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Marie Alexander Poetry Series Series Editor Robert Alexander
Selection from two previous collections
join a large collection of new work which continues Rutsala’s
exploration of the prose poem as a literary form. “Sounding
at times like plot summaries of stories by John Cheever that Cheever
never got around to writing and at other times like witty fables,
or meditations on the tricks of language, Rutsala’s wonderful
prose paragraphs are at all times rewarding journeys into the
inner life, the secret life of three o’clock in the morning,
when everyday defeats acquire a weird glamour and heroism.”
—Charles Baxter
$14.95 144 pages ISBN 1-893996-61-1 The Marie Alexander Poetry
Series Volume 6 In this quiet, clear-eyed collection, Townsend meditates on loss - childhood bereavement, depression, divorce - to arrive at the realization that it is through loss that we come to possess some of life's most profound gifts. Alison Townsend is also the author of What the Body
Knows. Her work has appeared in many journals, including The North
American Review, The Southern Review, Calyx, and Fourth Genre,
and been widely anthologized, most recently in Are You Experienced? "The Blue Dress is filled with a capacious,
multi-faceted, and above all, physical knowledge. That "The project of Alison Townsend's poetry is
to chart a course through the deepest of losses -to attempt some
safe passage through a lifetime's erasures. Intimate, warm, and
observant, this book involves us in the inscription of a life." "Alison Townsend's articulation of sorrows
has always cast an aura, of beauty, and deepest, truest
Morton Marcus A selection of one-hundred and ten poems, sixty-three of which are new, from the man Alan Cheuse called “a marvelous godfather” to the prose poem. “Mort Marcus one of America’s hidden
literary treasures, has become a suberb master of the prose poem...Often,
it’s the situation, the little storyline that captivates...At
other times its is language...that sends a shiver up the spine.
I couldn’t get enough of this delectable stuff, and there
is nothing else like it anywhere.” Sixty-five new poems take their place beside forty-five poems published in Marcus’s previous two books. Employing and many times parodying the structures of discourse by which we have communicated our sense of the world through the ages, Marcus re-examines the notions on which the human species has understood its place in the universe. In the process, he has created his own cosmology, a cosmology by turns humorous, satirical, poignant, and always compassionate in revealing our beliefs, foibles, hopes, and contradictory actions. Morton Marcus is the author of seven books of poetry and one novel, The Brezhvev Memo. A film historian and critic as well as a poet, Marcus taught film and literature at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, until his retirement. Poetry Marie Alexander Poetry Series 5 6 x 9 176 pages $16.95 1-893996-51-4
Whatever Shines Kathleen McGookey "The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more
brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate
it!" Kathleen McGookey holds a Ph.D. in literature from Western Michigan University. She is managing editor of Third Coast and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1998. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Poetry Women's Literature Marie Alexander Poetry
Series 4 Northern Latitudes Prose Poems Lawrence Millman The third book in our Marie Alexander poetry series,
this collection by noted travel writer Lawrence Millman conjures
up the people, the tales, and the stark, fantastic landscapes Poetry 6 x 9 96 pages $14.95 0-89823-207-4
Your Sun, Manny Marie Harris The poet has produced a powerful narrative of the life of a Puerto Rican boy who lived the first fourteen years of his life in institutions and foster homes but then was adopted by the author and her husband and brought to New Hampshire. How Manny and his new community deal with the possible, the impossible (like spelling), and the hoped for (a real job) is at the heart of the tale that is heartbreaking and heartwarming. This is the second book in our Marie Alexander prose poetry series. In Your Sun, Manny, Marie Harris has created a prose poem memoir that reveals in touching detail her story of adopting and caring for Manny, a child who was abused and neglected until he was fourteen, when Harris and her husband made him a part of their family. "Take this book to your heart and carry it
away. The beauty and expressiveness of the author's words will
