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Maple
Leaf Rag III
ISBN
978-0-916620-46-2
192
pages; $15
New
collection of poems by 85 writers who have read at The Maple
Leaf Bar in New Orleans from 1979-2006.
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Roach
Opera
by Christian Champagne
ISBN 978-0-916620-37-0
144 pages $15 Comic and satiric poetry by Chris Champagne.
"Chris Champagne is a southern Woody Allen." Liz
Scott
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The
Women at the Well
by
Grace Bauer
ISBN
0-916620-33-6
96
pages $15
"In
'The Women at the Well,'
Grace Bauer sings out of silence alternative stories of the
Biblical women she first encountered as a schoolgirl listening
to the nuns. Wry humor is only one element of Bauer's illuminating
re-vision as she inhabits her women in their longing, sassiness,
rebellion, compassion, wavering, and triumph.... I had my
favorites among Bauer's women, and you will, too. Whoever
they are, the Bible will never be the same."
Carole Simmons Oles, author of Night
Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell
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Against
the Clock
by
Maxine Cassin
ISBN
0-916620-41-7
160
pages $15
"In
this collection of poems old and new, Maxine Cassin writes
of everyday moments and objects that grow luminous in the
surprise wit of her language. Electronic gadgets jostle Aldebaran
and mosquitoes mingle with Lady Macbeth in poems that tease
and haunt us with the quiet wisdom of this highly acclaimed
poet." Barbara
C. Ewell, author of Kate
Chopin.
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Davenport's
Version
by
John Gery
ISBN
0-916620-58-1
236
pages $20
This
remarkable, five-part poem, narrated by Captain Davenport,
draws on classic texts as it reflects on love, loss, memory,
politics, peace and the human condition in the New Orleans
of the Civil War.
"Davenport's
Version will be remembered
when much fashionable contemporary work is forgotten."
Frederick Turner, author of
Genesis
and The New World
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Evening
of Wonders
by
James Knudsen
ISBN
0-916620-65-4
128
pages $15
"The
writing is beautifully paced, like poetry . . ." Tim
Gautreaux, author of Same Place, Same Things and The
Clearing.
".
. . this jewel of a collection celebrates the high adventure
of common people faced with those everyday choices that make
all the difference." Fredrick
Barton, author of The
El Cholo Feeling Passes
and A
House Divided
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American
Waste
by
Everette Maddox
ISBN
0-916620-99-X
96
pages $15
"Everette
Maddox didn't shun the dangers of alcoholic sentimentality,
but welcomed them, parodied them, turned them inside out,
and made triumphantly from them these jauntily heartbroken
poems. It took a canny, brave and desperate heart to make
these poems, much less to make them well, and he did it. The
poems themselves are the living proof - he was the dying proof
- of how hugely our short lives matter."
William
Matthews, author of Blues If You Want
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Scacciato
by
William S. Maddox
ISBN
0-916620-97-2
116
pages $15
Scacciato
is based on a tale from
The Decameron
by Boccaccio. The novel relates a story of family conflict and
political intrigue unfolding through the mysterious cycles of
life and death. Though set in Sicily during the 13th century,
Scacciato
speaks of both the tragic and comic in our own times.
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Belief
Blues
by
Kay Murphy
ISBN
0-916620-88-3
96
pages $15
Kay
Murphy has fortified this collection with the authority of
testimony and experience. There is a riveting timbre to her
voice, a narrative vigour to her telling. Highly literate
and affectingly playful, carefully philosophical and deliciously
irreverent.
Belief Blues
speaks with a magnificence which defies hyperbole."
Niyi
Osundare, Recipient of Africa's Noma Award
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The
Altar of this Moment
by
Beverly Rainbolt
ISBN
0-916620-94-8
82
pages $15
"In
'The Altar of this Moment,' Beverly Rainbolt gives us poetry
that is full of wit, verve and immediacy. Both feminine and
feminist in the best sense of the words, these pieces are
alive, almost leaping off the page with their specific urgencies.
They are poems that I will read again and that I will recommend
to my women friends." Rosemary
Daniell, author of Fatal
Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South,
Confessions of a (Female)
Chauvinist, and other books.
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Habitations
by
Brad Richard
ISBN
0-916620-82-4
120
pages $15
"'Whatever
inhabits me at this moment/ goes on doing what I do' proclaims
one of Richard's densely textured interrogations of the universe.
And indeed that universe is so palpable here because created
as much as discovered by an intelligence insatiable in its
inquisitions and disquisitions. The reigning paradox of
'Habitations'
is that, searching for a domicile, it reveals home's continuous
presence in any moment of Richard's miraculous existence."
Peter
Cooley, author of Sacred
Conversations.
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Café
Millennium & other poems
by
H. R. Stoneback
ISBN
0-916620-84-0
144
pages $15
On
"Woodsmoke in Aigues-Mortes: Late November" (winner of the W.B.
Yeats Prize and one of the poems included in
Café Millennium):
"performs an act of verbal hypnosis on its reader...."
"The poem begins in sensuous pleasure and then veers off to
consider one war safely locked in the historical past and another
war threatening to erupt into the present. How the poem manages
to return after touching on these disturbing realities to the
pleasure of seeing (or not seeing) cows at night and inhaling
the perfume of woodsmoke in the French countryside only attests
to the steady hand and equipoise of this poet."
Billy
Collins,
Yeats Newsletter.
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Singing
the Springs
by
H.R. Stoneback
ISBN
0-916620-73-5
192
pages $15
"When
you read - or hear him read - these songs and legends
you know you are in the presence of a compelling,
original, profound, and truly remarkable voice."
W. Evans Benton, poet, critic,
Paris
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Homage:
A Letter to Robert Penn Warren
by
H.R. Stoneback
ISBN
0-916620-43-3
64
pages $15
"The
poem [is] a delight, a great read, a rumble of energy all
the way through."
Dave
Smith, Elliot Coleman Professor of Poetry, Johns Hopkins
University.
"I was blown away by the art and power of the thing; a second
reading not only confirmed my admiration for the poem, it deepened
and broadened it. The poem's structure and 'geography' complement
one another splendidly. . . What an intertextual tour de force
it is!" William Bedford Clark, General Editor: Robert Penn
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Blue
Print
by
Yictove
ISBN
0-916620-75-1
64
pages $15
"Yictove
writes with the resonance of a native New Orleans bluesman,
the sharp eye of a New York City street poet, the rolling
rhythm of a Jamaican dub-poet, and the vision of a prophet
circling the modern Jericho. These poems are alive, whispering
and booming." James
Nolan, author of
What Moves is Not the Wind
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The
Maple Leaf Rag
15th
Anniversary Anthology
ISBN
0-916620-99-9
192
pages $15
An
outstanding collection of poetry by 100 writers who read at
the Maple Leaf Bar Poetry Readings during the late 20th C.
Includes works by Ralph Adamo, Grace Bauer, Randolph Bates,
Helen Toye, Tom Whalen, Yictove, dozens
more.
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