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At the Rim: Selected Poems, Bob Johnston
Worship to God, Princess Ifeoma Achusim
Three chapbooks by Barbara DuBois
A Girl in a Large Rectangle: a Collection of Poetry, Deborah Barba Eagan
Honey Blue, Lary Castillo-wilson
Mother Mary, A Crone's Crossing, and Vintage Woman by Mary Fogarty
King Pachuco and Princess Marisol, Bonnie K. Rucobo
Cactus Factory, Debbi Miller Gutierrez
In A Rose Wood Wandering, Jeanne Shannon
Walking Fish:a Novel and Piggybacked: poetry by Joanne Bodin
Somewhere in Ireland and Tender Harvest by Linda Whittenberg
Already There: poems by Shirley Blackwell
this woman, ink on snow, the year the pears bloomed twice by Elizabeth Raby
Sweeping the Skylight, poems by Donald Levering
Journey of the Shunammite and Crown of Laurel by Loretta Tollefson
Fire Gate Poems: A Journey of Spiritual Healing by Henry C. Finney
At the Rim: Selected Poems
Bob Johnston
In ninety years of residence on this planet, Bob Johnston has accumulated a lot of what he calls “inner debris.” After weeding out the trash, the remainder appeared to be worth exposing to public view. The result is this small volume of poems in which he talks about love, loss, and gratitude, along with some outrage at having been propelled into a century that he doesn?t understand at all.
In the title poem, “At the Rim,” he stands at a canyon?s edge and waits for one who will never return. In “The Seven Deadly Colors,” he enters the minds of those who tested the limits of the seven deadly sins. And in “Epitaph of a Procrastinator,” he bids farewell to those who loved him. Along the way, he manages to have a few good laughs at poets, scientists, and psychiatrists.
At the Rim is available at Alamosa Books and other local bookstores.
It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Sunstone Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-86534-814-1
Soft cover, 6 ? 9 inches, 84 pages, $14.95
The author is a retired petroleum engineer and translator. This is his first published book of poetry, and quite probably his last. His other published works include a number of papers in the scientific press and eight books translated from Russian. He waited until his sixtieth year to begin writing serious poetry, and over the next thirty years he has been trying to catch up. His poetry and short stories have been published in twenty-odd literary journals. He lives in the original Las Vegas, New Mexico with his wife, three cats, and some hope of completing his memoirs and the Great American Novel.
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Exalting God through the power of the written word, author Princess Ifeoma Achusim shares twenty short yet meaningful poems that send messages of worship and glory.
Worship to God talks of the effect of the Word of God in the life of a believer, the fruits of the Spirit, communication with God, and more. After each poem,
the author provides a commentary, explaining the 
poem?s significance, including the time, place, and her inspiration for writing it.
Paired with moving illustrations that uplift the heart, enlighten the mind, and refresh the soul, Worship to God is also a loving invitation to give thanks to the Almighty through prayers and exaltation.
Available through local bookstore?s order desk or at these online bookstores: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Xlibris, or by phone at 1-888-795-4274 ext.7879.
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Barbara DuBois, Socorro's Poet Laureate, Advertises Three Chapbooks
Barbara DuBois, Socorro's Poet Laureate and Chair of the Rio Abajo Poets, is offering three chapbooks for sale. A Greek Suite is comprised of poems inspired by her tour of Greece and sells for $6.00. Country Style features poems inspired by her retirement to the country and sells for $8.00. The third chapbook, Love Lyrics, contains poems narrating the course of her relationship with her ?sweetheart? and sells for $6.00.
DuBois retired from teaching college English and publishes travel articles, grammar articles, book reviews, and poetry. When not reading or writing, she sings, swims, travels, or hikes.
You can inquire about purchasing the books at the following address:
Barbara DuBois
Post Office Box 474
Socorro, NM 87801
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A Girl in a Large Rectangle: a Collection of Poetry
NMSPS Poet Deborah Barba Eagan
This recently published chapbook is available on Amazon.com for $9.95 plus shipping and handling. Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at deborah.eagan@gmail.com or by phone at 505-889-3774 for autographed copies for $9.95 + $.75 tax.
A Girl in a Large Rectangle is the debut poetry collection of Deborah Barba Eagan, the 2006 Albuquerque Tricentennial Poet. In her poetry she shares her passion for family, music, nature, travel and ultimately for life. The cover image of this chapbook is a photo of an oil portrait of the author when she was 12 years old it when it was painted and framed in a large rectangle of gilded wood. Consequently, “A Girl in the Large Rectangle” is both the book title and the title of one the poems where the author recalls gazing at it and pondering her future. Now, much of that future has come and gone and in these poems she looks back on moments in her life.
Deborah Barba Eagan of Albuquerque, New Mexico has read her poems at several past events in Albuquerque and in Las Cruces. She belongs to SouthWest Writers, the New Mexico State Poetry Society and the Albuquerque TGIF Poetry Group. In April 2004, for National Poetry Month, she was featured on the children?s radio program, Read Albuquerque. Several of her poems have been published in the Albuquerque broadside, the Rag. As the Albuquerque Tricentennial Poet in 2006 her poem, “Come See Albuquerque,” was published on the Tricentennial website.
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Honey Blue
Larry Castillo-Wilson
Honey Blue is a work of poetry that spans thirty-one years of poetry writing. The title is derived from one of the poems in which Castillo-Wilson describes the beauty of New Mexico as “sopaipilla clouds cavorting with honey blue skies.”
The work begins with a section entitled “Dreams of a Better World,” which presents a theme of aspirations for future life that is nobler and more creative than the present, a theme that is interwoven throughout the book. “The Sweetness of Life” follows with poems expressing rare moments of heightened happiness, the glory of a relationship immersed in love, and the thrill of living on the shore of beauty.
The next section is entitled, “Words Laughing.” These poems are humorous experiences Castillo-Wilson has had over the years with some “stretchers,” as Mark Twain would say. Also included are two poems written for the Children?s Poetry Project, one of which is a bilingual poem.
The next several sections are religious poems written for use in disaster relief work, in worship services, and on special occasions. The final section, “Cosmology” raises the question of the destiny of the human race in the universe.
