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Leaning In
Poems by Norah Pollard
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Poems by Norah Pollard, daughter of Red Pollard, jockey for famed racehorse Seabiscuit, subject of a best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, a PBS documentary, and a movie. Many of the poems in this book provide a compelling portrayal of the complex man who was the poet’s father as well as the most renowned jockey of the 1930's.
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Learning the Angels
Poems by Rennie McQuilkin
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The fifth book of poems by award-winning poet Rennie McQuilkin. Depicting love's labors and delights, the collection moves from sensual delights to more problematic moments in the course of true and untrue love, arriving in the end at a sort of balancing.
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Counting to Christmas
A Calendar of Poems by Rennie McQuilkin
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Like an Advent calendar with a door for each December day preceding Christmas, this book presents a different poem for every day of the Holiday season. Written as Christmas cards over a twenty-five year span, the poems have now been collected in this handsome gift edition.
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Every Sky
Poems by Eleanor McQuilkin
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Poet Eleanor McQuilkin recently passed away after almost 96 lively years. Writers the likes of Poet Laureate Billy Collins and Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Hecht have praised her work. This is her third full-length collection of poetry.
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In Angled Light
Selected Poems by Joan Joffe Hall
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Joan Joffe Hall's third full-length poetry collection presents a life's worth of writing and reflects the author's feminist stance as well as her humanist concerns and Jewish heritage. The poems are by turns outraged, elegiac, lyrical, and comic.
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Stumbling into the Light
Poems by Edwina Trentham
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Gorgeously and honestly depicting the author’s passionate and painful youth in Bermuda, the poems of Edwina Trentham’s first book show the compassionate fury and troubled love she felt toward those closest to her. Stumbling into the Light presents “a child who learns to make her way ‘alone in paradise’ into adulthood, where she finally ‘adds up’ the past so it will ‘let her go.’ ”
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The Way The Spirit Lies
Poems by Eileen Kostiner |
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Eileen Kostiner’s second book has been praised for being “simultaneously tender and tough.” She describes the perils and delights of passion and motherhood, ending her book with “achingly poignant verses on the death of her husband. |
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Passage
Poems by Rennie McQuilkin
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This book, assembled after the death of the poet's mother at the age of 95, focuses on his relationship with both parents. His father died in 1992 of Alzheimer's Disease. |
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Private Collection
Poems by Rennie McQuilkin |
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This volume contains poems written over a period of forty years in response to works of art ranging from known masterpieces to crayon drawings, graffiti and household objects. The book contains 30 pages of notes presenting topics for writing and discussion as well as personal notations and ways of gaining internet access to artworks on which the poems are based. |
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The Physics of Transmigration
Poems by Pit Pinegar |
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This third poetry collection by Pit Pinegar tells the story of a love affair, its beginning, middle, end, and new beginning. The poems, replete with life's "quotidian miracles," are gorgeously sensual and at the same time philosophical and mystical. The "transmigration" mentioned in the title underscores an element of psychic communication that is quite extraordinary. This is a wholly life-affirming book and one that no reader can peruse without being changed. |
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Report From The Banana Hospital
Poems by Norah Pollard |
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In her second volume of poems, Norah Pollard tells of her despairs, delights, and famous father, Red Pollard, Seabiscuit’s jockey. His love of wild things, the poems proclaim, is much like his daughter the poet’s.
