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Poetry
Roger Mitchell
[Roger] Mitchell gives us a history of the Adirondacks, with the Indian languages, travelers' accounts, songs and dances, diaries, museum artifacts, and the poet's own deeply rooted personal experience. It is a book that scholars will respect, poets will admire, and general readers who care about our wild history will cherish. --Marion K. Stocking, Beloit Poetry Journal
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Gary Fincke
It’s almost impossible to find the one significant thing to say about Gary Fincke. This poet does so many things right, and these poems discover so many good places, that any review of the book will smack of reductionism. --The Kansas City Star
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Walter Bargen
At the Dead Center of Day continues Walter Bargen's lifelong and intrepid journey into the dark heart of the 20th-century experience. Though the horrors of that journey accorded their place--from the Kristallnacht to the L.A. riots, from a flashback of the Western Front to bombers over Dresden--what sets this collection apart is its steadfast refusal to acquiesce, to give up that act of sympathy and compassion by which we will, if indeed we will, outlive this difficult century. --Sherod Santos
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Ken Lauter
Ken Lauter explores a dark world in three technically brilliant sequences: "snuff" film, the murder of an adult with mental disabilities by his troubled father, and the making of the atomic bomb as perceived by the uninformed wives of secretive scientists.
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Deborah Cummins
In her exhilarating debut collection Deborah Cummins captures "this luminosity, this voracious charity" that suffuses her keenly observed and richly imagined universe. With equal and abiding affection for the human and natural worlds, these poems confront regret, loss, and difficult revision, with blessing, grace, mercy, praise, and the promise of redemption. -- Ronald Wallace
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Stanley E. Banks
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Irving C. Hall
[Irving] Hall's terse and vivid poems provide insight into general confusion and do it in a way that is enduring. His wit answers the challenge of mortality. These are poems of a brave enthusiasm, a mature voice that has refused to atrophy...an astute student of nature. --John Mort, Forum
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Marilyn Kallet
Marilyn Kallet's Circe, After Hours shines with a high-intensity light into the underworld of ordinary lives, creating bridges between the North and the South, America and Europe, as well as a marriage between the brain's left and right hemispheres--reason and passion. In this marvelous collection, the process of art illuminates life's path. --Yusef Komunyakaa
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Sylvia Griffith Wheeler
The poems in this book represent an important exhumation of regional oral history. The historical period they describe is full of violence and pain, involving the clash of alien cultures in a landscape which, despite its size and sweep, was still not big enough to tolerate the peculiarities of each.
--Conger Beasley Jr.
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Sylvia Griffith Wheeler
[Sylvia Griffith] Wheeler comes by her knowledge of the Midwest and the prairie from a lifetime of experience, and her poetry reflects a very spare approach to describing and conveying what she has seen and heard. Wheeler provokes. She is neither typical nor predictable. --Laurel Speer, Remark
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Bruce Cutler
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Stuart Friebert
Here language seems to be an emotional minefield, where the path not traveled, the words left unspoken, are as important as what is revealed. Moments, powerful and subtle at once, abound in this collection. --Joel Brouwer, Harvard Review
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Thomas Zvi Wilson
This poet writes without claiming anything that isn't true, plain, and as honest as it gets. And--wonder of wonders in these days of self-indulgent wandering--he knows what a line is, its wonderful limitations. Thomas Zvi Wilson at his best is something to treasure.
--Miller Williams
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David Rigsbee
The Dissolving Island, a wonderful collection of new poems by David Rigsbee, is the work of a raconteur of the spirit, a splendid storyteller with just enough jaunty language to make you feel you’d want to hear almost anything he had to say. He is elegiac and disciplined, rapturous and suspicious, but more than anything else these are the sort of poems that James Wright once called “the poetry of a grown man.” I’d add the poems of a remarkable, felicitous intelligence. --Dave Smith
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Robert Tremmel
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- The Dust Dancers
- Jack Anderson
56 pages, $2.75 paper
ISBN 0-933532-12-1
Jack Anderson writes regularly for Dance Magazine, Ballet and The Dancing Times of London. Currently he is writing a history of ballet and modern dance. He teaches dance history at Lehman College and was appointed to Dance Advisory Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Elizabeth Goldring
When artist and poet Elizabeth Goldring found a way to use technology for visual art, the images she captured on her damaged retinas became "frozen traces of seeing, the memory of words that move and flow into meaning." These exquisite prints are grounded on the image of her optic nerve, "individual as a thumbprint," to embody not only Goldring's remarkable vision but the very process of creation. As a poet, Elizabeth Goldring pushes through silence to speak. As a visual artist who is blind, she uses darkness to frame the world she allows, then compels us to see. Eye is a work of transformative--and great--art.
