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THE ICE HOUSE by Floyce Alexander
Floyce Alexander meditates on the past, loss, and death: of firemen, friends, and the Zeitgeist of the times when Creeley, Olson, Kerouac and Kesey roamed the earth, who, like 'La Llorona's ravens, "launch/ their feathery bodies.../ & the day sees them/ come to life & opens both eyes." —Dorianne Laux
LIKE FAMILY by John Balaban
Chapbook of eleven poems, poems written for those people important enough to be "like familly."
ON MARRIAGE by Todd Boss and Katrina Vandenberg
A ten poem collaboration by two poets that are married (though not to each other). 2008 letterpress printed chapbook. 225 copies. $15.
GHOST AND OAR by Marianne Boruch
Twelve poem sequence written at Isle Royale. 2007 letterpress edition. $15.
SEEING IT NOW by Marjorie Buettner
These are wonderful poems about love, death, absence and time. Marjorie Buettner’s poetry is rich with mystery, magic and a powerful sensuality close in tone to the Japanese poetry of the Heian Period. —Serge Tome, editor of Free Times
QUIVER by Sarah Busse
2009 letterpress chapbook of eleven poems. Edition of 180 copies. $10
STEPHEN CRANE edited & introduced by James P. Lenfestey
A selection of poems by Stephen Crane.
CANYON by Noel Crook
Chapbook of twelve poems. Poems fierce and beautiful, about people and nature in rural Texas.
VERTEBRAE ROSARIES by Philip Dacey
50 Sonnets, on subjects as varied as Vietnam and nude portraits, by the co-editor of Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms.
THE FIRST LIGHT TOUCHES ME by Lyle Daggett
This book contains fourteen poems. And is Daggett's strongest, most distinct, and most carefully crafted collection so far. A small book that puts forth a tremendous voice.
WHAT IS BURIED HERE by Lyle Daggett
This book of poems has as its physical ballast the northern Minnesota iron ore harbor town of Duluth. While still threaded with Daggett's political concerns and voice, the poems explore much new personal ground.
IF THERE IS A SONG by Lyle Daggett
A collection of ten poems, most several pages in length, and all with lines wandering from margin to margin, searching for music among the rubble of our days.
GINNUNGAGAP by Lightsey Darst
2009 chapbook of fifteen poems. $10
NIGHT WATCH by Abderrahmane Djelfaoui
First English edition by this Algerian poet. Translated from the French by Andrea Moorhead
CHRYSANTHEMUM MIRROR by Robert Edwards
Letterpress printed butterfly book of a poem sequence that honors the Chinese poet Tu Fu.
LAND OF THE GREAT HORSES by Robert Edwards
SUNDAY DRIVE by Robert Edwards
Letterpress chapbook containing twenty-one small poems with a Minnesota-ish theme.
TRANSPARENCIES by Robert Edwards
These poems---of small town Minnesota, its backroads, its beauty, its loneliness, and its pain---are many-voiced, producing a rich and polyphonic texture, that is by turns irreverent, political, humorous, and searching. This is an important addition to the Midwestern cannon.
COMMEMORATIVE by Louise Erdrich
Letterpress printed chapbook. Four poems. Edition is limited to 225 numbered copies. Each copy has a unique postage stamp on its cover. Sold out.
DANDELIONS by Dave Etter
This is Dave Etter's 31st collection of poems, and the first collection of new poems in quite a number of years.
THE LIONTAMER'S DAUGHTER by Dave Etter
Subtitled 'Poems of Humor and Satire' this 2008 collection of poems spans the career of Dave Etter. Introduction by David Steingass. $12.
EACH DAY YOU'RE GONE by David Allan Evans
Letterpress printed chapbook. Ten poems by South Dakota poet laureate. This standard edition is limited to 225 copies.
EACH DAY YOU'RE GONE by David Allan Evans
Deluxe edition limited to 36 copies, lettered and signed by author.
