Winner of the 2003 Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry.

Einstein Considers a Sand Dune

James Doyle

Steel Toe Books

A collection of intricately-crafted poems that honestly and movingly address pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum depression, and other aspects of family life.

Blue Positive

Literature & Fiction

Silano, Martha

Poetry

"In this splendidly entertaining debut, Jeannine Hall Gailey offers us a world both familiar and magical-filled with fairytale and mythology characters that are our own bedfellows-we wake up with Philomel and argue with Ophelia while half-listening to a Snow Queen, amidst Spy Girls, Amazons and Mongolian Cows. The wild and seductive energy in this collection never lets one put the book down. (In fact, any one who opens the collection in the bookstore and reads such poems as The Conversation and Job Requirements: A Supervillain's Advice will want to buy the book!) For her delivery is heart-breaking and refreshing, so the poems seduce us with the sadness, glory and entertainment of our very own days. Propelled by Jeannine Hall Gailey's alert, sensuous, and musical gifts, the mythology becomes all our own." -Ilya Kaminsky, author of the award-winning Dancing in Odessa

Becoming the Villainess

Gailey, Jeannine Hall

"Full of poems that stand alone as consummate accomplishments, Conditions and Cures nevertheless coheres as a book about life-and-death verities, strategies for survival or triumph or at least coping gracefully. The comic is one of those strategies, and Ken Waldman is often at his most hilarious when he's addressing subjects another poet might murder with solemnity. In addition, he frequently engages with demanding forms like pantoums, villanelles, sestinas and sonnets, submitting to their guidance but never losing his independence. The secret of such a trick is his ear: a professional musician, Waldman swears final allegiance to the body of our language, its sonorities and rhythms, to its possibilities as song-a co-strategy with the comic." -Philip Dacey

Conditions and Cures

Humor & Entertainment

Waldman, Ken

Humor

a verse memoir about the author's parents' experiences in a Nazi slave labor camp in Germany

Lightning and Ashes: Poems

Biographies & Memoirs

John Guzlowski

Historical

Mary Biddinger is a beguiling shape-shifter, one who suffuses her writing with electricity and alacrity of language. I marvel at the elegant architecture and scope of each poem. The veritable menagerie of animals that visit these pages simply enchants: zebras, rhinos, marabou, goldfish, bears, and banana spiders. These poems bite and scare, ravish and delight. Prairie Fever showcases a beautiful mind, a beautiful debut. -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Miracle Fruit  and At the Drive-in Volcano.

Prairie Fever

Mary Biddinger

Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes is the fourth full-length collection by Doyle, a prolific poet whose work appears in a nearly every issue of nearly every journal nowadays. It is the follow-up to his critically acclaimed Einstein Considers a Sand Dune, which was selected by David Kirby as the winner of the 2003 Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry.

Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes

Doyle, James

Jump Start is a poetry anthology celebrating the Jump Start Workshops, held from 2000-2006 by Northwest Renaissance, a non-profit literary and performing arts organization with a thirty-year history. Notable contributors include Washington State Poet Laureate Samuel Green, Kevin Miller, Pesha Joyce Gertler, Allen Braden, Alice Derry, and Peter Pereira (among many others).

Jump Start: A Northwest Renaissance Anthology

"If you want to laugh out loud while simultaneously weeping silently, read Chris Goodrich. If you want to meet a poet with far more than his rightful share of wisdom and tenderness laced with iodine, Goodrich is your man. Talk about love and marriage, in poetry that's inventive, playful, and right on target about just how needy we all are? Read this book for pure pleasure."-Alicia Ostriker

Nevertheless, Hello

Goodrich, Christopher

Blue Collar Eulogies is the second full-length book of poems by Michael Meyerhofer, the award-winning author of Leaving Iowa. Poet Dorianne Laux says, "Michael Meyerhofer takes us with him everywhere he goes, from the back rooms of hash-slingers to the Star of Africa. He weighs a whale's brain and imagines the "cattle-dark eyes" of Neanderthals. I like these poems, kinetic and half-crazed, they remind me that poetry is an explosion, that energy plus mass equals a dark magic."

Blue Collar Eulogies

Meyerhofer, Michael

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