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Anticipation suspended in the moment before the first kiss. A mother singing to her unborn child. Lovemaking. A child exploring a playground. The aftermath of an argument. The poems in Claudia McGhee's Paperlight invite you into the everyday connections that form, exist, and dissolve between parent and child, lovers, friends. Even though love has no physical weight, and is, in fact, paperlight, these poems share the lived experiences that reveal the infinite weight of love's touch, and its inescapable imprint in our lives.

In Magnificent Desolation, the Moon is a promising, new frontier for a couple disillusioned with life on Earth. But when they abandon the third rock for the bright satellite nearby and the distance between their expectations and their reality widens, the speaker and companion struggle to adjust. The poems in Magnificent Desolation juxtapose the marvelous wonders of space with the burning questions that plague the speaker's mind. Is the Moon made of cheese? How long can two people survive-and survive each other-on the Moon?

The author's native rural village of Prices Fork, near Blacksburg, Virginia, is featured in this collection of poems. She profiles some of the pioneers who settled the region from whom the author is descended. Character studies, celebration of roots, reconciliation and forgiveness are common themes throughout the book. Price's writing is rich in imagery of nature and rural life and man's interconnection with the natural world. Quarry Song is the first book in a series planned by the author.

The Cavalcade is a collection of poems that explores what we think about when we think about historical figures. Here, Virginia Woolf explores a rich, inner-personal life-goes to the grocery store, shows desire, considers the literary canon, reimagines her own suicide. Here, the Chilean dictator Pinochet is given the opportunity to consider his actions from inside his casket. Weaving together personal narrative with global events, The Cavalcade truly is a processional of a different sort.

WHERE SALT AND HORSES LIVE WITHOUT MAN is a rite of Scandinavian passage, a rite of the sea folk. A graceful series of ocean episodes, these poems move through ancestry, history and childhood wonder - learning from elders, from culture and from a strange wilderness that is both magical and real.

The Siren Sonnets is a collection of sonnets presented through the mythological persona of a Siren. It is a book of poems of longing and desire, thwarted and found.

In her first poetry chapbook, Faith Paulsen explores the nature of symmetry and asymmetry, music, relationship and the works that bleed through new coats of paint. Faith's work has appeared in journals and collections including Musehouse Journal, philly.com, Apiary, Blast Furnace, cahoodaloodaling, Front Porch Review, Literary Mama, MOON, Stoneboat, When Women Waken, Wild River Review, and the collections "In Gilded Frame" and "Three Minus One." This is her first chapbook.

Using images and metaphors derived from her love for birds, and fly fishing, and nature in all its many forms, human and otherwise, Sarah Rossiter in her poetry chapbook, Natural Life With No Parole, describes an emotional and spiritual journey from a place of 'unknowing' and shadow into one of acceptance, integration, and light.

Nothing Is So Lovely is a collection of hard-hitting poems that explores the experiences of a young woman born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains. Candace Butler speaks from her heart and engages the reader with themes of storytelling, place, and tradition. Whether the poem is a canzone about dancing, an ekphrastic pantoum featuring a contemplative angel, or a recipe poem with local masters, Butler's second chapbook of poetry takes you to a place rich with music, the beauty of the mountains, and the traditional heritage of Central Appalachia.

Staring Through My Eyes is a collection of poems written by an introvert who has a keen and quiet awareness of her surroundings; from the mountainous geography of Pennsylvania, to the urban Mid-West, to the ever evolving landscapes of culture and gender. A kaleidoscope of personal and cultural observation; enjoy these poems "straight down the spine of afternoon."

In this first collection of her poetry, Laurie Elizabeth Lambert includes several "mother poems" and explorations of nature. Here you will also find pieces that nudge us to remember what it is like to begin again, as our lives change with the passage of time. As mother, daughter, friend, and scientist, Lambert's heartfelt response to the world is spilled on every page.

The Lost and the Found by Mary Ellen Geer is a short collection of poems on the themes of memory, loss, and the natural world-its consolations as well as its dark side. Many of the poems have elements of folk tales or fairy tales, with surprising, sometimes surrealistic images.

In the Company of Queens crosses centuries, juxtaposing the lives of sixteenth century British queens with those of today's royal family. Well researched and award-winning, these poems portray women sympathetically. Anne Boleyn dresses with as much care as mistress and as queen as she does on the morn of her execution; Marie de Guise makes the agonizing decision to send her daughter to France; in a fairytale moment, Princess Di dances with John Travolta-even as she hides the truth of a dysfunctional marriage. By focusing on the flesh-and-blood side of these royal personages, In the Company of Queens reveals the kinship that binds all women together.

