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    Dean Kostos: Poet of Two Worlds

    09/10/2018

    It can be argued that all poetry is a negotiation between two worlds. An interior, private jumble of imagery and sound, a chaotic montage, must find the proper words to convey meaning to the world. For a poet who has suffered from severe mental trauma, the task of creating balance and harmony in language becomes…

    Recommended by:Sharon Olinka
    Sharon Olinka's latest book of poetry is Old Ballerina Club (Dos Madres Press) and her writing has appeared in Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner, The Cafe Review, Poetry Wales, Jewish Quarterly in England, Nimrod, Barrow Street, and many other publications. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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    • $21.95

    Lucid Dreaming: Michael Rothenberg's Wake Up and Dream

    09/01/2017

    Michael Rothenberg is a political organizer who herds individualistic cat-souled poets into the world’s largest poetry reading each September, who co-founded the life-saving organization, Poets in Need, and who participates tirelessly in important contemporary causes. Thus, I was surprised to read the vividly sensual and descriptive poetry, based on real flora and fauna and earth,…

    Recommended by:Larissa Shmailo
    Larissa Shmailo is a poet, novelist, translator, editor, and critic. Her new book of poetry is Medusa's Country and her new novel is Patient Women. 
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    • 70 Pages •5.5x8.5
    • $16.00

    Medusa's Country by Larissa Shmailo

    06/27/2017

    Medusa peels herself from the pages of mythology to become a denizen of New York City’s margins. There, she waltzes with Thanatos: “The dance with death? / Ah, this: as I flirt, you draw near.” When Eros shows up, he lures Medusa on a peregrination toward a broken self: “My naked heart unrobes, undressed of…

    Recommended by:Dean Kostos
    Dean Kostos’s forthcoming poetry collection is Pierced by Night-Colored Threads. His books include This Is Not a Skyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty), Rivering, Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and Celestial Rust. He edited Mama’s Boy and Pomegranate Seeds.
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    • ISBN 978-0988549043
    • 188 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
    • $15.00

    A Certain Balanced Unbalance

    09/15/2013

    Books, in the mega-multitudes, have been penned about life, the great sorrows, what is redemptive, and what will never be achieved. Other books cast their nets across magic, those unexplained, underlying properties and prophecies that can light up the imagination. Thank You For Your Sperm, a story collection of quirky and unusual title, examines both…

    Recommended by:Susan Tepper
    Susan Tepper is the author of From the Umberplatzen: A Love Story and has published well over 100 stories, poems, essays and interviews in journals worldwide, and has received six nominations for the Pushcart Prize.