The Lost Bookshelf Author's by last name H

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Daniel Hawkes

Catching the Bullet and Other Stories by Daniel Hawkes Scarlet Tanager Books, 2000: Is elegant the right term for a world of fold-up baby strollers, big- timewrestling, and misplaced pants? These stories trace the awkward surfaces and clarifying depths in parenthood, working life, and love. They move with the assurance of a long forward pass, soaring and dropping right on target, its trajectory graceful and exact.
--Don Bogen, author of The Known World
$12.95 | ISBN 0-9670224-1-X | 64 Pages | In Stock: 2

Lois Beebe Hayna

View From Behind The Mirror by Lois Beebe Hayna Red Poppy Press, 1998: Excerpt from blurb:
They have a kind of shimmering clarity, a clean music, and an unsentimental generosity that rings in the mind after they are put down.
--Mary Crow
$11.95 | ISBN: 0-9650383-0-0 | 108 Pages | In Stock: 3

Roger W. Hecht

Lunch at the Table of Opposites by Roger W. Hecht Red Dancefloor Press, 1997: These poems impress for the ease and unexpectedness of their phrasing, the balance that is struck in them between reticence and revelation. Every word, every line counts. The effect is not of meaness, but of energy; the poet living up to the rigors of his imagination with equal parts wit and gravity.
--JoEllen Kwiatek
Author, Eleven Days Before Spring
$5.00 | ISBN 1-881168-44-1 | 31 Pages | In Stock: 5

George Held

The News Today by George Held Červená Barva Press, 2008: The News Today is George Held's second chapbook from Červená Barva Press, the first being W Is for War (2006). His other poetry books include Beyond Renewal (2001) and the chapbooks Winged (1995), Salamander Love and Others (1998), Open & Shut (1999), Grounded (2005), The Art of Writing and Others (2007), and Phased (2008). Other books include the e-book American Poetry (2004), the art book Absolut Death & Others (2000) (with paintings by Roz Dimon), Martial Artist (2005) (translations of Martial's epigrams), and the anthology Touched by Eros (2002), which he edited. Held's poetry has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac (NPR). He has co-edited The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine since 1991. In addition, he served as a Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia, 1973-76, and has been on the executive board of The South Fork Natural History Society and Museum (Bridgehampton, NY) since 1991.
$7.00 | 33 Pages | In Stock: 20

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

Beyond Renewal by George Held Cedar Hill Publications, 2001

Free verse and other longer poetry. Perfectbound, 84 pages. Inscribed by author to Bob Spiess.

Beyond Renewal has a voice reminiscent of George Orwell… --Anthony O'Brien

Infinite purpose informs his perpetual play… --William Hathaway

…Held is an American Rilke. --Vince Clemente

$5.00 | ISBN: 1-891812-29-7 | 80 Pages | In Stock: 3 copies

Grounded by George Held Finishing Line Press, 2005

Filled with ironic wit and tinged with a sense of melancholy and loss, the poems in Grounded capture the reader's imagination and sense of wonder and speak to the timeless synergy between nature and poetry… --Timothy Monaghan

In Grounded, Held gives us a sense of place, and offers us an intimate look at red fox, grey squirrel, blue-spotted salamander, and much more… --Leah Maines

$5.00 | ISBN: 1-932755-89-6 | 21 Pages | In Stock: 3

Martial Artist A Selection of Martial's Epigrams Translated from the latin by George Held Toad Press, 2005

The poems in Martial Artist collect some of his many epigrams about his own work and his life as a poet. --Toad Press

$5.00 | ISBN: | 31 Pages | In Stock: 1

Touched by Eros Edited by George Held Live Poets Society, 2002

In language that delights and surprises, the poems in Touched by Eros reveal the deep connections between self and others, between body and soul.
--Nicole Cooley

$5.00 | ISBN: 0-913971-05-7 | 92 Pages | In Stock: 2

W Is for War by George Held Červená Barva Press-2006

In one way or another, ranging from inconvenience to death, we all become victims of war. In these fine, even-toned poems, Mr. Held outlines the price in folly and flesh paid by all sides. Ultimately, war is the last of last resorts--and not to be undertaken but for the direst circumstances.
THE ICONOCLAST #94

W Is for War, a new poetry chapbook by political activist George Held. In this collection of poems, his ninth, George expresses his protest against the war in Iraq. "Because he supports our men and women in arms, he resists sending them into battle without compelling, legitimate reasons."

