With Teeth in the Earth
Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman
Translated, Edited, and Introduced
by Marcia Falk
"The translations are poems in their own right,
full of energy, wit, and surprise. There is no other Yiddish literary
translation quite like this—nor is there likely to be again."
—David G. Roskies, Chair
Dept. of Jewish Literature
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
ISBN: 978-0-9828501-2-1; paperback $15
A Common Glory
by Penelope Duckworth
"Carrying the sound of plain chant and wearing
the scent of the sea, Penelope Duckworth's generous, deeply-felt
poems record, witness, and celebrate each image, thought, and
story they so richly bring forward and keep."-Jane Hirshfield
Author of After and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry."Penelope
Duckworth's A Common GLory is by turns lyrical, elegiac, and narrative.
But no matter the form, each poem deftly considers our inherited
world with gratitude and reverence, displaying the religious visionary's
urge to humbly praise all that God has made."
-Ron Hansen
Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. Professor of Arts and Humanities,Santa
Clara University. Author of Exiles: A Novel and A stay Against
Confusion:
Essays on Faith and Fiction
ISBN 978-9828501-1-4: 81 pp. paperback $16
Waters
of the Afternoon: A Song in Three Voices
by
Claudia Jensen Dudley
This
is a poetic and musical journey into the heart of a great
question. Both intimate and epic in scope, it echoes Eliot's
Four Quartets, Tagore's Gitanjali, and Rilke's Duino Elegies.
But Waters of the Afternoon stands unto itself. Three
powerful stories unfold in narrative poetry and prose,
concluding with eight "Canticles" (set to music
on an accompanying CD) of lyric intensity. The seemingly
unanswerable question of maya, or Illusion, resounds through
them all. {As in chiaroscuro painting, Waters of the Afternoon
uses shadow and light to create a third dimension. Its
haunting rhythms, its riveting narratives evoke the ineffable
in the silence beneath words. It calls us to face without
fear both the mystery inherent in our personal journeys
and the Mysterium Tremendum that is beyond telling.}
ISBN 978- 0- 9828501- 0-7; 73 pp. paperback $20.00
As
If the Sky Were Open
by
Bob Scher
"Your
poem, 'Poetry's Miraculous Workaround' is delightful. I'm happy
to be in it."
- Richard Wilbur
"These
poems have a quiet intimacy-sometimes meditative, sometimes
playful, sometimes celebratory, sometimes elegiac. Each of them
is an act of recovery and discovery, turning on the paradoxes
of a particular 'moment / of our vast and miniature concerns.'
Like the door in one of the poems, they open simultaneously
inward and outward on the immediacy and momentousness of living
and loving, changing and dying, sight and insight."
- Albert Gelpi
ISBN:
978-0-9772212-9-5 132pp. paperback $15.00
Songs for the True Dharma Eye
Verse Comments on Dogen's Shobogenzo
by
Taigen Dan Leighton
From
the Introduction by Jane Hirschfield: Taigen Shizan, Dan Leighton--whom
I knew and practiced with at San Francisco Zen Center many
years ago--is a Soto priest, a teacher of Dharma, and a true
scholar. His profound understanding of Dogen's teachings is
everywhere present in these verse-comments on a work that
is itself one of the world's great literary achievements,
as well as a central record of actualized wisdom. Present
equally in these poems is a wonderful buoyancy--humor, mind-suppleness,
cultural sampling, at least one atrocious pun, a continual
refreshening of vision.
ISBN: 978-9772212-71 114 pp. paperback $14.00
Sweeping
the cemetery
by David Lee Garrison
David Lee Garrison's
poems have breadth and great feeling for life. These poems
are about this life, this world, and the people in it, yet
they resonate somewhere deep within us.
David Lee Garrison is a poet of the Comedie Humaine. In the
Edgar Lee Masters' tradition he looks at all of us, with wisdom,
satire, and verbal grace as his figures rise from the earth.
He ranges "wide and deep,"as did Masters and as
Frost might have said.
Willis Barnstone,
author of The Gnostic Bible and Sweetbitter Love:
Poems of Sappho.
ISBN:978-0-9772212-8-8 $14.00 82 pp. paperback
How
Else to Love the World
by
Myrna Stone
Myrna Stone has mastered her craft.This is accomplished, literate
poetry, highly sensuous yet remarkably tasteful. This is poetry
that feeds not only the mind, but our feelings and senses
as well. It is in turns, subtle, evocative, and powerful.
Myrna Stone's poetry has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares,
TriQuarterly, and Boston Review, and over three dozen other
journals. She is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual
Artist Fellowships in Poetry as well as a Full Fellowship
to Vermont Studio Center. In 2001, the Ohio Poetry Day Association
named her Ohio Poet of the Year for her first book, The
Art of Loss, Michigan State University Press.
ISBN: 0-9772212-2-9 74pp. paperback $14.00
Exile
and Return: Passover Haggadah
Commentary
by Stephen Damon
Edited with commentary
and poetry to help make this ancient holiday accessible and
relevant to the spiritual sensibilities of our times.
From the Introduction: Listen to this tale that I first
heard from my grandmother, who heard if from hers who had
heard it from her grandmother and so on all the way back to
as far back as anyone can remember. I hope I get it right,
just the way I heard it, not adding and not subtracting, just
telling.
So cover your heads and please take off your shoes, this is
Holy Ground. Listen to the One who calls to us from the silence
of the days before the Beginning. Tonight is special so lean
back on your pillows, loosen your belts and enjoy the feast
before us. Symbolic foods and prayers will guide us back from
exile.
ISBN: 0-9772212-6-1 80 pp. paperback $9.95
There's
a Hole in Your Sky
by Bob Scher
with illustrations by Peter Szasz
Non-bawdy or
“clean” limericks, or as Bob Scher calls them, limes,
pre-date the bawdy ones. Shakespeare included near-perfect
limes, in form, in three of his plays. But a lime that stands
alone usually demands a twist or neat turn in the last line.
Most of the limes In There's a Hole in Your Sky go beyond
just being "funny."
0-9772212-4-5 $12.00
When
This You See
by Yvonne Cannon
In Yvonne Cannon's highly readable poetry, lifee's difficulties
are survived and ultimately transcended as she questions her
personal life and our collective lives with her keen perception
and empathy, sometimes offered with heart-breaking irony.
When This You See includes poems directly motivated by what
she experienced during her 48-year-old daughter's crushing
struggle with cancer. These poems will resonate not only to
anyone who has had a similar experience, but to all of us.
Her telling descriptions and her sympathetic, never mawkish,
lines linger long after the book has been put down.
The book contains full-color reproductions of her daughter's
vibrant, childlike, yet clearly sophisticated paintings.
Yvonne Cannon has been published in The North American Review,
ZYZZYVA, The Marin Poetry Center 2006 Anthology, and in
Caesura.
