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Print: $40.76 The achingly beautiful cover of timeless trees, earth, flowers and rock, is redolent of Israel’s destiny. This little land, so hallowed in human history, seems the literary and spiritual core of existence to most of humanity. If strife is ever present here, how can there ever be the peace of ancient promise? This land seems to symbolize the eternal quest for harmony where forces of turmoil march ceaselessly. Bar-Lev and Simon explore this theme for us.
Cyclamens and Swords will become a treasured classic, echoing as it does so fluently, the
longing, fearing and questing that marks these troubled times. Helen Bar-Lev’s poem Beauty
sums up the reader’s feelings as we reluctantly finish this special book: “and I,/the ingrate,/
ever insatiable,/implore you,/please,/ show/ me/more.”
Katherine L. Gordon
Author, Editor, Publisher, Judge and Reviewer,
Resident Columnist for Ancient Heart Magazine.
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Print: $14.00 Shadow People begins far away and takes us on a journey home. We move from the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska to the Redline in Boston. We begin among Yup'ik craftspeople, and travel toward the heart of family life, sometimes in painful memory, sometimes in loving recognition. We begin as observers but by the end of this book we have joined with Molly Watt in the dance of her life, and our own.
― Fred Marchant
Author of Full Moon Boat & Director of The Poetry Center at Suffolk University
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Print: $24.50 Several years ago the “Ibbetson Street Press,” published a Hugh Fox poetry collection: “Angel of Death.” I had never actually met Fox in the flesh, but I was aware of his substantial
contributions to the small press over the past 40 years. Fox was a founding member of the “Pushcart Prize,” a founding board member of COSMEP, (a seminal small press organization),edited the groundbreaking anthology “The Living Underground,”
to name just a few achievements. Fox is full of anecdotes about many of the stumblebums, poets, poseurs, players, publishers, editors, with all their infinite variety, on the small press scene. I am glad this manuscript has seen the light of day. And when you read it hopefully you will see the ”light” too. Doug Holder/Ibbetson Street Press
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Print: $12.83 Download: $6.25 An interview with Henry Kirschenbaum, a denizen of the Lower East Side of New York City in the early part of the 20th century. This book deals with the Kirschenbaum family and their immigration from the "Pale of Settlement" in Eastern Europe to their time selling books on pushcarts in the Lower East Side of NYC. Later David Kirschenbaum, would go on to be a leading bookseller on New York's famed "Book Row" and the owner of the Carnegie Bookstore. These are raw interviews, with many long forgotten details of an old New York.
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Print: $12.96 The Grolier Poetry Bookshop is the "oldest continuous bookshop" devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism, was founded in 1927 by Adrian Gambet and Gordon Cairnie; the subsequent owner, Louisa Solano, a 1966 graduate of Boston University, took over operation of the store in 1974 after Cairnie's death.
An interview with Louisa Solano and thoughts about the Grolier by many patrons.
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Print: $20.95 I take seriously what Ezra Pound said, “make poetry new.” I do not want to write like anyone else, if that’s possible. I want to create new forms of poetry. Sure, I have been influenced by many writers who write differently than I do, whether it is in style, theme, or topics, but I respect all forms and styles of poetry. I am experimenting all the time. Each time I write, it is as if it is my first time, like I have not done it before. The poem, and the way it is put together, becomes the object I am writing about as well as the subject. The way the poem is written is part of its meaning. All of it, I feel, comes from a deep and original, and yet common, place. I write to try to understand myself and the world and to question the things we just assume to be true, but mostly I write to remember the brightness of being alive.
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Print: $15.95 As consciously and effectively as a short novel, Promise Supermarket
depicts the life of a family moving ever downward, from a house on a
hill to a one-room cellar apartment. . . . One of the marvels of this book
is that Elizabeth Quinlan is able to depict the immense difficulties of her
childhood with both quiet understatement and clear detail, allowing us
to share her experience with the deep involvement that fully inhabiting
a new literary space, however bleak, may give. . . . The magic of Promise
Supermarket is to turn the power of visual imagination and memory
into unforgettable stories—to “grow treasures” out of what was planted
in the treeless ground of a difficult but tenderly remembered childhood.
—Martha Collins, from the foreword
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Print: $8.47 “Barbara Bialick’s poems leave the reader with a sad/sweet acknowledgment of the passage of time. Her work is generously laced with humor, irony, and a peaceful acceptance of what is, and what is to come. This is a poetry collection for all seasons; to read when you are old and when you are young.” — Doug Holder, Arts Editor, The Somerville News
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Print: $14.95 Manufacturing America bears witness to the lyrical life of a factory and the individuals who inhabit it at the start-up of the 21stcentury. Lisa Beatman adds the stories of immigrant workers, heard through the ear of a poet on site to teach literacy skills, to the growing literature of work poetry. — Susan Eisenberg, author of Blind Spot
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Print: $13.50 In her fascinating poem cycle, Gloria Mindock jolts back into memory the roots of El Salvador’s present day violence. Mindock coaxes to the page the voices of the dead who lie, less in peace, than in restless obsession with the atrocities they suffered. She brings forth as well the voices of the living who seem startled to find that they died somewhere between the horrors they witnessed and the grave they have yet to lie down in. Blood Soaked Dresses is a beautiful, harrowing first book. - Catherine Sasanov
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Print: $12.97 Discords, misses and tangles, are all addressed and folded into the Sonatina
while the carousel revolves. What this book accomplishes for us is the vision
of all events meshing in the music of life, the bizarre just another octave, the
sweet and miraculous all plucked appropriately in reprise and return: "the
clouds and God are all that exist and the music, the music."
