Press
ryoefry
Series
KISSES
Steve Orlen
73 pp.
$19.95 cloth ISBN 1-881163-20-2
$11.95 paper ISBN 1-881163-21..Q
Orlen is a wonderful poet and one of the best practitioners offree verse
writing today.
The
sounds of his poems bang and glide. Mostfine poetry
strikes the mind and heart.
This
is
true
of Orlen as well, but his poems also
strike the ear.
They
feel good in the mouth.
-Stephen Dobyns
Orlen's Bridge of Sighs. like Eliot's "Prufrock." is filled with many human
voices, but they are the voices around us, the recognizable voices of people
we know too well_ .
..
He
builds from memory, from old photographs,
mental snapshots of the past, and he knows where to break a line and also
how to break your heart.
-Mark Hillringhouse in The
Literary Review
WHAT WIND WILL
Do
59 pp.
$19.95 cloth ISBN 1-881163-18-0
Debra Bruce
$11.95 paper ISBN 1-881163-19-9
I admire Debra Bruce's adroit use ofform. Through it. paradoxically, she
has acquired the freedom to confront subjects that range from cancer to
infertility and she does
so
with grace.
-Maxine Kumin
Along with such poets as Marilyn Hacker. Jane Kenyon. and Mary Oliver,
Bruce has given us another woman's voice
we
have to listen to!
LONG DISTANCE
Aleda Shirley
- Julia Alvarez
77pp.
$19.95 cloth ISBN 1-881163-16-4
$11.95 paper ISBN 1-881163-17-2
The
idea that "America may always be more a passage than a place" is
explored with kaleidoscopic resonance and cut-glass clarity in this moving
second collection by Mississippi poet Shirley.... Throughout, both time and
space are evocatively shape-shifting dimensions.... Shirley's measured lyric
language and seamless craftsmanship reveal the offroad intimacies and
profundities of the American landscape.
-Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
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