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Paperback. Condition: Fine. 118PP. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BW7 - An advance reader's copy paperback book in very good condition that has some shelf wear. Maia carries out what she believes is her role as a filial daughter to her late father, a former ARVN soldier, by returning to their homeland to continue the fight for an independent Vietnam. Along the way, however, she meets a cast of characters - historical and fictional, living and dead - who propel her on a journey of self-discovery, through which she begins to understand what it means to love. 8"x5", 214 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Pasadena, CA, Red Hen Press, reprint , 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. Previous owners stamp on rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467461 Record # 467461.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the series Seeds of Truth Petra Eiko has written an inspiring story about the connection between the body and the mind. Petra Eiko's books are available individually in eight parts: Is, Wisdom, Vision, Sound, Power, Sex, Fear, and Heart. These books help promote both self-understanding and the acquisition of wisdom. Each book in the series marks important stages of growth in every person's life. In the series Seeds of Truth Petra Eiko has written an inspiring story about the connection between the body and the mind. Petra Eiko's books are available individually in eight parts: Is, Wisdom, Vision, Sound, Power, Sex, Fear , and Heart . These books help promote both self-understanding and the acquisition of wisdom. Each book in th Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the series Seeds of Truth Petra Eiko has written an inspiring story about the connection between the body and the mind. Petra Eiko's books are available individually in eight parts: Is, Wisdom, Vision, Sound, Power, Sex, Fear, and Heart. These books help promote both self-understanding and the acquisition of wisdom. Each book in the series marks important stages of growth in every person's life. In the series Seeds of Truth Petra Eiko has written an inspiring story about the connection between the body and the mind. Petra Eiko's books are available individually in eight parts: Is, Wisdom, Vision, Sound, Power, Sex, Fear , and Heart . These books help promote both self-understanding and the acquisition of wisdom. Each book in th Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "This book claims as its territory the indefinite spaces separating us: the ground where we move together and apart, the long curve desire describes and follows. Connection seems tenable as a jet trail, 'a seam, holding together / the two halves of the sky.' Kate [Gale] Harper belongs in the company of Lorna Goodison, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton--all poets who write, with force and directness, what a woman lives. I think the secret of Harper's strength is this: from the middle of all loss, all bewilderment, her poems aspire to the condition of dancing."--Angela Ball, Mississippi Review "This book claims as its territory the indefinite spaces separating us: the ground where we move together and apart, the long curve desire describes and follows. Connection seems tenable as a jet trail, 'a seam, holding together / the two halves of the sky.' Kate [Gale] Harper belongs in the company of Lorna Goodison, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Cl Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Sagan's richly sensual writing blends elements of mature insight with deeply felt experience. These are poems of an examined life with moments of Zen clarity throughout. It is, in fact, the clarity that drives these poems. The language is careful but deliberate, exquisitely crafted and emotionally moving. One gets the sense that her desire to write poetry comes from the desire to give permanent voice to something in the experience of life - to find ourselves spoken for in art gives dignity to our pain, our anger, our lust, and our losses. This is what poetry is about. When Miriam Sagan casts her imaginative eye on something, it stares back."--Jeanie C. Williams, Southwest Book Views "Sagan's richly sensual writing blends elements of mature insight with deeply felt experience. These are poems of an examined life with moments of Zen clarity throughout. It is, in fact, the clarity that drives these poems. The language is careful but deliberate, exquisitely crafted and emotionally moving. One gets the sense that her desire to w Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 258 page paperback novel. No flaws - unmarked, tight and clean.