The book may be purchased by googling “Larry Castillo-Wilson” or “Honey Blue” on Amazon.com or purchased from the author.
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Mother Mary: Never Turn Back When Bound to a Star
Mary Fogarty, Author & Illustrator
Dr. Gregory Candela, Editor
Available from Amazon.
Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at m62zoe@comcast.net for autographed copies of her books.
"Readers will discover a strong woman recreating herself among an unprecedented generation of American women who have had to recreate themselves with few readily apparent and accessible guiding stories, myths, and role models. This is an American book in that sense: before this generation of women, the lone figure, the wanderer, the orphan with no past, the powerful individual, had been, almost exclusively, a male figure. Like Walt Whitman, Fogarty is a pioneer: vigorous, innovative, inclusive, and a tireless self-promoter. She is a woman recreating herself from the nurturing, self-effacing mother and wife into an independent, artist and crone. Emily Dickinson, the mother of American poetry, wrote letters to a world that never wrote back. Fogarty writes letters to harvest a community of readers that help her understand who she is becoming. Like the typical American male hero/artist, Fogarty is a rebel, an outsider and at times a loner. She draws strength not only from her capabilities but also from a past that abides and must be rediscovered and raised from the dead. Always in process, she evolved into a stronger, more resilient individual without abandoning community or the power of motherhood. For such a crossing a woman cannot be demure."
Gregory L. Candela, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of New Mexico
A Crone's Crossing
Mary Fogarty, Author
Available from Amazon.
Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at m62zoe@comcast.net for autographed copies of her books.
The poetry, essays and short stories in A Crone.s Crossing stand as a witness to Ms. Fogarty's passage into Cronehood. In an Introduction: What is a Crone? She writes: I no longer feel I live in the world, but the world lives in me. As a character tried, the glory I found came from how well I had handled my losses. In every encounter, human and animal, I began to see reflections of myself. A Crone's Crossing includes prose, poetry and essays by the award winning author, Mary Fogarty. Acquainted with the shadow self, Mary Fogarty stands in her truth ready to help others appreciate the challenges, opportunities and possibilities that come with diversity. She invites saucy, sassy teachers, mentors, spiritual guides and healers of their communities, wise Crones and Sages in their own right, to empower and reignite curiosity in others.
Review:
Paul Fogarty The son of a crone
As my mother's son, now 36 years old, I am understandably biased. What amazed me the most about reading A Crone.s Crossing was that I found I had so much more to learn from the woman who raised me? I never expected to find myself alternately laughing, crying and vehemently disagreeing as I turned the pages, but that is what I received. What I learned from reading this book is that feelings may change from moment to moment but the core of life is in 'how' we meet our struggles. I know from reading as well as from experience the struggles this author went through time and time again with work, art, health, marriage, relationships and her son. The telling truth is that she has entered her age of grace, joy and success by opening her heart at every turn. This is the story of a woman of humble roots who learned to live BIG in the world without apology. For the readers seeking a heart path to looking at the passions in their lives, this book will give them a gateway.
Vintage Woman: A Memoir
Mary Fogarty, Author
Available from Amazon.
Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at m62zoe@comcast.net for autographed copies of her books.
Vintage Woman: A Memoir is one woman's odyssey into Elderhood not as the Third and Final Act, but as the most intuitive, aware, insightful, enlightened, well-informed stage of life.s experience. She:
Ms. Fogarty tells us, elders also understand that active listening, in no small measure, grants Being to others. For who we are and what we will continue to become, in part, lives in the compassionate acceptance, support and service to others. As an anonymous poet reminded, .We spin out of nothingness to create each other.
Reviews
"A masterful and compassionate book of essential guidance for living on purpose in the second half of life." Richard J. Leider, Founder of Inventure Group, a consulting firm in Minneapolis has co-authored two bestselling books Repacking Your Bags and Whistle While You Work."
"We are lucky to have a wise elder to whom we can confess our fears so openly.. Kara L.C. Jones, reviewer and National Journalist for Kota Press."
"A memoir you will want to read more than once. Heartfelt words wrap around you like a comforting blanket.. D.L. Bolk, top reviewer for Word Museum."
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King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol
Bonnie K. Rucobo
King Pachuco, the youngest King of Pacifista in the next galaxy, has
just met Princess Mirasol at her first Palace Ball. As the King
escorts the Princess to her palace, they encounter Malvado, an evil
troll, who transforms them into the eggs of a Lilac-headed Amazon
parrot and a lovebird and sends them down a wormhole in space to
Planet Earth. An old Hispanic couple buys King Pachuco who hatches in
a pet shop. Princess Mirasol lives in a sparrow.s nest near the Rio
Grande and must travel toward the mountains in search of water. She,
too, finds her way to the home of the old couple. The birds live for
a time in the kitchen of the elderly couple in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Then they plan their escape into the night sky and their
perilous journey home.
Publisher: The Wildflower Press
To order copies of King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol contact:
The Wildflower Press
P.O. Box 4757
Albuquerque, NM 87196-4757
www.thewildflowerpress.com
King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol can also be ordered online through Amazon.com.
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Cactus Factory
Debbi Miller Gutierrez
No matter what Tansy Tuttletin faces, she never gives up. When Mrs. Tuttletin.s employer, the town.s yarn factory, faces closure, Tansy searches for odd jobs. When cabbage soup is all there is to eat, she wheels her wagon full of little red plant pots door to door. When a notorious burglar threatens to steal the silver sugar bowl Mr. Tuttletin left Tansy and her mother, she meets the danger head-on. Will her good spirits and can-do attitude pay off? Perhaps, with a little help from the "cactus factory."
Cactus Factory is sometimes funny, sometimes surprising, and all the time good reading fun for children 12 and under. With something for everyone, parents, grandparents, and teachers will enjoy reading this chapter book out loud to little ones, or reading along with early and middle grade readers.
Cactus Factory can be purchased from PBM.
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In a Rose Wood Wandering
Jeanne Shannon
In a Rose Wood Wandering is a collection of poems, stories, meditations and reveries that explore the idea of "rose." It wanders through gardens and orchards, looking at the rose itself and at numerous other members of the large rose family, including apples, pears, strawberries, and almonds, and how these have appeared in history and mythology. It visits women named Rose and even notices rose-patterned china teacups and silver spoons with roses on their handles.
