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THE CARNIVAL, THE LIFE

ISBN 978-0-9859-4681-4

David Allan Evans' vision is virtually limitless. Born of the great expanse of South Dakota and touching locales as distant as Mexico, China and the Isle of Man, Evans expression of that vision is as subtle as it is encompassing. The Carnival, The Life is a meditation on a life well lived.

The Carnival, The Life

Poems by David Allan Evans

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THE LUNATIC IN THE TREES

ISBN 978-0-9859-4680-7

Dennis Sampson’s seventh collection of poems, The Lunatic in the Trees, does everything we could ask of a book of poems. It has its own peculiar bent, is unique in its preoccupations, is well crafted and, ultimately, refreshingly humane.

The Lunatic in the Trees

Poems by Dennis Sampson

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SOUTH POLE / POLO SUR

ISBN 978-1-4507-7813-8

South Pole / Polo Sur is a bilingual journey in poems--from the mountains of Colombia, down the Amazon River and ultimately to the South Pole--by the renown Venezuelan poet Maria Teresa Ogliastri.

South Pole / Polo Sur

Translated from the Spanish by
Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher

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The Importance of Being Zimmer

ISBN 978-0-578-06070-5

The Importance of Being Zimmer, Paul Zimmer's thirteenth collection of poems, is cause for celebration.

The Importance of Being Zimmer

Poems by Paul Zimmer

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Within the Shadow of a Man

ISBN 978-1-60743-504-4

“Lethargic is the word I love,” writes Dennis Sampson
in “On Doing Nothing.” Within the Shadow of a Man is anything but.

Within the Shadow of a Man

Poems by Dennis Sampson

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It was the Orange Persimmon of the Sun

ISBN 978-1-60743-503-7

"Rarely there comes a book with the power to change the way its reader thinks, believes, and lives for the deeper, the fiercer, and the better. "

—Emma Bolden

It was the Orange Persimmon of the Sun

Poems by Louie Skipper

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King Philip's War

ISBN 978-0-615-20890-9

"A meditation on tribe and family, natural harmony and human tolerance."

King Philip’s War

A poem by Sheppard Ranbom

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The Work Ethic of the Common Fly

ISBN 978-1-60461-168-7

"The Work Ethic of the Common Fly is work of spiritual genius. There is nothing here that isn’t every bit as good as anything the Buddha ever said..."

—Annie Dillard

The Work Ethic of the Common Fly
Still Shots from the Journey

A verse autobiography by Louie Skipper

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