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The Donner Party By George Keithley George Braziller, Inc.
“The Donner Party is one of the three or four finest book-length American poems ever written.”—Poetry. “Out of the western migration of the 1840s…Keithley has made a lean, taut narrative poem that moves with the speed and terseness of a killer shark.”—The New York Times. “Keithley’s account of the Donner tragedy is a major event in American letters.”—X.J. Kennedy.
www.georgebraziller.com
My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends…
By Thomas Ford Conlan
“Deeply moving…told with all the tropes a good poet would use…vivid description…a delightful sense of humor…a novelist’s skill with scene and feel for dialogue…”—Cathy Smith Bowers, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina. “…Close to being a prose poem…intense, lyrical nature writing.”—Emily Fox Gordon, author of Mockingbird Years. Join the author on an adventurous lyrical journey through a natural life.
www.thomasfordconlan.com; amazon.com
Amanda Goes to Las Vegas
By Nancy Dick
A love story about Amanda, a young woman who leaves the family and rural family farm she loves to help family out by trying to become a “big time” star in Las Vegas. This is the story of her journey. This author has done two book signings. Available online: amazon.com and bn.com and nationally at many Barnes & Noble Bookstores.
www.worksbynancydick.com
The Fourteenth of September By Rita Dragonette She Writes Press
In 1969, as mounting tensions over the Vietnam War are dividing America, a young woman in college on an Army scholarship risks future and family to go undercover into the anti-war counterculture and is ultimately forced to make a life-altering choice as fateful as that of any Lottery draftee.
www.ritadragonette.com
Squander By Elena Karina Byrne Omnidawn Publishing
“If flesh (or any worldly thing) could be made word, it would be by Pushcart Prize winner Byrne…Byrne opens with a meditation on language showing it at its protean finest, as her own poems are: sparkling, luminous, richly packed, and a real tumble into another state of mind…Byrne incarnates a wealth of subjects for smart, committed readers.”—Library Journal.
www.omnidawn.com/product/squander
Augur By Jonathan Andersen Red Dragonfly Press
2017 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize.“His poems strike blows against everything that is killing us, and recall memories of everything that gives us life.”—Robin D.G. Kelley. “The healthiest, most honest poetry I’ve read in a long time.”—James Scully. “The luminous moments are here…; the auguries are here… now it is incumbent on us to pay attention and take action.” —Martín Espada.
www.reddragonflypress.org
Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California Edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan Scarlet Tanager Books
“Day and Nolan have done a considerable service to select and gather these poems. Their ample anthology provides a generous record of California poets’ love and concern for their common world. What more important theme can we in this golden land share?”—from the foreword by Dana Gioia, California Poet Laureate.
www.scarlettanager.com
Little Singapore
By Carol M. Downie
Adventure. Romance. A thoughtful and thought-provoking novel of medical ethics, human rights and orangutan conservation. When Margo Connors, a city-bred, US health-care administrator, rescues one human and four orangutan infants from a Malaysian forest fire, she stumbles her way into trafficking in drugs, human organs and her beloved orangutans—and the arms of handsome and charismatic Dr. Jacob Wu.
www.amazon.com
A Ballroom Called the Universe
(Dancing with the Higher Energies of Life) By Anne M. Ehmann Balboa Press
The poems contained within reflect upon life’s vicissitudes. The author touches on topics such as early childhood memories, holidays, love, nature, current events, and even death. No matter how outer appearances manifest in our lives, we are “always dancing to the rhythmic beat of an ever upward evolutionary emergence.”
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Lance D. Wainwright Book of Poetry By Epp Marsh III CreateSpace
Behold the beautiful and most breathtaking timeless romance poetry from one man to one woman. The masterfully crafted poems create a sense of safety, compassion, and true love in companionship, and reading them aloud is a wonderful way for two lovers to pass the night. This book is available for free ebook download. Memes at author website.
www.eppmarsh.com
The Secret Destination By Sally Cullen, Meg Files, and Susan Reimer Imago Press
“Three sisters return, ensorcelled, bearing a gift for us, an Iceland of tern-moon and mythic Lights.”—Ron Powers, PulitzerPrize winning author of No One Cares About Crazy People.
“You’ll be sad when this visionary book ends; you’ll harken to its call for opening its pages time and time again.”—Sarah Cortez, Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials.
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We Rent These Bodies By T. Dove Lourde Xlibris Publishing
In We Rent These Bodies, author T. Dove Lourde examines his own memories and philosophy regarding such topics as insanity, death, love, sex, drugs, addiction, religion and other forms of ‘euphoria and escape.’ It’s a deep look at man’s flawed functionality.
On the Line By Gardner McFall Finishing Line Press
On the Line comprises a sequence of poems about the poet’s Navy pilot father lost in the Vietnam War. “Gardner McFall has created a polished, durable sequence of poems lit with piercing glances into the American life.”—Henri Cole. “…[A] remarkable collection of poems whose loss is both universal and deeply personal.”—Grace Schulman.
www.finishinglinepress.com
How I Broke The Generational Curse By Tonya Mitchell Author House Publishing
How I Broke The Generational Curse is about negative and destructive patterns, practices and beliefs passed down through generations which leave us stuck, broken and unable to tap into the blessings God has for us. I lived a charmed middle-class life, but no one knew, including me; I was broken on the inside and so was my family.
www.howibrokethegenerationalcursebook.com
Wishbones By Ben Moeller-Gaa Folded Word
This collection of haiku and senryu explores the synapse between a moment’s initiation and its resolution. MoellerGaa shows us what’s possible in this unguarded space through evocative word choice and masterful turns, often with a touch of humor. Frogs and thistle, voyeurs and valentines, strip mines and singing bottles—learn how wishes are spun from the simplest bones.
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I Should Have Been Music By Babette Becker Page Publishing
My memoir covers four years in the 1950s I spent in four mental hospitals when nothing was known of childhood trauma. I was passed from hospital to hospital carrying several severe diagnostic labels. I include notes from my hospital journals, poetry, doctors’ reports. It shows the stark contrast between what was frightening and desperate to me and what the doctors thought.
www.pagepublishing.com
Weathering Cracks By Joy Willow Word Project Press
Developing the themes found in her 2013 collection, Soma Song,
Willow offers “riveting, powerful poems that explore how the natural world illuminates our human vulnerability. Her words resonate in the here and now like sudden moments of realization. Most delectable.”—Monika Rose, editor of Manzanita Writers Press; author of River by the Glass.
www.amazon.com
A Gypsy On Tenth Avenue
By Suzann Kale
Rich with Romany history, culture, and language, this is the story of a multi-generational American Gypsy family struggling to keep their culture alive. Sapphire is an American-based Rom Gypsy telling fortunes in Manhattan’s contemporary diamond district. But she and her powerful godmother Matilda must outwit fate in order to survive.
suzannkale.blogspot.com
Restoring Blair House By Kenneth Bond Lippincott Xulon Press
Alone at the counter, the newcomer told the waiter, “You know, women have the power to bring out the best in a man… or the worst.” All bruised, all flawed, all with secrets, everyone wanted a second chance. What would you do to gain it and at whose expense? “A charming and thoroughly engaging religious tale.”—Kirkus Reviews.
www.xulonpress.com/bookstore
Spiritual Gifts By Dalt Wonk Luna Press
A piano bar on Bourbon Street. The kind of place tourists peek into but avoid. Brenda, an elderly woman, holds court at the piano. In brief chapters, we meet her staff: the cleaning woman (a once-famous Rock Star), the waitress (a fugitive) and her eccentric customers. But, in the end, it’s Brenda’s secret tragedy that they all flee from.
www.lunapress.com