Publisher: Mercury HeartLink. ISBN 978-0-9839935-1-3. Price $15.00. Available from Amazon and The Wildflower Press.
About the Author: Jeanne Shannon grew up in rural southwest Virginia, in a farming community attuned to the Earth and its plant and animal life. Members of the rose family were abundant, and the region was known for its apple orchards. Early on she became interested in the fact that plants are divided into families, and the family group that includes the rose captured her special attention.
Her poetry, short fiction, and memoir essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has published three full-length collections of her work and several chapbooks. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Walking Fish: a Novel
Joanne Bodin
This provocative, emotionally charged novel delves into the inner worlds of people grappling with painful paradoxes of life, and like the walking fish, they must find ways to adapt in order to survive. Talia, an eccentric artist living in Corrales, New Mexico with her partner Renie, is catapulted into an unfolding saga that compels her to revisit her unconventional past, revealing truths that change the lives of everyone involved.
Walking Fish is a New Mexico Book Awards winner for gay/lesbian fiction and a finalist in three other categories; an International Book Awards winner in two categories; a USA Book Awards finalist, and an EVVY Award finalist through the Colorado Independent Publisher's Association.
Piggybacked: poetry
Joanne Bodin
Piggybacked is a collection of poems that evokes universal experiences of beauty, pain, suffering, longing, joy, mirth, dreams, and nightmares, allowing the reader a glimpse into the unorthodox world view of the poet. With thought-provoking imagery, these poems allow us to delve into the paradoxes of our own human existence. The inspiration for this book came from the author's relationship with her late grandfather, also a poet, and their individual quests for freedom. The title of the book is an expression of ancestral ties that bind us through the generations.
About the Author: Joanne Bodin, Ph.D., is a retired teacher of the gifted in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Instruction and Multicultural Teacher Education. She co-authored a book, Step By Step Storytelling: a Narrative Language Curriculum, which has been used by speech/language pathologists for language delayed learners. She plays jazz piano, is a watercolor artist, and is currently working on a novel about the esoteric world of orchids. Her website is walkingfishnovel.com. Both Walking Fish and Piggybacked are available on Amazon.com.
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Somewhere in Ireland
Linda Whittenberg
Commentary about Somewhere in Ireland:
"In a strong, honest, confident voice, at once American and Irish, Linda Whittenberg leads us .on a fascinating journey across the years and miles, from the dark days of The Famine in County Clare, over oceans and deserts and back again to the 21st Century. The poems here are full of love, not to mention forgiveness and a deep understanding of where her people came from and the times and circumstances that drove them. Somewhere in Ireland should appeal to readers on both sides of the Atlantic."
—John McGrath, writer, teacher, editor, manages Moybella Press which publishes the work of Irish writers, including his own book, Blue Sky Day.
"This book-length narrative in poetry makes the search for Linda Whittenberg.s Irish roots a pleasure to read chiefly because we have real poems here, poems written out of necessity. I.m thinking it must be the Irish in her blood that makes so many of these poems sing. Like she herself says, 'Sounds of a joyful hymn/sung in spite of sorrow.'" —Tom Crawford, author of six books of poetry, and recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Fore Word Book of the Year, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
What others have said about Tender Harvest:
"Linda Whittenberg.s Tender Harvest is the real thing: an adult.s garden of verses rich in small-town story, down-home truth, soil-bred wisdom, land-of-little-rain beauty, and more—all interwoven with evocative detail, spiritual attentiveness, emotional intelligence, tough-minded clarity, and verbal music tuned to a well-tempered ear." — Michael L. Johnson, author of From Hell to Jackson Hole, a Poetic History of the American West, and several volumes of poetry. He is Professor of English, University of Kansas.
"Linda Whittenberg is a poet whose genius is close listening, tender attention to the milagro at the heart of the ordinary. This book generously invites the reader to be a guest at a well-set table, to be fed in many worlds. This is poetry lit from within—whose musical surfaces open to reveal the depth and breadth of a forgiveness we all long to taste and know, mercy we all yearn to show and be shown.and yet, still.there is the gentle.but powerful.startle.just inside each sweet kernel of knowing." — Judyth Hill, performing poet and teacher of poetry. Books include: Black Hollyhock, First Light; A Presence of Angels; Men Need Space; Altar of the Ordinary.
About the Author: Linda Whittenberg began writing after retirement from Unitarian Universalist ministry. Besides poetry, she also finds time for yoga and quilting, as well as hiking and dancing with her husband Bob Wilber. At home in Santa Fe they both enjoy their animal friends: a mule, a goat and two cattle dogs.
You can purchase these and other books by Linda Whittenberg on her website, www.lindawhittenberg.com. Email Linda at whittwil@dishmail.net.
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Already There: poems
Shirley Blackwell
To find a hidden thing already there, one must first pay attention. A childhood spent in the grand but unforgiving landscapes of the desert southwest and a career as a national security analyst reinforced that insight for Shirley Blackwell. Already There is an eclectic harvest of poems found by combining rigorous intellectual investigation with a personal longing to understand both the workings of the cosmos and of the human heart.
Whether the topic is caring for a mother-in-law with dementia, finding one's own path, marital fidelity, or lessons in courage for a 4-year-old terrorized by a neighbor.s vicious turkey, the poet speaks in a voice of unflinching candor. The natural world suffuses this book both as metaphor and for its own beauty.s sake, but don't expect a sentimental treatment of the birds and beasties in these poems. They all occupy a niche in the food chain. What you can expect is poetry imbued with depth and whimsy, scientific fact and mythical fantasy, gentleness and raw honesty.all couched in precise, musical language. These perceptive poems celebrate the strength of the human spirit as well as its place in a wondrous universe.
Purchase Already There: poems at www.shirleyblackwell.com.
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this woman
Elizabeth Raby
Poems that explore how that girl became this woman, how the experiences of the child shaped the preoccupations, the eyes, the head and the heart, of the adult. Poems that explore the whole mysterious cycle, with stops for grief and beauty along the way; that prepare the poet for the sweet hold of earth, each life a seed in the dark.