Katherine of Aragon and King Henry VIII were the "Kate and Will" of England in the 16th century. Young, royal and beautiful they commanded the attention of all of Europe. All they needed to do to extend their reign was to produce a male heir. In Katherine of Aragon, Alice-Catherine Jennings imagines the life and heartbreak of Katherine through a collection of poems inspired by the texts of other poets and writers.

Born of the author's roots in rural West Virginia, Inside the Horse's Eye offers a keen observation of the significant within the small. Clean and concise, Kisner's poems demonstrate a sensitivity that will resonate with readers.

The poems found within Stepping Back capture both intimate and vivid images of nature. They are also poignant glimpses of Barbara's journey in life.

Although the final poem, "Gone," observes "time only flows in one direction/and can never be rewound," Time Travel moves fluidly back through decades of the author's experiences, weaving them into a work of memory and revelation.

Nancy Corson Carter's welcome new book is a rich feast. Accompanied by evocative old photos, the poems recreate how it felt to grow up on a farm in central Pennsylvania. Without sentimentalizing or preaching about a way of life long gone, Carter's poems make your mouth water and your heart expand as her grandparents and parents come to life as we read. The book ends with the lines "I remember! I remember!" and she makes us remember, too. "Their smiles are genuine," she observes of one of the photos-and so are Nancy Corson Carter's poems. -Peter Meinke, Poet Laureate of Florida ***Touched by nostalgia, but formed from precise observations, these poems consistently evoke engaging reminders of a nearly vanished way of life. -Gary Fincke, author of Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems, Charles B. Degenstein Professor of English and Creative Writing, Susquehanna University ***In Sunday Dinner at the Farm, Nancy Corson Carter writes of the rich life she remembers on her grandparents' farm. These wonderful poems brim with keenly observed details-heritage apples, spicewood tea, dandelion wine, shoofly pie, garden harvest, dates written in the family Bible. These poems bring to life a previous time and place and especially the two hard-working grandparents: Your worn brass bed:/ under its quilted curves lie/ ghosts of embraces. The family photographs that accompany the well-wrought text give insight into the author's memories and make the collection a delight to read and cherish. -Coyla Barry, author of The Flying Days and two chapbooks, Creature and Creature, winner of the 2001 Harperprints Competition, and Swimming Woman: Poems from Montana

Erin Fristad survived 15 years commercial fishing in Alaska. She went to sea for months at a time living in tight quarters with men she was neither related to nor intimate with. She fended off drunks, heard the confession of many an infidel, and rode the waves of passion like a highliner. She fell asleep to sounds of humpback whales, bathed in hotsprings under the Northern Lights, and saw men reduced to tears by their drive to make living on a relentless ocean. Erin fell in love with a way of life shaped by the natural world and threatened by changing values, environmental destruction and greed. When she thought fishing had proved her hardworking and savvy, she went crabbing and learned she was a greenhorn all over again.These poems bring women to their feet cheering the unflinching honesty with which they portray working is a man's world. And the men of this world, they rise too, offering gratitude as these poems document the wild landscape where they feel most at home, but few people will every understand. These poems look deep into the lives and hearts of commercial fishermen and fisherwomen-into the wild in all our hearts-to praise the bittersweet complexity of what it means to be human.***By this book's light you peer through a porthole of visceral poetry and prose into a life onboard where the hiss of the stove, seething fish-hold, deckhand's mood, rough weather and scant wages all cast you free from landed comforts. You are no longer their prisoner. By choosing the working life, Fristad's fine intelligence has great gifts for the reader's mind. -Kim Stafford, author of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft***With The Glass Jar, Erin Fristad opens for everyone a surprisingly human and direct path into the mind and heart of today's commercial fishing deckhand. Whether it's a consideration of the sublime of the wild, a frank depiction of the ugly side of crewmates or a yawp of praise at being alive one more day, this fierce writing beats with the blood at the heart of all living beings. -Moe Bowstern, writer, artist, fisherwoman and editor/publisher of the award winning zine, Xtra Tuf since 1996.

A sense of the precariousness and preciousness of life shape the poems in Twenty Ways of Looking, Miriam Weinstein's debut chapbook explores themes of memory, home, family and social concerns.