More Than Shelter

Literature & Fiction

Michael, Ann E.

Poetry

Spire Press, Inc.

"Richard Weems' surging dialogue and rhapsodic narrative guide us through the humorous, albeit damning, interactions of people who are just like us. Confused, inspired, and sad, his characters are working to change their lives but are frustrated by both the every-day and the highly unusual. Detailed introspections are delivered through original prose, unlike anything I've ever read. Don't read him if you want the norm. His voice is part of an underground, cutting edge group of writers who are making wild changes to the way literature is created and enjoyed."  -Camille Renshaw, former Editor of Pif Magazine  "A pleasure to read, a pleasure to inhabit, the stories in Anything He Wants remind us why we want to read in the first place. Extraordinary work by a writer about whom too little is known."  -Frederick Barthelme “Richard Weems is a big, generous, weird guy whose stories too are generous and weird. Weems is going to get weirder with time, and more generous and more large, and he will be fun to read.” -Padgett Powell

Anything He Wants

Richard K. Weems

Contemporary

"Phebe Davidson s poems cast shrewd spells, rich and nourishing. "These poems are smart, tough, gritty, and elegant. As contemporary as she is honeyed in the mead of tradition, Davidson conjures sometimes in a single line the whole array of human experience. I love the strong magic of these poems." --W. Thorpe Moeckel

Twelve Leagues In

Phebe Davidson

Shapeshifting

Celia Lisset Alvarez

"Truth and beauty, Keats said, that's it, all we need. Reading Klimenko's truthful and intricate poems makes me aware of how rarely the two actually come together. Complex truth, down to the bone beauty, not surface beauty." - Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

Source Vein

Mary Julia Klimenko

"Bartley s new work, her best yet, presents the stories of women s lives. In these poems daily, personal, serious, and beautiful moments, one after another, layer against one another as in a book of black and white photographs. Women as children, as friends and enemies, as teachers and daughters, swimmers, travelers, as bodies Bartley traces out the essential shape of who we are, how we become." - Heather Sellers, Heather Sellers's "Drinking Girls and Their Dresses" was published by Ahsahta Press. Her short story collection "Georgia Under Water," published by Sarabande, was selected for a Barnes and Noble New Voice Award in 2001

Ordinary Time

Jackie Bartley

Poetry. "BEFORE I CAME HOME NAKED is a marvelous x-ray of Midwestern oddities and delights with the wonder and vulnerability that comes from examining the family tree—limb from crackly limb. In her debut, Olson expertly sweeps the reader into the depths of heartbreak and humor from the very first poem. These pages burst with rewards: ample evidence of a naturalist's love of the outdoors, a sagacious blend of compassion and mirth, and the best drinking companion you'd ever imagine. This is a poetry that bears brave witness to that place in a 'ruby heart' where the internal and external landscape crash and clatter into the loveliest of songs"—Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Before I Came Home Naked

Olson, Christina

<p>'Hard work/thinking about that point where world/and body intersect,' poet Sharon Fain writes in TERRITORIES. Fain is gentle yet fiercely brave in the ways she confronts how time, as it passes, brings both change and loss. Her poems are lyrical and contemplative yet always unblinking. 'Perhaps,' she writes in the closing lines of this wonderful, moving book, 'we are born for this,/to be astonished, then go on.' -- Susan Terris, author of <i>The Homelessness of Self </i></p>

Territories

Sharon Fain

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