Engaging Poetry
"It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it." -- Robert Frost
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THE HUNGARIAN SEA, by Hollace Lee Gruhn. Intimately observed, imaginatively expressed connections between personal, public and natural histories flow through these poems, which were inspired by Hungarian landscapes and sensibilities when the author lived at Lake Balaton. Three wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. Letterpress softcover edition. 96 pages. Handcolored cover. $16. (ISBN: 0-913559-87-3.) |
| ROME BURNING, by Helen Barolini. This collection of elegant, quietly powerful poetry evokes the author's past life in Rome, with its rich, classical traditions, evident not only in this book but in the whole body of her work as a novelist, poet, and translator of Italian literature. Author is the winner of an American Book Award. Letterpress softcover edition. 56 pages. Cover drawing by George Biddle. $14. (ISBN: 0-913559-86-5) |
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HUMAN/NATURE, by Lance Lee. The poet's latest collection "bears witness to a lyricism rare in much of today's writing. His 'Actaeon' is a monumental poem, weaving ancient myth and modern angst with a robust command of language, evidence of a master at work"--Jackson Wheeler, Editor, Solo . . . "Lance Lee's great strength is his ability to look with unflinching honesty at the condition of being human . . ." --Myra Schneider, author, Insisting on Yellow . . . "Brings voices as diverse as Hannibal, Rembrandt, Orpheus and Eurydice into the modern world . . . "--Martin Bax, Editor, Ambit. 120 pages. Softcover: $16.95. (ISBN: 9780913559994)
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JACK'S BEANS, by Tom Smith. Poetry in the format of a five-year diary. "This work builds upon itself eloquently, allowing the reader to explore, hand-in-hand with Smith, domesticity and decadence, the consumptive and restorative yearnings of youth, love and that which thwarts it" . . .-- Yvonne Daly, Prof., San Francisco State University. . . "By turns sad, profound, funny, incisive, poetic and moving" . . . --George Drury Smith, founder/editor, Beyond Baroque. Cover art by Anita Lobel. 372 pages. Softcover: $29.95. (ISBN: 978013559970)
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CONFESSIONS OF A RATIONAL LUNATIC, by Marcus Rome. This fifth collection of poetry by this NYC psychoanalyst grips and holds onto the reader's psyche through an urgent, seductive, sometimes terrifying voice just beneath the surface of every line. The rhythms and refrains might be likened to the throbbing of blood through the brain as the poet leads us through winding, dark corridors of the mind in search of love and security. . . Wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. 96 pages: Letterpress softcover: $16. (ISBN: 9780913559987) |
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CONTEMPORARY MARTRYDOM, by John Popielaski. Unflinching poetry on contemporary truths that are "crafted and considered and strong. I look forward to reading them again and again..."--Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize Poet. 64 pages. Wood engraving by Joanna Price. Letterpress soft: $14. (ISBN: 0-913559-73-3.).
LONGING FOR LAURA, translated by AM Juster. Delicious translations of a selection of Petrarch's love sonnets. "Juster's translations remain true to the Italian and Petrarch's abbaabba rhyme scheme..."--Prof. Samuel Maio, California State University. Hand-colored wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. 56 pages. Letterpress soft: $14. (ISBN: 0-913559-70-9).
THE MOONLIT DOOR, by Frank Fagan. A selection of fresh, wise, wry poems on human relationships, hopes, and fears, with the poet's special brand of insight. Collection includes Fagan's important earlier poem, "Four-Part Invention." 56 pages. Letterpress soft: $14.
SHADWELL HILLS, by Rebecca Lilly. A keenly observed collection of haiku by a writer whose dedication to and intimacy with this poetic form enriches these sometimes serene, sometimes dark glimpses of our relationship with the natural world. Hand-colored wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. 72 pages. Letterpress soft: $16. Ltd.Hard: $26.
WALKING THE PERIMETERS OF THE PLATE GLASS WINDOW FACTORY, by Jared Smith. Eloquent, engaging, sometimes unsettling poetic examination of the changes that time imposes on our personal as well as national histories. "Finely crafted, paced well, with effective images of how technological processes evoke the sense of contemporary alienation..."-- SMALL PRESS REVIEW. Wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. 68 pages. Letterpress soft: $16. (ISBN: 0-913559-66-0).
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