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After I Fall $8.95 Bombshelter_Press 64pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-22-2 Here are four new voices in American poetry. Their poetry starts from the expectation that love and aging, work and family life will follow a clear and understandable path. But happiness is denied them as they discover cracks in the veneer of modern living. In these sometimes tender, sometimes sad, sometimes disquieting poems, they capture the texture of everyday life, the shifts of emotions, the desires, the hurt. First they made each other listen, now they will reach you. |
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Gnomes of Uncertainty $12.00 Bombshelter_Press 216pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-49-4 Speculations on science, neo-gnostic exploration, philosophy, physics, shamanism, art, cultural and political evolution, religion, human survival and evolution, healing and the pursuit of the human potential in the third millenium. |
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Coffin Lumber $12.00 Bombshelter_Press 128pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-50-8 Michael Andrews has published nine books of poetry and three fine print poetry/photography portfolios. He spent time in Vietnam and Iran, rode a motorcyle to Peru, ran the San Juan River and lived for a month in the Peruvian Amazon. Coffin Lumber includes original poetry; an interview with Charles Bukowski; and "The Poets Always Lie," an imaginary dialogue between Anaxagoras, Anaximander, Arete, Arion, Aspasia, Callimachus, Empedocles, Er, Gorgias, Heraclitus, Linus, Orpheus, Protagoras, Pythagoras, Solon, Tiffany, and Xenophanes. |
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Poet from the City of Angels $19.95 Bombshelter_Press 236pp. 6.5x9in. ISBN:0-941017-16-8 Including 38 full-color photographs, this book is a tour through the mind and eyes of the poet- photographer Michael Andrews, a chronicle of his trips through California, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, and Utah. |
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Lone Black Gull $18.00 Bombshelter_Press 320pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-49-4 New and previously published work by the Los Angeles writer and co-founder of Bombshelter Press covering 1965-2000. Sections: A Lone Black Gull, In the Beginning, Viet Nam, Gnomae, Periegesis Ges, Coming Home, The Place Where I Will Die, The Mullah and the Pusher, Machu Picchu, RiverRun, In a Sea Shell, Most Men, The Last Word. |
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Alley Cat Readings 5 $12.00 108pp. 5.5x8.5in. Work presented at 1976 readings at Brighella's Alley Cat Restaurant in Hermosa Beach, CA by Michael Andrews, Dennis Ellman, Eloise Klein Healy, Curtis Lyle, Clark McCann, Doraine Poretz, Steve Richmond, Kita Shantiris. Photography by Dick Miller. |
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In Country $10.00 Bombshelter_Press 190pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-28-1 Vietnam from two perspectives: the footsoldier's point of view and the perspective of a civilian working and dying in the moral chaos of Saigon. |
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Guilty $5.95 66pp. 5x7in. In Guilty, the reader experiences an alternating pull between the poles of intimacy and the preservation of integrity of self. There is a sense of the symbolic power behind the ordinary: the stock certificates of a man with a "binary mind"; disintegrating "eucalyptus fur" in the vase of a long-gone lover; a T-shirt with the small alligator over the failing heart of her father. Sarah Arsone's journalistic talents are evidenced in the prose she whittles down to bare bones, all image and compact. |
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Joy of Therapy $9.00 Bombshelter_Press 34pp. 5x8in. ISBN:0-941017-39-7 These simple rituals, though written for therapists, apply to all of us. They provide all the vital instructions we need to live a useful, expansive, and necessary life. Dr Blume is a staff psychologist at the Maple Counseling Center, Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University, and has a private practice in Beverly Hills. |
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That Further Hill $5.95 Bombshelter_Press 36pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-12-5 Macdonald Carey (1913-1994) is best known as Dr. Tom Horton in Days of Our Lives and for his work in over 60 films and several Broadway plays. He wrote poetry most of his life, and his first collection of poems, A Day in the Life, was published in 1982 by Coward McCann. |
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Simple Gifts $6.00 Bombshelter_Press 72pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-54-0 Third collection of Los Angeles poets. |
