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Chad Parenteau

Discarded: Poems for My Apartments by Chad Parenteau
Červená Barva Press, 2008

In this new collection by Chad Parenteau, the peculiar intimacies of the shared apartment experience emerge in imaginative and startling shapes. In Parenteau's stunning tropes, the apartment, now war zone, now toxic wasteland, now party palace, at once magical and mundane, finds its excited denizens "burning their hands on bulbs to stay awake, / afraid to miss a summoning." Parenteau musters poignancy, pathos, and the pathetic from the crowded sink and the discarded vodka bottles, breeding them into his lines with an acute and ironic sensuality. If, as the author contends, "The bed now leaves its own notches/on the backs of everyone/who's slept in it alone," these poems will leave their mark on the mind of any reader who has ever stammered through a roommate interview or suffocated from the incense sneaking under the crack at the bottom of a roommate's door.
-Tom Daley, Instructor for the Online School of Poetry

$7.00 | 25 Pages | In Stock: 25

Mark Pawlak

ALL THE NEWS by Mark Pawlak (signed copies)
Hanging Loose Press, 1985

Out of Print, First Edition
Signed copies
Collages by Louis Unea

 

$10.00 | ISBN: 0-914610-37-6 | 31 Pages | In Stock: 5

The Buffalo Sequence by Mark Pawlak (signed copy)
Copper Canyon Press, 1977

Rare and out of print, First Edition, 1977
One of the first books by Copper Canyon Press

"earnest and urgent pieces about growing up American"
--Celia Hagan, Northwest Review

Introduction by Denise Levertov

$10.00 | ISBN: 0-914742-19-1 | 64 Pages | In Stock: 5

 

James Penha

No Bones To Carry Poems by James Penha
New Sins Press, 2007

James Penha's imagination will whet your own. This book is a feast.
--Louis Crew

James Penha is able to mold exotic topics into poignant universal truths. Should I be called upon to speak at a funeral. I would choose to quote the first four lines of the evocative title poem, 'No Bones To Carry.'"
--Virginia Howard, editor of Thema

The poems in No Bones To Carry are nuanced and expansive, defining the individual's place in the larger world. Here, Penha reminds us of the limitations of our perception and the poet's struggle to see beyond them.
--Blas Falconer

$13.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9796956-0-5 | 71 Pages | In Stock: 5

 

Dean Perchik

Symzonia Review by Dean Perchik
Better Late Than Never Press, September 2007

"Writing with style and grace Dean Perchik offers us historical memorabilia akin those lost treasures archaeologists long to find. Though the textbooks have not made room for them, Dean has found a way to enlighten and please us."
--Simon Perchik

The memorabilia he finds is so interesting and entertaining. The Review cover is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.
--Gloria Mindock

$4.50 | 8 Pages | In Stock: 5

Symzonia Review by Dean Perchik
Better Late Than Never Press, August 2007

"Writing with style and grace Dean Perchik offers us historical memorabilia akin those lost treasures archaeologists long to find. Though the textbooks have not made room for them, Dean has found a way to enlighten and please us."
--Simon Perchik

The memorabilia he finds is so interesting and entertaining. The Review cover is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.
--Gloria Mindock

$4.50 | 8 Pages | In Stock: 5

Symzonia Review by Dean Perchik
Better Late Than Never Press, July 2007

"Writing with style and grace Dean Perchik offers us historical memorabilia akin those lost treasures archaeologists long to find. Though the textbooks have not made room for them, Dean has found a way to enlighten and please us."
--Simon Perchik

The memorabilia he finds is so interesting and entertaining. The Review cover is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.
--Gloria Mindock

$4.50 | 8 Pages | In Stock: 5

Symzonia Review by Dean Perchik
Better Late Than Never Press, February 2007

"Writing with style and grace Dean Perchik offers us historical memorabilia akin those lost treasures archaeologists long to find. Though the textbooks have not made room for them, Dean has found a way to enlighten and please us."
--Simon Perchik

The memorabilia he finds is so interesting and entertaining. The Review cover is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.
--Gloria Mindock

