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Perpetual Motion
Marilyn McCabe
Richly observed, McCabe's poems, on subjects ranging from the Big Bang to beauty, ground themselves in the elemental and tangible to consider the mysterious and intangible. HilaryTham Capital Collection
ISBN:
978-0-915380-82-4
Paper: $15
Scorched by the Sun
Moshe Dor
as translated by
Barbara Goldberg
with the author
Dors poems breathe, smell and taste like Israel. They express the pressures of living in a land constantly under siege, where hope and terror live side by side, where there is a fierce hatred of war and a fierce craving for peace. This is also a book about love the love for a woman as well as a motherland. Cover art by Mordechai Ardon.
ISBN:
978-0-915380-83-1
Paper: $20
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FLESH THAT WAS CHRYSALIS
Mel Belin
This collection stakes out huge territory on family,
love, sex, morality. Jay Parini applauds the "musical
and vivid language," how the poet invokes swans to
summon "the old world rising" or meditates "on
a haunting biblical tale." Cover art by Noi Volkov. Word Works Capital
Collection publication.
ISBN 0-915380-40-4 ISBN13 978-0-915380-40-4
Paper: $15
FLEUR CARNIVORE
Richard Lyons
2005 Washington Prize. "Like the solos of the jazz greats
who inhabit his pages, Lyons' poems are exploratory, nervy,
emotionally rich, and possess a keen command of craft."
David Wojahn. Cover art by Hamlett Dobbins.
ISBN 0-915380-61-7 ISBN13 978-0-915380-61-9
Paper: $15
FOLLOWING FRED ASTAIRE
Nathalie Anderson
1998 Washington Prize winner. "Anderson's
keen eye illuminates our socially-constructed ideas of gender
and identity, the various mannerisms and dancesteps we consider
appropriate for women and men."--Marcus Cafagna.
Cover Art by Perky Edgerton
ISBN 0-915380-41-2 ISBN13 978-0-915380-41-1
Paper: $15
GANDHI'S LAP
Charlotte Gould Warren
2000 Washington Prize winner. Warren depicts growing
up in India, childhood abuse, and coming to terms with her
past in lyrical narrative poems that demonstrate the triumph
of the human spirit--a product of hard-won wisdom. Cover
art by Charlotte Gould Warren.
ISBN 0-915380-46-3 ISBN13 978-0-915380-46-6
Paper:$15
GILBERT AND GARBO IN LOVE
Christopher Conlon
Enthrallingly imagined, Conlon's poems blend Hollywood's
reality and history with the lives of these two idols of
the silent screen, their passion's brightest hours, their
darkest fears. He makes Gilbert and Garbo live again! Capital
Collection. Cover design by Janice Olson. Read what Monseurat
Review said.
ISBN 0-915380-54-4 ISBN13 978-0-915380-54-1
Paper:$15
GREEN BODIES
Rosemary Winslow
Poems of richly woven images and lyrics that inquire why people love and harm each other. Hilary Tham Capital
Collection. Cover art by John Winslow. Read an interview with the author on her book.
ISBN 0-915380-54-4 ISBN13 978-0-915380-67-1
Paper:$15
THE GOOD OPINION OF SQUIRRELS
Michael Schaffner
"The subject of these savagely smart, moving poems
is who now lives in America's parks, cities, and exurbs...."--
Elizabeth Macklin. Schaffner mixes free verse and poetic
forms in his meditations on home, safe havens, and politics.
A Word Works Capital Collection publication and Writer's
Center Edition. 1997 winner of the Columbia Book Award.
ISBN 0-915380-34-X ISBN13 978-0-915380-34-3
Paper:$15
THE HABIT OF FIRE: POEMS SELECTED
& NEW
Judith McCombs
A look at nature -- the great outdoors, humankind. Cover art by JoAnn Clayton Townsend. Word
Works Capital Collection. Monseurat
Review said. Small Press Review Said.
