Growing Up in Someone Else's Shoes, by Sam Pierstorff

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“The poems in Sam Pierstorff’s Growing Up In Someone Else’s
Shoes are gritty, down-to-earth, well-crafted, but not smug
about it. They’re also funny, sad, loving, irreverent, and most
important, fun to read. When someone says they don’t like /
can’t understand poetry, offer this book.” - CHARLES HARPER WEBB,
author of Shadow Ball: New & Selected Poems

"For those who say, “I don’t like poetry,” or “I don’t get verse,”
here is poetry you will understand, and love. It is poetry that
invites you inside and makes you feel welcome. This is what
poetry should be.” - ELLEN HOPKINS, New York Times best-selling author

Witness, by Elizabeth Young

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"In Elizabeth Young's debut collection Witness, time and memory are intertwined to sharpen our awareness of the details that move our lives forward and back. Young’s poetry is imaginative and intimate."

"These are mature, passionately personal poems. Elizabeth Young's Witness is, quite simply, brilliant, powerful, breathtaking work. Art and emotion coincide here in the articulate singing of vulnerable truths." --Gerald Locklin, Author of The Dodger's Retirement Party: A Novella of the Good Old Days and Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems

Standing Up Together: Edward Field Reads His Poems, Original Music by Ack Van Rooyen and Peter Tiehuis

"Standing Up Together" is a CD where Edward Field reads some of his most famous poems alongside original music by Ack Van Rooyen and Peter Tiehuis.

Sales Price: $15.00

 

"Edward Field is America's greatest poet."
--Gerald Locklin

Tao Driver and Selected Poems, by Rafael Zepeda
Edited by Paul Kareem Tayyar

Sales Price: $13.95 (Also available on Amazon.com)

 

“Tao Driver is an improbably lovely poem. Ray Zepeda’s talent is of the first order.”
-- JIM HARRISON, Author of Legends of the Fall, The English Major, and In Search of Small Gods

Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems [2nd edition], by Gerald Locklin
* 2008 Pen Award Nominee
Price: 20.00

 

“The male spirit in him remains honest, bighearted, sentimental, generous, gentle, vulnerable, but sassy in the face of adversity—qualities that could be applied to as few American poets as to presidents.” 
      - Edward Field, Author of After the Fall and Counting Myself Lucky

Gerald Locklin’s The Cézanne/Pissarro Poems
Price: 12.95

“I have never been let down.  I have been picked up, lifted up, tossed into that rare area: excellent writing with verve, writing that laughs, writing that reads easy yet says something.  That’s a good package.” 
     - Charles Bukowski, Author of The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills, Post Office, and Shakespeare Never Did This

“His poems are about real people and places that ‘illustrate’ with ‘common’ language the classic themes of love, envy, honesty, integrity, etc.  He is pro-people.”
     - Marvin Malone, Publisher of The Wormwood Review

Now Available: Desire by Lyn Lifshin
Price: 13.95

“The combination of eros, ebullience and triste, or sadness…she reminds me of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon.” 
      - Ed Sanders

"Here she is!  Might as well stop fighting it.  Lifshin is not going to go away.  For men, she’s sexy.  For women, she’s an archetype of gutsy independence.  As a poet, she’s nobody but herself—frighteningly prolific and utterly intense.  One of a kind.”
      - San Francisco Review of Books

Donna Hilbert is a graduate of California State University Long Beach. She teaches the Master’s Class in poetry for PEN USA’s Emerging Voices Program as well as private workshops. She appears in and is the subject of “Grief Becomes Me: a Poet’s Journey” the forthcoming documentary by filmmaker Christine Fugate.

Now Available: The Green Season, by Donna Hilbert
Price: 12.95

"There are two Donna Hilberts in these impressive poems: the mature poet in control of her language an the young girl she is remembering- vulnerable, curios, unfolding. In the best of these poems, the two images are brought together; then women and girl, present and past, perfectly merge.”
     -Billy Collins, Former poet laureate of The United States, on Donna Hilbert’s Deep Red.

“I am dazzled by these heartbreaking poems with their language burned pure by sorrow. As Hilbert gropes for understanding of the death of her husband, her poetry avoids the delusions we in America are particularly subject to- clinches of ‘healing’ and ‘closure’. There is nothing stale and conventional here, just the presence, so rare in poetry, of beauty, suffering, and intelligence.”
     -Edward Field, author of After the Fall and Counting myself Lucky, on Donna Hilbert’s Transforming Matter.

"The poetry of Dibakar Barua--like all true poetry--is born from "the womb of memory," the only such repository to which the poet has access, and his is the quintessential American consciousness of twin subjects: The Old World and the New, East and West, loves and losses, deaths and creations--the Yeatsian distillation of a "terrible beauty" from the Joycean Nightmare of History, the saying and the singing of the unsayable and the unsung, the liberation of the images that have lain dormant behind the enigmatic gaze of the Seer, the Pilgrim, the Siddhartha.  Words can be the most intransigent of media, and yet language is the only clay as malleable as mind, as transcendent as music.  Dibakar Barua was born to the word." 
     - Gerald Locklin, Author of Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems and Chicago, New Orleans, and Points Elsewhere

"In The Womb of Memory, Dibakar Barua has pulled off an amazing feat: he has written gorgeous, lyrical poems that are deeply rooted in the real world/.  Family, Geography, Nature, Love.  He looks into the darkness and sees beauty.  He looks at beauty and sees the darkness.  Wonderful poems."
     - Dave Newman, Author of Club Boom, Midnight, and Better Business

"Dibakar Barua's poems are filled with love and wonder, and homage to things seen and unseen, spoken and silent.  The poems contained in The Womb of Memory are "a hum of quiet explosions," a rolling boil of the natural and manmade world that reveals the mystery and beauty of each.  These are gentle poems, soft as "moon smoke" or "a night bird trilling a dry lyric."  These are poems you will return to, and this is a poet the world has been waiting for."
     - Sam Pierstorff, Editor, The Quercus Review