This poetry collection will introduce your assumptions, denials and compliance to the tainted reality of “the City on the Hill.” The poems in this collection reflect a “dirty blues” perspective of the contradiction that America has always been, is today, but doesn’t have to continue to be. You will be shaken and moved. You will feel the gluttonous furnace of scorched earth democracy, and descend into the commotion, the atmosphere “We the People” swim in. But, despite the bad things that might happen, the bad things that most often happen, these stanzas of Blues-toned perseverance will rebuke any plummeting into self-pity, anger or hate; every heart and mind: once bowed head, cautious mouth and averted eyes, will aspire to an incorrigible aim to misbehave. Throughout freedomland blues, the author writes words in fire to wake the world ablaze: free verse illuminated by courage that empathizes with all the awful moments, launching a freight train warning that blazes from the heart, like a chambered bullet exploding inadvertently. now, runantellyomamaboutdat!!

freedomland blues

Literature & Fiction

reneau jr., henry 7

Poetry

Transcendent Zero Press

Where most poetry collections focus on family sentimentality or cultural history, the poems in 'The Translator', composed with real and surreal imagery, address the social, spiritual, and melancholic conditions of humanity with an emphasis on staying aligned with the natural world.

The Translator

Helmer, Dah

Day of the Speckled Trout is Mark Jodon’s first full length manuscript of poetry.  The poems in this collection will remind you of places you’ve been and those you long to visit.   They will take you to “where water turns to wine,” where “birds in the branches sing in the snow,” and where “there is a chorus of angels singing your name.”  These poems witness how we walk together while taking different paths.  Come, enjoy these poems and see how many times your paths crisscross with these poems.

Day of the Speckled Trout

Wise, Z. M.

Jodon, Mark

Poems from the Left Coast is Lucy Wilson's second collection from TZP. Professor Wilson revisits themes from the first book--healing arts, love, the environment--and adds new work on matriarchy and "the goddess." This collection is both philosophical and accessible. Poems from the Left Coast will teach you to open your eyes and to think outside of commonplace teachings.

Poems from the Left Coast

Wilson, Lucy

"In this new genre of ‘Flash Wisdom’ this book takes us gently and boldly into everyday life to scrutinize the beliefs we work out of, often with a touch of ironic humor that leads us to laugh at our foibles and brings us into a deeper understanding of what salvation might mean today." — Mary Madec [Ireland]

Reflections on Salvation

Sengupta, Kiriti

World Literature

Faheela Hassan is called "Iraq's Maya Angelou". Her work is translated widely. In Lipstick, she renders grief, the experience of war, love and longing, and dream into poetic sensibility.

Lipstick

Hassan, Faleeha

Selfhood is a subject that has perplexed mystics and great minds for centuries. In this anthology we present a variety of interpretations and thoughts regarding what creates the idea of Self, what is a Self, and most of all how a Self relates to the external world. This anthology contains an introduction written by acclaimed poet and translator Lyn Coffin.

Selfhood: Varieties of Experience: an anthology for the faint of heart

Authors, Various

Chakraborty, Dolonchampa

66 Kilos of Solitude explores mortality through themes related to sexuality, identity, and relationships. Part of a four part series of Albanian poets brought to you by TZPress.

66 Kilos of Solitude

Jatru, Ardita

This full length collection from Boston poet Jake Tringali is a mysterious reflection on the life process. Written with an intellectual punk rock attitude, we are led through scientific concepts, dives and hangouts, lustful abandon, and openness to new experiences. Many of these poems are published in independent journals.

Poetry for the Neon Apocalypse

Tringali, Jake

In "Death of a Postcard" Minassian writes, "What does open / communication / really mean?" The poems in Time is Not a River balance historical personas with personal reflections. Minassian poses more questions than he answers. Perhaps history itself is a communication. Perhaps our communications within it, no matter how small, are historical. Something as common as a postcard attains pragmatic eloquence in these poems. "Time is Not a River" is a philosophy as much as a poetry collection. The reader will engage with familiar events from his or her own life, but will perhaps see them in an entirely different vein. Our lives are historical monuments. This should give us pause in our daily lives. Minassian himself took the time to share these speculative considerations from his heartaches and distances.

Time is not a River

Minassian, Michael

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