--Hilda Raz
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Christopher Buckley
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G. S. Sharat Chandra
Cultural streams of India and England blend, with a startlingly American tinge to the waters. Here is one poet whose by-line always makes me sit up and pay attention. --X.J. Kennedy
A flamboyant and sometimes surrealistic wit. --Biff Russ, Kansas City Star
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- Fields, Turfs, Pitches, Arenas
- Richard Kostelanetz
70 pages, $5.25 paper
ISBN 0-993532-42-3
What I do know is that the book makes me more than a spectator. I drop into a language process, a game circumstance of a special kind. --Dan Jaffe
I step back and try to see the heaven whole, the words (poems) reinformings (reinforcing) each other and us. They tell us how to read them and how to respond to language. The single poems combine with others into a galaxy of potentiality. The space between words and poems is space to find meaning and feeling in... --Richard Kostelanetz, excerpt from introduction
Lynne Burris Butler
Butler has a wicked eye for the outrageous and uproarious.
--Colette Inez
When I read Lynne Butler's work I feel good about the state of lyric poetry in the land.
With the publication of Forever is Easy, those who've known her work, a poem at
a time, will be grateful. --Miller Williams
A storytelling poet who will not look away, who sees the cottonmouth under the pier and the weeds in the
garden.
--Edward Hirsch
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George Gurley Jr.
Poems in this book previously appeared in such publications as Poetry Northwest, Seattle Review, Nimrod, Kansas Quarterly, and Cottonwood.
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- Geographies: Snapshots, Portraits, and Cameos
- Myron Ernst
24 pages, $4.00
ISBN 1-886157-04-9
This chapbook launched the Roy Fox Memorial Chapbook Series.
Myron Ernst's poems have appeared in Chicago Review,
Kansas Quarterly, Poetry East, Southern Humanities Review,
and elsewhere. Ernst holds a bachelor's of arts degree from Brooklyn College of the City of New
York and a master's degree in French Language and Literature from the University of Iowa. He
and his wife are owners/directors of a Montessori preschool in Vestal, New York. Geographies
is Ernst's first book.
- Hanging Out with the Crows
- David Allan Evans
64 pages, $9.25 cloth
ISBN 0-933532-83-0
Irresistible, down to earth amusing, bluff, insightful, unpretentious and extremely readable. Evans is a close observer of animals in their natural environment--and those include humans.
--Laurel Speer, Remark
There aren't too many poets we can count on to deliver, collection after collection. It's no surprise to find poems in this new book as strong and sure as those in his earlier. But there's something very new: a broader range and some real risk taking. I've read the poems--and taught them--for years, and I'm not about to stop. --Lucien Stryk
Evans has published two poetry collections, including Real and False Alarms (BkMk Press), and one book of essays. After earning master's degrees at the University of Iowa and the University of Arkansas, he teaches college.
- Hard Freeze
- Philip Miller
64 pages, $10.00 paper
ISBN 0-933532-96-2
My fingertips are still tingling from Miller's chilly collection. But Miller tells us that with the clarity of vision in winter that we should be able to see at last our difficulties and move towards resolving them. --Brian Daldorph
Given the poet's unwillingness to wax sentimental, Miller's achievement is all the more remarkable. His skill with subtle sound and lavish detail allow him to engage our interest and sympathy throughout this rewarding and troubling collection. --Small Press Review
Miller has also published another book of poetry as well as three chapbooks. He directs the Kansas City's River Front Reading Series and has taught English at Kansas City, Kansas Community College since 1976.
- Honeymoon
- William Kloefkorn
64 pages, $5.25 paper
ISBN 0-933532-40-7
It has been said that Kloefkorn "speaks for the Midwest." His poems have appeared in Southeast, Dacotah Territory, Kansas Quarterly, and many other newspapers and periodicals. Kloefkorn has been the champion hog caller of Nebraska. He teaches at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln.