The whole collection hangs together very well. I admire your guts in publishing the volume, and I'm glad I own a copy as it's a little piece of history. --Gretchen Fletcher

WIFW gives precise and true voice to what many patriots think. It's courageous and passionate. --Michael Graves

Some of your best work is in this book. They say no one in love ever wrote a good love poem, the point being that passion gets in the way of craftsmanship. But it hasn't in your case. --James McGowan

This chapbook is wonderfully cohesive, and I admire the way you move through the war by moving through all the players: President, populations on both sides, a Vietnam vet, poets writing on the war, a mother and child, a single Everyman speaker, and by invoking the government of ancient Rome. This endows the collection with variety, a quality I prize highly in any collection. --Margot Farrington

Small Press Review /September-October Picks, 2006

$6.00 | 29 Pages | In Stock: 20

Alison Hicks

Falling Dreams by Alison Hicks New Women's Voices Series, No. 49 Finishing Line Press, 2006

(Excerpts of blurbs)

Her language aches, glows, leaches and breathes in the midst of its objects.
--Leonard Gontarek

In this collection, Alison Hicks explores desire and domesticity, shedding light on the "bare-knuckled teeth/of the familar."
--Moira Egan

Hers is a brushwork deeply physical, intelligent, sensual, and precise.
--Jane Hirshfield

$12.00 | ISBN 1-59924-098-x | 26 Pages | In Stock: 5

Love: A Story of Images A Novella by Alison Hicks Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2004

(Blurb Excerpts)

This novella is a small, perfect miracle of understanding of how the heart works -- for and against us.
--Phyllis Theroux, author of Giovanni's Light and The Book of Eulogies

In Alison Hicks' intense, lyric story of one woman's--and every woman's coming of age from the inside out, we hear the clarion voice of the novelist at home in the usual terrain of the poet, the tale communicated in the spaces between pieces as much as through the narrative itself.
--Liz Abrams-Morley, author of Learning to Caculate the Half Life: Poems

Love: A Story of Images should be required reading for any college student facing the technical and moral choices inherent in writing her life.
--Elizabeth Mosier, author of My Life as a Girl

$15.00 | ISBN 0-941895-27-0 | 92 Pages | In Stock: 5

John Hildebidle

The Old Chore by John Hildebidle Alice James Books, 1981

From the back of the book
These thirty-three poems represent an extended effort to consider the nature of this place and time, often by looking backward but never by looking away.

$4.95 | ISBN 0-914086-34-0 | ? Pages | In Stock: 10

Marc Elihu Hofstadter

VISIONS paintings seen through the optic of poetry by Marc Elihu Hofstadter Scarlet Tanager Books, 2001

(Excerpts From the Back of the Book)
Marc Hofstadter wields an optical instrument that captures the rays that emanate from the interiors of things, rather than from their outsides…
--Yves Bonnefoy

Following the Chinese dictum, 'paintings are silent poems,' Marc Hofstadter bequeaths the canvas word…
--Willis Barnstone

To read Marc Hofstadter's VISIONS is to feel you've walked through an intimate museum…
--Kim Addonizio

The big question-love, death, life-evolve in the painter's mind, flow out of the brush, and take shape and color as they hit canvas. Why didn't I realize this before? These poems put me in that mind, as if, for a moment, I am a painter.
--Clive Matson

$14.00 | ISBN 0-9670224-5-2 | 71 Pages | In Stock: 2

Doug Holder

The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel by Doug Holder Červená Barva Press, 2008

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For years that image of the man in a small plastic booth in the fume-filled Midtown Tunnel that connects Queens to Manhattan in NYC haunted me. As a kid traveling into the city from the sheltered, well-manicured lawns of Long Island to the enigmatic, cosmopolitan world of Manhattan, I couldn't help but wonder about that blue- uniformed lone figure pacing the perimeter of his plastic cage. I think he represented to some extent my fear of the world outside the comforts of my family, and the staid, small town I lived in, Rockville Centre.

I have always admired writers like the New Yorker's Joseph Mitchell, who wrote about the outsiders, the denizens of the old Bowery, the ner-do-wells, the poseurs, the dandies, and the stumblebums, who make the city a both fascinating and frightened place. I always wondered as a kid if I would wind up in the middle of a metaphorical tunnel, a man in a cage, looking for the light. And I guess to some extent we all do in one-way or the other, whether we like it or not.

