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Norman MacAfee

A NEW REQUIEM poem by Norman MacAfee Cheap Review Press, 1988 (signed copy)

A New Requiem is a long poem, a non-religous text dedicated "to the future and its composers." Parts of it have been set to music and performed, and the poet encourages other composers to set the entire work. But above all A New Requiem is a poem to be read.

"One could listen forever, A New Requiem is so lovely."
--The Washington Review

$5.00 | ISBN: 0-945502-01-x | 45 Pages | In Stock: 4

THE COMING OF FASCISM TO AMERICA by Norman MacAfee (signed copies) The Bowery Poetry Club, 2006: "The information we are receiving is all false. Our country has betrayed us." Thus begins Norman MacAfees major new poem, "The Coming of Fascism to America," written in February and March 2005, as Bush's insane destruction of Iraq, and America, entered its third year. --The Bowery Poetry Club
$5.00 | ISBN: | 22 Pages | In Stock: 4

Angela Consolo Mankiewicz

Cancer Poems by Angela Consolo Mankiewicz Undulating Bedsheets Productions, 1995: …. How to cope, how to survive, how to conquer the unknowable? This is down-home, extremely frightened, compassionate poetry…. Though Angela's words show insecurity and doubt, her poems exhibit inner strength and determination to survive a totally devastating, and very personal, crisis time: Help me hide the rage and terror swapping/1st place in my head … / Godamit - don't let me screw this up - please / make me what he hopes I am ("Prayer to Fidelio"); …. Who do I run to if not to you? Bearing / this doom that is not yet grief, rumbling / through my body …. ("Not Yet Grief"); Oh, of course. We / kiss, a sudden, hard kiss. / Our hands slip away and swallow you in. / You, just you ("We").
We can be comfortable from afar but throats will choke …. Read and weep alone, or with a loved one. These are life lessons to be recounted and learned.
Reviewed by Joyce Metzger
$2.00 | 20 Pages | In Stock

Wired And Other Poems by Angela Consolo Mankiewicz Aquarius West Press, 2001: Very seductive poetry here, at the same time with an undertone of melancholia/despair: …. Will I be there again someday, if I'm alone/or because my body has closed me off /to deeper pleasures? Will I say I've had enough/or will I squirm on a couch with a weary moan? ("The Girl Who Loved Armchairs") …. one very vibratory poem, "Smiles of a Summer Night" about making love to another woman, then waking up and to pull her mate (husband/boyfriend?) over to drive her tongue down his throat and complain Why Now? And from "Young Girls in Young Girl Dresses": This poem is for the rest of us / blocking recall of how short/ the good part was, how few/the minutes of specialness. I finished WIRED and couldn't get it out of my mind. Even the drawing of garter-belted stockings on beautiful, ankle-strapped shoes. The sexuality is very much there and very effective. Not a book to read though, if you're suffering from depression; at the same time, magnificently performed.
Reviewed by Hugh Fox
$6.00 | 28 Pages | In Stock

Mariana Marin

The Factory of the Past poems by Mariana Marin Translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Daniela Hurezanu Toad Press

$5.00 | 35 Pages | 2 copies

Tara L. Masih

Fragile Skins by Tara L. Masih The Feral Press, 2006

The Feral Press publishes chapbooks of poetry and prose that accompany black-and-white images. These are collector's editions and published in limited press runs. Their goal is to enhance the reading of prose with art, and to revive the European chapbook and broadside tradition. These chapbooks have been archived at universities throughout the country, and a few remain for purchase. Tara L. Masih is an award-winning writer, and this booklet includes the prize-winning story flash story "Catalpa."

"'Suicide Weather' hit me especially hard . . . those richly suggested apples . . . a great story!"
-X. J. Kennedy

"Fragile Skins is a gem that I keep on my bookshelf . . . ,"
-Alan King

$4.50 | 5 Pages | In Stock: 2 copies, signed

Tall Grasses by Tara L. Masih The Feral Press, 2006: The Feral Press publishes chapbooks of poetry and prose that accompany black-and-white images. These are collector's editions and published in limited press runs. Their goal is to enhance the reading of prose with art, and to revive the European chapbook and broadside tradition. These chapbooks have been archived at universities throughout the country, and a few remain for purchase. Tara L. Masih is an award-winning writer, and this booklet includes the Pushcart Prize nominated flash story "Turtle Hunting," which first appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review and was anthologized in Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories (Rose Metal Press).
$4.50 | 4 Pages | In Stock: 2 copies, signed

