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Richard Cambridge

Pulsa a book of books Poems by Richard Cambridge 5 copies/ 4 are signed Hanover Press, 2004

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Reminiscent of Rainer Maria Rilke's noted A Book of Hours, Cambridge's "Pulsa - a book of books" is less a collection of individual poems than it is a dramatic narrative -- warm and conversational, intimate and humorous. One that brings us to a deep recognition of the humanity that lies within us all.
— Faith Vicinanza, publisher, Hanover Press

Indeed, Cambridge's innovative vision updates ancient insights with a fresh, experimental use of imagery and spiritual metaphor. His heroic, mystical Song of Self offers a healthy, humane alternative to the psychic chaos of Today's post-modern disaster.
—Askia Touré, winner of the American Book Award

"Full of heart, sincere ambition and a genuine devotion to the mysteries of language, Richard Cambridge is a true poet of the streets, of the city that gives him his name, and also of the books he loves that give his book its title and structure."
— Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laurette

Pulsa: A Book of Books by Richard Cambridge, with illuminations by Michelle Warriner Bolt, is an amalgam of William Blake and the Book of Kells. I’m not being flip, here. It’s that good. Light years beyond Rilke’s Book of Hours (to which it has been compared), with Bolt’s lovely, almost child-like runic calligraphy and drawings that capture the spirit of each separate section in the book, and with Cambridge’s Lao Tzu-like wisdom and Whitmanesque command of language, this collection is a satyagraha of the spirit. It takes its reader not only down the road not taken, but where there is no road.
— Thomas Rain Crowe, Publisher, New Native Press
(Excerpt from his review of Pulsa that appeared in Bloomsbury Review)

$15.00 | ISBN: 1-887012-24-9 | 76 Pages | In Stock: 5 copies/ 4 are signed

Thomas M. Catterson

A Slow Boat to Valhalla by Thomas M. Catterson, edited by Robert Dunn Founder's Hill Press, 2005: Thomas M. Catterson died on December 1st, 2003. This volume contains those poems of his that were, for whatever reason, uncollected in his previous books. But these poems deserve an audience, because they demonstrate not only his passion and vision, but also, on occasion, his whimsy. Thomas wanted me to look after these poems after he passed on;I ransacked his apartment upon his death to "rescue" them. However, one does not generally seek or receive credit in a book for "burglary," even if such actions were sanctioned by his family. So I guess that leaves me the title of "Editor"--I was obligated to do a minor amount of editing. Not too much, though--I didn't want to spoil the flavor (if not the idiosyncrasies) of the work. --Robert Dunn
$15.00 | ISBN: 1-892109-27-1 | 77 Pages | In Stock: 4

Jane Chakravarthy

Love, its Wrath and Others A collection of Poetry and Artwork by Jane Chakravarthy

Jane Chakravarthy, originally from England, now lives in Massachusetts and Bangalore, India.

$10.00 | ISBN 9788175258037 | 57 Pages | In Stock: 4 Hardcover copies

Martha Cinader

When the Body Calls by Martha Cinader Harlem River Press, 1998

"When you cook chicken you have to stick a fork in it to tell if it's done, but you don't have to do that to Cinader's poems. They're raw and cooking at the same time. She's like a female Sun Ra who can coax words out of her saxophone. She never omits any detail even when she's taking us to another stratosphere. This book is daring and unflinching. An important body of work."
-Hal Sirowitz, author of My Mother Said and My Therapist Said

"The challenge of being a woman, being a lover, a mother, a user or words, of metaphors, signs and symbols in this postmodern age in terms of one's self identity can easily lead to rage. These stories, poems, and memoirs are not simply told, but as you read and listen to them, they easily unfold and innervates one's soul, the spirit."
-Steve Cannon, A Gathering of the Tribes

$12.00 | ISBN 9780863162794 | 127 Pages | In Stock: 3 copies

Leonard J. Cirino

Everything is small From a Distance by Leonard Cirino Pygmy Forest Press, 2000

Leonard Cirino is one of the best and most original poets of his generation. Though he has suffered many difficulties, he has triumphed over them, and achieved a voice and style of his own… --Charles Edward Eaton

Leonard Cirino is not only one of the most important poets;he is also, I believe, one of our most needed poets. In almost every poem, he is creating a path through the mystical depths of nature toward the atonement we all feel we must make for acts of madness, blindness, insensitivity toward the life force. He is a poet of catharsis. His language works at refinement and purification of the soul… --Pierre Delattre

Portrait of Fernado Pessoa was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003 by Bayou.