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Alphabet City $6.00 Bombshelter_Press 56pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-55-9 One of three very rare chapbook collections of call-and-response poetry by Los Angeles writers Robert Carroll, H. Gabriel Cousins, and Gerald Quickley. |
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dogfuzz on the asscrack/time out of space $10.00 plastic_ink 90pp. 5.5x8.5in. Short stories and poems by the Los Angeles writer. |
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lo/fidelity lovesongs $10.00 Plastic_Ink 90pp. 5.5x8.5in. Forty-seven poems by the Los Angeles writer. |
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Graph $7.00 Bombshelter_Press 36pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-18-4 Joseph Coulson is the author of two previous books of poetry, numerous essays, and reviews. He studied poetics at Oxford University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. |
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4 Los Angeles Poets $16.00 Bombshelter_Press 128pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-27-3 Four Los Angeles Poets is a long overdue collection. Each of these poets has a unique
vision. The strength of ellen's poems lies in her celebration of human relationships. Mima Pereira's powerful poems are enlivened by a cryptic and quirky
imagery. Shirley Love's poetry reflects a fine philosophical mind and is expressed in unique metaphors and a lovely lyricism. The work of Anne Marple carries
echoes of the Elizabethans, both in the elegance of her language and in her keen observations of the natural world. |
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Couples Who Are Poets $6.00 Bombshelter_Press 16pp. 5.5x8in. Poems from couples who are poets, plus photographs. |
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Kid Is the Man $15.00 Bombshelter_Press 40pp. 5x7in. Bob Flanagan was a singer and songwriter in the post no-wave rock group, Planet of Toys, and his critically acclaimed installation piece, Visiting Hours, ran for six months at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and was featured in National Geographic. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Wedding of Everything (1983, Sherwood Press), Slave Sonnets (1986, Cold Calm Press), and Fuck Journal (1992, Hanuman Books). He died of Cystic Fibrosis in 1994 at the age of 42. This is the first of his five books and nearly out of print--a collector's item. |
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Kaleidoscope $9.95 Everett_Press 110pp. 6x9in. Fred Fox was born in Brooklyn. At nineteen he was the solo French Horn of the Minneapolis Symphony under Eugene Ormandy. Three years later he was the solo horn of the L. A. Philharmonic. His textbook, Essentials of Brass Playing, has been translated into four languages. He now focuses on poetry. |
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Blood Sugar $11.00 Last_Leg 72pp. 5.5x8.5in. Later made into a one-woman show, Blood Sugar is the story of a survivor, a victor in a war with diabetes; the bittersweet success (a transplant from a young accident victim) is at the crux of this remarkable story. |
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Seven is a Frozen Number $9.00 Aphrodisia_Press 76pp. 5.5x8.5in. Another extremely rare book by Marcus J. (AKA Jack) Grapes, editor of ONTHEBUS. Poems written between September 1965 and August 1966. The few remaining from the second printing of 500 copies. |
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Perchance, in all your travels have you ever been to PITTSBURGH? $13 Aphrodisia_Press 124pp. 5.5x8.5in. A very rare book by Jack Grapes written under the name Marcus J. Grapes. Poems written between April and December 1968. The limited edition was 750 copies. |
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Lucky Finds $12.50 Bombshelter_Press 45 cardspp. 5x7-1/2in. ISBN:9-941017-64-8 These pieces extend and parody the dynamic artistic productions of high modernism that began with Stéphane Mallarmé's Un coup de dés («A Throw of the Dice»), continued with the works of the Italian and Russian Futurists, and reached their apogee in Ezra Pound's Cantos (with their graphic ideograms), Wallace Stevens's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, Louis Zukofsky's A, and Charles Olson's Maximus Poems. |
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Breaking Down the Surface of the World $10.00 Bombshelter_Press 62pp. 5x8in. ISBN:0-941017-48-6 Geography is the first of three sections of an extended poetic sequence. The haunting world of buried memory gives the poem epic dimension as the poet fuses cultural and historical forces with personal memory... Breaking Down... weaves a narrative form with the meditative lyric and the fragmented visions of the Surrealists. "The voice in the poems is his voice, alone, unique, singular. I get the feeling they can be touched, tasted, torn into butterflies without dying." |