renew your faith in the possibility of using language to capture
experience and make it glow with meaning." "This is a complex story of hard-earned successes and brilliantly achieved failures, a story full of humor and wisdom and love:" -Erica Funkhouser, author of The Actual World Poetry 6 x 9 72 pages $14.95 0-89823-205-8
” … a true original. His pictures of
the life we lead are satiric gems, yet so consummate an artist
is he that the reader can do nothing but laugh uproariously and
demand ‘More, more…,’” ”Jack Anderson is one of our great tightrope
dancers. His balance is exquisite, even when he’s holding
a chair, an umbrella, and an elephant … sometimes teaching
high hiliarity, sometimes utmost seriousness.” Maria Alexander Poetry Series 1 ISBN: 0-898231-91-4 6 x 9 76 pages $14.95
Prose Poetry Series
“cast of characters...are family members. What we remember of our childhoods are seemingly magical acts by our parents and siblings, acts that do not explain themselves and belong to the realm of myth. Johnson‘prose poems return us to that world where our imagination was the hero setting out almost daily on a series of fabulous adventures under the dining room table, which, we might say, rests on the shaky legs of common sense.”- Charles Simic
Peter Johnson Long neglected or scoffed at by poetry purists, the prose poem is now taking its rightful place as a distinct and accepted genre in American letters. Johnson’s work as editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, did much to legitimatize this genre. This book, his second collection of prose poetry, is filled with the mystery, humor, and pathos that make this form so appealing and so accessible. Peter Johnson lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife and son. He teaches at Providence College. 6 x 9 72 pages $14.95 1-893996-18-2
Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal: The Best of the Prose Poem Journal Edited by Peter Johnson Russell Edson refers to the prose poem as “A cast-iron aeroplane that can actually fly, mainly because its pilot does not care if it does or not.” Journal editor since its inception in 1992, Peter Johnson here selects work by well-known poets such as Simic, Bly, Ignatow, Matthews, Mistral, Shihab Nye, Tate, and Waldrop, as well as work by emerging writers, from all journal volumes. Since its inception in 1992, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, has published work which even the writers themselves cannot define without resorting to metaphor. Russell Edson likens prose poems to "cast-iron aeroplanes that can actually fly," while Charles Simic states that writing them is like "trying to catch a fly in a dark room. The fly probably isn’t even there...you keep tripping over and bumping into things in hot pursuit." Nonetheless, Johnson knows a prose poem when he reads one. Better still, he recognizes a good one and has included many of them here. Poets include Edson, Simic, Robert Bly, Louis Jenkins, Kim Addonizio, David Ignatow, James Tate, and many others, both well-known and emerging. Peter Johnson lives in Rhode Island where he teaches at Providence College. Poetry Anthology 6 x 9 240 pages $15.00 1-893996-08-5
Prose Poetry / Cultural Studies A selection of work by three of the fathers of prose
poetry, the French writers Max Jacob, Jean Follain, and Francis
Ponge. Baudelaire laid the foundations for prose poetry as a genre
in the 19th century; these poets expanded the concept in the first
half of the 20th century. Jacob (1876-1944) was a writer of surrealist
cubist fables, Ponge (1899-1988) was a master of the language
of things, and Follain (1903-1971) merged the everyday with the
historical to create a world rich in anniversaries. Baudelaire
laid the foundations for prose poetry as a genre in the 19th century,
but it wasn’t until the avant garde movement in the first
half of the 20th century that the prose poem began a widespread
emergence on the international scene. The three poets in this
volume were major factors in this emergence and lead us to the
strong and growing interest in the genre that we find so prevalent
at the beginning of the 21st century. 6 x 9 192 pages $17.00 1-893996-17-4
Prose poems by 144 poets trace this genera in North
America from Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau to poets
just beginning their careers. Many writers best-known for their
fiction, including Hemingway and Faulkner, are included, as are
many poets whose prose poetry is a lesser known part of their
work. ISBN 0-898231-65-5 6 x 9 352 Pages $18.95
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