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92 Pages, FootHills Publishing
Illustration by Carol Zaloom
$16.00
Love in the City of
Grudges

Called “a poetic coming of age story” this collection ranges from tales about a childhood swimming hole to college misadventures in the California desert to a snowbound holiday with a Jewish girlfriend who wanted to crown her first Christmas tree with a black bra. There are stories of gentrifying Hoboken in the 1980s, plus a recasting of the poet’s family as zombies from Night of the Living Dead.

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88 Pages, FootHills Publishing
Illustration by Carol Zaloom
$16.00
My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse

“A born storyteller” loosely chronicles his life from a suburban childhood to young adulthood in Hoboken and Manhattan to his escape to a Catskills log cabin in “narrative poems” that “strike a rare balance between a child’s sense of wonder and a skeptic’s dry, knowing assessment of the world.” Along the way the poems recall childhood pranks with a chemistry set, lusty assaults on Manhattan, the rise and fall of a marriage, a Thoreauvian flight to the mountains, and the loss of loved ones, including a mother who did, indeed, return one day as a ruffed grouse, “a feathered cannonball.”

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Walking Woodstock

Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town

by Michael Perkins and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom

At a poetry gathering one evening, Michael Perkins and Will Nixon decided to walk across Woodstock, not just the modern town of busy roads but the older village of bluestone quarries, abandoned forest paths, and mountain views they had all to themselves. Walking Woodstock collects their adventures, many first published in the Woodstock Times, that ranged from the delights of finding spring flowers to the fears of a mountain rescue. Full of humor, history, friendship, nature, hikers’ lore, and walkers’ musings, these journeys reveal the wild heart that beats in all of us when we set forth to explore our terrain on foot.

“The Hudson Valley has produced some of the great peregrinations of our time, most notably by John Burroughs, an inveterate walker. Add Michael Perkins and Will Nixon to the list—these are charming essays, some of them with a bit more bite than you’d guess!” — Bill McKibben, Wandering Home

#1 Paperback Bestseller of 2009, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY

250 Pages, Bushwhack Books
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