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The Burning Bush
Essays with Poems by Polly Brody |
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In her second book, a collection of essays with interspersed poems, Polly Brody has given us a splendid ensemble of autobiography, natural history, and personal tribute. She moves from depictions of a country girl’s childhood to graphic portrayals of safari life to meditations on natural wonders great and small, bringing into play her training as a biologist, her passion for ornithology, and her poetic sensibility. In the course of the book, we come to know a woman who has lived her life with remarkable independence and generosity of spirit. |
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Though War Break Out
Poems by Brad Davis |
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Presenting meditations on the biblical Psalms, this is the first of a multi-volume series entitled Opening King David. Davis’ poems express a wide variety of moods and attitudes ranging from rage to exultation and are always informed by wit, wisdom, and a passion for justice and love. |
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Barbarians in the Kitchen
Poems by Ginny Lowe Connors |
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Focused on the conflict between the “barbaric” and the “civilized,” these poems move from school room to bedroom to the domain of tiger and bear. They are marked by compassion, wry wit, and an exquisite eye for the telling detail. Connors is that rare teacher and parent who welcomes the need of the young to rebel |
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A Brief Eureka for the Alchemists of Peace
Poems by John Popielaski |
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After considering the folly, indifference and mayhem of which the human race is capable, John Popielaski’s poems examine the quality of mercy through which mankind sometimes redeems itself. The poems arrive at a tentative accommodation with a world which often seems on the verge of the Apocalypse. |
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Getting Religion
Poems by Rennie McQuilkin |
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In his eighth book of poems, Rennie McQuilkin praises the human spirit but also sees the havoc it can wreak. The poems suggest that the animal world has much to teach us and that in it we may find our best hope for redemption. The book ends with poems considering various sorts of unchurchly immortality. |
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First & Last
Poems by Rennie McQuilkin |
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In his ninth book of poems, Rennie McQuilkin focuses on the joys & perils of childhood and adolescence, along with the return to childhood that is part of aging. |
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Painting to Peom
An anthology of poetry based on art |
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A forty-page chapbook containing poems by fifteen writers based on paintings and photography by members of the Avon Arts Association. The artworks are presented in color adjacent to the poems which were inspired by them. |
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Like Fire Catching Wind
Poems by Lynn Hoffman |
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The settings for the poems in Like Fire Catching Wind range from the kitchen stove to the slopes of the Andes, and in between lie stories about what it means to be a wife, a mother, a daughter, and the granddaughter of Italian immigrants. |
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Profligate with Love
Poems by Theresa C. Vara |
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“You are a poet,/Stay awake” advises “a voice beyond/hearing” in the opening poem of Theresa Vara’s stunning exploration of the complexities of family love. And stay awake she did and still does, paying close attention to the ways in which we learn about love and how that early instruction guides us through the twisting passages of adult passion in all its complicated forms. |
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Ecstasy Among Ghosts
Poems by John L. Stanizzi |
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These are poems in which the poet’s generously extended Italian family, terrible despair and regenerating love are as salty as the ocean that beats just beyond the margins. To read this book is to ride a roller coaster of unbridled emotion. |
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A Place at the Table
Poems by Steve Foley |
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Steve Foley writes about parents and young people, both his own children and his students, with “deep emotional awareness” and “tenderness of feeling.” Foley’s poems also display the sort of wit and wisdom that adds toughness to highly charged emotion and raises his work to the level of truly great poetry. Despite their apparent simplicity, the poems continue to reveal new dimensions with each reading. |
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Song of the Drunkards
Poems by Brad Davis |
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In this second book of the four-part series Opening
King David, Brad Davis gives us poems which are by
turns questioning, reverent, lyrical and witty. Though each poem
is based on a particular psalm, the poet has roamed far and wide
in his very contemporary responses ranging from the personal to
the political, from rage to joy, from melancholy to meditation.
The first volume, Though War Break Out,
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Playing with Gravity
Poems & Translations by Joan Kunsch |
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By turns lyrical, joyful, melancholy, and wonderfully funny, these poems take us on journeys of many sorts: into the northland of Scandinavia, onto the streets of St. Petersburg and Torrington, into the world of classical ballet, and most of all, into the heart and mind of an extraordinary woman who has mastered several art forms with consummate grace. Not the least of those arts is that of translation: the book includes stunning translations of two Norwegian poets. |
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Tightrope Walker
Poems by Geri Radacsi |
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Based on works of art of all sorts, these poems present “an abundance of sensual particulars” and are marked by “candor, perspicacity and passion.” They pierce to “the very heart of the human endeavor” and remind one reader of “repeatedly slicing into one’s very first orange.” |
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North Northeast
by Rennie and Sarah McQuilkin |