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Breaking on Camera $20.00 Bombshelter_Press 144pp. 5.5x8.5in. Late-'70s collection by the editor/poet, previously known as Marcus. |
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Termination Journal $20.00 Bombshelter_Press 110pp. 5.5x8.5in. Early collection, limited edition, poems, rare. |
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Twelve Los Angeles Poets $14.95 Bombshelter_Press 224pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-14-1 Another in the ONTHEBUS Poets Series of anthologies celebrating the vitality and diversity of Los Angeles poetry. These twelve poets explore the Southern California quest, that American search for the Grail borne out of a sterile world of fears and lusts, of human beings waiting for some sign or promise of redemption. The poets in this collection transform the Unreal City at the heart of T.S. Eliot's "wasteland" to that other city inside out heads, our fantasies, our dreams, our memories mixed with desire. Work by Ruth Bavetta, Chiwan Choi, Sharon Duncan, Alan Fox, James Gregory, Jean Katz, Wayne Liebman, Candace Moore, Susan Salomon Neiman, Caron Perkal, Elaine Warick, and Vicki Whicker. |
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Thunder in Another City $5.00 Bombshelter_Press 50pp. 5.5x8.5in. Poems by Los Angeles Poets written during an intensive poetry workshop taught by Jack Grapes at Beyond Baroque in winter 1981-82. Includes work by Lynette Berti, Wendy Blumberg, Barbara Broka, Lori Cohen (Grapes), Wendy Cohen, Tom Dawson, ellen, Debbie Jones (Mitchell), Jennifer Knight, Michael Lipson, Walt Maki, Cindi Marble, Yvonne Mason, Carol McCall, Sean O'Rourke, Pat Rangel, Alison Rittger, Michael Stamm, and Daniel Saucedo. |
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13 Los Angeles Poets $13.95 Bombshelter_Press 160pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-47-8 The film noir protagonist of the '40s and '50s has been transformed into a "private-I" who drives down these mean freeways and slouches toward the self to be born. Work by Kathleen Zeisler Goldman, Stephanie Hager, diana jean, Mifanwy Kaiser, Stellasue Lee, Priscilla Lepera, Elaine Mintzer, Gilla Nissan, James O'Hearn, Jan Ruckert, Patricia L. Scruggs, Terry Stevenson, Jeremy Stuart. |
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New Los Angeles Poets $12.5 Bombshelter_Press 208pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-10-9 This anthology offers selections from the works of 57 Los Angeles poets, continuing a long tradition of publishing by independent presses. |
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Trees, Coffee, and the Eyes of Deer $13.00 Bombshelter_Press 158pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-20-6 Jack Grapes is a poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor of ONTHEBUS, a literary journal. He was awarded a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous artist-in-residence grants from the California Arts Council. He wrote and starred in Circle of Will, a «bizarre metaphysical comedy about the lost years of Will Shakespeare,» which ran for several years in Los Angeles and won two theater critics' awards, including Best Comedy. Born and raised in New Orleans, he received his BA and MFA in Theater from Tulane University and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lori and his son, Joshua. |
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Some Life $10.00 Bombshelter_Press 24pp. 5x8in. Very rare chapbook with 12 poems. One of Bombshelter's first publications. |
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Bombshelter Press Sampler $6.00 Bombshelter_Press 24pp. 4.25x7in. Poetry from 20 Bombshelter publications in a cute little package that makes a terrific gift for anyone who wants a quick verse tour of some poets who were "ONTHEBUS": Albert Goldbarth, Ai, Kate Braverman, Charles Bukowski, Wanda Coleman, Richard Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Waldman, Lyn Lifshin, Alison Lurie, Ron Koertge, Norman Dubie. |
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Dancing Across County Lines $6.00 Bombshelter_Press 40pp. 5.5x8.5in. Only 50 copies of this limited edition chapbook were produced for a reading to raise money for the New York Red Cross. The reading was sponsored by the Arts Council of the Conejo Valley and the Ventura County Arts Council. Lemieux is an award- winning poet and writer, recipient of a 2001-2002 Artist-in-Residence grant from the California Arts Council. She has written several collections of poetry, numerous short stories, and screenplays. Jack Grapes has won numerous awards and grants for his poetry, plays, acting, publishing and teaching. |