$12.00 | ISBN: 944550-67-3 | 107 Pages | In Stock: 3

Glossolalia Poems 2002-2003 by Leonard Cirino Pygmy Forest Press, 2002

Many of the poems in this collection were published in The American Dessident, Dufus, Edgz, Grasslimb, The Hiram Poetry Review, Home Planet News, The Lummox Journal, The Mid-American Poetry Review, The New American Imagist # 4 & 8 and others.

Leonard has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice in 2003.

$15.00 | ISBN: 0-944550-23-1 | 152 Pages | In Stock: 3

Mister Hatter's Matters by Leonard J. Cirino Pygmy Forest Press, 2005

Leonard J. Cirino is the author of 14 chapbooks and 10 full-length collections from numerous presses in the past nineteen years.

His book, Steelie Rhymes is forthcoming from Willo Press and a chapbook, The Truth Is Not Real is due out by Adastra Press.

$12.00 | ISBN: 0-944550-75-4 | 81 Pages | In Stock: 3

William Cirocco

aerolith by William Cirocco Harbor Mountain Press, 2007

…singular, intelligent and moving…
--David Miller

$14.00 | 84 Pages | In Stock: 2

Jan Clausen

If You Like Difficulty by Jan Clausen Harbor Mountain Press, 2007

Jan Clausen's witty, resourceful poems turn on a dime from "abab" formal to text message-y digital, hugging the curves of language with precision and wild glee…
--Rodney Koeneke

$14.00 | 84 Pages | In Stock: 2

Kirby Congdon

GOD Is Dead (again) One Act Plays by Kirby Congdon PRESA :S: PRESS, 2006: Congdon's liquid language captures the tenuousness of our existence, the sheer power of change, but the frail human form is placed, in all its inconsequential perfection, against these primal forces.
--Alyson Matley, Cayo Magazine
$20.00 | ISBN 0-9772524-2-6 | 119 Pages | In Stock: 3

Selected Poems & Prose Poems by Kirby Congdon PRESA :S: PRESS, 2005

A poet like Congdon is a man who binds himself to the mast and sails off determined to miss nothing, record everything, even the siren song that leads everyone finally to the reefs of extinguishment.
--Joan Colby, Small Press Review

$15.00 | ISBN 0-9772524-0-x | 83 Pages | In Stock: 2

Ginny Lowe Connors

Essential Love edited by Ginny Lowe Connors 2000, Softcover edition

Poems about mothers and fathers, daughters and sons.

Poets include: Sharon Olds, Donald Hall, Robert Haas, Elizabeth Spires, Maxine Kumin, and others

Softcover ~~$14.95~~
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ISBN: 0-9675554-2-6 | 358 Pages | In Stock: 1

Essential Love edited by Ginny Lowe Connors 2000, Hardcover edition

Poems about mothers and fathers, daughters and sons.

Poets include: Sharon Olds, Donald Hall, Robert Haas, Elizabeth Spires, Maxine Kumin, and others

Hardcover ~~$21.95~~
Discount Price $12.95 You save $9.00
ISBN: 0-9675554-2-6 | 358 Pages | In Stock: 1

Linda Haviland Conte

Slow as a Poem by Linda Haviland Conte Coverart: Jane Goldman Ibbetson Street Press

Excerpts from the back of the book:
Slow as a Poem offers the reader a rich diversity of subject matter ranging from family life to the world at large...
--Robert K. Johnson, Professor Emeritus
Suffolk University, author of Sudden Turnings

Slow as a Poem is a whole book. Indeed, it's a song cycle, cued to the turnings of the seasons...In poem after poem, Contes work is lucid, serious, yet deliciously surreptitious in giving out its wisdoms.
--Luther Tyler, Department of English, Wellesley College

