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Tales From Twisted Town
Tales From Twisted Town is a collection of poems and lyrics spanning five decades of writing, organised into eight thematic cycles. Moving from intimate family history through social and political structures to questions of belief, power and silence, the collection traces the hidden architectures that shape ordinary life.Written and revised between 1974 and 2026, the work reflects the full arc of a life's engagement with language - direct, formally varied, and quietly subversive. Each cycle functions independently while contributing to a larger argument about how inherited stories determine the choices available to us.Tales From Twisted Town will appeal to readers of contemporary Australian poetry and to those interested in the intersection of the personal and the political in literary verse.
Fallen Trees
Fallen Trees is a collection of poetry written in response to the moments that shape us. The collection moves through a wide range of emotions and experiences. Experiences with love, loss and lust; anger and grief, humor, beauty of life and nature, and rare quiet contemplation in-between. Fallen Trees is rooted in the cycle of the Four Seasons, Chapters reflect what each season evokes or reveals. Winter confronts cold truths: deceit, betrayal, fear. The cold, dark edge of despair. Spring opens into the first signs of bloom. Themes of renewal, growth, regeneration and hope. The promise of new beginnings. Summer moves with heat, desire, love, lust and the sweat of being alive. Fall turns outward toward social commentary, political observation, and unfiltered opinion.
Outside The Lines
Outside the Lines consists of poems exploring possibilities of final meanings in life such as: individuality and the power of the human soul to transcend familial, institutional and societal demands and expectations; faith; interfaith; ideals and the intrinsic value of artistic processes and ends. Much of the content stems from the author's own experiences, particularly with people -- their lives and works - that have influenced his development as writer, artist, teacher and human being.
Wind Crossing Grasses
This anthology of modern Chinese poetry takes you on a breathtaking journey along China's Yellow and Yangtze Rivers-the nation's vital arteries and ancient dragon symbols-from their origin in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Bohai and East China Sea. Along the way, you will meet poets from the riverbanks, including major figures like Bei Dao, Jidimajia, Xi Chuan, Yu Jian, Zhai Yongming, Mo Fei, Huang Fan, and exciting new voices from Tibet, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the river deltas. In their work, these poets sing their sorrows and joys, sharing their profound passion for life. By the journey's end, you will understand why this civilization has endured as long as the rivers, stood as tall as the Himalayas, and created poetry as beautiful as a painting.Translator Wang Ping was born in Shanghai, graduated from Beijing University before moving to the United States in 1985, and earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU. In 1988, she began writing and translating poetry with Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Ron Padgett, Ann Waldman, Lewis Warsh, and other American poets. She is the author of fifteen award-winning books of poetry, prose, and translation. Since 1998, she has traveled along China's dragon rivers, meeting local poets, translating their work, and photographing the water and land. The poems and photographs in this anthology are a living history of China, captured over these transformative years. The introduction is co-authored by Gary Snyder and Wang Ping.Paperback: "Affordable Black & White Edition. All photographs and illustrations are presented in striking monochrome."
Tales From Twisted Town
Tales From Twisted Town is a collection of poems and lyrics spanning five decades of writing, organised into eight thematic cycles. Moving from intimate family history through social and political structures to questions of belief, power and silence, the collection traces the hidden architectures that shape ordinary life.Written and revised between 1974 and 2026, the work reflects the full arc of a life's engagement with language - direct, formally varied, and quietly subversive. Each cycle functions independently while contributing to a larger argument about how inherited stories determine the choices available to us.Tales From Twisted Town will appeal to readers of contemporary Australian poetry and to those interested in the intersection of the personal and the political in literary verse.
Year of Valentines
In Year of Valentines, John Reed writes 80+ valentines to "you" (the loved one, the missed one, the lost one), and to New York City itself. Passionate and cool tempered, Reed's second collection of sonnets sees creative origins in the No Wave movement-the set of his childhood-with its splendor of dissipation, and merciless affections.
Otter
From the co-author and illustrator of The Lost Spells, and The Lost Words--single animal focused meditations in accordion form. An accordion book doesn't open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text--poems, descriptions, invocations--inspired by the same animal. Together they work as spells to summon the animal's spirit. Jackie Morris has painted them using antique watercolours, some from boxes which hadn't been opened for over 150 years, woken from their slumber with a single drop of water.
Fox
From the co-author and illustrator of The Lost Spells, and The Lost Words--single animal focused meditations in accordion form. An accordion book doesn't open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text--poems, descriptions, invocations--inspired by the same animal. Together they work as spells to summon the animal's spirit. Jackie Morris has painted them using antique watercolours, some from boxes which hadn't been opened for over 150 years, woken from their slumber with a single drop of water. Fox and Otter are two very special limited edition "accordions".
