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One Perfect Bird Letitia Trent ' In Letitia Trent's debut full-length collection, the poems unfold like wildflowers in the spring, each one more surprising and dazzling than the last. But they are not simply a fleeting beauty, but rather a voracious and heated sort that stays with you long after you've closed the book. These poems, rooted deeply in the places that they explore, are impeccably constructed and bitingly honest. This is a collection from a new voice that must be heard. "Reading these poems I was reminded of the voice and vision of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. Similarly, the emotional and psychological rawness of human thought, as crafted by Letitia Trent in surprising, elusive, and innovative lines, startles us into a recognition so profound, we're not entirely sure what we're reading or if we're reading. It's a pleasing and unsettling experience--and I daresay, what literature should and can be." - Kathy Fagan, author of Lip "The poems in One Perfect Bird ride like a dirty living letter in a good, clean envelope. They are the silty Tang in our cups, the color of the hunters' vests like ribbons through the birches as they searched our forest for any rusty bursts of blood. They are primarily poltergeists; mesh net masks and subtly singing beards, bee bodies slipping from their chins like honey. If it's true that I lifted all these lines of praise from the lines in Letitia Trent's poems--and it is true--then who could blame me? For the lyricism required to describe them, I can't better their maker. No one could." - Kyle Minor, author of In the Devil's Territory Order your copy today! |
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Like a Fish Daniel Crocker ISBN 0-9723224-7-7 "Dan Crocker isn't in the habit of calling things beautiful, Hell, neither am I, but I'm just going to put it out there, with Like a Fish, Crocker has shown his readers their fair share of beauty without ever having to drunkenly whisper its name. He writes about every day experiences in a way that anyone can relate to. His ivory tower is a Mississippi flophouse held together with tar and dreams. He's a strait shooter who gives it to you plain and simple. In short, his words don't have a stick up their ass. In our current lonely culture, what more could you ask for?" -John Dorsey, author of Sodomy is a City in New Jersey "Dan Crocker has the heart and the chops, an innate ear for language and the gift of good storytelling. He is one of those writers accessible to all of the diverse crowds he writes about--the denizens of the trailer parks, as well as the academies. To say Crocker is an important writer is an understatement; he's a hidden gem in American letters." -Nathan Graziano, author of After the Honeymoon and Teaching Metaphors "Crocker's gritty yet tender poems expand beyond the topography of the south and into the landscape of the human experience. He candidly displays life's three-dimensional ups and downs that most people perceive as a mere two-dimensional surface. This collection confirms why Crocker is one of my all-time favorite poets." -Rebecca Schumejda, author of Falling Forward Like a Fish is available now for $14.95. For more information about this title, including poems from the collection, click here. Order your copy today! |
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Especially the Deer Julie Ruble, Tyurina Allen, Mary Beth Magin ISBN 0-9723224-0-X Especially the Deer was the first book released by Sundress Publications in 2002 and the first book in the Artemis Project, which publishes poetry by women who are 25 or younger. Featuring poetry by Sundress favorites Julie Ruble, Mary Beth Magin, and Tyurina Allen, Especially the Deer has now been re-released with a new cover and book design! Get this beautiful 8.5" x 8.5" glossy-covered, perfect-bound edition today for only $12.95! Click here for a full table of contents. Order your copy today! |
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The Bone Folders T.A. Noonan ISBN 0-9723224-6-9 T.A. Noonan's second collection of poetry, The Bone Folders, follows a coven of Louisiana witches through the death of their high priestess and the turmoil in the regime change that follows. Drawing upon interviews and experiences with modern practitioners of witchcraft, the poems combine innovative language with an overarching narrative that explores the complexities of love, history, spirituality, and personal sacrifice. Not to be confused with the supernatural tales of Anne Rice or Charlaine Harris, these beautiful and experimental poems come at this very real world through the lens of math, food, Greek mythos, grammar, sexuality, and the banal of the day-to-day. These poems in their dazzling craftsmanship explore the contemporary Pagan existence and the universal pain of human loss. "This is incantation. Noonan speaks; spells and forms and formulae leap into being. Very new, very, very old: poetry begins with naming, then metamorphosis. Dickinson's Letters to the World conjoins the 'hello world' introduction to Java and coffee ground soothsaying. 'O' the days begin, and they end with a loop, 'until what it touches / / : becomes what is touched.'" -Catherine Daly "Here, in The Bone Folders, the poem is an entity that springs from a love of language, algebra, and the landscape of the page. T.A. Noonan's tools are varied and sharp. She has a sculptor's eye for detail and an uncanny instinct for mining from the stone what the stone wants to be. With all her extravagances, spatial and intellectual, her eccentricities of grammar and syntax, her free form and reverent villanelles, she is the maker of language's shape, a craftsperson that knows that the center of an artist's commitment is to serve the work in progress. In all her abstract permutations is a focus on the truth. She is poetry's Henry Moore, giving shape to things and characters, particular and internal, to which, at the end of our reading we can only reply, YES." -Michael Madonick Order your copy today! For more information about this title, including poems from the collection, click here. |
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How We Spend Our Days Jessica Bush-Warman ISBN 0-9723224-4-2 How We Spend Our Days is the first collection of poems by Jessica Bush-Warman. Jessica Bush-Warman lives in Pennsylvania, where she attends graduate school at Seton Hill University. She is currently at work on her third book. Her poetry has appeared in various literary publications throughout the country. She and her husband are expecting their first child in September. (This is the second collection released in the Artemis Project.) Click here for a full table of contents. Order your copy today for $6.50. For ordering through check/money order |
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Can You Tell a Line from an Odyssey Marek Lugowski ISBN 0-9723224-1-8 Can You Tell a Line from an Odyssey is the newest chapbook from celebrated Chicago poet, Marek Lugowski. This collection of previously unpublished poetry explores Lugowski's 1988 road trip from Dallas to Taos and back again. Click here for a full table of contents. Order your copy today for $6.50. For ordering through check/money order |
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Especially the Deer Julie Ruble, Tyurina Allen, Mary Beth Magin ISBN 0-9723224-0-X Especially the Deer is the first book released by Sundress Publications. It is 100 pages, perfect bound. Featured in it is a spattering of poetry by Sundress favorites Julie Ruble, Mary Beth Magin, and Tyurina Allen. This is the first book in Sundress's Artemis Project, which publishes poetry by women who are 25 or younger. This book is currently out of print. |
