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The silver of spent time' - Hopkins writes in "Fractal Field, " one of many haunting, and richly lyrical poems from The Rhyming Sky. The line epitomises where the beauty of this collections lies - in its dazzling depiction of moments witnessing the largesse of nature - moments in which the 'wide bone blue' of the sky transfixes, as does the peat-black wing of the geese, the flight of the 'cloud king' Gull, the bell stars which 'fall and shatte...

With a rich language he obviously loves and that is a tool he wields with sure-handed grace and wide ranging classical references from music to literature and the classics, this poet's musical verse will enchant and leave you breathless long after you close the book.

Hopkins opens the door for us into his world with a bang and a dragon from the first page. He walks us through small intimacies of daily life...He creates beauty with unusual imagery and also out of bittersweet and painful moments of the quotidian. Hopkins wields rhyme in unusual ways that surprise and delight, making the musicality of this book a read-aloud treasure...he is a poet for our times, and Take Your Journeys Home a book you must add...

Michael Sharp's Certain Silences is a poetic photo album. Filled with the drama, pain, and poignancy of human existence in a time of war. This collection captures the pain and apathy that are the result of living and dying in uncertain times.

Lorraine Bruno Arsenault has long been a gifted creator of intriguing word images that touch the mind and heart and here there are an abundance of them. This poetry and prose collection reveals her maturing voice after a life well lived and well considered. She finds in the smallest moments, and in the most profound, the connections that are there if we look deeply. The book reflects a wise and grateful soul who celebrates all of them. ~Patric...

With haunting verse, the poet takes us into spooky places beset by fog and night shadows. We hear whispering ghosts of loves long lost, and their inevitable, sometimes uneasy, connection to nature. A book that might disturb your dreams with its beauty and its relationship to worlds unseen just on the other side of the Veil, yet very much alive.

A poet of the personal, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas' book In the Making of Goodbyes takes us to the land of the heart, a transformative journey where in looking at the difficult turns of events in a life, we are tutored in humility, grace, and tenderness...Her imagery and emotion uplift and fortify. There's a flow to these poems and once in the current, you submit willingly, her voice so intimate that it feels as if she is speaking to you and...

Your Leadership Journey" is a comprehensive leadership development book designed specifically for emerging women leaders with emphasis on the unique leadership journey of Black women leaders. Leadership development expert Gwen Webber-McLeod shares essays and exercises that allow the reader to develop a Personal Leadership Development Plan to guide decision making about life and career goals. The book encourages women to explore the idea of l...

SaraEve Fermin's View From the Top of the Ferris Wheel takes you by the hand and dares you to examine the funhouse mirror, to jump into the ball pit, to ride all the way to the top and reach for the stars. The poems in this collection leave no corner of her flawed mind unturned, speaking on family, dysfunction, depression, traumatic brain injury, love and life that continues despite the odds. Bold and unflinching, Fermin leans into the wind an...

Indian poet Das engages the reader in the beauty that abounds when one's eyes are keenly alert to the common beauty of place and human relationships. His "eye" will open your eyes and heart as your read this collection.

Matt Duggan is a rare breed in a poet. Productive and reflective, his work is both contemplative and accessible in the best possible sense, and gives us a glimpse into a world that is nourishing and refreshing. These poems firmly rooted in the tradition of traveller poets, offer the excitement of arrival, the enjoyment of being located and the estrangement of leaving. As Duggan notes in 'Slipping Away from the Radar' we often see the solitary ...

Eric Fisher Stone's art encompasses the universe. Bullfrogs and bluebonnets, monks and mountains, guitars and galaxies-even parking lot grackles, Cro-Magnons, and Socrates. It's poetry as philosophy, philosophy as poetry, created by someone who has long dedicated his life to bringing you a Nature-imbued vision of a better world. Bear Lexicon is a Romanticism for today, a guidebook you can read to share in the sublime.- Douglas Lucas, writer/jo...

Evidence of Fire takes us on an unflinching journey through the narrator's experiences as an addict using drugs, alcohol, and sex to cope with her depression and anxiety. She is uncompromising in her discussion of abuse, suicide, the bleak landscape of living and aging in poverty and illness in America, and the ameliorating effect of substances and behaviors that take her, if only for a moment, out of the darkness of that existence. She does n...

With an authentic style and three-dimensional characters that brings to mind Barbara Kingsolver and Jacqueline Mitchard, Judy McGinn's debut short story collection Rising Up on Ordinary Days ushers us into the intimate world of family dynamics and childhood. Complicated relationships between parents, children, siblings and schoolmates, at times touched by magic, at others ominous, enchant us. We climb a tree with a young girl in lace ankle soc...

Bilingual edition of Antonio Rodríguez-Jiménez award winning poetry translated by Jorge Rodríguez-Miralles presents the hauntingly painful realities of modern life. Jorge Rodríguez-Miralles expert translation of Rodríguez-Jiménez' poems stands side by side on the page allowing one to enjoy the beauty of the poetry in both languages. The Spanish edition Los signos del derrumbe was the winner in 2014 of the XVIII¿International Award.

This powerful benediction on making ourselves safe in a precarious world: be it through war's false security or the definition of the changing new year as held in a lover's hand, draws you into the poet's universe from the first word. A celebration of those who serve and those who love them, the price that is never quite paid up yet we endure with hope for a better tomorrow.

Hopkins' signature lyrical style draws the reader into The Shape of a Tulip Bird. Within its pages he tells the story of a couple who lose a baby to miscarriage and then lose each other in their grief. With simple yet stunning accessibility he takes us on their journey and leaves us hopeful even as we wipe tears away. For anyone who has lost a child, their family members, or mental health professionals who work with those who have, this is a m...

Moving dramatically inward from her immense geographic and forensic terrain-Jeanine Stevens investigates Modernist dance, film, painting, collage, masquerade, and psychology in Ornate Persona. She distills her gifts as a lyric anthropologist in this, her most introspective collection thus far. We sense that she's investigating her own psyche, even while handling such themes as a Nijinsky ballet. Her associative dance leads us fluidly from poem...

With impressive efficiency, The Flock Unseen issues equal challenges to both our culture's "religion of movement" and the unfulfilled promises of stillness. Coomer's relentless momentum, artful language, and skillful dialogue make his characters effortless to inhabit, but once you're inside, it's not so easy to get back out. This book has demands. Do you have the dignity to go quietly in the night, or will you be waving your dick in traffic? W...

Uncharted Territory Indeed! - Looking into a poem by Hideko Sueoka is like looking into a kaleidoscope-an auditory kaleidoscope, with your ear doing the 'looking.' A unique configuration emerges each time as you move from poem to poem to poem. The ear is startled by utterly unpredictable sound bytes. Multi-colored patterns you've never heard before emerge and swarm the ear, and you realize that you're hearing these mesmerizing patterns for the...