Poetry. Judy Wells' sixth poetry collection, EVERYTHING IRISH, is a "family memoir in verse...at once a poignant poetic documentary of Irish-Catholic girlhood and a rollicking riot of laughs"--Bridget Connelly. "EVERYTHING IRISH says it all for me. She captures the times all of 'Our Girls' were haunted by a wayward Holy Ghost, a perfect Holy Mary, a thundering Holy Father. She inspires me to remember the times Saint Anthony found everything for me (and still does), and PleaseGod got me out of a fix (and still does). I know exactly what she means when she says, 'and your lips get purser and purser/ and kapowie and kapowie inside...' because she means exactly, precisely, excruciatingly, that a Catholic Girlhood will never leave you even if you try to say goodbye"--Mary Norbert Korte.

Everything Irish

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Wells, Judy

Poetry

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<p>Poetry. RED CLAY IS TALKING is the first published collection of poetry by prominent Jungian analyst Naomi Ruth Lowinsky. In this new collection, Lowinsky transcribes her experience as a woman, and a young mother, a traveler in India into her poetry. "The voice here is rich and musical. It balances the breadth of a woman's life on the turtle back, the bull's hips of myth"--Richard Silberg. "This is a poetry of quest, and the poet takes us through myriad ages and cultures. We partake with her in ecstasy and darkness, passion, epiphany and hunger, and our world is larger for it"--Diane di Prima.</p>

Red Clay Is Talking

Lowinsky, Naomi Ruth

Poetry. Lucille Lang Day is a jack-of-all-trades and her multitude of talents and interests shines through in her new collection of poetry, WILD ONE. "No one writes poems quite like Lucille Day's sharp-edged, witty, ironic poems; laugh-out-loud funny poems; startling, disquieting, slightly sinister poems; gorgeously wrought, lyrical poems. With unique combination of gifts--including the precision of a mathematician, a botanist's powers of observation, the memoirist's eye for the critical detail--Day captures the moment midair and pins it to the page. WILD ONE is a wonderful collection of those moments"--Marcia Falk.

Wild One

Day, Lucille Lang

<p>Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. In THE "FALLEN WESTEN STAR" WARS, Jack Foley documents the heated debate that surrounds literary California. "When Dana Gioia, the author of "Can Poetry Matter?," published his provocative essay, "Fallen Western Star: The Decline of San Francisco as a Literary Region," he knew that certain quarters would be up in arms. Prominent California literati were quick to defend the San Francisco Scene and wrote articles attacking Gioia. Others attacked the attackers. The entire exhilarating, sometimes hilarious exchange appears in this book." "Jack Foley is doing great things in articulating the poetic consciousness of San Francisco"-Lawrence Ferlinghetti.</p>

The "Fallen Western Star" Wars: A Debate About Literary California

History & Criticism

Poetry. Risa Kaparo is a teacher, therapist and writer who makes her home on the island of Kauai. Her life, like that of the Handless Maiden-the character from the fairy tale that forms the thematic underpinning of this collection-was transformed when a life-threatening illness challenged her to grow beyond the conventions of her schooling and learn how to heal herself from the inside out. This eventually led to the birth of her life's work, Somatic Learning, a methodology of transformative healing based on a synthesis of psychological, somatic and meditative disciplines. "EMBRACE is poetry fired in a crucible of suffering. It is a life told in a lyrical narrative that moves from abuse to love and redemption, from darkness to light. These poems are autobiographical and mythical at the same moment, visceral and spiritual. They sing"-Richard Garcia.

Embrace

Kaparo, Risa

Poetry. "The comic genius of Judy Wells takes a serious turn in CALL HOME. Ninety-two-year-old Irene announces to her children that she is dying, and so the wake begins with the waggish matriarch in full attendance. In thirty-two poetic vignettes, Judy Wells tells the story of an Irish-American mother who has endowed her clan with a sense of drama and high humor that will prepare them to negotiate the pitfalls of property inheritance and re-negotiate what it means to be a family after the funeral. CALL HOME tells a deeply touching tale with universal relevance"--Bridget Connelly. But, "if this sounds like a downer, it isn't. Judy Wells' deep love for her family and the enduring 'rock' of her childhood keep her book alive with sentiment and gentle humor."--Jack Foley. Be sure to check out Wells' EVERYTHING IRISH, also available from SPD.

Call Home

Poetry. In Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's work as a Jungian analyst she was flooded by poems dealing with the analytic process that now comprise the core of CRIMES OF THE DREAMER. "The dance of her poems is a recovery of the deep anima-energy. Lowinsky's mythic orientation allows her to move easily among various realms: personal, religious, historical. 'My story is different/than the one men tell' she insists in an earlier book. Here the crime is the crime of birth and history, which the poet not only redeems but re-dreams. Again and Again the book transport us to what Lowinsky calls that primal place in which the god-image leaps out of the animal realm"--Jack Foley.

Crimes of the Dreamer

like a dark flame burnedmy minds’s petty length. I’m tired of human clamor,smudge and clutter of the world.Who wants to go ongoverned by the same rude horns, the demagogues, the rabble?Anne Coray is unapologetic in her attempts to bring the plight of the environment to the masses. Her words are forthright, her language is clear—but Coray’s poems are not to be mistaken as easy. Bone Strings is a harrowing, magnificent, and morbid examination of Alaska’s jeopardized wilderness.

Bone Strings

Coray, Anne

Poetry. THE NUMBER BEFORE INFINITY reads like a novel or memoir in verse. Each poem is a chapter in the story of two lovers united by passion but separated by previous commitments. In lyrical, accessible verse, the book follows the lovers as they choose between their deepening connection and their existing loyalties. "Reading Zack Rogow's THE NUMBER BEFORE INFINITY, I was reminded of young [Pablo] Neruda's love poems; here is that passion, tempered and informed by the briars and grace of marriage and family. Bravo. Love. Bravo. Poetry"--Cornelius Eady.

The Number Before Infinity

Rogow, Zack

Poetry. "LUCK delivers a whole life in snapshots taken at moments of bell-like clarity in late afternoon just before half-light descends. Accessible, highly compressed phrases and luminous language. Complete awareness of life's transience and of thought's transience at the same time. Full range of feeling. These poems are flowers that breathe in the soul and reflect back utterly resonant pictures"--Clive Matson.

Luck

Hofstadter, Marc Elihu

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