Trish Reeves
Compressed as these spare lyrics are, they open to an unmistakable amplitude: the life of feeling honored, observed, sung. "...luck could sing from every word on this page," Trish Reeves writes; these moving and genuine poems are the readers' good fortune. --Mark Doty
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- In the Middle
- Sylvia Griffith Wheeler (editor)
124 pages, $9.50 paper
ISBN 0-933532-51-2
This anthology not only takes readers into the landscape of the American Midwest, but also into the hearts and minds of talented women poets living there. It verifies how specific regional images and experiences can be transformed into universalities and never confuses tenderness with weakness. --Rane Arroyo, Poet News
Wheeler has written four books of poetry, Dancing Alone, Counting Back: Voices of the Lakota and Pioneer Settlers,
This Can't Go On Forever and
City Limits. She has also co-edited an anthology, For Kids, By Kids, and
she has taught at the University of South Dakota.
Alice Friman
Almost no one is good at both short and long poems, but Alice Friman is. Her poems 'Turnip' and 'Cherries' have sharp language, imagination and alert observation. Inverted Fire is good, a must. --Leo Connellan
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- Jerusalem As She Is
- Shlomo Vinner
96 pages, $8.95 paper
ISBN 0-933532-79-2
Shlomo Vinner was born and raised in Jerusalem, where he now teaches mathematics and science education at the Hebrew University. He has lived in Canada and the U.S., and has taught at Concordia University in Montreal, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- Journey Cake
- Tam Lin Neville
76 pages, $11.95 paper
ISBN 1-886157-13-8
[Neville] draws from folk literature a particular love of the humble, the singular, the lonely, as if they speak more accurately of the soul. Her poems span time and culture, taking in ancient and modern China and pioneer America. But in whatever setting, her characters, and especially her women, quietly insist on their dignity and independence. The poems in Journey Cake are profoundly original in their way of being moral, mysterious and intimate all at once.
--Betsy Sholl
Gravity and Grace might be another title for this, Tam Lin Neville's first full-length collection of poems, as it has Simone Weil's fierce attention to the way the spirit moves and accrues. Journey Cake is wide awake, darkened by time and experience, and finally triumphant. I for one am grateful for the journey. --Tom Andrews
Journey Cake is Tam Lin Neville's first full book of poetry. She is the recipient of a Master Artist Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission.
- Kansas City Outloud II
- Dan Jaffe (editor)
136 pages, $11.95 paper
ISBN 1-886157-17-0
Nearly a decade and a half ago, BkMk Press published the first Kansas City Outloud. Since that time, the Kansas City literary scene has changed considerably. A number of writers are gone from the city and from the land of the living. A number of potential talents have grown into artistic maturity. Kansas City Outloud II includes the work of poets who now live or work in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Despite the limitation and the decision to include only writers who have published a book or who have a publishable volume in hand, Kansas City Outloud II includes thirty-two poets, a remarkable number. --Dan Jaffe
- Keeping the Lady at Bay
- Irving C. Hall
64 pages, $10.00 paper
ISBN 1-886157-03-0
He regularly debunks society's view of how he should live his life. --Kansas City Star
After nearly eight decades, Hall writes with enormous enthusiasm. Hall published his first book of poems, Blue Spruce & Year of the Haiku, with BkMk Press in 1991. His poems have appeared in such publications as New Letters, Forum and the Kansas City Star.
Tim Skeen
Tim Skeen's John Ciardi Prize-winning collection reveals a distanced compassion so keen it might draw blood from his readers. He retells our hard histories, men and women at work in dangerous and impossible circumstances--labor wars, poverty, early death, disease, and violence--to cry out to his beloved, "How can you want children/in spite of the ossuaries of this world?" Kentucky Swami answers the question by moving in close, the poems a vibrant celebration of our continuing lives. This book is marvelous! --Hilda Raz
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- Kisses in the Raw Night
- Victoria Garton
64 pages, $8.95 cloth
ISBN 0-933532-69-5
Poems as decorative antique boxes within boxes: "The Music Box," "Pandora's Box," "The Story Box," and "The Souvenir Box" of foil and hearts, kept tucked away on some high shelf.
