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Jane Piirto (Michigan/Ohio)
Saunas
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 100 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-645
From the frozen landscapes of her Finnish forebears to the ice-clear rivers and cold fields of Michigan’s Upper Pennisula, Jane Piirto paints a personal and extraordinary picture. These deeply moving poems are like chants celebrating what sustains us, reminding us of the wonder and mystery in the everyday.
Joel Thomas Katz (California)
Away
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-638
Tenea D. Johnson (Florida)
Starting Friction
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 38pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-621
Johnson's intricate language invites the reader to connect with the images, music, and tastes of a woman vulnerably exposed. Both urban and natural, Starting Friction resounds with a hope for a nation full of complexity and conflict.
Mariela Griffor (Michigan)
House
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 56 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-539
House is a love affair between the poet and and Chile. While making real the struggles of war, becoming an expatriate and the alienation that accompanies the immersion in a new culture, Griffor also conveys the beauty and nostalgia she feels for her home country. She commands our attention, and we share her sadness, compassion, anger and hope. Influenced greatly by the American lyric tradition, Mariela’s poems play softly and skillfully; the smooth strum lingers in the readers ears.
Zilka
Joseph (Calcutta/Chicago/Detroit)
Lands I Live In
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-47-5
In richly detailed, exuberant poems, Zilka Joseph embraces the vivid passions of her childhood home in Calcutta and the complex hopes and fears implicit in her move to the Midwest.
Johanny
Vázquez
Paz (Puerto Rico/Chicago)
Poemas Callejeros/Streetwise Poems
Poetry - bilingual. Paper, perfect bound,
74 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-46-7
These sensuous and passionate poems explore one of the many strands of contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago's concrete and broken glass. In Spanish and English, with translations by the author.
Rachel Eshed (Israel)
Little Promises
Poetry. Bilingual edition (Hebrew/English) transl. David Cooper
Paper, perfect bound, 104 pp
$16.00 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-42-4
In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. Novelist Tsipi Keller says, "It is hard to speak of Rachel Eshed’s poetry without mentioning 'fire' – her poems virtually burn on the page, and David Cooper’s renditions not only do justice to the original but magnify its richness."
2006 Pushcart Prize nominee
Lidia
Torres (Puerto Rico/New York)
A
Weakness for Boleros
Poetry. Paper,
perfect bound, 48 pp
$12.50
plus s&h
2005,
ISBN 0-932412-34-3
These intense poems echo the music of the poet's two
languages, Spanish
and English, and the life of her two homelands, Puerto Rico and New York.
Nominated for the PEN Beyond Margins Award, 2005
Rhoda
Stamell (Detroit)
Detroit Stories
Short Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 102
pp
$18.50 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-38-6
Mayapple Press's first fiction publication. As Charles Baxter says, "All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit" can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling to love and be loved.
2006 Pushcart Prize nominee
Suzanne
Keyworth (Florida)
Markers
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-35-1
This group of poems grows out of the history and voices of Suzanne Keyworth's ancestors, who came to the new world in the early 1600’s and the early 1700’s, and were active in the history of Florida. The volume includes family trees and drawings of some of the major ancestors whose voices we hear in the poems.
Chosen as a Sept.-Oct. 2005 "Pick" bySmall Press Review
Martin Achatz (Marquette, MI)
The Mysteries of the Rosary
$10.00 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-28-9
Based loosely on the Catholic Rosary and other devotional prayers, this collection of poems is quiet and intense, walking the mysterious line between sacramental and sacreligious.
Coming Clean
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 30 pp
$8 plus s&h
2003, ISBN 0-932412-21-1
The poem as a form of prayer is one of poetry's earliest traditions. In the lyric poems of this strong first book, Adrienne Lewis explores the nexus of faith and sexuality as experienced in the dilemmas of marriage and family life.
Occupied Territory
Paper, perfect bound, 80 pp
$10 plus s&h
1994, ISBN 0-932412-06-8
“These intense, visceral poems cover the territory occupied by fear, pain, memory, loss and desire. The ultimate paradigm is that of the self--dual embodiment of victim and aggressor. Wexler's clear, steady voice convinces us that everything is both personal and political." -- Jane Flanders
Evelyn Wexler (New York)
The Geisha House
$5.50 plus s&h
1992, ISBN 0-932412-05-X
These visionary erotic poems imagine the world of the geisha house with a female client and both male and female geishas.
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