Christopher Bursk, winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for The Improbable Swervings of Atoms, writes of This Woman .I found myself delighting in poem after poem.and in the way the poems spoke to each other. I know no one better able to renew in even the most jaded of us a sense of wonder and an appreciation of the fragile balance of our lives. Elizabeth Raby faces the terrible and yet she keeps returning to a brave and determined affirmation of the now..
cover art: sculpture by Susan Opie, photographs by Andrew Douglas
isbn 9780983009191
coming in 2012. Click here to preorder now for $10.00 (including shipping in the US)
ink on snow
Elizabeth Raby
What unites all the poems in Ink on Snow is the voice of someone brave enough to see closely both the painful and the beautiful.to ask what will satisfy and to trust the words to respond in the way we trust prayers to be answered: not with easy solutions or simple fixes, but with a recognition that what we are looking for will never reveal itself in the way we expect it to. So many of the poems are acts of witness by a speaker who is both detached and passionate, intimate and observant, conscious of her distance from things.tragedies, natural phenomenon, people.and determined to bridge this distance through the agency of a loving and courageous language, exploring the dark energies that inform her life and the world.s and in doing so, illuminating our lives and hers. Christopher Bursk, author of The First Inhabitants of Arcadia
cover art by Debby Sou Vai Keng, cover design by Regina Schroeder
isbn 9780981989846 $15.00
Click here to purchase
the year the pears bloomed twice
Elizabeth Raby
Lust, greed, avarice, gluttony..all are present in the poems of The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice. From the small ache at her center, the poet celebrates and quarrels with the beauty and grief of this world, her hungers of spirit and flesh. The language of her full humanity.her embarrassing longings and unreasonable passions.both seduces and challenges the reader.
cover photo by Katia Mitova, isbn 9780979882579 $15.00
Click here to purchase.
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Sweeping the Skylight
Donald Levering
Donald Levering's Sweeping the Skylight brings a fuller light onto the ordinary world, defamiliarizes it, freshens the reader's sense of it--deals revealingly with "the buried strangeness / Which nourishes the known." Here a confident, mature poetic voice shares the unexpected and memorable significances that can be discovered in daily--even domestic--life.
—Michael L. Johnson, author of Sky Land: A Southwestern Cycle.
Sweeping the Skylight elevates the inner workings of the domesticCCclothesline, cellar, microwaveCCto their near-mythic roots: fire-smudged caves, calls of hump-backed whales, cathedral chants. And when the house falters as a marriage dissolves, Levering's poems evoke a loss of relative magnitude. This collection is necessary and urgent, like a ventilator/like a prayer.
—Valerie Martnez, Levis Poetry Prize Winner, author of Each and Her, And They Called It Horizon, and Santa Fe Poet Laureate.
In Sweeping the Skylight, the brilliant poems of Donald Levering capture and release the fermentation of time, and the light from below.
—Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods, and recipient of the Audubon Medal.
About the Author: Born in Kansas City, Donald Levering has published eight poetry books, most recently, Whose Body (Sunstone). He was the recipient of a NEA Poetry Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Featured Poet in the Online Forum. He lives in Santa Fe. More information can be found at www.donaldlevering.com.
To order Sweeping the Skylight, visit this website or call 502-316-5104 (M-F, 1pm-6pm EST).
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Journey of the Shunammite
Loretta Tollefson
The people in the Bible were living human beings who experienced complex human emotions. Just as fiction helps us to understand ourselves by pointing out the similarities between human beings that transcend culture and time, so the Biblical accounts bolster our understanding of ourselves and the human condition.
We comprehend a little more clearly how the wisest of men can justify to himself actions of great folly. We see what might compel a daughter-in-law to sacrifice everything to follow an old and poor woman into a land full of strangers. These poems attempt to answer the questions: what might it have been like to have been there? how might it have felt? why might that person have reacted in that way? They are meditations on the human emotions and reactions that bridge centuries and particular habits of life, and on our human interaction with the Divine.
Available at this website.
Crown of Laurel
Loretta Tollefson
What happens when your dreams come face to face with economic reality? Do you compromise, lower your sights and find a way to some measure of comfort through a lower level of achievement? Or, do you stick doggedly to your course even though it promises no certain reward and may lead to total failure? This novel.s two main characters, Deborah and Lawrence, both face the decision to compromise or to pursue their goals with no thought for the consequences. The fortune of one proceeds by compromise and ends in comfort. That of the other devolves into homelessness and a life on the street. Set in Seattle during the recession of the early 1980.s, this novel reflects its streets, back alleys and moody skies and provides a gallery of sharply drawn, unforgettable characters.
This e-book is available in a variety of formats, including PDF (Desktops/Laptops/PCs/Macs), EPUB (Most Devices Like The Nook or iPad, But Not Kindle), MOBI (Kindle Devices Only, Not Kindle Apps), PDB (Palm Reader Software), and HTML (Desktops/Laptops/PCs/Macs).
Available at this website.
About the Author: Loretta Miles Tollefson has a B.S. in Biblical Education and an M.A. in Communication, and will receive an M.A. in English Literature in May 2012. Raised in western Washington State, she lives in Tome, NM and looks forward to studying literature and writing full time when she retires.
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Fire Gate Poems: A Journey of Spiritual Healing
Henry C. Finney
Fire Gate Poems: A Journey of Spiritual Healing presents a collection of poems and images that mark author Henry C. Finney.s journey from grief to healing following the death of his son. Writing poetry and Zen meditation contributed greatly to his recovery from the unthinkable.the loss of a child. The verses and illustrations provide glimpses of the landscape he traversed during this journey. its darkest jungles of grief, its rolling hills of recovery, and finally its brilliant vistas of love and happiness.
After a few verses from earlier years (.origins.),
the poems articulate stages of Finney.s
return to life. They begin with reactions to
the tragedy (.abyss.), continue with poems
of .return. and .renewal,. and conclude with
verses of .wonder.. His poetic images are enhanced
by black-and-white renditions of his
drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs.
Finney.s poems sing of life.s mysteries, sorrows,
and beauty; his art celebrates the
world. His work demonstrates the healing
powers of writing and art.
