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Diane Wald

faustinetta, gegenschein, trapunto by Diane Wald Červená Barva Press, 2008: These three poems somehow asked to be together. They are full of alive and dead people, full of genuine and created personalities, full of composite desires and fears and mockeries. They popped up out of the love of words, and the word-secrets we all hold dear. The title words brought me buckets of pleasure, and I wanted to celebrate and embellish them. One of them I made up, one of them I learned, one of them I'd forgotten I knew. I think all three are united in mystery, begging for me to believe them.
-Diane Wald
$7.00 | 20 Pages | In Stock: 25

Suzanne K. Walther

My House by Suzanne K. Walther The Feral Press, 2006

$6.00 | 12 Pages | In Stock: 4

Roger Weaver

The Ladder of Desire by Roger Weaver Pygmy Forest Press, 2006

Roger Weaver's poems have been published widely in periodicals including The Massachusetts Review, The Greenfield Review, Nimrod, The North American Review, Manzanita Quarterly, and Hubbub. Founding editor of To Topos.

$12.00 | ISBN: 0-944550-74-6 | 33 Pages | In Stock: 3

Joe Weil

The Pursuit of Happiness New and Selected Poems from Elizabeth, New Jersey by Joe Weil: Excerpt from the back of the book
There's beauty everywhere, we know that. But no one perceives it all. It's easy to be impressed with towering mountain ranges, but Joe's knocked out over two old women gabbing over a broken picket fence, or his Uncle Pete not killing a deer after he thought he'd wanted to all his life, or riding home in a Yellow Cab and hanging out in the cool basement with the washing machine rocking on the uneven floor ("a convulsed and bulky tap dancer") or the Cuban lady "who claims to be the first cousin of Art Linkletter twice removed." But Joe's not only about loving "little people" and "humble" things…
--Harvey Pekar
$5.00 | 80 Pages | In Stock: 1

E. F. Weisslitz

Currents Unseen by E. F. Weisslitz Feral Press, 2005

$5.00 | 9 Pages | In Stock: 4

Judy Wells

Call Home by Judy Wells Scarlet Tanager Books, 2005

Named a Best Book of 2003 by The Irish Times

Excerpts
Judy Wells tells the story of an Irish-American mother who has endowed her clan with a sense of drama and high humor that will prepare them to negotiate the pitfalls of property inheritance and re-negotiate what it means to be a family after a funeral…
--Bridget Connelly, Ph.D., Author of Forgetting Ireland

Call Home is a novel of charm and heartstrings-except that it was written as verse. Mither, pass the poetry.
--Jack Foley, Poet, KPFA Literary Host

I cried as I read the poems in Call Home, both for their poignancy and how beautifully they captured the bittersweet experience of dealing with death, dying, letting go and moving on…
--Mary McCall, Ph.D. in Human Development and Aging
Professor, Psychology Dept., Saint Mary's College of California

$15.00 | ISBN 0-9670224-7-9 | 89 Pages | In Stock: 2

Everything Irish by Judy Wells Scarlet Tanager Books, 1999

Everything Irish is a hoot! This family memoir in verse is at once a poignant poetic documentary of Irish-Catholic girlhood and a rollicking riot of laughs…
--Bridget Connelly, Emerita Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkley

Judy Wells' collection, Everything Irish, says it all for me. She captures the times all of "our girls" were haunted by a wayward Holy Ghost, a perfect Holy Mary, a thundering Holy Father…
--Mary Norbert Körte, Poet, Ex-nun, Environmental Activist

$12.95 | ISBN 0-9670224-0-1 | 112 Pages | In Stock: 2

Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

THE REBEL Poems by Charles Baudelaire American Versions by Leslie H. Whitten Jr. PRESA :S: PRESS, 2005

Whitten has not just captured the recurrent symbols and images that express Baudelaire's deep thematics, but he has found the rare and fragile metric and lyric devices to orchestrate and give nuance to the extraordinarily varied Fluers.
--Maurice A. O'Meara, Ph.D., Poet Laureate of France

$7.00 | 48 Pages | In Stock: 3

Anthony Russell White

Ferrovie by Anthony Russell White Červená Barva Press, 2007

The 2006 Červená Barva Press Chapbook Poetry Prize Winner

Ferrovie is Italian for trains, and seemed appropriate for a series of poems about strange encounters on Italian trains. I was introduced to the prose poem in 1993 by Robert Bly at a workshop afloat in Alaska, and have been writing them ever since. Some poems just seem to want to be in that form. Some of these ten came from my dreams, a few from actual events, the remainder from pure unleashed imagination.
Anthony Russell White

$5.00 | 20 Pages | In Stock: 15

Ben Wilensky

The Strain of Healing by Ben Wilensky Pygmy Forest Press, 2000

Ben Wilensky's poems about Vietnam are gruesome, vicious, and alive.
--Leonard J. Cirino

$8.00 | ISBN: 0-944550-57-6 | 23 Pages | In Stock: 3

Richard Wilhelm

Awakenings by Richard Wilhelm Ibbetson Street Press, 2008

In Richard Wilhelm's powerful free-verse, sonorous, image-tapestried first collection, the mature poet takes us through a remarkable series of awakenings, most of them to profound interconnections between himself and primordial riches of the natural world--half-buried treasures that glimmer with mystery, ecstasy, and the divine--
--Douglas Worth, author of Catch the Light