She perfects whimsy. These short poems are accessible, and each conveys an original twist on the classic subject of love. The poems, however eccentric, fit together like jigsaw pieces to create a clear, balanced picture of love's follies. --Kansas City Star
Garton's poetry have appeared in journals and literary magazines such as Kansas Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review and Prairie Schooner. She serves as a supervisor with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Bill Bauer
Last Lambs was crafted to give voice to the inner war of the soldier in the
field and the ghost "on the other side of the sky." These poems guide the reader through
the climate of the times, going to Vietnam, being transformed by the war, and the lifelong
search for reconciliation. Bauer avoids the verbiage of diatribe an makes the war real by
paying close attention to detail, allowing the war's natural language and vivid imagery
to evoke its own terrible legacy. Veterans have described his work as authentic and haunting,
and it has been said that if Tim O'Brien wrote poetry it would sound something like this. Last Lambs
gives insight into the moral ambivalence and personal frustration of the American soldier during the Vietnam era.
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- Lyrics and Laments (translations from the Hebrew and Yiddish)
- Howard Schwartz
64 pages, $3.95 paper
ISBN 0-933532-03-2
Lyrics and Laments collects fifty translations of poems by contemporary Hebrew and Yiddish poets, as rendered into English by Howard Schwartz. Many of these translations, collected here for the first time, have been published in various magazines and newspapers in the United States and Israel, including American Poetry Review, Midstream, The Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Quarterly and Webster Review.
- Moving the Seasons
- Charles Guenther
80 pages, $12.00 paper
ISBN 0-933532-98-9
...splendid translations...I am reading it with interest and delight and gratitude...and have much to learn from [Charles Guenther's] enviable skills and long devotions. --Howard Nemerov
I love French poetry and there's no better translator of it than [Charles Guenther]. So many masterpieces of the art...A book to reread again and again. --Charles Simic
Charles Guenther's poems and translations, or "reformations" as he prefers to call them, reveal considerable technical skills. They also show his great humility, his devotion to the reader and to other writers of merit as well. Above all, he is a man who weighs his words. --Dan Jaffe
- Mysteries in the Public Domain
- Walter Bargen
64 pages, $6.50 paper
ISBN 0-933532-74-1
Towheads, fence posts, Thomas Hart Benton, 'the country waltz' of the beautifully ordinary everyday--this is the charmed, allegorical landscape of Walter Bargen's poems. --Sherod Santos, author of Accidental Weather
His poems come from the gut by way of the heart. You find form and content in his work that you long for in contemporary poetry. --Jim Barnes, editor Chariton Review
Bargen has published poems in many magazines such as The Missouri Review, Puerto del Sol and
River Styx. He has written several other poetry collections, including
At the Dead Center of Day (BkMk Press).
- Night Vision
- Neal Bowers
64 pages, $9.25 cloth, ISBN 0-933532-87-3
$8.00 paper, ISBN 0-933532-94-6
Bowers is writing the poetry of a grown man, and he keeps his eyes open to what's out there.
--Tar River Poetry
Sparkles with variety and invention, filled with poems that keep a fellow poet wistfully sighing.
--R.S. Gwynn, Hudson Review
Redemptive--perhaps because of its cosmic vision. Extraordinarily fine.
--Southern Humanities Review
Bowers lives in Ames, Iowa and is a professor of English at Iowa State University.
He teaches modern poetry writing and edits Poet & Critic.
- Other People's Lives
- Catherine N. Parke
64 pages, $9.00 paper
ISBN 0-933532-97-0
Wit, forgiveness and amusement are still alive in contemporary poetry.
Other People's Lives is a book written out of these sure and diverse responses
to the world. And, yet, in the end, there are poems of the finest lyric uplift as well.
--Garrett Hugo
Catherine Parke's poems are by turns agile and sardonic, meditative and lyrical, always engrossing. --Sandra M. Gilbert
Parke is the Director of Graduate Studies in English at the University of Missouri-Columbia,
and her work has appeared in Webster Review, Poetry Canada Review and Women's Studies.
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Robert Stewart
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Bill Bauer
Bill Bauer is a poet of spooky power. His poems literally make your neck hairs rise, and his range is impressive: war, family, nature. The poems are brightly or darkly colored with a palette from disparate places. Whether he writes about the Caribbean or a chopper leaving 'Nam, Bauer's the real thing. --Jim McKinley, Editor-in-Chief, New Letters
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- Real & False Alarms
- David Allan Evans
64 pages, $5.25 paper
ISBN 0-933532-45-8
Although he knows the horrors of rural life, he knows its beauties, too. Evans' most powerful work is based on his experiences at the Armor packing plant. Details are precise but it is Evans' insight that makes these poems special. --Ann Struthers, Des Moines Register
This book will be remembered with critical acclaim. It deserves the widest possible readership I can encourage. --James Cox, editor Midwest Book Review
Evans has published three poetry collections, including Hanging Out with the Crows (BkMk Press) and one book of essays.