W. R. Mayo

Pretty Little Lies Ten Generations Of Southern Hypocrisy by W. R. Mayo Červená Barva Press, 2009

Pretty Little Lies, as told from the perspective of a member of the southern Mayo clan, reads like a gothic novel spanning centuries. In a take no prisoners accounting. W. R. Mayo's memoir is a serious undertaking that makes for fascinating reading. Though not from an old southern family, I, for one recognize much of what we all carry in our DNA.
- Susan Tepper, author of DEER

In his biting family memoir, Pretty Little Lies, W. R. Mayo courageously puts a dagger into the heart of the southern plantation myth. By unflinchingly facing his own dysfunctional past, Mayo gives the romantic, idealized version of ante- and post-bellum life below the Mason-Dixon Line a well-deserved paddling. In moving prose, he reveals the underbelly of the "big house"- a way of life created and sustained by traffic in human slavery and one reliant upon the manipulation, or far worse, of the land and those who lived and toiled upon it. Pretty Little Lies is a must read for anyone looking to see past the mythology of the Old South.
- J. B. Hogan, author

Unflinching. Revealing. In this exhaustively researched family history, Mayo charts the rise of a Southern family from its roots in England to the founding of a plantation in Southeastern Arkansas in the middle of the nineteenth century. Through the degradations of the Civil War, two world wars, and countless family conflicts still raging to this day, Mayo lays bare the mythology of Southern "Nobility." He frankly examines the treatment of slaves by his family which led to "the other Mayos," a family of blacks descended from these slaves, and describes the uncompromising natures of his progenitors. From his mother who never apologized for anything, considering it a waste of time to his racist, domineering father, Mayo chronicles the infighting, manipulation, and xenophobia prevalent in his family's past. Mayo digs to the core to face head-on not only the lies, exaggerations and conscious-salving stories of "pride" passed down within his family, but also to uncover the real story of Southern history. As Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. In fact, it's not even past." Mayo's past is certainly not dead, though this book is an attempt to put a stake through it's heart.
- C. L. Bledsoe, author of Anthem, Riceland and editor for Ghoti Magazine

$15.95 | ISBN 978-0-9773695-4-0 | 211 Pages | In Stock

Ed McManis

Sister Mary Butkus by Ed McManis Červená Barva Press, 2007

Ed McManis is a teacher, writer, poet, editor, songwriter, husband and dad—not always in that order. His work has appeared in more than 40 publications.

Cover art by Joe McManis

$7.00 | 37 Pages | In Stock: 15

Joan McNerney

Having Lunch with the Sky by Joan McNerney A.P.D., 2004

The work of Joan McNerney has been published in over a hundred poetry journals and magazines in the US and Canada. This is her fourth book of poems. She has performed her poetry at many distinguished venues, such as the National Arts Club, the University of Texas at Houston, the McNay Art Institute, the Word Thursday series in Treadwell, NY, and at Café Web in Albany, in addition to performing on several radio and TV programs. She lives outside Albany, NY.

$5.00 | ISBN 0-9714631-5-8 | 14 Pages | In Stock: 3 copies

Ana Merina

Cell Mate by Ana Merina Harbor Mountain Press, 2007 Translated by Elizabeth Polli

Ana Merino is one of the best contemporary Spanish poets, and Cell Mate is a wonderful place to start reading her. In these poems all of Ana's registers are present: the whimisical one some times, others the haunted one. Ana writes dark lullabies, fairy tales for grown ups, and she does it without losing the sense of childish wonder. How is that possible? Open the book.
--Edmundo Paz-Soldan

Winner of Bolivia's National Book Award

$14.00 | 51 Pages | In Stock: 2

David Miller

In the shop of nothing by David Miller Harbor Mountain Press, 2007

"…[David Miller's] poetry of meticulous observation is not merely descriptive, striving as it does for the intuitive moment, which flickers, however briefly, in language; attempting to reveal how the ordinary and simple can disclose the transcendent…"
--Tim Woods, from The Poet's Voice

$14.00 | 122 Pages | In Stock: 2

Ed Miller

The Whole Enchilada by Ed Miller Červená Barva Press-2006

Think of The Whole Enchilada as an absurdist playground, and you're invited. There you'll find an abundance of whooping, hollering, cussing and adolescent ridicule. There you'll find a lot of sand being flung around, kicked around. It's a ruckus of mockeries, a splenetic free-for-all.

The poems: more than a few are found-text pieces, derived from the ephemera and detritus of life, which are combined or manipulated or both; some are casual narratives; some began as correspondence and later stood trembling on their own.