$15.00 | 52 Pages | In Stock: 3

Ian Randall Wilson

Out Of The Arcadian Ghetto A Fiction Chapbook by Ian Randall Wilson Červená Barva Press, 2007

Ian Randall Wilson is the author of Hunger and Other Stories (Hollyridge Press, 2000), and the poetry chapbook Theme of the Parabola (Hollyridge Press, 2005). His work has appeared in many journals including the North American Review, the Mid-American Review and The Gettysburg Review. He is an executive at Columbia-TriStar Marketing Group, and on the fiction faculty at the UCLA Extension.

Out of the Arcadian Ghetto is a work of great imagination. It features two previously published stories. In "He Was Known For His Nose," a specialist employed by a reclusive millionaire selects female companionship for his master by the women's smell. When his nose fails, disaster ensues. In "The Three Bears: A Retelling," this classic fairytale is reconceived as a contemporary commentary on race relations between homo sapiens and Ursus arctos.

Small Press Review/ Mar-Apr Picks, 2007

$7.00 | 33 Pages | In Stock: 9

A.D. Winans

The Other Side of Broadway Selected Poems 1965-2005 by A. D. Winans PRESA :S: PRESS, 2007

A.D. Winans is a man in search of his soul. He has great heart and compassion for people and his native city, San Francisco. I like his uncompromising spirit. He pulls no punches.
--Jack Micheline

$18.00 | 131 Pages | In Stock: 3

THIS LAND IS NOT MY LAND by A.D. Winans PRESA :S: PRESS, 2005

His poems are heartfelt expressions of a wise observer, powerfully honest & uncompromised by literary fashion. One of our best poets.
--Eric Greinke

These poems will sear you with their honesty about the cruelty, greed, and rapaciousness at the heart of the American soul…
--Gerald Necosia

A.D. Winans is practically an incarnation of San Francisco…Stylistically and Philosophically he's a continuation of Beat Truth, telling it the way it is. No theory, just the smack of everyday (mainly street) reality.
--Hugh Fox

$6.00 | 44 Pages | In Stock: 3

Jim Woods

Honk if you Love Geese by Jim Woods

These adventures are told in such a way as to appeal to the bird hunter, the deer hunter, the casual hunter, the dedicated hunter, and the dangerous game hunter. With settings in Canada, Spain, Honduras, and Africa, and much of the U.S., it satisfies the international hunter as well.
Jim Woods and Publish America

$19.95 | ISBN: 1-4137-3541-x | 205 Pages | In Stock: 3

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

The Lion Killer by Jim Woods Publish America, 2005: The Lion Killer is a tale of conspiracy, murder, and intrigue that could be-might be-actually happening but if so, is not being reported in the press. Enter the shadowy world of political extremism where bullets, not ballots, are tools of those who would lead a country backward into the days of white supremacy and racial expression.
Jim Woods and Publish America
$19.95 | ISBN: 1-4137-6346-4 | 237 Pages | In Stock: 3

Anne Harding Woodworth

Up From The Root Cellar by Anne Harding Woodworth Červená Barva Press, 2008

If the root cellar connotes dark and damp, it also promises nourishment-and this book serves up a startling buffet. Whether imagining herself into a grave, a slaughterhouse, or a rose that holds a family memory, Anne Harding Woodworth is attentive to how "secrets rise to the surface." Her range of subject matter is startling-from famine to termites to dowsing for bodies-and she deftly works a root vegetable into nearly every poem, including one about the invention of the potato chip and another that turns the peeling of an Idaho into a sexy striptease. Up from the Root Cellar is rich with music, and brings a satisfying harvest of buried and strewn things to light.
Ellen Doré Watson, author of This Sharpening

In Up from the Root Cellar, Anne Harding Woodworth delights us with a quick and unblinking look to the cold, soupy, death-in-life world that roots our body's generation, and our ladders of art. Her poems feel through near-frozen "rhizomes / tightly wadded leaves," and wan cyclopean russet potatoes, "wide-eyed, looking for a way out," in order redefine the human form, the ways that the body seeks its "light-time" even as it must bow to physical limits, "dry-weighted, wet-weighted, scoped on dials, squeezed into ratio." Woodworth's instincts for the contrarian, and messy-microbial sources for human stories put her alongside the garden-shed bio-poetries of Roethke and Marianne Moore. Yet her sudden turns and wacky humor find their own force and presence.
David Gewanter, author of The Sleep of Reason

One of the many pleasures of poetry is that of coming into the company of an interesting mind. In Up from the Root Cellar, Anne Harding Woodworth uses her central metaphor to plumb the mysteries of preservation and renewal in ways that are fresh and surprising. Her tender, gently subversive poems, with their rich wordplay and mischievous imagery, succeed in bringing up from the darkness of the root cellar insights that delight and enlighten.
Jean Nordhaus, author of Innocence

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene review:
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=anne+harding+woodworth

$7.00 | 45 Pages | In Stock: 25