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Order Rob Griffith's A Matinee in Plato's Cave here.
 

Advance praise for A Matinee in Plato's Cave

" Griffith allows us to enter other lives through an abundance of sensual detail. With subjects as varied as Livia lacquering figs with poison to kill Caesar, a pastor who hangs himself because he used church money to bet on dogs or running over frogs in Arkansas, Griffith uses words to 'sluice the body down to bone.' Rob Griffith’s compelling poems cleave the heart and then teach it how to heal."
                                                                                               Vivian Shipley

 

Available Books

The Lost Brigade
poems by Bruce Guernsey
$12.95 paperback     
ISBN 0-9744524-9-1

"Guernsey has given us an Odyssey in small, lyric and elegiac, a lonely, haunted and haunting, moving book forever homeward bound."

Complete information about Bruce Guernsey.


- Robert Fagles


  

Epileptic's Song
Bob Zordani
$12.95 paperback      ISBN 0-9744524-1-6

"These mostly plainspoken and often formal poems will be a pleasure to every reader who has the courage to take on the sometimes rough and brokenhearted world our poet renders. Zordani knows a lot about affliction. He knows even more about poetry. He plays the harmonica and is a fisherman. And he has a by God sense of humor. He is here to stay." 
- James Whitehead

  

Forever Came Today
Graham Lewis
$12.95 paperback      ISBN 0-9744524-2-4

"Graham Lewis's poetry is set in desolate Midwestern towns where cruelty is always in season and the characters are destroyed by their own monsters— unforgiven people living in unforgiving places. These works are refreshing because they present a world unfamiliar to the mass media, where real bones are broken and dirt is on the sill. Graham Lewis's version of the American Grotesque reminds me of the final scene of What’s Eating Gilbert  Grape, in which the obese mother, who has died after the effort of climbing her bedroom stairs, burns along with her house.  This is the lyricism of  "a fast car on a flat road" in which "strangers rejoice you've finally come home."
-Paul Hoover, editor New American Writing

  

Bruce Guernsey $10.00

Praise for Bruce Guernsey's January Thaw:
"Bruce Guernsey knows the rhythms we move to when we're alone, and he lays them down around us in his lines. He's a sharp-eared craftsman, with a feel for such elements of poetry as line-breaks and resolution and the five-stress beat that comes through the skillfully casual diction as a continual and good surprise. Here is a poet." -Miller Williams

January Thaw was originally published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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