$4.50 | 8 Pages | In Stock: 6

Symzonia Review by Dean Perchik
Better Late Than Never Press, January 2007

"Writing with style and grace Dean Perchik offers us historical memorabilia akin those lost treasures archaeologists long to find. Though the textbooks have not made room for them, Dean has found a way to enlighten and please us."
--Simon Perchik

The memorabilia he finds is so interesting and entertaining. The Review cover is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.
--Gloria Mindock

$4.50 | 8 Pages | In Stock: 6

 

Francis Poole

Dean's Bar, Tangier an essay and two poems
by Francis Poole
The Feral Press, 2007

 

 

$10.00 | 19 Pages | In Stock: 1

The Devil's Swizzle Stick by Francis Poole
The Feral Press, 2006

 

 

$8.00 | 8 Pages | In Stock: 1

 

Adrian S. Potter

Survival Notes by Adrian S. Potter
Červená Barva Press, 2008

Winner of the 2006 Cervena Barva Press Fiction Chapbook Prize
Judge: Dorothy Freudenthal

Adrian S. Potter is the winner the 2003 Langston Hughes Poetry Contest and the 2005 Saturday Writers Short Story Contest. He has been published in more than 60 different literary journals, magazines, and websites including Colere, City Works, Reed, Out of Line, The Binnacle, Main Channel Voices, Blue Earth Review and Poesia.

Additional propaganda about Adrian and his writing can be found at http://adrianspotter.squarespace.com/.

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
Survival Notes by Adrian S. Potter
Somerville’s Cervena Barva Press has published a collection of very short stories or flash fiction by Adrian Potter: “Survival Notes.” Potter is the winner of the 2003 Langston Hughes Poetry Contest and has numerous publication credits. Potter’s pieces have a raw edge to them. They take place for the most part in urban settings with angry male characters in the midst of existential crises. One story that peaked my interest in this collection was “Domestic Silence.” In this story, an unfortunate neighbor to a loud and argumentative couple, tracks the jazz music the abusive male in this unfortunate coupling plays to mute the loud protests of his many domestic brawls.

“I’ve lived here for two years, long enough that I can determine the topic of their disputes by what record is playing. Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” means that that the husband is releasing the frustration of financial woes onto her fragile ribcage. The swinging melodies of Duke Ellington are reserved for senseless shouting matches, the type of overreaction brought on by male jealousy. Electronic jazz-funk, like Herbie Hancock and the “Head Hunters,” is synonymous with the profanities and backhanded slaps that come from drinking binges. I don’t even have to explain the subtle irony when songs from Coltrane’s “ A Love Supreme” filter from underneath their doorway.”

I would like to see Potter develop more stories like this. He may be on to something.
Doug Holder/ Ibbetson Update/ Jan. 2008/ Somerville, Mass.

$7.00 | 42 Pages | In Stock: 20

 

Joseph Powell

MOFO' RISIN' by Joseph Powell
2004

Joseph's work has been published in many literary journals and online journals including Circle Magazine, In Our Own Words, A Generation Defines Itself, Best of MAP Featured Poetry, Di-verse-City-Austin International Poetry Festival, Comrades.org, and ilovepoetry.com. He is the author of three chapbooks called, Blood on the Page, With Unveiled Faces, and Remaining Remnants Of Remembered Ruminations. Joseph was the featured poet in the National Geographic documentary, "Skin."

$7.00 | 33 Pages | In Stock: 3

 

Christopher Presfield

Dawn in the Big House
by Christopher Presfield
Pygmy Forest Press, 2006

I greatly admire the poems' craft, their irony and sudden wrenching perceptions. This little book performs a great service to its illuminations.
--William Styron

 

$10.00 | ISBN: 0-944550-73-8 | 48 Pages | In Stock: 3

PRISON POEMS by Christopher Presfield
Pygmy Forest Press, 2000

Your poems…they carry weight. But more than that they have strength. They are the words of a man committed to loving and fighting, with the taste of blood, and salty like the earth I've eaten myself.
--Leonard J. Cirino

$7.00 | ISBN: 0-944550-56-8 | 30 Pages | In Stock: 3

 

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