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Rennie and Sarah McQuilkin have collaborated on a revised and much expanded edition of North Northeast, she adding new illustrations and he, new poems, all in keeping with the book's focus on the people, places and fauna making their nook of New England such a lively microcosm of the world at large. |
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Inside the Box
Poems by Michael Cervas |
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In his first book, Michael Cervas give us a stunning array of poems that deftly combine the physical and metaphysical, ebullience and irony. Moving from his own past to meditations on seizing the moment and laments for the inhumanity of humanity, Cervas examines the human heart with unclouded vision and ends with a suite of love poems quite astonishing in their honesty and passion. |
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At the Flower's Lip
Poems by Polly Brody |
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These are poems which move from the anguish of divorce to the sensual and spiritual ecstasy of passionate and deeply felt love of the sort that comes most fully to those who have lived long enough to give and receive it. |
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Slant Light
Poems by Jim Pearce |
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Jim Pearce writes of his grandfather's farm where poetry and raw milk were everday realities, of grief's "sharp memories," of Nerudian Common Things and of the marvels that underlie the commonplace. His tone is by turns lyrical and satirical, elegiac and sanguine. He writes to be understood, and he understands the joys and sorrows we all share. |
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This Weather is No Womb
Poems by Parker Towle |
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In his first full-length collection of poems, Parker Towle ranges from the mountains and rivers of New England to Central America, from hospital halls to the days of his youth. He “writes poignantly about love and longing, youth and death,” delving into what is both “universal and yet very personal, even intimate.” (Dana Cook Grossman). |
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Boreal
Poems by Bruce Pratt |
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Ranging from the sensuous high spirits of its first section to the darker currents and satirical barbs of its second section, and concluding with a gorgeous prayer to the Maker of all that is bright and dark, Bruce Pratt’s first book of poems is a tour de force placing him among the finest poets writing today. |
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Geisha
Poems by Jocelyn Sloan
Illustrations by Norah Pollard |
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A handsomely illustrated gift book in chapbook style, Geisha contains the geisha poems written by Jocelyn Sloan toward the end of her life. Beautifully Illustrated by Norah Pollard, the poems tell the story of a geisha who falls in love against all the rules of her profession, and suffers the consequences. |
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Perspective
Poems by Bob Jacob |
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Written in response to his work as a Hospice volunteer, Bob Jacob’s poems depict moments of epiphany, utter honesty, and spontaneous joy experienced by those passing from one world to another. These poems will surprise you with their unorthodox insights. |
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Down to the Waters
Poems by Cheryl Della Pelle |
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Down to the Waters tells a story, the story of one woman’s search for herself and for the sort of fulfillment that comes only to those who refuse to settle for less than everything. The poems in this book are utterly honest, uninhibited, and close to the bone. |
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No Vile Thing
Poems by Brad Davis |
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In the third part of his four-part series entitled Opening King David, Brad Davis once again presents a series of contemporary responses to the biblical psalms. As in the two earlier volumes, Though War Break Out and Song of the Drunkards (see above), the poems range from the personal to the political, from rage to joy, from melancholy to meditation. |
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Silk Fist Songs
Poems by Marilyn E. Johnston |
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Silk Fist Songs is a stunning debut depicting the author’s childhood, coming of age, love and marriage; her troubled and loving relationship with a father and brother; her grief at the loss of both; and her search for personal identity in the wake of shattering loss. “These poems are true, and human, and ones you’ll want to live with. This is a very strong first book” (Doug Anderson). |
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Crazy Girl with Lighter
Poems by Jen Gates |
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This is more than a poetry collection: it is an archetypal tale of paradise lost and regained, or at least glimpsed again. Through the story of her descent into the hell of drug addiction and difficult ascent back to the world from which she’d dropped out, Jen Gates has given us a modern morality tale.
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Quarry
Poems by Jim Kelleher |
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These are tough-minded poems quarried out of a life and a region full of hardship. They show a man and his neighbors — human, animal, vegetable and mineral — that endure and, more often than not, prevail. Quarry will give courage to its readers.
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From the Front of the Classroom
Poems by Elizabeth Thomas |
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Ranging from her childhood, young adulthood, and marriage to her passionate involvement with teaching the young and the not so young to appreciate the joy of poetry, these new poems by Elizabeth Thomas are strikingly honest, direct and energetic, always instilled by enormous empathy and compassion.
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Until Crazy Catches Me
Poems by Ellen Rachlin |
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In her first full-length poetry collection, Ellen Rachlin displays a wit, minimalism and passion for particulars reminiscent of Marianne Moore. Always behind the reticence of these sometimes playful, sometimes anguished poems is a passion for honesty and for a life in which the sensual cohabits with the cerebral. In Rachlin’s verse, Marjory Wentworth finds “objects and landscapes [that] seem suddenly brilliant and suffused with meaning we had never considered.”
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