He earned master's degrees at the University of Iowa and the University of Arkansas, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bush Foundation.
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The Record-Breaking Heat Wave
Jeff Friedman
Urban poetry, working-class poetry, strongly felt, carefully observed, cleanly written.
--Donald Justice
Steve Gehrke
What I like most about the poems of Steve Gehrke is that while they're finished, they're not complete. There's always something left undone for me to do, so that when I've read one I feel like I've been inside of it with him. Making this possible takes both skill and what I want to call an amiability on the part of the poet--the willingness to invite a reader in, and the skill to leave room for that. It makes the reading a joy. --Miller Williams
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- Salvatore's Daughter
- Maryfrances Wagner
64 pages, $10.00 paper
ISBN 1-886157-00-6
Wagner writes beautifully and lovingly from her Italian-American heritage in a voice that is sometimes melancholy but never bitter or self-pitying. Poems with insight and compassion, fresh straightforward language. --William Trowbridge
It's a real pleasure to read one poem after another about affection in its many dresses.
--Gary Gildner
Wagner has published two other full-length poetry collections and one chapbook. A native to Kansas City, she has worked as a teacher and English department chair at Raytown High School for many years.
Bruce Cutler
['Angelita' has] sweeping narrative power, gorgeous visual detail, and varied and surprising music, the range of whose modulations is most effective when the poem is read aloud. A waiting minefield of sentimentality, occasionally but triumphantly just skirted here and there, somehow adds to the exhilaration. --Amy Clampitt
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- Selected Poems of John Knoepfle
- John Knoepfle
110 pages, 6.50 paper
ISBN 0-933532-53-9
"Among the finest work of our time." --Abraxas
"Clear, virile, and honest. Vivid with image, rich in sound fitted meticulously to rhythms. Recommended for all public and academic libraries." --Small Press
"Plays between historical fact and the keener religious and mystical experiences that underlie and give scope to his whole achievement." --Theodore Haddin, The Chariton Review
Knoepfle, a former recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, has published other books including Poems for the Hours and Whetstone: A Book of Poems.
- Sleepwalking Beneath the Stars
- Howard Schwartz
64 pages, $9.50 cloth
ISBN 0-933532-82-2
The poems of Howard Schwartz captured me on first reading them and made me want to go back and read them over again and again. His is a wonderful new voice in the U.S.--Yehuda Amichai
I'm awed by the unity of vision and tone, by the incredible simplicity and resonance of the imagery. Each one of these poems contains a kernel of something uniquely seen and experienced. Or, put it this way: Not a proposition about a psychic equation, but the equation itself resolving in the proposition.
--Charles Simic
Howard Schwartz was born in St. Louis in 1945. He is the author of two previous books of poems, Vessels and Gathering the Sparks, and of several books of fiction including The Captive Soul of the Messiah. Sleepwalking Beneath the Stars is his first book of poems in twelve years. He currently teaches at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
- Starting a Swan Dive
- Patricia Cleary Miller
64 pages, $9.00 paper
ISBN 0-933532-91-1
Miller's poems toss and turn like lovers seeking ecstasy. She closes in on sensual detail pulling us into erotic mysteries that emerge like Fabergé eggs. --Gloria Vando Hickok
This spirited first collection proves Miller a truly gutsy lyricist well worth hearing. I like Miller lots better than many cooler and more cautious poets. --X. J. Kennedy, Harvard Review
Miller teaches creative writing and literature at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. She edits The Rockhurst Review, and she has been a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College.
John Ciardi
Stations of the Air provides 33 poems left among the papers of John Ciardi at the time of his death in 1986, selected and arranged by Miller Williams. They offer us a last breath of genius from one of the great literary men of our time. They demonstrate the wit, skill, profundity, intensity and multiplicity of a great poet and supreme translator--a man for whom art was devotion without pretension, who believed in the life-size but who expected poets and readers to stretch their intellects and emotions. John Ciardi's work did not weaken, but continues to enrich the lives of alert readers who care about depth of engagement and subtlety of interpretation.
