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American
Waste
by Everette Maddox
ISBN 0-916620-99-X
96 pages $15
This
is a posthumous collection of poems by Maddox, who died in
1989. He graduated from the University of Alabama and taught
at Xavier University and the University of New Orleans. During
the last ten years of his life he ran the poetry reading series
at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans. His other collections
are The Everette Maddox Songbook and Bar Scotch.
"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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Belief
Blues
by
Kay Murphy
ISBN
0-916620-88-3
96
pages $20
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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Blue
Print
by
Yictove
ISBN
0-916620-75-1
64
pages $20
"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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Homage:
A Letter to Robert Penn Warren
by
H.R. Stoneback
ISBN
0-916620-43-3
64
pages $20
"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.
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Café
Millennium & other poems
by
H. R. Stoneback
ISBN
0-916620-84-0
144
pages $20
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 $20
"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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Scacciato
by
William S. Maddox
ISBN
0-916620-97-2
116
pages $20
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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Romance Language
by Alan
Elsner
ISBN 978-0-916620-90-5
$20 (includes shipping).
This
novel juxtaposes the 1989 revolution in Romania with a 21st
C. American college student's life.
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Prague,
U.S.A.
by Richard
Katrovas
ISBN
0-916620-96-4
136 pages
$15
Sorry,
out of print.
This
collection of stories grew out of the expatriate community in
Prague after the Velvet Revolution. Katrovas chronicles the
hope, wonder, confusion, and emotion of a people gripped by
both the American dream and the complex culture of the Czechs.
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Protection
From All This Safety
by Chris
Chandler & Philip Rockstroh
ISBN
0-916620-30-1
96 pages
$15
Sorry,
out of print.
Chris
Chandler has performed these poems-songs throughout the United
States.
"In
the spirit of Woody Guthrie. . .a true troubadour." Peter
Yarrow
"Here
is poetry intended to rouse the ear that should wake up the
forgotten rebel in everyone."
Andrei Codrescu
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Mirror
Wars
by Nancy
C. Harris
ISBN
0-916620-40-9
128 pages
$15
Sorry,
out of print.
"In
poems precariously balanced on the pacing of each line, Harris
delves below the primeval to the 'sideshow soul,' stranger we
confront each time we look in the mirror and, suddenly, 'the
cranium slips around/ like continental shelves forming/ Himalayas.'
... But however they may shake us out of our quotidian comforts,
the luscious music of her poems ultimately sustains us with
their 'true words/ whose cryptic carvings/ tumble from rune-stones/
right before [our] eyes.'"
John Gery, author of
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The
Camel's Back
by Tom
Whalen & Michael Presti
ISBN
0-916620-91-3
144 pages
$15
Sorry,
out of print.
An
amazing romp through time and inner and outer space, from the
planets Relix to Gabriel to18th century Ireland to Marrakesh
at the end of time. Discover the secret upon which the characters'
tales and the fate of the universe depends.
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Roithamer's
Universe
by Tom
Whalen
ISBN
0-916620-98-0
128 pages
$15
Sorry,
out of print.
"An
intriguing blend of SF, philosophy, and word play. . .Giddy
fun."
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