Goldsmith's Return
A Novel by Richard Bazes

At once a mystery story, a love story, a Kabbalistic conundrum, and a black comic farce in knockout prose, this is a novel you'll want to read twice!

ISBN 1-877727-54-7 ·5.5x8.5 ·288 pages ·$14.00 paper

Open Your Eyes Aad Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now
Edited by Mary Berg FALL 2003

192 pages $16.00 ISBN 1-893996-64-6 October

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The writing of Cuban women writers is virtually
unknown in this country. Ten of the best Cuban women
writers who have risen to prominence in the last
decade of the 20th century are included in this
anthology which focuses on the challenging period
after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
withdrawal of its economic support to the island. The
stories here have been selected both for their
individual excellence and for their collective
panorama of a stressful and facinating decade. An
introduction is provided by Luisa Campuzano, one of
contemporary Cuba's most insightful critics. The
authors include: Karla Suarez, Anna Lidia Vega Serova,
Adelaida Fernandez de Juan, Nancy Alonso, Aida Bahr,
Ena Lucia Portela, Mirta Yanez, Mylene Fernandez
Pinatado, Marilyn Bobes, and Sonia Bravo Utrera. The
stories reflect a wide range of experiences in the new
Cuba and give the U.S. reader a window into an unknown
culture that lies 90 miles off the coast. The
translators include Mary Berg, Pamela Carmell, Dick
Cluster, Sara E. Cooper, Cristina de la Torre, Nancy
Festinger, and Anne Fountain.

Clans of Many Nations
Peter Blue Cloud
Introduction by Gary Snyder

These poems span twenty-five years in the life of a remarkable individual who is one of the major voices of Native American literature.

“Cloud's poems are living proof that the power and beauty of the old way cannot be lost. Blue Cloud does nothing glamourous. He lives in the present, totally. He invents nothing —he speaks from his own heart and life. He is a true poet, at home in all times, everywhere. His language is his tool. His words echo the contradictions, complexities, suffering, and oddly optimistic future visions that mark the Twentieth-Century, Julian calendar.”—Snyder

ISBN 1-877727-47-4 ·5.5x8.5 ·128 pages ·$14.00 paper

Elderberry Flute Song Contemporary Coyote Tales

Peter Blue Cloud

These coyote tales by Native American writer Peter Blue Cloud are funny, profound, sometimes sad and always wise. Blue Cloud brings Native American literature into the twenty-first century with a style and power that have made this book a classic. The tales take coyotes from mythic time to the present in stories that show coyote's enduring vitality. Coyote is obscene, amoral, comic, wise. These Coyote tales are funny, profound, sometimes sad, and always wise.

"Blue Cloud’s poems are living proof that the power and beauty of the Old Way cannot
be lost. . . Blue Cloud does nothing glamorous: he speaks from his own heart and life. He is a true poet, at home in all times, everywhere."
-Gary Snyder

Peter Blue Cloud is a Mohawk who now lives on the reserve in Kahnawake, Quebec. Winner of an American Book Award, he is the author of numerous collections, including Clans of Many Nations.

Native American Studies Cultural Studies

6 x 9 144 pages $15.00 1-893996-56-5

Jumping Out of Bed
Poems by Robert Bly
Woodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming

&#147There’s a silence at the heart of this poetry, intensified by evocative woodcuts that suggest an absence of time and linear thought. Jumping Out of Bed is a graceful testament to the spirit.” - Small Press

ISBN 0-934834-08-3· 6 x 6· 48 pages · $7.00 paper

In What Disappears - John Brandi

$15.00 112 pages ISBN 1-893996-63-8

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Spanning the years since the 1995 publication of
Heartbeat Geography: New & Selected Poems, these poems
traverse distant lands, as well as, the continent of
the heart. In travels that take him through North
America, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Viet Nam,
India, and Mexico, Brandi engages the world with open
eyes, ears, and heart.

John Brandi was born in Los Angeles in 1943. Since
1973, he has been awarded residencies by the state
arts councils of Alaska, Arkansas, California,
Montana, Nevada, New York and New Mexico to teach in
schools, prisons, and homes for the physically and
mentally disabled. Author of more than thirty books of
poetry, essays and modern American haiku, he has
received fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and
the Djerassi Foundation. His poems have appeared in
numerous magazines and anthologies and have been
translated into Spanish and Italian. As a visual
artist he has exhibited his paintings and collages
worldwide. He lives in El Rito, New Mexico, with his
wife Renée Gregorio and is a member of the summer
poetry faculty at Idyllwild Arts, California.

"Brandi has been an open roader for much of his life
and like his two great forbearers, Whitman and Neruda,
has named the minute particulars, the details of his
soujournings ... infusing them with a whole gamut of
feelings --compassionate, mischievous, loving and
righteous. It's what's
made his poetry one of the solid bodies of work that's
emerged from the North American West since the 60's."

-Jack Hirschman

"Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's
moving new collection of poems, In What Disappears,
reveals that he remains an extraordinarily profound
poet of prayer and praise. His tradition is that of
the spiritual mendicant, the perpetual wanderer, the
seeker who travels the raw paths of experience in
search of the world's wisdoms. His is the most
honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our
broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and
hope."
-David St. John

Heartbeat Geography
Poems by John Brandi

&#147Brandi’s sandy poem mandalas, crisscrossing back and forth on their own paths, begin to fill out landscapes in depth.”-Gary Snyder

ISBN 1-877727-40-7 · 6 x 9 · 248 pages · $15.00 paper

Why I Came to Judevine
Poems by David Budbill

“Budbill’s naturalism escapes from desperation in the intense pleasure of sexual love...there is no finer source for poetry.”-Small Press Review

ISBN 0-934834-14-8 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 72 pages · $7.00 paper

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