Abouth the Author: Henry C. Finney holds an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute and studied painting with James Gahagan, student and protg of German abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann. Finney also earned a BA in anthropology from the University of Michigan and a PhD in sociology from the University of California. He currently lives and works in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Available from Amazon.com; Barnes and Noble; and iUniverse.
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NMSPS members in good standing are entitled to have three books posted on the Members' Book Market page for a set-up fee of only $10. Mail check to NMSPS, c/o Shirley Blackwell, P.O. Box 1352, Los Lunas, NM 87031.
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At the Rim: Selected PoemsBob Johnston
In ninety years of residence on this planet, Bob Johnston has accumulated a lot of what he calls “inner debris.” After weeding out the trash, the remainder appeared to be worth exposing to public view. The result is this small volume of poems in which he talks about love, loss, and gratitude, along with some outrage at having been propelled into a century that he doesn?t understand at all.
In the title poem, “At the Rim,” he stands at a canyon?s edge and waits for one who will never return. In “The Seven Deadly Colors,” he enters the minds of those who tested the limits of the seven deadly sins. And in “Epitaph of a Procrastinator,” he bids farewell to those who loved him. Along the way, he manages to have a few good laughs at poets, scientists, and psychiatrists.
At the Rim is available at Alamosa Books and other local bookstores.
It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Sunstone Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-86534-814-1Soft cover, 6 ? 9 inches, 84 pages, $14.95
The author is a retired petroleum engineer and translator. This is his first published book of poetry, and quite probably his last. His other published works include a number of papers in the scientific press and eight books translated from Russian. He waited until his sixtieth year to begin writing serious poetry, and over the next thirty years he has been trying to catch up. His poetry and short stories have been published in twenty-odd literary journals. He lives in the original Las Vegas, New Mexico with his wife, three cats, and some hope of completing his memoirs and the Great American Novel.
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Exalting God through the power of the written word, author Princess Ifeoma Achusim shares twenty short yet meaningful poems that send messages of worship and glory.
Worship to God talks of the effect of the Word of God in the life of a believer, the fruits of the Spirit, communication with God, and more. After each poem,
the author provides a commentary, explaining the poem?s significance, including the time, place, and her inspiration for writing it. Paired with moving illustrations that uplift the heart, enlighten the mind, and refresh the soul, Worship to God is also a loving invitation to give thanks to the Almighty through prayers and exaltation.
Available through local bookstore?s order desk or at these online bookstores: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Xlibris, or by phone at 1-888-795-4274 ext.7879.
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Barbara DuBois, Socorro's Poet Laureate, Advertises Three ChapbooksBarbara DuBois, Socorro's Poet Laureate and Chair of the Rio Abajo Poets, is offering three chapbooks for sale. A Greek Suite is comprised of poems inspired by her tour of Greece and sells for $6.00. Country Style features poems inspired by her retirement to the country and sells for $8.00. The third chapbook, Love Lyrics, contains poems narrating the course of her relationship with her ?sweetheart? and sells for $6.00.
DuBois retired from teaching college English and publishes travel articles, grammar articles, book reviews, and poetry. When not reading or writing, she sings, swims, travels, or hikes.
You can inquire about purchasing the books at the following address:
Barbara DuBois
Post Office Box 474
Socorro, NM 87801
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A Girl in a Large Rectangle: a Collection of PoetryNMSPS Poet Deborah Barba Eagan
This recently published chapbook is available on Amazon.com for $9.95 plus shipping and handling. Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at deborah.eagan@gmail.com or by phone at 505-889-3774 for autographed copies for $9.95 + $.75 tax.
A Girl in a Large Rectangle is the debut poetry collection of Deborah Barba Eagan, the 2006 Albuquerque Tricentennial Poet. In her poetry she shares her passion for family, music, nature, travel and ultimately for life. The cover image of this chapbook is a photo of an oil portrait of the author when she was 12 years old it when it was painted and framed in a large rectangle of gilded wood. Consequently, “A Girl in the Large Rectangle” is both the book title and the title of one the poems where the author recalls gazing at it and pondering her future. Now, much of that future has come and gone and in these poems she looks back on moments in her life.
Deborah Barba Eagan of Albuquerque, New Mexico has read her poems at several past events in Albuquerque and in Las Cruces. She belongs to SouthWest Writers, the New Mexico State Poetry Society and the Albuquerque TGIF Poetry Group. In April 2004, for National Poetry Month, she was featured on the children?s radio program, Read Albuquerque. Several of her poems have been published in the Albuquerque broadside, the Rag. As the Albuquerque Tricentennial Poet in 2006 her poem, “Come See Albuquerque,” was published on the Tricentennial website.
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Honey BlueLarry Castillo-Wilson
Honey Blue is a work of poetry that spans thirty-one years of poetry writing. The title is derived from one of the poems in which Castillo-Wilson describes the beauty of New Mexico as “sopaipilla clouds cavorting with honey blue skies.”
The work begins with a section entitled “Dreams of a Better World,” which presents a theme of aspirations for future life that is nobler and more creative than the present, a theme that is interwoven throughout the book. “The Sweetness of Life” follows with poems expressing rare moments of heightened happiness, the glory of a relationship immersed in love, and the thrill of living on the shore of beauty.
The next section is entitled, “Words Laughing.” These poems are humorous experiences Castillo-Wilson has had over the years with some “stretchers,” as Mark Twain would say. Also included are two poems written for the Children?s Poetry Project, one of which is a bilingual poem.
The next several sections are religious poems written for use in disaster relief work, in worship services, and on special occasions. The final section, “Cosmology” raises the question of the destiny of the human race in the universe.
The book may be purchased by googling “Larry Castillo-Wilson” or “Honey Blue” on Amazon.com or purchased from the author.
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Mother Mary: Never Turn Back When Bound to a Star
Mary Fogarty, Author & Illustrator
Dr. Gregory Candela, Editor
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Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at m62zoe@comcast.net for autographed copies of her books.
