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	In Flagrante Delicto Author: Mirskin, Jerry Pub Date: Oct 2008; 101 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-025-7 Price: $11.95 Description: "These brilliant poems virtually flash with the life force. They affirm that joy is what we are meant to experience, despite the ‘low sideboard of grief.’ They are rich journeys into the extraordinary, the particular, even the everyday. Jerry Mirskin shows us that only caught in the act of love, for a mate, a child, the universe, do we become truly human." —Elaine Terranova
	Too Much of this World Author: Murphy, Erin Pub Date: Oct 2008; 86 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-024-0 Price: $11.95
	Description: Poems that "delight and teach by poking fun: at poets giving readings, Burger King signs, poetry contests, and men who say, 'I'll take care of those wasps for ya honey'. If you're tired of poems that try to be a little too smart for their own britches, these'll take care of 'em for ya, honey." —H. L. Hix
	Demon Love Author: Rosenberg, Liz Pub Date: Oct 2008; 76 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-023-3 Price: $11.95 Description: Poems of love, family, and the larger world. "Liz Rosenberg has chronicled the life of love—its suffering and its sustaining grace... 'Brandish a radiance from your broken sparks’, one poem calls out, ‘brilliant enough to make these sorrows possible to bear.’ And so it happens. I didn’t know what I was looking for until I found it here in these pages." —Marie Howe
	To William Merwin: A Poem Author: Heyen, William Pub Date: Aug 2007; 63 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-020-2 Price: $11.95 Description: A reminiscent tribute to a friend in Maui. William Heyen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at SUNY Brockport. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany, he has won prizes and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, Poetry, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His Crazy Horse in Stillness won 1997’s Small Press Book Award in Poetry, and Shoah Train was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award.
	The Palace of Reasons Author: Minar, Scott Pub Date: May 2006; 59 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-002-8 Price: $10.95 Description: A Collection of original poetry based on readings in John Simpson's The Oxford Book of Exile. Subjects include The Holocaust, exile, alienation, war and poetry, political oppression, journalism, and more.
	The Rope Author: Heyen, William Pub Date: Aug 2003, 2005; 103 pages ISBN: 978-0-9718059-4-1 Price: $10.95 Description: THE ROPE's poems about life and the world around him explore "the central questions that confront us in the 21st century." William Heyen "speaks for the conscience of our time, and for what in our days is worth caring for."—W. S. Merwin; Heyen is a poet of "wild, radiant audacity." —Joyce Carol Oates; William Heyen is "one of our most original and urgent poets." —David Watson
	Book of the Unbroken Days Author: Terman, Philip Pub Date: 2005 Rev. Ed.; 132 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-007-3 Price: $10.95 Description: "Here is a poetry of the inward voice, of the eye sharply trained on the outside world. There is a kind of secular grace informing these poems—a sensuous, loving, clear-eyed celebration of the ordinary human and natural miracles of existence. 'Thus,' he says, 'we greet the world.' It's a pleasure to greet this richly achieved BOOK OF THE UNBROKEN DAYS as it greets the world." —Eamon Grennan
	The House of Sages Author: Terman, Philip Pub Date: Jan 2005 Rev. Ed.; 152 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-008-0 Price: $10.95 Description: Jewish Studies. In this revised first collection of poetry the Terman's speaker carries himself without skin, absorbing the particulars of the human struggles in its many dogged and eloquent forms, and recording it with capacious empathy. The writing is rich with the need to convey his confrontations and affections, and not simply in the striking detail but in the whole moment of his memory. Terman's poems, like those of James Wright, have a down-to-earth mysticism, a hard-earned spirituality which cuts through the haze of everyday. This collection is remarkable for its range, depth, and mature vision. Terman captures the heart of people, and the heart of places.
	Nightshift Belonging to Lorca Author: Dougherty, Sean Thomas Pub Date: Feb 2004; 82 pages ISBN: 978-0-9718059-9-6 Price: $10.95 Description: Steeped in the experiential world, often formal and experimental in the same breath, award winning performance poet Sean Thomas Dougherty’s sixth book offers the reader a mix of brief stanzas, canzones, prose poems, and textured performance monologues, continuing the exploration of diverse and seemingly contradictory strategies of lyricism begun in his earlier collections. Evoking the ghost of the great Andalusian poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Dougherty replants Lorca in a conversation with Rumi at an Erie State Park, up late arguing with Tu Fu, and streaming black tears and laughing at some sudden recollection. In poem after poem of work, class, neighborhood, and love, Dougherty evokes for the reader an often blue collar world, rendered in exquisite urban metaphors. While so much contemporary poetry loses itself in language, Dougherty urges us to "consider the lungs of the accoridon. All around you the living are telling radiant jokes, or weeping for something to eat."
	Men Holding Eggs Author: Hughes, Henry Pub Date: Jan 2004, 2007; 86 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-59539-001-1 Price: $10.95	WINNER 2004 Oregon Book Award
	Description: A refreshingly accessible collection of narrative poetry describing the love, violence, and fragility of men's lives. Beginning with young adventures on Long Island, the characters take their passions for animals, moons, water and women to lives in Indiana, South Dakota, Japan and China. Li-Young Lee writes: "Henry Hughes has had a very complete encounter with the sayable sum of his experiences. The writing is gorgeous and masterful."
	Keeper Author: Knorr, Jeff Pub Date: Sep 2004; 72 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-009-7 Price: $10.95 Description: Mixed Genre. In this mingling of essays and poems Jeff Knorr takes us on metaphoric fishing journeys down rivers, to lakes, and even across fields hunting for pheasant. KEEPER explores childhood memories fishing with his grandfather, his own father, and what it means to raise a boy of his own. In these captivating writings, our heartaches and memories are cast out against the surface of the water only to retrieve what is important to us—to teach the younger generation through our stories and actions in order to weave a compelling pattern of life and living.
	Burro Heart Author: Schiff, Jeff Pub Date: Sep 2004; 92 pages ISBN: 978-1-59539-006-6 Price: $10.95 About the Author: Jeff Schiff Jeff Schiff is author of Anywhere in this Country (Mammoth books), The Homily of Infinitude (Pennsylvania Review Press), The Rats of Patzcuaro (Poetry Link), and Resources for Writing About Literature (HarperCollins). His poetry and prose have appeared in more than sixty periodicals. He teaches at Columbia College, Chicago and lives with his wife and son in Illinois.
	GRAFFITI HEART Author: LaFemina, Gerry Pub Date: Jan 2003; 79 pages ISBN: 978-0-9718059-8-9 Price: $10.95
	Description: Following in the tradition of Larry Levis's Winter Stars, Gerry LaFemina's GRAFFITI HEART presents a collection of elegies and love poems cutting across American and personal landscapes and moving between urban adolescence and small-town adulthood through deft meditation and lyric observation. With long, sweeping lines and introspective interrogation, LaFemina places himself at a crossroads of American poetry, Americana. These are poems that remind us of how intensely personal the art form can be and how it can transcend the personal, making poetry matter by presenting not confessional autobiography, but moments of a life that could belong to any of us.

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