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Two Women $10.00 Bombshelter_Press 62pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-60-5 Pieces from the authors' Los Angeles One Woman Show with Two Women. |
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Border $6.95 Bombshelter_Press 52pp. 5.5x9.5in. These three poets manage to reach beyond what is merely necessary in their lives and in their art--from the aggressive imagism of Lori Cohen's work to the conversational vigor of Katharine Harer's poems, to Kita Shantiris's casual wit and intelligence. And whether we run from ourselves or the world, there is that place where paths must cross. The Border is a place to begin. |
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truth and lies that press for life $12.95 Bombshelter_Press 216pp. 6x9in. A collection of poems written by students of Jack Grapes during poetry workshops taught at the University of California at Los Angeles Extension program. "Sometimes the most effective poems, the most affecting, are lies that have been pressed into the service of truth." |
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48 Questions $10.00 Tebot_Bach/Bombshelter_Press 58pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-30-3 Richard Jones is the auhor of four previous books of poetry. He serves as the editor of the distinguished literary journal, Poetry East, and is the director of the Creative Writing Program at DePaul University. |
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Changing Tides $15.00 Bombshelter_Press 134pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-24-9 Stan Josephs began writing poetry and short fiction in 1991. He also served on the Board of Directors of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and worked tirelessly for the arts. As a surgeon, he became one of the top diagnosticians in his field. In September 1998 he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, and passed away on June 4, 1990. His poems have been published in various literary journals and magazines. At the time of his death, he was working numerous short stories and a novel. |
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Chaos and Dancing Stars $15.95 Bombshelter_Press 132pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-66-4 Jean Katz grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She and her husband, Norman, have lived in Los Angeles since 1970. She earned degrees from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, and University Associates, San Diego. She facilitates organizational planning processes and gives leadership workshops for school districts and non-profit organizations. In 1980 she co-founded the Very Special Arts Festival at the Los Angeles County Music Center. Her poems and essays have appeared in the anthology Twelve Los Angeles Poets, ONTHEBUS, Rattle, Spillway, Writing for Your Life, The American Rabbi, The Journal of Learning Disabilities, and FutureSearching. |
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Passion and Shadow $18.00 Bombshelter_Press 98pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-65-6 An honest accounting of the journey from the darkness of brain cancer to the lightness of being. "Passion" and "Shadow" reflect accurately the richness of feelings, thoughts, and images evoked by brain cancer. The confusion, the wonderment, the sadness and pain of loss, the exhilaration of freedom. They are all here, to be honored and appreciated. |
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History of the World $13.5 Bombshelter_Press 92pp. 7x9in. James Krusoe was the director of Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Foundation in Venice for many years. He is one of Los Angeles's leading poets. His book Blood Lake and Other Short Stories was published to critical acclaim. He is former editor of Santa Monica Review and author of numerous books of poems and short stories; this was his first book, and is nearly out of print--a collector's item. |
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Over to You $8.95 Bombshelter_Press 60pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-23-0 Twenty-six poems written singly and in collaboration by Los Angeles writers David Widup and Stellasue Lee. Widup is a poet and song writer whose work is characterized by a love of plain speech and a moving personal search for redemption. Lee is an artist whose work reflects the many lives she's lived, as a storyteller, poet, and professional athlete. |
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Moving Pictures $5.00 Best_Press 62pp. 5.5x8.5in. Work by Alan Berman, Heidi Berman, Chiwan Choi, Michaelann Dimitrijevich, Andy Jen, Lucia Lemieux, Aliete Magellan, Stewart Mintzer, Colleen Nakamoto. |
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Bad Boy Poems $11.95 Bombshelter_Press 80pp. 7.5x10in. ISBN:0-941017-31-1 Poems and prose. |
