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Tom Daley

Canticles & Inventories by Tom Daley Wyngaerts Hoeck Press, 2005: About Tom Daley's poetry:
"His panoramic scope is elegantly matched with a sensitive attention to nuance. Daley’s images leave us with a sense of beauty in things mundane, and of life emerging from a decaying world.”
Regie Gibson
$10.00 | ISBN: | 32 Pages | In Stock: 2

Lucille Lang Day

God of the Jellyfish by Lucille Lang Day Červená Barva Press, 2007

At once sacrilegious and reverential, the poems in God of the Jellyfish seek the divine in a natural world governed by the laws of science. In these poems, you'll find a god in the shape of a jellyfish, a prayer celebrating the color red, a man for whom music becomes the source of salvation, a vision of an earthly paradise populated by moon bears and moon rats, and a pilgrimage through 14 stations where Sisyphus, Shaker women, and howling wolves appear. Lucille Lang Day deftly couples scientific observations to the engine of imagination to take us on a magical and inspiring journey.

God of the Jellyfish shimmers in a space where "moon cacti bloom at night" and magpies can "fly over a field/of small glass bottles." The world Lucille Lang Day creates in her poetry is vivid and surreal yet always deftly anchored in the beauty and truth of the natural world. This is a small handbook of magic. When you read it, you'll find yourself transported to places you've never even dared to imagine.
—Susan Terris

There are few contemporary poets who use science in their poetry at all, let alone use it as Lucille Lang Day does here, as an element, both dreamlike and hyperreal, in her gorgeous, moving global lyric.
—Richard Silberg

$7.00 | 39 Pages | In Stock: 20

Fire in the Garden by Lucille Lang Day Mother's Hen, 1997

Fire in the Garden is a book of beauties and mutilations, erotic intimacies, distances and mysteries, seductive dreams and sardonic deflations of our common dreamlife. It runs hot, cold and shivery, and will keep you with the " taste of ash" on its lips.
--Alicia Suskin Ostriker

…Her powerful, sharp-edged, declarative poems speak to all of us.
--Timothy Houghton

$9.95 | ISBN 0-914370-72-3 | 63 Pages | In Stock: 2

The Book of Answers by Lucille Lang Day Finishing Line Press, 2006

The poems of Lucy Day's The Book of Answers posit the responses of a gentle, intelligent universe to the question of Kaleidoscopic - poetic - imagination. These poems are as delicate as rain and as lasting as redwoods. Let them be your companion late at night or on a dawn walk along your favorite paths.
--David St. John

In these scintillating poems Lucy Day's answers are as quirky and provocative as her questions, and while they leave the mysteries of the universe blissfully intact, they also remind us how often love's own fulcrum keeps creating new tipping points of grace.
--Susan Gubernat

$12.00 | ISBN 1-59924-089-0 | 24 Pages | In Stock: 1

infinities by Lucille Lang Day Cedar Hill Publications, 2002

(Excerpts From the Back of the Book)
Her poems are eloquent, imaginative, and informed by a knowledge of contemporary science.
--Kurt Brown

The description of "Nature" has always been an important aspect of California writing. In this brilliant book, Lucille Lang Day has found an entirely new way to do it. Her exploration of both human and nonhuman perspectives are impeccably and superbly alive.
--Jack Foley

She explores scientific concepts from astrophysics to marine biology with erudite care but always infuses the poems with tangible emotion.
--Dana Gioia

$15.00 | ISBN 1-891812-31-9 | 82 Pages | In Stock: 2

Wild One by Lucille Lang Day Scarlet Tanager Books, 2000

Excerpts from the back of the book
In Lucille Day's Wild One we are invited to ride shotgun as we travel and witness the full arc of a life from our window seat…
--Toni Mirosevich, author of The Rooms We Make Our Own

Few books of poems have the sheer narrative intensity of Lucille Day's Wild One. It sweeps the reader up like a powerful coming-of-age novel-half hilarious, half heartbreaking-but always with the sharp lyric edge of genuine poetry.
--Dana Gioia, author of Can Poetry Matter?