"Readers will discover a strong woman recreating herself among an unprecedented generation of American women who have had to recreate themselves with few readily apparent and accessible guiding stories, myths, and role models. This is an American book in that sense: before this generation of women, the lone figure, the wanderer, the orphan with no past, the powerful individual, had been, almost exclusively, a male figure. Like Walt Whitman, Fogarty is a pioneer: vigorous, innovative, inclusive, and a tireless self-promoter. She is a woman recreating herself from the nurturing, self-effacing mother and wife into an independent, artist and crone. Emily Dickinson, the mother of American poetry, wrote letters to a world that never wrote back. Fogarty writes letters to harvest a community of readers that help her understand who she is becoming. Like the typical American male hero/artist, Fogarty is a rebel, an outsider and at times a loner. She draws strength not only from her capabilities but also from a past that abides and must be rediscovered and raised from the dead. Always in process, she evolved into a stronger, more resilient individual without abandoning community or the power of motherhood. For such a crossing a woman cannot be demure."
Gregory L. Candela, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of New Mexico
A Crone's CrossingMary Fogarty, Author
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Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at m62zoe@comcast.net for autographed copies of her books.
The poetry, essays and short stories in A Crone.s Crossing stand as a witness to Ms. Fogarty's passage into Cronehood. In an Introduction: What is a Crone? She writes: I no longer feel I live in the world, but the world lives in me. As a character tried, the glory I found came from how well I had handled my losses. In every encounter, human and animal, I began to see reflections of myself. A Crone's Crossing includes prose, poetry and essays by the award winning author, Mary Fogarty. Acquainted with the shadow self, Mary Fogarty stands in her truth ready to help others appreciate the challenges, opportunities and possibilities that come with diversity. She invites saucy, sassy teachers, mentors, spiritual guides and healers of their communities, wise Crones and Sages in their own right, to empower and reignite curiosity in others.
Review:
Paul Fogarty The son of a crone
As my mother's son, now 36 years old, I am understandably biased. What amazed me the most about reading A Crone.s Crossing was that I found I had so much more to learn from the woman who raised me? I never expected to find myself alternately laughing, crying and vehemently disagreeing as I turned the pages, but that is what I received. What I learned from reading this book is that feelings may change from moment to moment but the core of life is in 'how' we meet our struggles. I know from reading as well as from experience the struggles this author went through time and time again with work, art, health, marriage, relationships and her son. The telling truth is that she has entered her age of grace, joy and success by opening her heart at every turn. This is the story of a woman of humble roots who learned to live BIG in the world without apology. For the readers seeking a heart path to looking at the passions in their lives, this book will give them a gateway.
Vintage Woman: A Memoir
Mary Fogarty, Author
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Poets and readers are welcome to make inquiries to the author at m62zoe@comcast.net for autographed copies of her books.
Vintage Woman: A Memoir is one woman's odyssey into Elderhood not as the Third and Final Act, but as the most intuitive, aware, insightful, enlightened, well-informed stage of life.s experience. She:
- Taps into the heart of Elders, especially women, and asks that women of all ages insist they be defined by more than their physical beauty and ability to reproduce
- Asks Elders to consciously shift from adulthood to Elderhood and discover their unique power and purpose
- Invites all Elders to live beyond the busy-ness of survival, social masks and self-interests
- Calls on Elders to harvest life.s experiences and to treasure their inner beauty, light and hard won wisdom
Ms. Fogarty tells us, elders also understand that active listening, in no small measure, grants Being to others. For who we are and what we will continue to become, in part, lives in the compassionate acceptance, support and service to others. As an anonymous poet reminded, .We spin out of nothingness to create each other.
Reviews
"A masterful and compassionate book of essential guidance for living on purpose in the second half of life." Richard J. Leider, Founder of Inventure Group, a consulting firm in Minneapolis has co-authored two bestselling books Repacking Your Bags and Whistle While You Work."
"We are lucky to have a wise elder to whom we can confess our fears so openly.. Kara L.C. Jones, reviewer and National Journalist for Kota Press."
"A memoir you will want to read more than once. Heartfelt words wrap around you like a comforting blanket.. D.L. Bolk, top reviewer for Word Museum."
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King Pachuco and Princess MirasolBonnie K. Rucobo
King Pachuco, the youngest King of Pacifista in the next galaxy, has
just met Princess Mirasol at her first Palace Ball. As the King
escorts the Princess to her palace, they encounter Malvado, an evil
troll, who transforms them into the eggs of a Lilac-headed Amazon
parrot and a lovebird and sends them down a wormhole in space to
Planet Earth. An old Hispanic couple buys King Pachuco who hatches in
a pet shop. Princess Mirasol lives in a sparrow.s nest near the Rio
Grande and must travel toward the mountains in search of water. She,
too, finds her way to the home of the old couple. The birds live for
a time in the kitchen of the elderly couple in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Then they plan their escape into the night sky and their
perilous journey home.Publisher: The Wildflower Press
To order copies of King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol contact:
The Wildflower Press
P.O. Box 4757
Albuquerque, NM 87196-4757
www.thewildflowerpress.com
King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol can also be ordered online through Amazon.com.
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Cactus FactoryDebbi Miller Gutierrez
No matter what Tansy Tuttletin faces, she never gives up. When Mrs. Tuttletin.s employer, the town.s yarn factory, faces closure, Tansy searches for odd jobs. When cabbage soup is all there is to eat, she wheels her wagon full of little red plant pots door to door. When a notorious burglar threatens to steal the silver sugar bowl Mr. Tuttletin left Tansy and her mother, she meets the danger head-on. Will her good spirits and can-do attitude pay off? Perhaps, with a little help from the "cactus factory."
Cactus Factory is sometimes funny, sometimes surprising, and all the time good reading fun for children 12 and under. With something for everyone, parents, grandparents, and teachers will enjoy reading this chapter book out loud to little ones, or reading along with early and middle grade readers.
Cactus Factory can be purchased from PBM.
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In a Rose Wood WanderingJeanne Shannon
In a Rose Wood Wandering is a collection of poems, stories, meditations and reveries that explore the idea of "rose." It wanders through gardens and orchards, looking at the rose itself and at numerous other members of the large rose family, including apples, pears, strawberries, and almonds, and how these have appeared in history and mythology. It visits women named Rose and even notices rose-patterned china teacups and silver spoons with roses on their handles.
Publisher: Mercury HeartLink. ISBN 978-0-9839935-1-3. Price $15.00. Available from Amazon and The Wildflower Press.
