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Judson Hamilton

Celebrity Slumbers by Judson Hamilton Červená Barva Press, 2009

Judson Hamilton lives in Wroclaw, Poland. He has a chapbook entitled ‘No Rainbow' (Greying Ghost Press) forthcoming this year. More of his work can be found by plugging his name into the search engine of your choice.

He can be reached at: be_mightee@hotmail.com

Celebrity Slumber [17]

We all stood in the greeting line after the wedding, waiting to congratulate Dustin Hoffman on his upcoming role as Nolan Ryan. When it came my turn I edged forward and gave him the requisite three kisses, ducking under the bill of his Astros cap and commented briefly on his sunset-striped uniform. He seemed taller in cleats as he transfixed me with a warm gaze, holding my hand in both of his mitts.

$7.00 | 35 Pages | In Stock

Jessica Harman

Base Metals by Jessica Harman Cloudkeeper Press, 2009

Jessica Harman is a poet living in Brookline, Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. from Concordia University (Montreal), in Creative Writing.

August

I look in the mirror. Nothing answers
except naked light. Then I crawl back under the quilt,
then throw it off. Everywhere,

you are the sound of the train passing
through the city at night, that soothing rattle sewing
the distance to streetlight.

The sound tastes like moonlight and smoke.
The sickle moon's base metal sets behind a maple tree,
then the stars die out, one by one.

You are memory itself.

I have been listening for the wrong thing
in you, love. I have been listening
for myself.

And then you walk away, nameless.

$7.00 | 38 Pages | In Stock

Daniel Y. Harris

Paul Celan and the Messiah's Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad by Daniel Y. Harris and Adam Shechter Červená Barva Press, 2010

As Ron Sukenick so aptly put it in his last book "Mosaic Man," Jews are both proto and posthuman. Adam Shechter and Daniel Y. Harris are possessed of that molten globe of fiery perdition that draws the brighter children of the tribe to the flame. Add poetry and oy! What can I say? Shechter and Harris have made another journey to the hellchamber of Jewish mystery/creation/death and came out in company, a big company that includes a lot of fried geniuses, but most of all they came out, and it's good to see them.
—Andrei Codrescu (www.codrescu.com), is the author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Princeton University Press) and edits Exquisite Corpse at (www. corpse.org).

I can't begin to comprehend/surround all that is transpiring here in this Harris/Shechter collaboration/fusion—I'll need other readings toward adequate bearings—but as Seine suicide Paul Celan hovers among these pages of prayerful heresies—"no Shabbos-always Shabbos"—I experience a language that wields "pen as scalpel," and I feel flayed but grateful for this awakening into wild inquiry/attack. By way of thousands of years of Jewish history & of their own lives slashed out in poems & prose pieces of mesmerizing power, even as they wonder if they've gone too far, these two visionaries/revisionists have made something powerful & new here, something of charismatic complication. Oi Vey, & mazel tov.
—William Heyen, author of Shoah Train: Poems, finalist for the National Book Award

Adam Shechter is from Un-Brooklyn, the imperceptible imperialist brownstone aesthetic of 1989 Prospect Park West benches by Garfield Street. Adam has never been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review and this fact is likely to never change. For this reason, he started the online journal, The Blue Jew Yorker. Sadly, this quaintly anarchistic periodical has not found its reputation competitive with the above named titans of publishing. Still, Mr. Shechter receives great emotional satisfaction in publishing authors and artists in the journal. A tragic and ironic fact of Adam's life is that his neighborhood of birth and raising, Park Slope, now houses some of the most successful authors of the writing world. Roger Cohen moved in next to his parents, a house where the fabled Christiansen family once lived. In line with Freud, listening to the same song over and over is one of Adam's favorite hobbies.

Daniel Y. Harris, M.Div, holds a Master of Arts in Divinity from The University of Chicago, where he specialized in Jewish theology and comparative religion and wrote his dissertation on The Zohar. He is the author of Unio Mystica (Cross-Cultural Communications Press, 2009) and Hyperlinks of Anxiety (forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press, 2012). He is the associate editor of The Blue Jew Yorker. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Among his credits are: The Pedestal Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, In Posse Review, European Judaism, SoMa Literary Review, Mad Hatters' Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Wheelhouse Magazine, Moria, Ygdrasil, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poetry Magazine.com, Denver Quarterly, Convergence, Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture and The Other Voices International Among his art exhibitions credits are: The Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, Market Street Gallery, The Euphrat Museum and The Center for Visual Arts. His website is www.danielyharris.com.

$7.00 | 58 Pages | In Stock

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

Phased Poems, Etc. by George Held Poets Wear Prada, 2008

George Held's inexhaustible subject is the moon in all its phases, and he treats it with a quiet ear-pleasing lyricism and an impressive range. His moons shine on the world, and, bathed in their various lights, his imagination shines on the subjects it conjures and illuminates.
—Michael Graves, author of Illegal Border Crosser (Cervená Barva Press) and Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard Press)

A delightful, entertaining, and attractively presented collection celebrating our sidereal companion, the moon.
—ICONOCLAST #100

George Held is the author of 10 poetry collections and the editor of the anthology Touched by Eros. A five-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, he has published his stories, poems, book reviews, and translations in such places as The Philadelphia Inquirer, Circumference, The Notre Dame Review, Commonweal, Connecticut Review, and Confrontation. His most recent poetry chapbook, The Art of Writing and Others, appeared in September 2007 from Finishing Line Press. In December 2007, his poem "Aftermath" was read by Garrison Keillor on the Writer's Almanac. He has co-edited The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine since 1991, the same year he joined the executive board of The South Fork Natural History Society and Museum (Bridgehampton, NY). A Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia 1973-76, he retired as a professor of English at Queens College in 2004. Held resides in Greenwich Village with his wife, Cheryl.

$5.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9817678-0-2 |27 Pages | 4 Copies

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

Jóhann Hjálmarsson

Of The Same Mind Poems by Jóhann Hjálmarsson Translated from the Icelandic by Christopher Burawa Toad Press

$5.00 | 41 Pages | 3 copies

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

"I am enjoying The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel -- perfect poems, particularly in that ambiance."
-Dan Tobin, Chairman, Writing and Publishing Program at Emerson College

"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

"a delightful chapbook of poetry."
Diana Der-hoveanessian, NEPC President

Doug Holders newest chapbook, "Wrestling With My Father," was Nov-Dec 2005 SPR pick of the month

$5.00 | 16 Pages | In Stock: 3

Jaromir Horec

Anezka Ceska by Jaromir Horec Translated into English by Jana Morávková Kiely as Agnes of Bohemia Červená Barva Press, 2009

Jaromir Horec was born on December 18, 1921 in Chust, in Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, which in 1919, at the treaty of Versailles, had voted to become part of the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic with an enlightened, freely elected government led by the humanist philosopher, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.

Throughout the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Jaromír Hoec was active in the underground anti-Nazi youth movement. After World War II, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia was not returned to Czechoslovakia but was annexed by Stalin to the Soviet Union. Thus Horec, living in Prague, became an expatriate in his own country. He was a prolific poet, who was not allowed to publish for two periods of twenty years each: 1948-1966 and 1969-1989.

In 1977, he signed Charter 77 and two years later, he founded the Czech underground press Ceska Expedice for which he was imprisoned in 1981. His many works of poetry, include Anezka Ceska, and Chleb Na Stole, as well as many other publications, such as Why I Am Not a Communist and Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia-an Unknown land have been coming out only since 1989.

$15.00 | ISBN 978-0-578-02262-8 | 54 Pages | In Stock

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