Ombres en Feu (Burning Shadows)
French: Ombres en Feu est une travers矇e sensorielle o羅 le corps, la nature et la parole vibrent d'une m礙me intensit矇. Sofia Perez concilie la lumi癡re et l'obscurit矇, l'矇t矇 et l'hiver du coeur, le d矇sir et le silence - comme une double flamme, r矇v矇lant ce qui palpite sous la peau du monde. Chaque image ouvre une br癡che dans le r矇el: les mots respirent, saignent, aiment. Un livre incan-descent o羅 les ombres prennent feu et o羅 les mots apprennent ? battre comme un coeur.English: Burning Shadows is a sensory journey where body, nature, and language pulse with the same intensity. In these short, striking poems, Sofia Perez reconciles light and darkness, the summer and winter of the heart, desire and silence - like a double flame, revealing what trembles beneath the skin of the world. Each image opens a crack in reality: words breathe, bleed, and love. An incandescent collection where shadows ignite and words learn to beat like a heart.
Sipping a Cloud
Within the pages of Sipping a Cloud, Kathy Kremins invites you to accompany her on "a verbal walk of peace." Bringing together personal narratives, haikus, tankas, and a short form of the author's own creation called matins, the imagery and story plays with the natural poetry form. In a tumultuous world filled with everyday distractions, this pocket-sized companion presents meditative moments as a soothing balm. Sipping a Cloud is a powerful exploration of what it means to exist in this moment and what binds us together in Beloved Community. Whether the speaker is sharing family history or following the assured steps of her own two feet, each page is an intimate conversation with a dear friend. Through contemplation and a search for beauty, Kathy Kremins invites us on a journey to find our own version of "sipping a cloud."
Life Lines
In Life Lines, her second poetry collection, Beatrice J. Krauss writes with trademark wit and deep compassion. Many poems act as correspondence, letters to and from places, people, concepts, and her own various selves. Others act as travel guides, revealing our own world to us through fresh eyes and plucking the lines between us as deftly as harp strings.
Listen, Kid
Listen, Kid gathers sixteen years of Bryan Borland's poetry into one sweeping, intimate, and fiercely human collection. Moving across love, lust, faith, grief, queer boyhood, marriage, family lineage, and the ghosts that shape a life, these poems trace the evolution of a Southern gay poet who refuses to look away from the hard things and refuses to write without tenderness.Borland's work spans the mythic and the personal: altar boys and backseat boys, brothers living and lost, the ache of rural adolescence, the bright terror of first desire, the complexities of relationships, the politics of survival, and the long, startling work of growing into one's own body. Whether writing elegy or erotic memory, biblical remix or road-trip confession, he approaches every subject with clarity, vulnerability, humor, and reverence.This is a book about becoming again and again, and about the people, places, and loves that make survival not only possible but luminous. Borland writes to the younger self who doesn't yet know how the story will turn out, and to the reader who needs to hear it: you belong, you endure, you matter.Listen, Kid is a landmark collection from a poet and publisher whose work has shaped and sustained a generation of queer readers and writers.
Oil Courses
Grounded in deep concern about the climate crisis, CarolynWilliams-Noren's Oil Courses recalls a family reliant on the oilindustry--her father worked for British Petroleum in Anchorage, Alaska--and asummer spent in its service on Endicott Island. What "curriculum" has oiloffered each of us? To answer, Oil Courses turns to strange happenings inthe changing landscape and in our interior lives, magnifying odd scenes thatonce seemed ordinary and filing them under the names of school subjects such asphysics, economics, and history. In these poems, the absurd, thebeautiful, and the alarming collide. Tiny fish begin to swim sideways, poisoned. The permafrost melts. Whales are hunted and skinned. The high schoolyearbook features students who have hit moose with their cars. A polar bear isspotted at a distance through binoculars, and the tundra is viewed both upclose and from a plane window. This collection is also anevocative snapshot of American girlhood in the late '80s and early '90s. Ashopping mall with an ice rink opens, Sassy magazine comes in the mail, bedroom closets become shrines covered in photos of teen heartthrobs, and bangsare teased high. Boys make insensitive comments. Still, the particularities ofgeography persist: A teacher warns her students that "the earth / could openand take anything away." The speaker of one poem wins a trophy for an essay onthe subject "What Petroleum Means to Me," presented by a groupof women she derisively calls the "Petroleum Wives." Oil Courses speaks to ourcollective reliance on exploitative industries and questions ourresponsibilities and relationships to the natural world. These poems are droll, revealing, and ultimately haunting.