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- A Story to Tell
- Michael Paul Novak
72 pages, $9.50 cloth
ISBN 0-933532-75-x
[This book] brings a reader as close to the moment of experience as possible and does it with uncomplicated, graceful language and palpable feeling. You can revel in the absence of hyperventilation and wonder why more poets don't write like this. --Kansas City Star
Novak has taught at St. Mary's College in Leavenworth, Kansas since 1963. He has won awards from the Kansas City Star and Kansas Quarterly, and he is the author of The Leavenworth Poems and Sailing By the Whirlpool.
Alice Glarden Brand
Imagine landscapes as varied as the pace. From Australia to Hai Chen to Dubuque. From Aboriginals to women asking for a moment's attention, Alice Brand skips deliciously from an easy pace to a gallop. Imagine a sense of voice until it said of her poems as it's said of the Aboriginals: "They claim sacred sites that planes cannot fly over." -- Diane Glancy
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Alfred Kisubi
Alfred Kisubi's narrative and elegiac poems show admirable compassion and adroit statement-making explicitness which I respect.
Clearly his poetry is in the tradition of African prophecy and proclamation, one that includes distinguished voices such as those of Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus and Okot P'Bitek. -- Andrew Salkey
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Harry Martinson
[Nobel Prize-winning poet Harry Martinson] writes with profound empathy...in poem after poem Martinson invests his trees, brooks, his butterflies, cabbages and everything else in nature with its own peculiar sentient being. As for the translations into English, only the highest praise is due William Jay Smith and Leif Sjöberg. -- David Ignatow
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- Without Warning
- Elizabeth Goldring
64 pages, $10.00 paper
ISBN 1-884235-13-1
Her vision illuminates intimate moments. --Paula Dawson
Goldring discovered the world in a ring of gold. She made suffering and success meaningful. --Nam June Paik
Although nearly blind, Goldring writes with the wild vision of an unconventional visual artist for whom language is corporeal. She is a research fellow and exhibits and projects director at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Goldring lives with her husband on a farm in Groton, Massachusetts. Without Warning was co-published with Helicon Nine Editions.
Francis Blessington
Francis Blessington uses words as though they matter supremely. Even his longest poems are terse. Challenging, fresh, compressed--a blend of high intelligence and emotional power--those terms come close, but don't quite capture a sense of him. Wolf Howl is a book like nobody else's. It has to be read. The reader will discover rich rewards. --X.J. Kennedy
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Jo McDougall
Jo McDougall's poems seem so clean and clear at first reading I want to hold them up to a window to let them catch light. Then quickly they take on flesh tones and then marvelous signs of aging begin to show between the lines. The cleanness and the clarity are still there in all the funk and smell of humanity. I ask myself how this can be, decide that it's some kind of magic, put the question out of my mind, and read for the joy. --Miller Williams
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Roger Mitchell
It's this unsentimental goodness in the work that most moves me. And how each poem turns and turns again, making its way by slow surprise. --Marianne Boruch
Many poets write about memory, but few manage to track the actual motions of the mind as it roams across the past. In The Word for Everything, Roger Mitchell delineates that fine line between the thing remembered and the mechanics of remembering. The poems are poignant and intimate, but they're also wonderfully brainy. Their self-scrutiny keeps them tough and lean.
--Chase Twichell
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Poetry Back List
- New and Selected Poems
- Donald Drummond
84 pages, $4.95 paper
ISBN 0-933532-00-8
- Quintet
- Robert Killoren et al.
88 pages, $4.95 paper
ISBN 0-933532-04-0
- Starting from Ellis Island
- Frank Higgins
64 pages, $3.25 paper
ISBN 0-933532-01-6
- Stealing Home
- Peter Simpson
72 pages, $5.25 paper
ISBN 0-933532-43-1
- Three Legged Dog
- James Ward
64 pages, $6.50 paper
ISBN 0-933532-67-9
- To Veronica's New Lover
- Marc Munroe Dion
64 pages, $7.95 cloth
ISBN 0-933532-60-1
- Writing in Winter
- Constance Scheerer
72 pages, $5.25 paper
ISBN 0-933532-54-7
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