$8.00 | ISBN 0-9724601-1-x | 35 Pages | In Stock: 2

Anne Coray

Bone Strings by Anne Coray Scarlet Tanager Books, 2005

(Excerpts from the back of the book)
Anne Coray's poems are deeply satisfying for their graceful combination of devotions, to the natural-animal /vegetable/mineral-and to the way nature resonates in us, the humans who live in a sacred space.
--Rosellen Brown

Anne Coray's precise, austere yet sensuous language is a fine instrument for tracing the harsh geography of her native Alaska. Cool as the moon, her poems shine a clear light on unforgiving landscapes, and on tough truths of the heart. Bone Strings sings a hard-earned song.
--Stephen Kessler

$15.00 | ISBN 0-9670224-9-5 | 77 Pages | In Stock: 2

Flavia Cosma

The Season of Love by Flavia Cosma Červená Barva Press, 2008

Once again in The Season of Love, Flavia Cosma offers us those momentary glimpses and sensations briefly felt and viewed which hide and yet reveal the testament of life. Through the transient sensations of reality, the poet lures her readership deep into the mystic world of her eternity. Each poem serves to lead the reader through the pain, suffering and loneliness of life while searching for truth's hidden mysteries which serve to make life meaningful and beautiful, yet remain to be discovered in that continual renewal and rebirth of life.
David Mills, poet and critic
Toronto, Canada

One of prevailing themes in Flavia Cosma's poetry is love, but not as a banal, run-of-the mill experience. Instead, it has the elemental intensity of natural phenomena, which best picture both the breakdown of feelings and the undying hope. And that's where the poet places her wise optimism.
Dr. Irena Harasimowicz-Zarzecka
PHD Philology, University of Bucharest, Romania
Toronto, Canada

Excerpt from the Introduction:

"...Cosma employs

No such wasteful rhetoric. Her poetry—

Analytical, elegant, eloquent—

Is as superb as poetry demands.

Her devotion delights; her lines instruct.

The Season of Love is a fresh gospel,

Skewering our pretensions forcefully.

Its lush richness of imagination,

Singing through Cosma’s and Siedlecki’s English,

Is compelling and a consummation,

Marrying music and morality."

George Elliott Clarke
E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature
University of Toronto
Laureate, 2001 Governor-General’s Award for Poetry

Flavia Cosma is an award winning Romanian-born Canadian poet, author and translator. She has published thirteen books of poetry, a novel, a travel memoir and three books for children. Her book, 47 Poems, (Texas Tech Press) received the ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize. Červená Barva Press published her chapbook, Gothic Calligraphy and will be publishing her newest collection, Songs at the Aegean Sea.

$15.00 | ISBN: 978-0-615-20097-2 | 89 Pages | In Stock

Gothic Calligraphy Poems by Flavia Cosma Červená Barva Press, 2007

Flavia Cosma is an acclaimed Romanian-born, Canadian poet, author and translator. She is also an award winning independent television documentary producer, director and writer. To date she has published nine books of poetry, a novel, a traveling memoir and a book of Fairy Tales. Her work is represented in numerous anthologies in various countries and languages.

Gothic Calligraphy, translated from the original Romanian by Flavia Cosma with Charles Siedlecki, is Flavia Cosma’s tenth poetry collection published in Somerville, Massachusetts by Červená Barva Press (2007). These poems are candid, romantic and metaphisical. What is particularly striking about the poems is their originality and the daring force of their imagery and metaphors, wonderfully rendered into English by this tantalizing, entrancing translation. The language is straightforward, spare, yet so bold in image as to seem extravagant.

Ioan Tepelea, poet and publisher, Oradea, Romania:
“The inner equilibrium and the uniqueness of voice, but most of all the interior fervor to be oneself when faced with life’s adversity, turn these poems into an existential suffrage, revealing an authentic and personal vision.”

George Elliott Clarke, Department of English, University of Toronto:
“Flavia Cosma’s vision is dark and Gothic, but also saturated with Mediterranean sun, romance and vine. Her style – imagistic, cryptic – reminds one of other powerful women writers such as America’s Emily Dickinson, Russia’s Anna Akhmatova and Canada’s Marie Uguay. Their poems are miniature fairy tales that enjoy being both sprightly and grim.”

