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Until the Eye Opens
writings from blind faith
One woman’s journey to confront solitude in Elk Creek, California, but to find her own humanity tested and stretched in unexpected ways. The journey is her relationship to awareness and to writing itself.
ISBN: 978-0-9819534-1-0
pp. 197, $15
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Salt and Paper: 65 Candles
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A daily reflection that is immediate and an accumulation of life experience in poetry and prose fragments placing a heartfelt, yet realistic light on difficult subjects as author speaks of aging: a friend’s slow demise with Alzheimer’s; the life-long effect of a brother’s mental illness; the present, lived aging process; the interlacing of four generations—and, the creative, writing life that responds with compassion, humor, art.
192 pp. $15.
ISBN 978-0-9819534-2-7
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Other Clues
Prose poems…or short shorts? Grafton’s writing is a hybrid style distinguished by sensate labyrinthine takes on life that are powered by reversals that drop the bottom out and fragment combinations that contain complete scenarios. These prose poem short shorts are language driven, glints of narrative delivering irony both witty and dark.
88 pp $15.
ISBN 978-0-9819534-3-4
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WiLD WEST
The poems in WiLD WEST excavate the human condition in postmodern America. The poet takes on our idiosyncratic lives at the edge of contemporary American democracy. These poems will not let the reader be comfortable.
$12.00. 64 pages.
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but then you danced
Jeanne Lupton writes, “I enjoy writing tanka as emotional diary, as a way to peace, as a song of nature, as a reminder of love, as play and work, as connection, as celebration, as gift, as a practice in concision, as a practice in honesty, as a way of life.” These are free form tanka that give uplift and depth to our everyday experience. Most of these tanka have appeared in tanka journals.
$10.00. 64 pages.
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Where I Live
I am a gardener. I chose that profession so that I could be a poet. I prefer perennial plants to annuals, trees to shrubs. I love pruning so that the tree looks like it was never touched, that it just grew that way. I feel the same way about my poetry. Wherever I work with plants I am also working on my poems and, in the poems, I am working on living. The day I found something useful to do with my hands, my real life began and all of the days I had before, fertilize it.”
64 pp. $8.00
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Out of Nothing
Out of Nothing (OON) is “a” story of awareness by way of the intersection of language and experience. The key element in OON is to break logic apart by using logic and demonstrating that experience is the final arbiter: Transmuted matter-energy comes from acts of self-reflection which are then stored in memory… the animal brain having direct control over matter-energy within the brain.
120 pp. $12.00
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