About the Author: Jeanne Shannon grew up in rural southwest Virginia, in a farming community attuned to the Earth and its plant and animal life. Members of the rose family were abundant, and the region was known for its apple orchards. Early on she became interested in the fact that plants are divided into families, and the family group that includes the rose captured her special attention.
Her poetry, short fiction, and memoir essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has published three full-length collections of her work and several chapbooks. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Walking Fish: a Novel
Joanne Bodin
This provocative, emotionally charged novel delves into the inner worlds of people grappling with painful paradoxes of life, and like the walking fish, they must find ways to adapt in order to survive. Talia, an eccentric artist living in Corrales, New Mexico with her partner Renie, is catapulted into an unfolding saga that compels her to revisit her unconventional past, revealing truths that change the lives of everyone involved.
Walking Fish is a New Mexico Book Awards winner for gay/lesbian fiction and a finalist in three other categories; an International Book Awards winner in two categories; a USA Book Awards finalist, and an EVVY Award finalist through the Colorado Independent Publisher's Association.
Piggybacked: poetry
Joanne Bodin
Piggybacked is a collection of poems that evokes universal experiences of beauty, pain, suffering, longing, joy, mirth, dreams, and nightmares, allowing the reader a glimpse into the unorthodox world view of the poet. With thought-provoking imagery, these poems allow us to delve into the paradoxes of our own human existence. The inspiration for this book came from the author's relationship with her late grandfather, also a poet, and their individual quests for freedom. The title of the book is an expression of ancestral ties that bind us through the generations.
About the Author: Joanne Bodin, Ph.D., is a retired teacher of the gifted in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Instruction and Multicultural Teacher Education. She co-authored a book, Step By Step Storytelling: a Narrative Language Curriculum, which has been used by speech/language pathologists for language delayed learners. She plays jazz piano, is a watercolor artist, and is currently working on a novel about the esoteric world of orchids. Her website is walkingfishnovel.com. Both Walking Fish and Piggybacked are available on Amazon.com.
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Somewhere in Ireland
Linda Whittenberg
Commentary about Somewhere in Ireland:
"In a strong, honest, confident voice, at once American and Irish, Linda Whittenberg leads us .on a fascinating journey across the years and miles, from the dark days of The Famine in County Clare, over oceans and deserts and back again to the 21st Century. The poems here are full of love, not to mention forgiveness and a deep understanding of where her people came from and the times and circumstances that drove them. Somewhere in Ireland should appeal to readers on both sides of the Atlantic."
—John McGrath, writer, teacher, editor, manages Moybella Press which publishes the work of Irish writers, including his own book, Blue Sky Day.
"This book-length narrative in poetry makes the search for Linda Whittenberg.s Irish roots a pleasure to read chiefly because we have real poems here, poems written out of necessity. I.m thinking it must be the Irish in her blood that makes so many of these poems sing. Like she herself says, 'Sounds of a joyful hymn/sung in spite of sorrow.'" —Tom Crawford, author of six books of poetry, and recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Fore Word Book of the Year, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
What others have said about Tender Harvest:
"Linda Whittenberg.s Tender Harvest is the real thing: an adult.s garden of verses rich in small-town story, down-home truth, soil-bred wisdom, land-of-little-rain beauty, and more—all interwoven with evocative detail, spiritual attentiveness, emotional intelligence, tough-minded clarity, and verbal music tuned to a well-tempered ear." — Michael L. Johnson, author of From Hell to Jackson Hole, a Poetic History of the American West, and several volumes of poetry. He is Professor of English, University of Kansas.
"Linda Whittenberg is a poet whose genius is close listening, tender attention to the milagro at the heart of the ordinary. This book generously invites the reader to be a guest at a well-set table, to be fed in many worlds. This is poetry lit from within—whose musical surfaces open to reveal the depth and breadth of a forgiveness we all long to taste and know, mercy we all yearn to show and be shown.and yet, still.there is the gentle.but powerful.startle.just inside each sweet kernel of knowing." — Judyth Hill, performing poet and teacher of poetry. Books include: Black Hollyhock, First Light; A Presence of Angels; Men Need Space; Altar of the Ordinary.
About the Author: Linda Whittenberg began writing after retirement from Unitarian Universalist ministry. Besides poetry, she also finds time for yoga and quilting, as well as hiking and dancing with her husband Bob Wilber. At home in Santa Fe they both enjoy their animal friends: a mule, a goat and two cattle dogs.
You can purchase these and other books by Linda Whittenberg on her website, www.lindawhittenberg.com. Email Linda at whittwil@dishmail.net.
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Already There: poemsShirley Blackwell
To find a hidden thing already there, one must first pay attention. A childhood spent in the grand but unforgiving landscapes of the desert southwest and a career as a national security analyst reinforced that insight for Shirley Blackwell. Already There is an eclectic harvest of poems found by combining rigorous intellectual investigation with a personal longing to understand both the workings of the cosmos and of the human heart.
Whether the topic is caring for a mother-in-law with dementia, finding one's own path, marital fidelity, or lessons in courage for a 4-year-old terrorized by a neighbor.s vicious turkey, the poet speaks in a voice of unflinching candor. The natural world suffuses this book both as metaphor and for its own beauty.s sake, but don't expect a sentimental treatment of the birds and beasties in these poems. They all occupy a niche in the food chain. What you can expect is poetry imbued with depth and whimsy, scientific fact and mythical fantasy, gentleness and raw honesty.all couched in precise, musical language. These perceptive poems celebrate the strength of the human spirit as well as its place in a wondrous universe.
Purchase Already There: poems at www.shirleyblackwell.com.
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this womanElizabeth Raby
Poems that explore how that girl became this woman, how the experiences of the child shaped the preoccupations, the eyes, the head and the heart, of the adult. Poems that explore the whole mysterious cycle, with stops for grief and beauty along the way; that prepare the poet for the sweet hold of earth, each life a seed in the dark.