HEAVEN WITHOUT A PASSPORT by Fereydoun Faryad
The most important characteristic of these poems is their simplicity, precision, purity, without any superfluous trinkets, without decorative elements and facile lyrical tones... A truly admirable poetry. —Yannis Ritsos, from Prologue
LEAST RESISTANCE by Larry Gavin
Larry Gavin is a Heartland poet, close to his family and fate. Like a prairie wind his words approach. . . . Have no reservations: you'll like these poems. Tom Helgeson, editor/publisher of Midwest Fly Fishing magazine
LIBRARY LAND by Jane Graham George
Jane Graham George writes of horses, pigs, stingrays, moose and toads—the beauty and solace of the natural world—and offers in this collection her poetical accounting of far places and the world of libraries in which she works. Far from workaday, Library Land is a rich and picaresque landscape peopled by like-minded devotees of books, nature, knowledge, the arts and the wider world.
THE EXTENDED WORDS by Sid Gershgoren
A dictionary of newly imagined words, with imagined definitions, and imagined usages, complete with imagined biographies of the imagined authoritative authors.
ONE AMONG MANY by Sid Gershgoren
Miniature book of a single long poem.
SYMPHONY by Sid Gershgoren
Letterpress printed chapbook of a long, experimental, symphonic poem in four movements.
THE TWENTY-FIFTH CATALOG OF PAST RENTALS by Sid Gershgoren
A 400 page fictional catalog & inexhaustible showcase of this poet's imaginative prose style.
THE MAILBOX by Albert Goldbarth
A single poem in three parts by Albert Goldbarth. 2007 letterpress printed chapbook. 225 copies numbered and signed by author. $10.
THE TENDERNESS OF BEES by Vicki Graham
"There is an open doorway between organism and environment, between inhabitant and habitat, between body and nature. Vicki Graham stands at that threshold and speaks to us in a language of intimacy and tenderness." ---Sandra Steingraber
ALEMBIC by Vicki Graham
Letterpress chapbook. Finalist in the 2001 MN Book Awards.
THE KISS THAT SAVED MY LIFE by Patrick Hicks
Seven Poems from Northern Ireland. 2007 letterpress printed chapbook. 250 copies numbered and signed by author. $7.50
TOMMY by Donna Isaac
An elegiac chapbook of 25 poems, poems that celebrate and mourn a brother who died young.
METAMORPHOSES OF THE SLEEPING BEAST by Dale Jacobson
"Throughout Metamorphoses of the Sleeping Beast, Dale Jacobson speaks for the unspoken, the victimized, the disillusioned, and does so eloquently, forcefully, in a voice filled with beauty and moral indignation." ---Robert Hedin ISBN 978-1-890193-74-4; 114 pages; $12
A WALK BY THE RIVER by Dale Jacobson
"I've come to conclude that Dale Jacobson's A Walk by the River is a masterwork....a book all manner of people should read." Larry Woiwode, poet laureate of North Dakota
FLIC(K)S by Maggie Jaffe
Jaffe's sixth collection of poetry. The poems in this book explore and expose the world of film. Afterword by Michael McIrvin.
DRIVING GRAVEL ROADS: 50 PROSE POEMS by Jim Johnson
A collection of prose poems about small towns, forgotten places, and back country destinations by the poet laureate of Duluth, Minnesota. Johnson's style is direct, with all the rustic humor and charm of his Finnish culture.
RARE MOMENTUM by Athena Kildegaard
A collection of Fibonacci poems.
DARK CHARMS by Dorianne Laux
Letterpress printed Chapbook. A poetic charm bracelet of nine poems that riff on the idea of repetition and form.
SUPERMAN: THE CHAPBOOK by Dorianne Laux
You've read the comics, seen the movies, bought the action figures, dressed up in a cape and jumped from the couch, now get the chapbook! 2008 letterpress edition. 350 copies. $15.
INTO THE GOODHUE COUNTY JAIL: Poems to Free Prisoners by James P. Lenfestey
Poems drawing on the tradition of the Chinese poet Han-shan and the author's visits to the Goodhue County Jail to teach poetry.
NUNCA MAS by Barry Lopez
This essay by Barry Lopez is concerned with genocide. A diary of days, centered around his visit to Auschwitz. 2007 letterpress edition. 350 copies (first 90 copies signed by author and artist). $15.
