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Two Sides of the Same Thing

by
Matthew Nienow

"With 'dark swollen words and shifting air,' Matthew Nienow builds poems as if building boats, 'each strip like a tree's growth,' and 'asking the question rivers are always asking: why?' From Nienow I am grateful to have learned that poetry 'is movement with one desire: to pull at whatever it touches.' There is much talk these days of the importance of a poet's voice. But here we have proof that a poet's earfor music, for complexity, for 'the prodigal aria returning home'is just as important."

                —Todd Boss

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Chapbook, $6
ISBN: 978-0-9798714-29
 

 

 
 
 
   


Strange Privacies

by Roy Bentley

An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem "Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July":

Now I've lowered a mask over my face
The eye-slits don’t fit, and I can't see.
I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him
they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone,
that neighbors fed us after he left. I'm feeling
in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave
between us. He tells me to stop horsing around:
this close, one of us is likely to get hurt.

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Chapbook, $5
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-6-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-6-8

 

   

 
 

 
 


Cardboard Urn

by Michael Meyerhofer

"Inquisitive and insightful, the poems of Michael Meyerhofer aren't afraid to go to those weird places other poets fear or dismiss. There’s equal parts humor and pathos in this poet, and he brings us poems that regard the world with a certain lyric skepticism that, nonetheless, wants to believe in all those old-fashioned ancient truths—beauty, harmony, peace. Meyerhofer's poems are much more durable than the 'Cardboard Urn' of this collection's title poem—they are resilent, incisive, and ultimately, redemptive."

               —Allison Joseph, poet

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Chapbook, $5
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-2-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-2-0