ISBN 0-915380-57-9 ISBN13 978-0-915380-57-2
Paper:$15
THE HAT CITY AFTER MEN STOPPED
WEARING HATS
John Surowiecki
Gritty, working-class life passed through the lens of the author's clarifying and radiant imagination which results in disturbing and often funny poems. Cover photo by Robert Reichert.
ISBN 0-915380-64-1 ISBN13 978-0-915380-64-0
Paper:$15
HICKEY, THE DAYS . . .
J.H. Beall
A physicist and poet examines inner and outer worlds
in visions that articulate the age. A poet/artist collaboration
with photographs by Chester Michalik. LIMITED STOCK AVAILABLE.
ORDER NOW!
ISBN 0-915380-09-9 ISBN13 978-0-915380-09-1
Paper:$15
HOW TO MAKE A BIRD WITH TWO HANDS
Mike White
2011 Washington Prize winner. How to Make a Bird with Two Hands is a collection that opens small doors into many-mirrored rooms full of sky and would-be angels. Washington Prize judge Leslie McGrath said about this book, "it is a fresh mix of post-modern edginess and Zen mystery."
ISBN13 978-0-915380-81-7
Paper:$15
IMMERSION
Michele Wolf
In Immersion, Michele Wolf juxtaposes the intimate and the global in poems about adoption, identity, commitment, resilience, and the fate of our sumptuous, violent world. Cover art by Hellenne Vermillion. 2011 Hilary Tham Capital Collection publication. Read Examiner Review.
ISBN13 978-0-915380-80-0
Paper:$15
JUDGING THE DISTANCE
Doris Brody
The poet's affinity for birds and nature leads us from
familiar backyards to exotic jungles in intimate explorations
of the human wilderness. Pen and ink drawing by Zander Brody.
Word Works Capital Collection.
ISBN 0-915380-47-1 ISBN13 978-0-915380-47-3
Paper:$15
LAST HEAT
Peter Blair
1999 Washington Prize winner. Poems that explore
creation, violence, and survival in a Pittsburgh steel mill
and how this dynamic weaves into family life, especially
the universal "mill" of the father son, brother-brother
relationships. "Peter Blair's poetry takes me right
inside where I've never been, the working life of a steel
mill, the love between fathers and sons, brothers and working
men. God is in the details, and they are good and strong
here."--Alicia Ostriker.
ISBN 0-915380-44-7 ISBN13 978-0-915380-44-7
Paper: $15
LOVE-IN-IDLENESS
John Bradley
1989 Washington Prize winner. Bradley portrays Roberto
Zingarello, a fictitious, postwar Italian poet who bursts
onto the horizon hauling the weight of the Twentieth Century.
Mussonlini, Pound, Vallejo, Rilke haunt his imagination.
Zingarello has an enormous appetite for love, truth, revenge.
Cover art by Erica Daborn.
ISBN 0-915380-24-2 ISBN13 978-0-915380-24-4
Paper:$15
LOVE'S SKIN
Brandon D. Johnson
Travel Love's Skin, a blues noir journey past juke joints,
conjure men selling high john at the crossroads and red-dressed
revenge. Cover photograph by Mignonette E. Dooley. Hilary Tham Capital Collection.
ISBN 0-915380-63-3 ISBN13 978-0-915380-63-3
Paper:$15
MARY FALLS: REQUIEM FOR MRS. SURRATT
Christopher Conlon
A vivid imagining of the life, death and afterlife of Mary Surratt, convicted conspirator in the Lincoln assassination and the first woman to be executed by the U.S. government. Hilary Tham Capital
Collection. Cover design by Janice Olson. Read Tony Zurlo's review.
ISBN 0-915380-54-4 ISBN13 978-0-915380-65-7
Paper:$15
MAYWEED
Frannie Lindsay
2009 Washington Prize winner. With seamless craft and lyricism, Frannie Lindsay elevates personal grief to a universal level. Through the natural world, she invites "mayweed, earnest as milkmaids" to flood the valley of death. Lindsay offers the reader light, often surprisingly warm, in the chill darkness of death. Cover art by Deborah Mayhall Bradshaw.