PULLING WIRE by Barry Lopez
Short story by Barry Lopez. Letterpress edition. 240 copies. $20.
KATALOGOS by Alan Loney
A long braid of a poem in 27 pages by Alan Loney, New Zealand's distinguished poet and printer. Deluxe letterpress edition. Signed by author.
SWIMMING WITH A HUNDRED YEAR OLD SNAPPING TURTLE by Freya Manfred
"This is the best book of poems Freya Manfred has written. She has always been brave, but these poems are more feisty and touching."--Robert Bly. 2008 trade paper edition. $12.
MY ONLY HOME by Freya Manfred
“Freya Manfred always startles me by how close she gets to everything she sees. That's her tough luck, but it makes her a wonderful poet.” Philip Roth
ROCK DOVE by Pamela McClure
"Pamela McClure assures us there are more skies than one sky, and each is aglow with its own species of sunlight. Time and again, the poems in Rock Dove rush the horizons of this world into gracious yet undeniable splendors. McClure's is a pure eye for a pure land." --Donald Revell. 2008 trade paper edition. $12.
THE FOUNTAIN by W. S. Merwin
Prose poem romance by W. S. Merwin. 2005 signed and numbered fine press edition limited to 125 copies. $110.
BESTIARY by Joseph Millar
Letterpress chapbook. Nine poems about beasts, owls and black dogs and hens and others.
GRASS ELEGY by John Minczeski
Single poem sequence--nine pages. 2007 letterpress edition. 130 copies. $10.
DARK DREAMING, GLOBAL DIMMING by Joe Paddock
"Joe Paddock loves this 'dear old green and blue' planet, and his poems are alive with birds, mesmerizing cats, snapping turtles, possums, and wolves. Even the spider's web 'shimmers with exchange / and contains within it / the one in the all.'" - Joyce Sutphen
A SORT OF HONEY by Joe Paddock
"Joe Paddock's poetry has always been rich with the accumulated wisdom that comes from knowing one's place, and this wonderful new book is a gift to us all." Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2004-2006
TRUST THE WILD HEART by Nancy Paddock
This full length collection of poems covers a lot of territory, from the book's opening section 'Military Presence' through 'Cheap Meat' and the poem 'Ruby's All Natural Snapper Recipe' to 'Following Deer Trails' and the "holy dark" of the final section.
LINES WRITTEN NEAR MARGUERITE STREET by Roger Parish
Poem in five sections by one of this country's least known neo-surrealists. 2006 letterpress printed edition limited to 130 copies. $10.
KEEPING CAEDMON'S FAITH by John Calvin Rezmerski
Essay about Caedmon, his story and his calling, and includes a new translation of his hymn.
THE WAVERING SCALES by Yannis Ritsos
Long poem in nine title sections by Modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos. Introduction by Peter Bien. Translated by Martin McKinsey and Scott King. 2006 deluxe letterpress edition. $55.
VELOCITIES OF THE POSSIBLE by Gonzalo Rojas
Twelve poems by Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas. Translated and introduced by John Oliver Simon. 2000 bi-lingual letterpress edition. $20.
DANCE WITH THE DARKER SISTER by Edith Rylander
Book-length sequence of poems exploring family history and its intersections with the history of the western United States.
HIVE DANCER by Edith Rylander
Edith Rylander has been writing poetry for sixty-three years. Her life as wife, mother, gardener, stock raiser, woods dweller, and thoughtful observer of nature and life is reflected in these poems. 2007 trade paper edition. $12.
THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW by Thomas R. Smith
Thomas R. Smith's sixth collection of poems. The Foot of the Rainbow finds him writing at the height of his powers, bringing the world’s abundance within his poetry's vibrant circumference.
WAKING BEFORE DAWN by Thomas R. Smith
In WAKING BEFORE DAWN, Thomas R. Smith confronts the challenge and responsibility of moral awareness in some of the best and most varied poems he has written. This is his fifth collection of poetry. Poems from this book are being featured on Garrison Keilor's Writer's Almanac and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry.