Softcover, trade paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Memoir of trauma and recovery detailing the author's journey after her husband (and the father of 2 young children) is severely injured in an accident at work. Washington State Book Awards Finalist.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Prolific writer Gary Soto introduces the beauty of the much neglected literary form, the "proverb." His proverbs are quirky, fun, urban and enlightening for all ages.Some people might consider the literary genre of proverbs to be stodgy or out of date, perhaps pretentious and irrelevant in our techy world. Not so with Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On. These proverbs are all original, all beckoning for verbal debate and discussion, and addictive in that it's impossible to read just one. The nearly even hundred proverbs are discussion starters and could be a favorite work among book groups. They are enjoyable fodder not only for laughter, but for possible enlightenment. The title alone--Meatballs for the People--suggests substance and a hardy meal. You can really chew on these. Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On is a collection of witty and digestible aphorisms for our times. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Wooichin J-son was born and raised in Singapore. He completed his BA at the University of Southern Mississippi and his MA at the California Sate Univeristy, Northridge. He now lives in Lakewood, California, and teaches writing. Wooichin J-son was born and raised in Singapore. He completed his BA at the University of Southern Mississippi and his MA at the California Sate Univeristy, Northridge. He now lives in Lakewood, California, and teaches writing. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Imagine a heaven populated by familiar Greek gods. Sexy Aphrodite, gorgeous Adonis, Ares the warmonger, Artemis the huntress, wise Athena, bitter Demeter, and the like. But imagine also each of these denizens of Olympus stepping forward and revealing qualities that any reader can recognize: Hades, ruler of the underworld, lovesick for Persephone. Baffled Hephaestus, god of fire, husband of Aphrodite who can't keep her clothes on. Add a defiant Sisyphus and a cadre of grumpy water nymphs and those are only some of the inhabitants of Olympusville--a fantastic and, in the hands of poet Ron Koertge and illustrator Alicia Kleman, endlessly intriguing world. Featuring 16 black and white ink illustrations. A new illustrated collection of humorous poetry from YA and poetry master Ron Koertge. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 66 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 208 page paperback novel. No flaws - unmarked, tight and clean.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Like the mystery bruise of the title poem, these memento mori are livid imprints left behind by collisions with life, tattooed reminders of emotional confrontations. But Terry Wolverton is a survivor of her deep passions. Her heart beats on despite its contusions and pulses underneath the corpus of her experience like a wellspring of life under the painful intimations of mortality. This is a remarkable body of work."--Michael Lassell, author of A Flame for the Touch That Matters"Terry Wolverton's passionate achievement crackles with unsparing revelations from the dark side of the American Dream--epidemics, urban unrest, and a girlhood which might have been conjured in the imagination of Norman Rockwell's diabolical twin. Into this end-of-the-century landscape, peopled by casualties, survivors, and warriors, she direcfts the manifold redeeming powers of poetry: to bear witness, to exorcise, to shore up--and hold fast among us--memories of those lost."--Suzanne Lummis, author of In Danger"In Mystery Bruise, poems of loss and troubled adolescence give way to songs of healing and self-assertiveness. Terry Wolverton looks us straight in the eye, channels raw experience into lean columns, staunch forms. Her poems sting with the truth, the toxic times we live in, yet offer hope, instruct us how to reshape who we are."--David Trinidad, author of Answer Song "Like the mystery bruise of the title poem, these memento mori are livid imprints left behind by collisions with life, tattooed reminders of emotional confrontations. But Terry Wolverton is a survivor of her deep passions. Her heart beats on despite its contusions and pulses underneath the corpus of her experience like a wellspring of life under Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The poems in The Gentle Man were composed between 1999 and 2001. The title poem speaks to those of us who seek to simplify our lives by enriching what it is we give to others, especially what we offer them in kindness and devotion. If the very act of love is patient and wise, then those who are fortunate enough to receive it are blessed by its gift and know, quite naturally, what to offer in return.And yet, when that love somehow cannot be met through blindness, happenstance, history, remorse, or sorrow, we are habitually haunted by past apparitions who remind us that our need for affection, and a place called home, is an inclination not easily forgotten. Be they "Broken Heats," "Photograph (circa 1960)," "Your Father's Ghost," "Last Request," or "Locomotive to Hell," these poems address what it means to constantly search for meaning both inside and outside of ourselves--to travel down tracks in an attempt to discover or rediscover our identity. By doing so, we examine what went wrong in our testament to friendship and love and how we can still approach the longing and desire that resides in each of us, applying for "Forgiveness" as a starting point.If by the mere act of consequence, we can keep the solemn prayer alive--this striving for peace through reconciliation, then we ultimately retain a chance at the relief that so often escapes us and keeps us at bay with ourselves along the dangerous curves we face. Perhaps, then, "The Cost of Being Me" will not be so great, the sacrifice so difficult to bear, as we turn the bedcovers down and read the next page of the book we continue to write, night after night after night. And in the end, hopefully, certainly mercifully, we come to understand that "The Gentle Man" and what he entails is all we've ever wished to know--and become. The poems in The Gentle Man were composed between 1999 and 2001. The title poem speaks to those of us who seek to simplify our lives by enriching what it is we give to others, especially what we offer them in kindness and devotion. If the very act of love is patient and wise, then those who are fortunate enough to receive it are blessed b Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Eidtion So Stated. 219pp. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition So Staed, Comp. # String. 95pp. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing). Winner of the 2008 Benjamin Saltman Award,

