about cold and the blues and the way humans walk through all that muck and strange air and find passion." --Kate Gale, author of Mating Season and managing editor of Red Hen Press

The Northwoods Hymnal

Hawley, Luke

Literary

ABOUT THE BOOK You are invited to a pas de deux in this imperfect world with Diane Smith's debut collection of poetry. America is under siege, Smith tells us, as pixels vanish and emerge. She opens with a poem from the Civil War—conflict an ongoing theme in this step for two. TWILIGHT AT GETTYSBURG What shock electrifies this empty sky? Dense thickets with burned leaves—cannon balls and soldiers strewn across the graves at Cemetery Ridge. The moon slowly rises, lighting this hot July night across Plum Run. Moonbeams hug toughened bark of honey locust trees. Smoke drifts and sags. Thousands of soldiers lay on the field, no distinction to their ranks, deaf to the battle cries, the bombs, the screams. Blood-soaked grass scents the air. Rifles rest by their sides. The Napoleon, now unmanned, aims at empty space. —Diane Smith

Vanishing Pixels

Smith, Diane P

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Chronicles of a Bee Whisperer

Bones Buried in the Dirt

The Northwoods Hymnal

Vanishing Pixels