WAKING BEFORE DAWN by Thomas R. Smith
Limited edition hardcover. 36 copies bound into boards,numbered and signed by author. $24.
WINTER HOURS by Thomas R. Smith
A seasonal cycle of forty poems, each poem having eight lines. 2006 trade paper edition. $10.
FISHING FOR DYNAMITE by David Steingass
"To me, this book of poems is a sacred text of sorts, a kind of midwestern psalter filled with odd parables and a whole assortment of cock-eyed insights. And, fortunately for us, it also contains a great deal of humor, something so many sacred books tend to exclude." from the introduction by Scott King
GREATPLAINS: A PRAIRIE LOVESONG by David Steingass
This long poem was the 2002 winner of the Wisconsin book award for poetry.
A BUMPY RIDE TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE by Dag T. Straumsvåg
Prose poems by Dag T. Straumsvåg translated from Norwegian by Louis Jenkins and Robert Hedin. The edition is bi-lingual.
FIRST WORDS by Joyce Sutphen
Sutphen's fourth full length collection of poems. Paper edition.
FIRST WORDS by Joyce Sutphen (Signed)
Sutphen's fourth full length collection of poems. Hardcover edition. Signed by author.
FOURTEEN SONNETS by Joyce Sutphen
Fourteen sonnets and an introduction by Joyce Sutphen. 2005 letterpress edition. $20.
FOURTEEN SONNETS by Joyce Sutphen (Signed)
Deluxe letterpress edition limited to 36 copies. Printed on hand-made paper and bound into boards.
THE REINDEER CAMPS by Barton Sutter
Letterpress chapbook of a long poem in fourteen sections celebrating the reindeer people of northern Siberia by Duluth's poet laureate.
31 MORNINGS IN DECEMBER by Thom Tammaro
Letterpress printed chapbook. 31 short poems in the spirit of haiku or the late small poems of Thomas McGrath. The chapbook includes an introduction by the author.
THE LETTERS by Michael Waters
Three poems playing with our alphabet and our letters. 2008 letterpress printed chapbook. 150 copies. $10
ON THE WAY OF WATER by Drew Weis
Wisdom verse, in the tradition of the Chinese philosopher poet Lao Tzu. Chapbook, 2010.
THIS NORTHERN NONSENSE by Stephen Wilbers
Poems about Ernest Oberholtzer and Mallard Island. Proceeds from the sale of this chapbook will be donated to the Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation.
THE MAPS ARE WORDS by Morgan Grayce Willow
A collection of six ghazals. 2009 letterpress printed chapbook. 125 copies. $15.
HERDS OF BEARS SURROUND US by Timothy Young
This collection of poems, Young’s second, examines the elemental mysteries of everyday life--of the woods, the river, of dying, birth, family secrets, of work, love, and the soul’s desire for ecstatic experience.
IN THE NINTH DECADE by Marilyn Zuckerman
New full-length collection of poems with two major themes: politics and aging.
GREAT RIVER REVIEW
Yannis Ritsos Tribute Issue. Fall/Winter 2009.
BEDFORD POETS
2007 anthology of poetry workshop. Poets included: Eric Austin, Dan Bachhuber, Jane Graham George, Diane Jarvenpa, Scott King, John Krumberger, Roger Parish, Maureen Skelly, Thomas R. Smith, and Jere Truer.
LIDA SONGS by Scott King
Print on demand chapbook. Father daughter poems.
WHERE THE WATER FALLS by Scott King
Verna Press. Seven alliterative poems. 2007 letterpress chapbook printed by Peter Anderson in New Orleans. 100 copies. $15.
LEFTOVER ORDINARY by Scott King
In the centerpiece of this haunting collection, a very old man ruminates on his early days as a homesteader and the old ways that are being lost. This man, nearly mythical, who knows earth intimately, is present unnamed in all the poems of Leftover Ordinary, poems which are anything but “ordinary.” Like the poems of Jean Follain, each one stands at some intersection of history and geography, from which mystery can be glimsped in several directions at once. —Thomas R. Smith, author of Horse of Earth and The Dark Indigo Current