$7.00 | 48 Pages | In Stock: 30

Sally Miller

Sylvia A Memoir of Hollywood Star Sylvia Sydney by Sally Miller Synergy Press, 2004

A special friendship between Hollywood legend Sylvia Sydney and the author developed in the months preceding Sylvia's death in 1999. Their common bond was a house in rural New Jersey that Sylvia built and lived in during the 1940's. Both women also shared a close proximity with death. Stories from Sylvia's past and Sally's life are interwoven with complementary photographs throughout this intriguing memoir.

46 pages * 70 black & white, 25 color photographs

www.SallyMiller.com

$15.00 | ISBN: 0-9758581-0-6 | 5 in Stock

Stephen P. Miller

Inside the Boar's Circle by Stephen P. Miller Pygmy Forest Press, 1994: Stephen Miller's work has appeared in Toyon, American Mosaic, Orbis, Journal of American Culture, and Northcoast Magazine. His book, An Act of God: Memories of Vietnam was published in 1982 and reprinted in 1987.
$5.00 | ISBN: 0-944550-35-5 | 41 Pages | In Stock: 2

Gloria Mindock

Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock Ibbettson Street Press, 2007

In her fascinating poem cycle, Gloria Mindock jolts back into memory the roots of El Salvador's present day violence. Mindock coaxes to the page the voices of the dead who lie, less in peace, than in restless obsession with the atrocities they suffered. She brings forth as well the voices of the living who seem startled to find that they died somewhere between the horrors they witnessed and the grave they have yet to lie down in. Blood Soaked Dresses is a beautiful, harrowing first book.
--Catherine Sasanov

We are reminded of Cezar Vallejo's witnesses: bones, solitude, rain, and the roads -- that we are tied to each other in beauty and suffering, life and death. Gloria Mindock's poems grant us the voice of a soul caught on a limb between the promise of peace everlasting and impossible resurrections. Poem after poem we are asked to uncover those whose bitter ash weeps over the world, and no other country/wants to see it. This book is written from a compassionate heart that whispers and grieves, one that isn't afraid to holds its gaze.
--Dzvinia Orlowsky

A poet must never shy from the necessary, no matter how hard it is. In poetry that is both elegant and brutal, Gloria Mindock exposes the horror of the Salvadorian conflict especially on women. Though Salvador has faded from the front pages, the war has reincarnated in other countries on other continents making "Blood Soaked Dresses" completely contemporaneous. This poetry possesses, as Yeats said, "a terrible beauty." And we need it now more than ever.
--John Minczeski

The reader of Blood Soaked Dresses is enriched by Mindock's power and commitment. She has earned a place among our great protest poets, reminding us, with lyric tension, that social justice is our constant and necessary concern.
--Simon Perchik

$13.50 | ISBN: 978-1-4303-1034-1 | 72 Pages

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To read reviews go to:
Boston Globe review by Ellen Steinbaum:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/09/

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene Reviews:
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=lo+gallucio
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=irene+koronas

Oh Angel by Gloria Mindock U ŠOKU ŠTAMPA-2005

If you don't believe in angels, this compelling collection of poems about them might give you pause for thought. Among the kinds of angels Gloria Mindock addresses are male and female, guardian, loyal, and fallen angels, even a vacationing angel. As in the title poem, which opens the book, she often exclaims, "Oh angel," in conjecture, disappointment, pique, passion, or some other emotion. Angels dominate her consciousness, her moods, her actions. For instance, "Wild" begins, "Oh angel, at dawn, / I get up and sit in the nicest room," and in "Guardian Angel Sits on Left" she says, "The angel is curled against / me . . . / She protects me." But by the end of the poem, "The angel went on to / guard another." Though desirable, angels can sometimes be disloyal, like people. In "Wings" the speaker chides a traitor angel and then reproaches a lover who has deserted her: "Oh Herman-stupid man / Prodigies won't help / Poetry is necessary / just like me." This passage recalls Wallace Stevens' "necessary angel," his name for the imagination, whose necessary product is poetry. Stupid Herman "jumped out too soon," leaving the speaker at first bereft but then with a new subject for a poem, a new sense of worth. Oh Gloria, what else are lovers and angels for?
--George Held

To read a review of Oh Angel visit: http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_dougholder_archive.html

$5.50 | 16 Pages | In Stock: Sold Out

Postcard Series: One Designed by Gloria Mindock Červená Barva Press-2005: $15.00 | 21 Postcards | In Stock: 10

Kenn Mitchell

The Fatman in The Mirror by Kenn Mitchell Pygmy Forest Press, 1997

This is Kenn Mitchell's second book of poetry. Poetry of the Deformed (1996) was also published by Pygmy Forest Press.

