New from an unknown poet!
Daphne Rose was a personal friend and a fine poet whom life never allowed to pursue her creative dreams. I have waited 40 years to publish these poems!
The poems left to us all date to before 1986; tragically, her later work is lost. However even in these early poems the poet comes through strongly: a wordsmith with an incisive voice, gifted with the ability for flawless iambic pentameter, which she wrote as easily as breathing. Blasphemous, dramatic, unstinting.
Daphne suffered from Long COVID in her later years and was not able to gather her mature work into a manuscript. But what is left to us is a fine legacy of a strong writer and woman.
This is a very personal project in several ways. The author was a friend of the editor's for over forty years, and credits Daphne with talking her out of suicide on one awful day in 1979. Deborah would not have survived to marry, write her books, or edit this one, if not for Daphne. This book, a labor of love, is a tribute to a fine writer and a fine woman.
A Steamy Love Triangle!
Les Soze, a Vietnam vet with PTSD, is torn between two very different women. MADAMS WEAR BLACK is a sensitive and insightful look at the impact of combat and childhood stress on the human mind. Greg Montoya has an innate feel and understanding of the book’s characters. His description of the pathos experienced by the main character, Les Soze, and the supporting characters is intense and palpable. Although the book is not meant as a complete examination of PTSD, it is very insightful. Greg Montoya is able to take one man's traumatic reactions and relate them in a clear and engrossing manner. The book is erotic and the women are captivating.
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A glorious view of the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington from the pen of Steve Arntson, writing in his legal name of Stephen Francis Cosgrove. Steve has one other book based on a trip up the coast, To and From on the Day-for-Night Coast, which is also in his legal name. Illustrated, with a stunning wrap-around cover by Elizabeth Ockwell.
“Care for a tour through the landscapes of a woman's heart? Here's your ride.
“Deborah Fruchey's Shattered Windows presents us with a chorus of women's voices: some hers, some imagined, some in-between. These short pieces are a trek through many hearts, each unique and somehow so familiar. One page captures keenly drawn despair...while the next is charged with hope...Then we turn the page for more. Fruchey observes each without judgment and with empathy aplenty. Each scenario, each emotion, each person here feels true and painted with a knowing eye.”
—Richard Loranger, author of Mammal and Unit of Agency
Recent poems by the award-winning author of Three Kinds of Dark and Armadillo. In this evocative chapbook, the poet takes you on a journey into the recesses of memory and the essence of forgotten moments. With a bottle of water as a symbolic guide, the verses roll seamlessly from the back to the front, mirroring the inevitability of things left behind. Hint transforms into a poignant plea, a whisper of the overlooked. As the bottle glides beyond reach, the poet ponders the essentials that slip away. Each stanza unfolds like a snapshot, capturing the emotions tied to what we've unintentionally abandoned. "Hint" serves as a reminder, a gentle nudge to reflect on the baggage we carry and the significance of what we leave behind. This chapbook invites readers to embark on a contemplative journey, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the forgotten finds its voice.
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