Invocation: Walking to Windward Vol. 3

Six chapbooks in a hardcover boxed sleeve comprise INVOCATION, Volume III of WALKING TO WINDWARD (20 poets in 4 boxed volumes): Ospreys, herons, cormorants, swallows, and pigeons, a roadside hawk-and her muse, the raven, make up Kristen Lidquist's world in INVOCATION TO THE BIRDS, where empty snail shells mark the tides. Sidney Hall, Jr. travels to CHEBEAGUE off the coast of Maine to find other fauna, black dogs, old men, and an unusual beauty in the women of the island. Elizabeth Tibbetts shows us women and hens in Mozambique, an old woman whose husband lowered a shining trout into her well years ago, the people she encounters as a nurse and memories...in PERFECT SELVES. W.E. Butts' WHITE BEES is about an uncle with a club foot, his father at the pool table, a Vietnam vet leaning out the window. ... "Butts returns to his signature theme-the past.....Memory does not console, but rather haunts and unsettles in its enigmatic fragments...." (James Haug). Candice Stover in ANOTHER STOPPING PLACE breaks down the absolutes we read about in the headlines bringing us to "a child's attention...face lifted/to taste what falls from the sky-that simple daily/care of the soul before we entered the carriage/of language...." , Kate Barnes' THE RHETORIC OF FICTION, with her own illustrations, is a contemporary Frankie and Johnny ballad of love, marriage, children, and the resulting dissolution as night listens.

KRISTEN LINDQUIST is a native of Maine with abiding interests in poetry and teaching, She worked at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, where she won the Breadloaf poetry prize, and at Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. She has taught writing workshops, has been a board member of the Live Poets Society, and won a Red Fox award for 2001 and second place for the Penobscot Watershed Poetry award in 1998. <P>SIDNEY HALL, JR. has a degree in Greek and Latin classics from Reed college. He is a publisher, editor, columnist, Latin teacher, conservationist, and the author of What We Will Give Each Other and Small Town Tales, a memoir of growing up in a town in southern New Hampshire. <P>ELIZABETH TIBBETS has received many awards including the Martin Dibner Creative Writing Fellowship, and Ragdale Foundation and Blue Mountain residencies. Her poems appeared in several literary journals and were nominated for PUSHCART in 2000 and 2001. She has worked as a nurse for the past twenty-three years. <P>W.E. BUTTS, has four books of poems: THE INHERITANCE [4 Zoas, 1983]; THE REQUIRED DANCE, Igneus Press, 1990; MOVIES IN A SMALL TOWN, Mellen Press 1997 received a PUSHCART prize nomination; his work has appeared in THE ATLANTIC REVIEW, the MID-AMERICAN REVIEW and others. An MFA graduate of Vermont College, he teaches English and Film at the University of New Hampshire and Hesser College. <P>CANDICE STOVER'S collection of poems, HOLDING PATTERNS, won the 1994 Maine Chapbook Award. The Blue Mountain Center has twice awarded her a residency. Her teaching has taken her to China and New Zealand. At home on Mount Desert Island, Maine, she teaches poetry and autobiography workshops. <P>KATE BARNES, daughter of Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth, wrote WHERE THE DEER WERE. Her poems appear in THE NEW YORKER, HARPER'S, etc. She lives on a blueberry and hay farm in Maine, where she rides an ancient steed.