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News from Inside $7.95 Hand_Maid_Books/Bombshelter_Press 64pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-35-4 Work by Michael Andrews, Charles Bischoff, Susan Estabrook, Fran Fisher, Jack Grapes, Lori Grapes, Stephanie Hager, Elieen Adele Hale, Ed Harrington, Warren Hill, Deanne Ivlev, diana jean, Mifanwy Kaiser, Maxine Landis, Stellasue Lee, Aime Lindsay, Alexandra Maeck, Estrellita Mendez, Mimi Nelson-Takiguchi, Terri Niccum, Jo Scott, Patricia L. Scruggs, Corey Slavin, Joyce Stein, Anderson Stone, Genez Waite, David Widup, Danelia Wild. |
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Natural Selections $16.00 Bombshelter 120pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-26-5 Elaine Mintzer's Natural Selections is a collection of 89 poems about choices. From "pinched fingers, bad movies, . . . chicken or pizza again" ("Mercy"), to the religious proportions of a misplaced piece of paper in "Grail," to the intentional amnesia surrounding the loss of a parent, this poet has an eye for the lushness of daily life and the ironic humor of loss. Mintzer has been published in a number of literary journals, and she has been anthologized in 13 Los Angeles Poets. Her work celebrates the process by which we make it through each day. |
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Hidden Proofs $10.00 Bombshelter_Press 64pp. 6.5x9.5in. Poems | |
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Corpses of Angels $12.95 Bombshelter_Press 72pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-61-3 Henry Morro was born in Costa Rica. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. In 1994, New Alliance Records released Somoza's Teeth, a CD of his poetry. |
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Arrival $6.00 Bombshelter_Press 76pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-37-0 Poretz is a poet and playwright. Her short stories and poems have been published in numerous journals, and collected in three books: Arrival, Re:Visions (1976) and This Woman in America (1978). Her plays have been performed in Los Angeles and New York. |
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Scattered Light $6.00 Bombshelter_Press pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-09-5 Poems |
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Re:Visions $10.00 Bombshelter_Press 62pp. 5.5x8.5in. Rare collection of poetry by the noted Los Angeles writer. |
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Primary Colors $7.95 Bombshelter_Press 82pp. 5.5x8.5in. Poems |
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Beyond Rescue $7.95 Bombshelter_Press pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-19-2 Rossi has lived in Los Angeles since 1972. His poetry has appeared widely in such journals as Poetry East, The Wormwood Review, and Poetry/LA. His reviews and translations have appeared in a variety of journals as well as a book-length critical study of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. |
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Raising the Roof $10.00 Bombshelter_Press 72pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-15-X Work by RD Armstrong, Alan Berman, Heidi Berman, Rod Boyer, Brandy Burrows, Mike Cluff, Jeff Duclos, Donna Hibert, Mifanwy Kaiser, Judy Kronenfeld, Stellasue Lee, Wayne Liebman, Gerald Locklin, Julianne Miller, Stewart Mintzer, Joan Nicholson, Carol Pearlman, Jo Scott, Marilyn Sequoia, Rowena Silver, B. Lynne Zika. Essay by Carlos Looney, Habitat home builder/owner. |
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Lord of the House of Dawn $7.95 Bombshelter_Press 64pp. 5.5x8.5in. ISBN:0-941017-17-6 John Oliver Simon is a noted San Francisco poet, author of numerous collections of poetry, and former director of the California Poets in the Schools program. His essays and translations of Central and South American poets have been featured in American Poetry Review and Poetry Flash. |
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Return of Sound $14.95 96pp. 6x9in. ISBN:0-941017-13-3 Zahava Sweet was born in Poland and survived the Holocaust. After the war she lived in Israel and later emigrated to America. She has been writing since childhood. Her poetry was selected by the Bumbershoot Literary Festival for performance and publication. This collection of poems is a reflection on her life. She lives in Monrovia, California. The themes in The Return of Sound are: poems derived from experiences during World War II, poems about family, nature poems, and, poems derived from dreams. "The poet heeds the voices of elemental things while also understanding the power of authorial restraint and silence. Out of tatters and fragments of memory, in poems spare and wraith--thin, with lines taut and urgent, Sweet recovers her "history of terror" and makes for herself, and her readers, a new coat out of song." --Jeanne Marie Beaumont |