$12.95 | ISBN 0-9670224-3-6 | 99 Pages | In Stock: 2

Diana Der-Hovanessian

About Time by Diana Der-Hovanessian Ashod Press, 1987

Strong poems in a strong voice. It is this voice that makes the book a rare first book because it sings so clearly, so cleanly, so individually…compelling, funny, sad, moving, doing all the things poems are suppose to do and usually don't.
--Joel Oppenheimer

Poems that will take their place as part of the international epic of migration and resettlement.
--Victor Howes, Christian Science Monitor

A striking and original artist who is the foremost translator of Armenian poetry.
--Herbert A. Kenny, Boston Globe

$8.50 | ISBN 0-935102-20-5 | 96 Pages | In Stock: 2

John Dickey

Quebradillas by John Dickey Terranova Editores, 2008: From the back of the book:
John Dickey's poetry has a wonderful, fresh wit that shines through many of the poems contained in Quebradillas, his second book of verses. Inspired by rural life in the northwesern town of Puerto Rico that lends its name to this book, these poemas are about life in motion, captured in snapshots or observations of a world in constant physical transformation, the compilation of a knowledge which can only be mediated, not appropriated, through and by language. Thus, poetry becomes an attempt to bridge the distance between us and this "knowledge", and how we intregate with it. Quebradillas is about universes at work -the physical and the poetical- in all its fullness.
$14.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9799961-6-0 | 93 Pages | In Stock: 5

Earth A Narrative in Verse by John Dickey authorHOUSE, 2005: From the formation of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago, to the fate of the Sun as a fading white dwarf, six billion years from today, Earth: A Narrative in Verse recounts the epic of Earth’s evolution in 44 cantos that document the struggle of irrepressible Life with inevitable Death. Astronomy, geology and biology are melded in poems that employ and celebrate the sounds and symbols of science to describe the formation of planets, tectonic motions, climate change, catastrophic happenings, and the odyssey of terrestrial Life from single cells to complex organisms and finally back to single cells, the last earthlings. Sobering yet uplifting, the work presents Earth in the context of universal time and space.
$17.95 | ISBN: 1-4208-3266-2 | 210 Pages | In Stock: 3

Roz Dimon

Absolut® Death and Others Art by Roz Dimon and Poems by George Held Dimon Studios, 2000: Absolut Death & Others pairs Roz Dimon’s satiric “ads” for brand name products with George Held’s satiric verse about them. For instance, the title drawing shows a stylized vodka bottle, and the facing page bears the lines “Absolut’s the perfect ablution / For those in need of absolution.” Printed in full color on glossy 100-pound 10 x 7” paper.
$10.00 | ISBN: | 28 Pages | In Stock: 3

Robert Dunn

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

Cannon Fodder by Robert Dunn Fidlar-Doubleday, Inc., 2003: Some of the material in this book orginally appeared in Satire, Buy the Poem, The Blind Man's Rainbow, Glass Tesseract.com, Timber Creek Review, Moose Bound Press, Pandaloon, Candelabrum, Hayden's Poetry Review, Word and Image, Riverrun, Office Number One, Aileron, Saturn, Big City Lit.com, Nomad's Choir, For Poetry.com, Breakthrough, and Krax.
$15.00 | ISBN: 0-89304-689-2 | 165 Pages | In Stock: 4

Zen Yentas in Bondage by Robert Dunn Ostrich Editions, 1997: Robert Dunn is Editor -in-Chief of The New Press Literary Quarterly, the Executive Editor of Medicinal Purposes Literary Review and host for public access cable programs. Robert has appeared in many television programs including Egg Cream Theatre, Showcase Showcase, Poetry Live!, Mac's Acts, and the Florence Morrison Show. Robert Dunn has also appeared on many radio shows.
$10.00 | ISBN: 0-89304-083-5 | 64 Pages | In Stock: 4

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