Christopher Bursk, winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for The Improbable Swervings of Atoms, writes of This Woman .I found myself delighting in poem after poem.and in the way the poems spoke to each other. I know no one better able to renew in even the most jaded of us a sense of wonder and an appreciation of the fragile balance of our lives. Elizabeth Raby faces the terrible and yet she keeps returning to a brave and determined affirmation of the now..cover art: sculpture by Susan Opie, photographs by Andrew Douglas
isbn 9780983009191
coming in 2012. Click here to preorder now for $10.00 (including shipping in the US)
ink on snow
Elizabeth Raby
What unites all the poems in Ink on Snow is the voice of someone brave enough to see closely both the painful and the beautiful.to ask what will satisfy and to trust the words to respond in the way we trust prayers to be answered: not with easy solutions or simple fixes, but with a recognition that what we are looking for will never reveal itself in the way we expect it to. So many of the poems are acts of witness by a speaker who is both detached and passionate, intimate and observant, conscious of her distance from things.tragedies, natural phenomenon, people.and determined to bridge this distance through the agency of a loving and courageous language, exploring the dark energies that inform her life and the world.s and in doing so, illuminating our lives and hers. Christopher Bursk, author of The First Inhabitants of Arcadia
cover art by Debby Sou Vai Keng, cover design by Regina Schroeder
isbn 9780981989846 $15.00
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the year the pears bloomed twice
Elizabeth Raby
Lust, greed, avarice, gluttony..all are present in the poems of The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice. From the small ache at her center, the poet celebrates and quarrels with the beauty and grief of this world, her hungers of spirit and flesh. The language of her full humanity.her embarrassing longings and unreasonable passions.both seduces and challenges the reader.
cover photo by Katia Mitova, isbn 9780979882579 $15.00
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Sweeping the SkylightDonald Levering
Donald Levering's Sweeping the Skylight brings a fuller light onto the ordinary world, defamiliarizes it, freshens the reader's sense of it--deals revealingly with "the buried strangeness / Which nourishes the known." Here a confident, mature poetic voice shares the unexpected and memorable significances that can be discovered in daily--even domestic--life.
—Michael L. Johnson, author of Sky Land: A Southwestern Cycle.
Sweeping the Skylight elevates the inner workings of the domesticCCclothesline, cellar, microwaveCCto their near-mythic roots: fire-smudged caves, calls of hump-backed whales, cathedral chants. And when the house falters as a marriage dissolves, Levering's poems evoke a loss of relative magnitude. This collection is necessary and urgent, like a ventilator/like a prayer.
—Valerie Martnez, Levis Poetry Prize Winner, author of Each and Her, And They Called It Horizon, and Santa Fe Poet Laureate.
In Sweeping the Skylight, the brilliant poems of Donald Levering capture and release the fermentation of time, and the light from below.
—Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods, and recipient of the Audubon Medal.
About the Author: Born in Kansas City, Donald Levering has published eight poetry books, most recently, Whose Body (Sunstone). He was the recipient of a NEA Poetry Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Featured Poet in the Online Forum. He lives in Santa Fe. More information can be found at www.donaldlevering.com.
To order Sweeping the Skylight, visit this website or call 502-316-5104 (M-F, 1pm-6pm EST).
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Journey of the ShunammiteLoretta Tollefson
The people in the Bible were living human beings who experienced complex human emotions. Just as fiction helps us to understand ourselves by pointing out the similarities between human beings that transcend culture and time, so the Biblical accounts bolster our understanding of ourselves and the human condition.
We comprehend a little more clearly how the wisest of men can justify to himself actions of great folly. We see what might compel a daughter-in-law to sacrifice everything to follow an old and poor woman into a land full of strangers. These poems attempt to answer the questions: what might it have been like to have been there? how might it have felt? why might that person have reacted in that way? They are meditations on the human emotions and reactions that bridge centuries and particular habits of life, and on our human interaction with the Divine.
Available at this website.
Crown of LaurelLoretta Tollefson
What happens when your dreams come face to face with economic reality? Do you compromise, lower your sights and find a way to some measure of comfort through a lower level of achievement? Or, do you stick doggedly to your course even though it promises no certain reward and may lead to total failure? This novel.s two main characters, Deborah and Lawrence, both face the decision to compromise or to pursue their goals with no thought for the consequences. The fortune of one proceeds by compromise and ends in comfort. That of the other devolves into homelessness and a life on the street. Set in Seattle during the recession of the early 1980.s, this novel reflects its streets, back alleys and moody skies and provides a gallery of sharply drawn, unforgettable characters.
This e-book is available in a variety of formats, including PDF (Desktops/Laptops/PCs/Macs), EPUB (Most Devices Like The Nook or iPad, But Not Kindle), MOBI (Kindle Devices Only, Not Kindle Apps), PDB (Palm Reader Software), and HTML (Desktops/Laptops/PCs/Macs).
Available at this website.
About the Author: Loretta Miles Tollefson has a B.S. in Biblical Education and an M.A. in Communication, and will receive an M.A. in English Literature in May 2012. Raised in western Washington State, she lives in Tome, NM and looks forward to studying literature and writing full time when she retires.
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Fire Gate Poems: A Journey of Spiritual HealingHenry C. Finney
Fire Gate Poems: A Journey of Spiritual Healing presents a collection of poems and images that mark author Henry C. Finney.s journey from grief to healing following the death of his son. Writing poetry and Zen meditation contributed greatly to his recovery from the unthinkable.the loss of a child. The verses and illustrations provide glimpses of the landscape he traversed during this journey. its darkest jungles of grief, its rolling hills of recovery, and finally its brilliant vistas of love and happiness.
After a few verses from earlier years (.origins.),
the poems articulate stages of Finney.s
return to life. They begin with reactions to
the tragedy (.abyss.), continue with poems
of .return. and .renewal,. and conclude with
verses of .wonder.. His poetic images are enhanced
by black-and-white renditions of his
drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs.
Finney.s poems sing of life.s mysteries, sorrows,
and beauty; his art celebrates the
world. His work demonstrates the healing
powers of writing and art.Abouth the Author: Henry C. Finney holds an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute and studied painting with James Gahagan, student and protg of German abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann. Finney also earned a BA in anthropology from the University of Michigan and a PhD in sociology from the University of California. He currently lives and works in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Available from Amazon.com; Barnes and Noble; and iUniverse.
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