So I thought this image would be a perfect focal point for my poetry collection, a sort of "Spoon River Anthology" that would consist of character studies of the many men and women I have met, watched and imagined in my time across this stage. I include myself in this collection, because I have always identified with that man and I see his ghost wherever I roam.
Doug Holder

"Aside from being the founder, publisher, and co-editor of the prestigious and influential Ibbetson Street Press, Doug Holder writes poetry with a passion and insight that deserves prestige and influence all its own."
S. Craig Renfoe, Jr., Main Street Rag

"Holder's work is rich with textual imagery… a master poet who sees the world clearly and shares that vision generously with readers.
Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review

"A great poet and a Boston legend."
Joe Gouveia, host of "Poet's Corner," Provincetown radio

"I don't think I send you kudos enough because I take your magical perceptions of the ordinary, your unique take on the everyday, as something you do time and time again always in surprising ways.... from toilet to pay phones, to the fluid connection to all things human is utterly Doug Holder and there isn't anyone out there remotely doing what you do so beautifully...so dryly and always with human regard."
Linda Larson, former editor-in-chief of Spare Change News

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$13.00 | ISBN: 9780979531361 | 72 Pages

Of All The Meals I Had Before: Poems About Food and Eating by Doug Holder Červená Barva Press, 2007

These food poems are served up spicy like Italian cousine. Read them before dinner or after dessert, either way like Chinese food, you'll return hungry for more.
A.D. Winans

In his collection, “Of All The Meals I Had Before: Poems About Food and Eating” Doug Holder serves up a hearty fare. He fills our plate with “unapologetically greasy Egg Foo Young,” “tamed tenderloin,” “a chorus line” of “rotisserie chickens,” and “some fraction of gelatinous liver quivering.” He not only takes us out to dine with him, but he also looks around for us, makes sure we notice the “ancient waitresses…[who] bark the orders\through the swing of doors” and “old man Cardullo spit from\his cigar-studded mouth” and the undertaker beside us who “delicately wipes his mouth\… runs his well-veined hand\through the shoe polish\in his hair.” Holder offers a truly eclectic cuisine and company to match– savory, and unsavory, occasionally bitter, more often sweet. Even as we polish off dessert, he leaves us wondering, “What If We Froze with a Fork in Our Hand” and “just\took a\minute\to simply\pause.”
Mary Buchinger Bodwell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

A delightful and delicious collection of poems, whetting the appetite for more. These are the kinds of witty, Jewishy poems I envision Woody Allen would write, should he ever take to writing poetry.
Helen Bar-Lev, Artist, Poet
Editor-in-Chief Voices Israel Anthology
Author: Animals are Nature's Poetry
Co-author: Cyclamens and Swords and other poems about Israel

Doug Holder's All the Meals I Had Before delivers again and again. Each poem is a savory dish worthy of five stars at Loch Ober's. Holder's poetry feeds our high expectations and does not disappoint. His wit and erudite observations constantly shine with sterling results. A lot of the poetry has a certain edginess mixed with wit and humor that equally provokes to thought while it entertains. Everyone should indulge themselves in this gourmet buffet.This collection, as well as Holder's other published works, belong in every serious collectors library.
Harris Gardner
Executive Director
Tapestry of Voices

Aside from being the founder, publisher, and co-editor of the prestigious and influential Ibbetson Street Press, Doug Holder writes poetry with a passion and insight that deserves prestige and influence all its own.

Take, for instance, “Of All The Meals I Had Before: Poems About Food and Eating,” a work with an organic feel surprising for a chapbook. Among some odes to nostalgic eateries like “Last Night at the Wursthaus” and “At Benson’s Deli,” Holder ponders the silly—“Milk Duds”—and the sublime—“Portrait of My Mother During Her Solitary Meal.” His eye for the rattling image drives many of the poems, like “Eating Out” where he observes: “As the Latino/scrapes the masticated/bone and marrow/into a bloody bin/ and flashes a gold-toothed smile,/at the chef/ whose cleaver/tears through a prime cut--/then holds some/fraction of a gelatinous liver/quivering in his hands…” What makes his work so enjoyable is not only his well-described world but also the fun he has with it, as when he ends the same poem with the line,” “Meanwhile I order desert.” The book flirts with food and sex, comparing breastfeeding and sucking on a straw or rotisserie chickens and pornographic images, until it climaxes in the final poem “Cannibalism,” that begins:
“And what could be more intimate?/ To deflesh a skull/ crack a femur/ to get down/ to the very marrow/ Is there a greater/ act of love?”
--S. Craig Renfroe, Jr., Main Street Rag
Winter 2007-8 Edition

$7.00 | 23 Pages | In Stock: 10

Dreams at the Au Bon Pain by Doug Holder Ibbetson Street Press, 2000