David Mills, poet and literary critic, Toronto:
“Flavia Cosma’s poetry has been designed to waken sleeping consciousness. These poems lead the reader through the pain, suffering and loneliness of life while searching for truth’s hidden mysteries which serve to make life meaningful and beautiful, yet remain to be discovered in that continual renewal and rebirth of life.”

Irene Harasimowicz-Zarzecka, foreword to Gothic Calligraphy:
“A poet of extraordinary depth and sensitivity, combining in a permanent osmosis her state of mind and consciousness with the wealth of nature, always searching for the eternal, timeless values of our earthly sojourn. The baroque opulence of Flavia Cosma’s diction is worthy of a genuine master of the word.

Alexander Sfârlea, poet and literary critic, Oradea, Romania:
a review of Gothic Calligraphy:
“What strikes the reader in Gothic Calligraphy is an anxious and intense perception of the existential struggle, which melts irreversibly into extinction and forgetfulness, an intangible and tragic descent into the inevitable nothingness, combined with the ultimate deliverance of coming to terms with oneself.”

Fragments from Gothic Calligraphy appeared in their Romanian version—In Bratele Tatalui, Cogito Press, Oradea, Romania, 2006.

$8.00 | 41 Pages | In Stock: 10

Leaves of a Diary by Flavia Cosma KCLF-21 Press, 2006

Once again, Flavia Cosma combines the sweet-and-sour of life better than anyone, with her Gothic fairy-tale sensibility.
George Elliot Clarke

Words of sensibility from a warm heart. A spring whirls for hope in a natural and surrealistic landscape.
Dae-Tong Huh

Flavia's documentary, Romania, A Country at the Crossroads, won the Canadian Scene National Award.

47 POEMS (Texas Tech University Press) won the prestigious ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize.

$13.00 | ISBN: 0-9689561-7-3 | 71 Pages | In Stock: 4

The Fire That Burns Us by Flavia Cosma Singular Speech Press, 1996: As the title suggests, this novel brings in front of the reader an entire complex of emotions and life experiences, all of them being perceived as threatening and devouring. The symbolism of the fire is essential, placing the accent on the idea of internal combustion, purification and supreme suffering and sacrifice. The story in itself is not very complicated, a beautiful love story having as its main protagonists two young people: Alexander Visan and Anna, two young and free spirits destroyed by the rigidity and absurdity promoted by a communist system. Alexander decides to choose the exile, leaving behind his beautiful wife whose constant attempts to leave the country are met with refusal. Step by step, the inner struggle becomes the main character of this novel, two tormented souls trying to find a common path, although their communication is impossible. Her letters never reach him, his attempts to contact her are all in vain and their interior monologues are constantly separated by a permanent physical and spiritual wall. Different pieces of thoughts, different instances of consciousness make up the body of this psychological novel. --Ana Maria Felecan
$11.00 | ISBN: 1-880286-34-3 | 114 Pages | In Stock: 2

Carol Costa

Olla Podrida A collection of short fiction by Carol Costa & Jim Woods Publish America, 2006

A collection of short fiction.

An Olla is a clay pot. The functional interpretation of the combination, Olla Podrida, is "a highly seasoned stew."

Carol Costa is the published author of several novels, short stories and non-fiction articles. She is an award-winning playwright and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Jim Woods is the author of seven books and has published numerous articles in national magazines. He has contributed to various non-fiction anthologies.

$24.95 | ISBN: 1-4137-9990-6 | 284 Pages | In Stock: 3

Estefania Crespo

When You Feel & Don't Know How to Say A book of poems by Estefania Crespo CreateSpace, 2010

"Whenever you feel trapped without anywhere to escape, take a trip through your mind and make a pit stop on some paper. The world is a beautiful place if you let it be, even at your darkest moments..."

Estefania's poems are beautifully written and intriquing."
—Jean-Paul Chreky, Filmmaker

"When You Feel & Don't Know How to Say takes you on a prolific poetic adventure of emotions."
—Katrina Portel, Publicist

$14.95 | ISBN 9781448634446 | 79 Pages | 5 signed copies

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