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Current Catalogue
Ralph Adamo
Waterblind
Grace Bauer
The Women at the Well
Maxine Cassin
The Other Side of Sleep
Christian Champagne
Roach Opera
John Gery
Davenport's Version
James Knudsen
Evening of Wonders
Everette Maddox
American Waste
William S. Maddox
Scacciato
Kay Murphy
Belief Blues
Valentine Pierce
Geometry of the Heart
Beverly Rainbolt
The Altar of this Moment
Brad Richard
Habitations

H.R. Stoneback
Singing the Springs

Café Millennium

Homage: A Letter to RPW

Yictove
Blue Print

The Maple Leaf Rag
15th Anniversary Anthology

The Maple Leaf Rag III

 

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Current Catalogue

Geometry of the Heart

Geometry of the Heart
by Valentine Pierce
ISBN 978-0-916620-42-4
144 pages; $15

"Geometry of the Heart is a love song for humanity. . .
Her words leap off the pages with a passion and fire that beckon the human heart to reach beyond its grasp."
-- Edmund W. Lewis, Editor, The Louisiana Weekly


Maple Leaf Rag III - Anthology

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.

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

Ralph Adano - Waterblind

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Waterblind
by Ralph Adamo
ISBN 0-916620-47-6
120 Pages $15

"'Waterblind' collects thirty years of Ralph Adamo's poems, long needed by us all, so dazzling is his voice, so singing his syntax, so original his art that we may have forgotten what we hungered for in poetry were it not for him. I celebrate 'Waterblind' with awe and gratitude." Carolyn Forché


Grace Bauer - The Women at the Well

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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


Maxine Cassin - The Other Side of Sleep

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The Other Side of Sleep
by Maxine Cassin
Selected Poems with Photography by Clarence J. Laughlin & J.K. Potter
ISBN 0-916620-50-3
144 pages $15

"This is an extraordinary collection by Maxine Cassin, a gifted observer whose language is both witty and wise, and whose understanding of our lives of wakefulness is deep and precise." Sue Owen, author of The Book of Winter.

Maxine Cassin was one of the founders of The New Orleans Poetry Journal Press. Her other collections include A Touch of Recognition and Turnip's Blood.


Maxine Cassin - Against the Clock

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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.


John Gery - Davenport's Version

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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


James Knudsen - Evening of Wonders

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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


Everette Maddox - American Waste

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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


William S. Maddox - Scacciato

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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.


Kay Murphy - Belief Blues

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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


Beverly Rainbolt - The Altar of This Moment

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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.


Brad Richard - Habitations

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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.


H. R. Stoneback - Café Millenium

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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.

H. R. Stoneback - Singing the Springs

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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 Warren Correspondence Project.

Yictove - Blue Print

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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


Maple Leaf Rag poetry Anthology

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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.