ISBN13 978-0-915380-73-2
Paper:$15
MOTION STUDIES
Brad Richard
2010 Washington Prize winner. Investigating past and present in poems dealing with memory and loss, Motion Studies takes us from daguerreotypes and the Thomas Eakins painting Swimming to post-Katrina New Orleans. Read review from Gently Read Literature.
ISBN13 978-0-915380-78-7
Paper:$15
NOTHING HAPPENED
W. Perry Epes
This southern poet addresses what has been built and left standing. No surprise that there are elephants in the room. Cover photo by Steven White. Hilary Tham Capital Collection
ISBN13 978-0-915380-75-6
Paper:$15
ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN WAITING FOR
A TRAIN
Michael Atkinson
2001 Washington Prize winner. Using cinema as a ruling
metaphor, Atkinson's debut volume directly engages old Hollywood,
alcoholism, parenthood, the afterlife, Dostoyevsky's widow,
and America herself seen through a weathered windshield.
Cover art by Lawrence Gipe.
ISBN 0-915380-50-1 ISBN13 978-0-915380-50-3
Paper:$15
PERPETUAL MOTION
Marilyn McCabe
Richly observed, McCabe's poems, on subjects ranging from the Big Bang to
beauty, ground themselves in the elemental and tangible to consider the
mysterious and intangible. Hilary Tham Capital Collection
ISBN13 978-0-915380-82-4
Paper:$15
PHOENIX SUITES
Miles Waggener
2002 Washington Prize winner. The desert of the Southwest
is the landscape of this poet's meditations on time, civilizations,
and the heart's painful lessons. Waggener wields language
like a magician, language that excites, exults and leads
to discoveries about ourselves and our relationship to the
desert. Cover art by Matt Hamon.
ISBN 0-915380-52-8 ISBN13 978-0-915380-52-7
Paper:$15
PINECREST REST HAVEN
Grace Cavalieri
In a home for the elderly, Mr. and Mrs. P no longer
remember they're married to each other. Much to the dismay
of the Mrs., the flirtatious Coco and Muriel pursue Mr.
P. Anger, jealousy, greed and lust, the human traits Shakespeare
plumbed still animate the residents of Pinecrest Rest Haven.
These poems are heart-stoppingly comic. Cover photo by Mary Ellen Long. A Word Works Capital
Collection publication. Also available in audio cassette.
ISBN 0-915380-39-0 ISBN13 978-0-915380-39-8
Paper:$15
ROLLERCOASTER
Miles David Moore
Childhood bullies who bedevil the vulnerable—including
Fatslug, Moore's poster boy for low self-esteem—sometimes
grow up to be dictators. Cover photo by Christopher Hubble.
Monseurat
Review said.
ISBN 0-915380-56-0 ISBN13 978-0-915380-56-5
Paper:$15
SCORCHED BY THE SUN
Moshe Dor as translated by Barbara Goldberg with the author
Dors poems breathe, smell and taste like Israel. They express the pressures of living in a land constantly under siege, where hope and terror live side by side, where there is a fierce hatred of war and a fierce craving for peace. This is also a book about love the love for a woman as well as a motherland. Cover art by Mordechai Ardon.
ISBN13 978-0-915380-83-1
Paper:$20
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF HIS POEMS IN TRANSLATION
Isaac Goldberg
A comprehensive bibliography on the most significant
of the major Hebrew poets of the Jewish Golden Age of Spain
(10th- 12th centuries), Solomon Ibn Gabirol. This essential
research tool indexes individual poems, their translations
and their locations. Recommended for scholars, students,
libraries and research collections of medieval Hebrew and
comparative poetry. Word Works International Edition.
ISBN 0-915380-37-4 ISBN13 978-0-915380-37-4
Paper: $35
SPINOZA'S MOUSE
George Young
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