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The poems in Like the O in Hope take the reader on a journey, a quest from dark to light-both literally and spiritually. Beginning with hesitation and humility, Jeanne Julian transports us toward transcendence. As an accomplished poet, she weaves a myriad of poetic form from traditional to modern free verse, from sestina to chant, stopping to enjoy some lighter fare along the way: bemoaning a neighbor's back-yard beacon; going AWOL from a boring seminar; even deliberately mistranslating directives from dictators to render them harmless. Gradually, revelations about the magic of place and of connection lead to contentment and even enlightenment and ends with a poem revealing how love can feel transcendent even with recognition of the finite.

Psyche's Scroll is a post-postmodern epic poem that pushes at the frontiers of what is possible and invites you to participate in a woman's psychosocial self-analysis as she struggles to move through and beyond psychological trauma. Become a voyeur of the mind in this book of sometimes bawdy, ballsy language, as well as sharp insights into human behavior. Psyche's Scroll is myth making; it's a love story with a geeky streak. It's also a schizophrenic story: half raw emotion, half coolly cerebral-a story which American master poet William Heyen referred to as "sui generis."__________________________________________________________________________________________What They're Saying about Psyche's Scroll:"We witness here sacral intelligence within a revelatory construct, and we're grateful to keep this strong poet's "wieldings" company.~William Heyen, National Book Award Finalist,The Candle: Poems of Our 20th Century Holocausts_____"Psyche's Scroll is as audacious and original work of poetry I have ever read. It blew my mind!"~Vuong Quoc Vu, editor for Tourane Poetry Press_____"Merrifield has produced here her 'body of proof'-a lustrous map for all women and all men to follow into the light where we too can finally discover the courage to declare ourselves who we truly are."~Mike Burwell, author of Cartography of Water; co-editor of Cirque______"In exchanges reminiscent of John Berryman's Dream Songs, poet Karla Linn Merrifield examines the fractures which paradoxically lead to a more integrated whole. This is not the conventional approach to suffering and healing, but rather a poetic one, where a trickster may appear in a '65 Corvette convertible and take us all along for the ride."~Miriam Sagan, author of GEOGRAPHIC: A Memoir of Time and Space

In Small Blue Harbor, Ahrend Torrey exalts the ordinary, everydayness of life spinning his keen observation into lyrical poems and proems. This collection celebrates our human connection with nature, influenced by a New Orleans backdrop, and gives us a glimpse of the struggles of being gay while raised in the Deep South. Torrey's authentic, inspirational voice will have you returning to these poems again and again, finding refuge from a world that is not always kind.

A delightful miscellany of poems on a multitude of subjects in various forms and genres including: ancestral portraits, bestiary, commonplace, complaints, catalogs, concrete, dialog, dreams, ekphrastic, erotica, experimental, found poems, free verse, light poems, imagistic, list poems, lyrical, military, monolog, narrative, nostalgia, object poems, odes, pentastichs, persona poems, philias, phobias, philosophies, portraits, prose poems, romantic, satire, sonnets, stream-of-consciousness, triptychs, work . . ."The Poet's Curse" Everything the poet sees or hears, thinks, feels or imagines gets captured, interpreted and shoe-horned into a damn poem whether they like it or not.____________________________________________________________________________ "Michael Estabrook's The Poet's Curse is a must-read collection by a particularly perceptive observer of our often-cockeyed world." ~ Wayne Hogan, Poet &Artist"Estabrook is a master jeweler, and each day, each moment, of his life is a small, glittering stone waiting to be shaped into something iridescent and precious. ~ John Sweet, Poet"I never tire of his humorous, often self-deprecating, yet poignant poetry." ~ Glenn Cooper, Poet & Collagist

In Epicurean Ecstasy, Cynthia Gallaher celebrates not only historical and modern pleasures of the kitchen and the table, but also the seasonal evolutions that take place in the cultivated fields and wild terrains, and of those who harvest these foods and bring nourishment to our homes. Warning: These poems will whet your appetite!"Cynthia Gallaher weaves threads of science with seeds of the sacred. The result - a walk along a path that informs with delight. Certainly the best herbal poetry since Shakespeare." ~ Steven Foster, senior author of National Geographic's A Desk Reference of Nature's Medicine and Peterson's A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs "Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs and Spices is extraordinarily enjoyable; it prompted me to reconsider nourishment and what our own spiritual sustainability requires. Intelligent. Satisfying. Just beautiful. I'm awestruck by Gallaher's dedication in playing a role on insisting on good, healthy food for the community." ~ Dee Sweet, Associate Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, and former Wisconsin State Poet Laureate