$10.00 | ISBN: 944550-46-0 | 100 Pages | In Stock: 3

Nancy Mitchell

Grief Hut by Nancy Mitchell Červená Barva Press, 2009

Nancy Mitchell is the author of The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2002) and her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, Great River Review, and are anthologized in Last Call by Sarabande Books. She has received an Artist in the Schools grant for Virginia, and residency fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia and in Auvillar, France. Mitchell teaches in the English Department at Salisbury University, Maryland, and has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program in Maine. She resides in Salisbury, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with her husband John Ebert, a filmmaker.

The Grief Hut stands on an imaginary beach, where women help each other to give birth to their griefs: the birth of sorrows here is given words with a growing power, intensity, and wisdom, a wisdom still wired to its human love and memory.
-Jean Valentine

Mitchell is blessed with a vivid--and haunting--memory--of particulars, the things of our past, and of the more complex feelings the things generate. She refuses nothing, she is deadly accurate, yet she sings. We should read her.
-Gerald Stern

The poems in Nancy Mitchell's book Grief Hut are so lucidly and deeply felt that they cut directly to the bone of the experiences they are recounting. This is a true and an incredibly beautiful book.
-Malena Mörling

Her descriptions of people, the details and detritus of their lives are studied and stunning. May we hear more from this talented poet.
-Doug Holder/Ibbetson Street Press

$15.00 | ISBN: 978-0-615-25797-6 | 66 Pages | Restocking

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the near surround by Nancy Mitchell Four Way Books, 2002

The best of these poems-and there are a good number-are delicate and strong, simply told, full of longing; they take part in the mystery which is not made by any poet, but given. The Near Surround is a fine and moving book.
-Jean Valentine

The resistance of silence, the breath on the mirror from back, the figure feeding bees from a sack to the birds in the low branches, the grass in the photograph that keeps on growing: this is the place to which Nancy Mitchell takes us, the spare intensity of her poems like the midnight flare of the stove's burner, its "wreath of blue-white flame."
-Eleanor Wilner

$13.95 | ISBN: 1-761884800429 | 59 Pages | In Stock: 5

Richard Moore

A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL by Richard Moore University of Georgia Press, 1971

"I like this book wondrous well, admiring the skill and bite of it immensely. At their best, Moore's poems are funny and serious at once--by no means light verse."
--Howard Nemerov

"Here, with this book, is a poet full-grown. These are healthy poems. There should be no question of survival--for either the man or the book."
--May Swenson

$15.00 | ISBN 8203-0265-1 | 106 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

BOTTOM IS BACK by Richard Moore Orchises Press

The best and most serious poetry is full of gaiety, and it's only dreary poets and their too--earnest readers who consider light verse demeaning…
--Richard Wilbur

Poetry Book

$11.95 | ISBN 0-914061-43-7 | 95 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

BUTTONED INTO HISTORY by Richard Moore Pivot Press, 2006: "Is nothing sacred, I wonder, reading Richard Moore's new smorgasbord of hilarious, hard-minded, and marvelously crafted verse. Fearlessly, Moore shoots his lethal darts at false gods of every kind, doing a job on embalmers, dictators, matriarchs, lecherous presidents, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, and more…"
X. J. Kennedy
$12.00 | ISBN 0-9726582-8-9 | 52 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

NO MORE BOTTOM by Richard Moore Orchises Press, 1991

(Excerpt from the back of the book)
…The Moore of this frighteningly hilarious volume is a classic poet in the grand tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Ogden Nash…

Poetry Book

$10.00 | ISBN 0-914061-22-4 | 75 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

PYGMIES AND PYRAMIDS by Richard Moore Orchises Press, 1998

(From the back of the book)
Richard Moore graduated from Yale University and has been a Fulbright Scholar. A former Air Force pilot, he has taught at Brandeis and New England Conservatory of Music. Poems and essays of his have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, The Hudson Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, and many other journals.