Katherine L. Gordon,
author, editor, publisher, literary critic,
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Print: $12.95 Irene Koronas has written both an anthem and a clear-eyed appraisal of our very human selves. When you are finished reading self portrait drawn from many, you will likely be drawn to read it again. It is that rare combination of immediacy and intimacy, coupled with the unraveling texture of a verbal fugue. Something new and provocative emerges upon each reading. Koronas understands our need for fantasies and the pain of giving them up as she considers a “list of reasons to live without lovers/ addiction rejection notices on/ refrigerator door all fantasy kissed/ goodbye this morning.” and our desire for faith in something more, “...knowing/ cannot explain relationships with the/ unknown even though knowing Gods/ yes I am who I am is as close as warm hands building sandcastles.”
-- William Kollock
Professor Emeritus, School of Contemporary Arts, Ramapo College
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Print: $16.50 The settings of these poems are not 'poetic'--the suburbs, the commuter's routine, the sad pilgrimage from anticipation to regret, from the promise of life to the certainty of death, with all its preliminary indignities. The themes and voice--disciplined by traditional craft, enriched by detachment, conscious of the immensities of time and space that frame our lives, diminishing and exalting them--are another matter. They contain gravity, delight, and mockery within them. One thinks of the Frost of "Desert Places," but in the context of our own time.
There is a consolation in making music and a consolation in facing facts. OUTPOST, with many variations, provides both."
--Franklin Burroughs
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Print: $10.95 Kevin Gallagher's poetry is a rare synthesis of great poetic traditions that puts particular emphases on the image and the lyric blended with a uniquely personalized iconoclasticism. His is a perpetual pursuit to make it new. - Anastasios Kozaitis
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Print: $14.95 Ann Hutt Browning has two master’s degrees, one in psychology
and one in architecture, four grown children, five grandchildren,
and one husband of 50 years. Born in England, raised in southern
California, she attended Radcliffe College and has lived in
Missouri, Kentucky, France, Macedonia, Chicago, Virginia and
now Massachusetts. She and her husband, Preston, a retired
English professor, operate Wellspring House in Ashfield, Massachusetts,
a retreat center for writers and artists. Some of her
poetry has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, The Southern Humanities
Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Ecozoic Reader, Dogwood,
Peregrine, Out of Line, Salamander, and several on-line poetry
journals.
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Print: $9.95 “Cameron Mount’s poems, set mostly on shipboard during the War in Iraq, evoke a world not accessible to most of us. They do so with an enticing wealth of imagery, and an emotional watchfulness which creates moments of quiet meditation, even in the middle of dangerous time.”
Cammy Thomas, author of Cathedral of Wish
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Print: $18.50 A series of interviews with poets and writers that took place in the "Paris of New England," (Somerville, Mass.) Doug Holder the founder of the small literary press "Ibbetson Street" conducted interviews on his Somerville Community Access TV Show "Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer," as well as for his literary column in The Somerville News, and at the Wilderness House Literary Retreat, founded by his friend Steve Glines. Poets and writers included in this volume are Mark Doty, Tom Perrotta, Pagan Kennedy, Claire Messud, Lan Samantha Chang, Afaa Michael Weaver, Lois Ames, Steve Almond, and many more... There is also some striking photography by Elsa Dorfman and other photographers in this collection. Included is an introduction by Michael Basinski, curator of the University of Buffalo Poetry Collection...
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Print: $15.00 “Mignon Ariel King’s first remarkable collection of poems, The Woods Have Words, is accomplished, joyful and a virtual voice-romp through the new Boston--an inner travelogue of urban sights and people. Readers looking for a new book of poems will be pleased--her poems are openminded and clear. Even those who do not enjoy poetry or find it hard to read will find substance here, as well as a city and person they can relate to and will want to know more about. Ms. King is an original, and is one of the most interesting poets that it has been my recent pleasure to meet on the page. Ibbetson Street Press has another distinguished book to add to its list.”
--Sam Cornish, Poet Laureate of Boston, Massachusetts
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Print: $7.00 "On How to Read undertakes a vital mission, the questioning of the obvious in an age where the surplus of information seems to have created a new acquiescence. Rosenblatt's investigations make play itself an integral part of the act of reading while inviting us to question our world. This is a rich little book."
- Affa M. Weaver, Pushcart Prize Winner 2008
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Print: $15.50 “vastly original, fresh , potent and charged—
if the poem is to move us, there must be a successful transformation of material, through voice, which feels true to the poem’s deepest
intention—Collins achieves this in poem after poem.” —Pam Bernard, Across the Dark
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Print: $14.95 In Rebuilding the Pyramids, we have the rare gift of a lyric carved in the patient space of the wish to live, to continue, to breathe, to make a genuine space inside our lives. The lyric here is carved out of Keatsian spaces, where the metronome in the poet’s ear marks endings more definite than meter and beginnings more beatific than associative pirouettes. Amado shows us the moments of life as meditations, and he makes them anew and shows us how we can always build these beacons that align themselves to what lives beyond us.
-Afaa Michael Weaver
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Print: $12.00 Interview with Poet Fred Marchant, poetry by Zvi Sesling, Dorian Brooks, A.D. Winans and others....
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