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Collectible/Gift Quality. Flawless, tight and probably unread. It will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. Winner Benjamin Saltman Award. "A pilgrim in the 'Christ-haunted South,' as Flannery O'Connor describes it, these poems reckon with the sins of history and the human-made scars on the natural world. The songs of Charles Wright, Rilke, and Blind Willie Johnson have tuned Wagenaar's ear, but the music is his own, irresistably so. Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining is a brave and difficult grappling, ending with the difficult joy of a child's birth and the world's subsequent remaking. This is, simply put, poetry that adds to the glory of the human endeavor." -- Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, author of Heating & Cooling.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A review of Modern Love and Other Tall TalesWith prose as clean as Hemingway's and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales. But these tales are not quite so "tall" as the title might suggest; in fact, their distinction lies in the way they negotiate a fine line between veracity and the farcical.Each narrator seems to fancy himself "the rational one" while elaborating the most bizarre situation with little or no comment. Boyd exploits this irony by mingling a crushing sense of isolation with a host of eccentric, straight-faced characters whose predicaments become the reader's source of stupefaction and endless mirth. In "Horny," a man walks around town carrying a heavy wood cross on his back, convinced that suffering will erase his primal instincts; "listen" is a one-sided conversation in which the narrator formulates a sad and defensive logic that falls on dead ears or--as one might imagine--no ears at all; and "The Further Adventures of Tom, Huck, and Jim" transports Twain's classic characters to Southern California and brings us hilariously up to date.But Modern Love isn't just one laugh after another. Though Boyd makes light of unfortunate circumstances, there is an underlying feeling of loneliness and sadness throughout, as if his characters' idiosyncrasies were born from an acute sense of helplessness or an inability to participate in or relate to typical activities. The characters themselves seem real but flimsy, as if they will at any moment be blown off the page by a Kafkan ill wind, as if they were all once, as in "Unglued," "shy and sickly, largely ignored by the other children."Boyd's writing, like his characters, is straightforward and descriptive. There's no need for verbal trickery here because the author's imagination provides us with more than enough to digest. In Modern Love it's quite possible to become so engrossed in a story that you forget you're actually reading at all. A review of Modern Love and Other Tall Tales With prose as clean as Hemingway's and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales . But these tales are not quite so "tall" as the title might suggest; in fact, their distinction lies in the way they negotiate Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every day we are forced to integrate the world's news into our personal lives; we all have to decide what parts of the flood of news resonate with us and what we need to turn away from, out of necessity or sensitivity. Obliterations--a collection of erasure poems that use The New York Times as their source texts--springs from that seemingly immediate process of personalizing news information. By cutting, synthesizing and arranging existing news items into new poems, the erasure process creates a link between the authors' poetic sensibilities and the supposedly more "objective" view of the newsmakers. Each author used the same articles but wrote separate erasures without seeing the other's versions, highlighting the wonderful similarities and differences that arise when two works--or any two people with individual tastes and lenses--share the same stories. Every day we are forced to integrate the world's news into our personal lives; we all have to decide what parts of the flood of news resonate with us and what we need to turn away from, out of necessity or sensitivity. Obliterations --a collection of erasure poems that use The New York Times as their source texts--springs from that see Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. About fine. SIGNED with large initials on title page. 77pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. TEXT UNMARKED.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "This book is a brouhaha of fun and cleverness, where many of the poems are double-edged with humor and lasting wisdom. . These poems are delivered with the perfect clarity of everyday language."--The Cafe Review"Brewer is the most consistently dark-side-of-the-moon poet around.his.athletic style exactly suits the subject."--Hugh Fox, Small Press Review (Review of Presently A Beast)"I love the edgy laughter I hear on almost every page.There's a 'camaraderie of betrayal, lust, and song'."--David Kirby "This book is a brouhaha of fun and cleverness, where many of the poems are double-edged with humor and lasting wisdom. . These poems are delivered with the perfect clarity of everyday language." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "With this luminous tribute to Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel Peters is in top form. His steely eyed, poignant testimony unearths the midden heap of his rural past, evoking the pungency of that past with all of its stench and sweetness."--Edward Field"Peters, a master of the poetic close-up, here closes the loop on his many decades of writing. That he recalls so much of his early life so vividly is an enviable feat of discipline and imagination."--Jim Cory "With this luminous tribute to Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel Peters is in top form. His steely eyed, poignant testimony unearths the midden heap of his rural past, evoking the pungency of that past with all of its stench and sweetness." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The thirteen stories in Chris Tarry's richly imagined debut, How To Carry Bigfoot Home, lay bare the insurmountable forces that determine who we are and who we become. From an out-of-work dragon-slaying father in "Here Be Dragons" to a family arguing aboard a rocket ship in "Topics in Advanced Rocketry," the stories use fantastic settings, blazing wit, and imaginative circumstances to explore very human truths. The stories work to reconcile the public self with the private heart. To contemplate the monsters we carry home and lay bare for the ones we love the most. "The thirteen stories in Chris Tarry's richly imagined debut, How to carry Bigfoot home, lay bare the insurmountable forces that determine who we are and who we become"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks-from Devo to Atari to the Challenger disaster-to tell a story of emotional and artistic coming of age, exploring universal questions of meaning, mortality, and how we become who we are. A collection of moving and meditative poems that richly evoke a Gen X childhood in Los Angeles, exploring how our early recognitions shape our lives. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.