Poetry Book

$12.95 | ISBN 780914-061717 | 79 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

SAILING TO OBLIVION by Richard Moore Light Quarterly Imprints, 2005

Introduction by X.J. Kennedy

RICHARD MOORE is a distinguished poet of many voices, all of them pleasing and intelligent. Sailing To Oblivion is a book done in his comic voice, though it too is divisble into several kinds of light verse: some are offhand and playful, some (like "The Real Thing") are deeply funny, and some are learned and elegant like "A Country Boy Goes to Rome." I like them all.
--Richard Wilbur

Poetry Book

$12.00 | ISBN 0-9670437-1-9 | 63 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

THE MOUSE WHOLE by Richard Moore Negative Capability Press, 1996

"For happiest results, take this book's trimeter sips in one sitting, like a great litre goblet of beer at a sidewalk café in Paris on a hot afternoon…"
--Mona Van Duyn

"…an unfashionable and remarkable undertaking. The meter is handled and kept with great courage. The mouse's story, perhaps because of its maddening eccentricity, is poignant and witty."
--Robert Lowell

"…His mouse epic is just like the cat's ass. Somewhere in the wings of Heaven, Pope must be clapping his pinions and Byron (if in the same location) must be lifting a bumper in salute."
--X.J. Kennedy

Poetry Book

$15.00 | ISBN 0-942544-50-1 | 223 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

The Naked Scarecrow by Richard Moore Truman State University Press

(Excerpt from the back of the book)
In The Naked Scarecrow, Moore first acquaints us with the absurdities, agonies, and paradoxes of being a husband and father in contemporary America. He then expands his view into society as a whole. In the final sequence, Moore brings the self and its naked helplessness into mystical contact with the world.

Poetry Book

$14.00 | ISBN 0-943549-59-0 | 67 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

WORD FROM THE HILLS A Sonnett Sequence in Four Movements by Richard Moore University of Georgia Press, 1972

(From the back of the book)
The author of this sequence has dared to write in a form which has become unfamiliar to contemporary readers, but he has succeeded masterfully in this bold strategy…

Poetry Book

$15.00 | ISBN 0-8203-0287-2 | 74 Pages | In Stock: 3 (Signed)

THE INVESTIGATOR by Richard Moore Story Line Press

"Moore probes at the variations of normalcy and the edges of madness in this strange tale, building a sense of foreboding and revealing the truth, to the extent we can know it, only on the final page."
--Michele Leber, BOOKLIST

Fiction

$18.95 | ISBN 780934-257770 | 220 Pages | In Stock: 2 (Signed)

Susanne Morning

Dog Soup and Donuts by Susanne Morning Indian Bay Press, 2008

"Morning's poems; a haunting grace that captures the unknown Korea. She takes the reader on a unique journey, leaving us wanting more..."
-Gloria Mindock, Červená Barva Press

"With striking images and ellptical thoughts, Morning's poetry lurches between humour and depths too dark to plumb..."
-Colin B. O'Connell, Ph.D, Canada

"...An archeological dig that will put dirt under your nails and priceless relics in your hands."
-Haery Lee, Korean Author and Illustrator

"...She demonstrates the flexible nature of words and phrases in the context of second-language usuage with much humour and passion."
-Owen Bullock, Associate Editor Poetry New Zealand

$17.95 | ISBN: 978-0-9773695-2-2 | 79 Pages | In Stock: 3

Land of the Morning Calm by Susanne Morning Červená Barva Press, 2007

South Korea, referred to as the hermit kingdom of Asia, has been the home of New Zealand author/painter Susanne Morning for the last 7 years. Fascinating and humorous, Land of the Morning Calm unearths the bizarre and unexpected elements of this ancient/modern Confucian culture. An archeological dig that will put dirt under your nails and priceless relics in your hands!

$7.00 | 29 Pages | In Stock: 5

Alexander Motyl

Waiting By Godot by Alexander Motyl Červená Barva Press, 2009

Alexander Motyl is a writer, painter, and professor. His novels include Whiskey Priest, Who Killed Andrei Warhol, and Flippancy. His art is represented by The Tori Collection. Motyl teaches at Rutgers University-Newark and lives in New York City.

His web site is: www.AlexanderMotyl.webs.com.

$1.00 | 5 Pages | In Stock

Don Moyer

The Stream by Don Moyer Moon Pie Press, 2006

…These poems are direct, challenging, smart and often thoroughly beautiful: dogs, kids, Chinese food, disability, poverty, what thrives, what fails-all indicate the worlds more alive than we may believe.
--Pamela Stewart

$8.00 | ISBN: 0-9769929-7-3 | 32 Pages | In Stock: 5

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Norman MacAfee

Angela Consolo Mankiewicz

Mariana Marin

Tara L. Masih

W. R. Mayo

Ed McManis

Joan McNerney

Ana Merina

David Miller

Ed Miller

Sally Miller

Stephen P. Miller

Gloria Mindock

Kenn Mitchell

Nancy Mitchell

Richard Moore

Susanne Morning

Alexander Motyl

Don Moyer

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