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Sheets and Other Poems Author: Beverly Foote, Xulon Press, 2008 Description: Awarded first place for poetry in the 2008 Christian Choice Book Awards, this sixty-one page book is divided into seven sections: Here, Now; Family; Recognition; Rendings; Communion; Whimsy; and Intimations. Cover: “These are documents of a luminous life, grateful and deeply felt.”—Scott Cairns, author of Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected. “Settle in and read. These are not poems of escape, but of calm—a quiet with vast possibility.”—Jay Paul, author of Going Home in Flood Time. “Beverly Foote’s work evokes the wit and wisdom of the Metaphysical Poets. Her vibrant imagery always surprises and delights. Take these lines, for example: Responding to Bach’s music, she says, ‘The cells in my brain/ begin to dance in their cerebral ballroom….’ And ‘Grandma,’ shed of her corset, rocks in her chair, while ‘from her bureau drawers/ white hair nets are trying to escape.’ John Donne would have approved.”—Grace Simpson, former Poet Laureate of Virginia, author of Dancing the Bones. Price: 10.99 Available from: Copies may be ordered online from xulon.com, amazon.com, borders.com, bestwebbuys.com, and barnesandnoble.com | ||||
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THE VIRGINIAD: A People’s History of Virginia in Poetry Author: Tim Lewis. Description: The Virginiad is the most challenging and interesting history of Virginia ever published. It is contains original poetry written from the point-of-view of ordinary Virginians. The poems explore Virginia from 1607 to the present through the eyes of people going about their lives as they unravel themes such as the fight for religious liberty, the expansion of the frontier, the Civil War, and the struggle for democracy. We see the issues that have dominated Virginia history through the eyes of slaves, Native Americans, tenant farmers, peddlers, nurses, and clerks. We follow the history of great houses and communities, of industries and crafts, and peek at our national heroes as others might have viewed them. The book has received excellent reviews and has been nominated for several state and national awards. Price: $29.95 (Plus $3.00 postage & packing.) Note: 20% of all sales to PSV members will be donated to the PSV ($6.00 per book) The book is available from: Amazon.com; or signed, limited edition copies can be purchased from the author at (434) 249-5289 or timrlewis@earthlink.net. Further information is at: http://www.thevirginiad.com | ||||
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Peeling Back the Dark Author: Norma Richardson. A consummate craftsman, Richardson writes with authority and keen emotional intelligence. Peeling Back the Dark is a wise and witty book, often painful, but ultimately healing. Richardson’s words are meticulously chosen for sound as well as meaning. Assonance, alliteration, and internal rhyme provide music and establish tone in this largely free- verse collection. Price: $14.99. Available from: sanfranciscobaypress.com | ||||
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Dismounted Author: Philomene Hood Description: Realizing that observations and heart aches, epiphanies and soul shocks, are more accurately felt on foot than on horseback, as in my first book, Ride Home through Scented Grass, I felt safe calling my new book, Dismounted. I have tried for truth. I have hoped for understanidng readers. I have added, I think, some humor. May my readers add experiences of their own to touch mine and add luster. Price: $10.00 Available from: Philomene Hood, 5705 Williamsburg Landing Dr. #29, Williamsburg, VA 23185
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SUFFERING IRAQ Author: Frank Craddock Title: SUFFERING IRAQ Description : “Frank Craddock vivifies a host of characters in short, daring portraits of wounded soldiers, a Sergeant, an ER nurse, grieving parents and others who are psychologically or physically affected by the carnage. Here’s a poet unafraid to confront the searing realities of war. Written with courage and compassion, Craddock’s compelling book serves as affirmation for the survivors and will resonate long after this violent period in the 21st century comes to a close.” Review for Suffering Iraq by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia; author of Contrary Visions, Gathering Light, Death Comes Riding and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda Greatest Hits 1981-2000 Price: $11.00 Available from: Frank Craddock, 114 Harrison Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504 | ||||
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LIGHT PERSISTS Winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, Jane Ellen Glasser's collected poems, LIGHT PERSISTS, was published by Tampa University Press in 2006. Through nature, Glasser is put in touch with her inner world in the stillness of a meditation that delights and awakens. At the heart of this book are poems mourning her daughter Jessica, who died in a car accident at the age of twenty-two. Glasser courageously addresses loss and doubt as she leads us on an enlightening journey, wide enough to encompass gratitude and joy, blessed by images and language full of grace for eye and ear. The judges praised Glasser's book for "gorgeous, stunning poems" in "a beautifully achieved, unified manuscript that exaemplifies virtuoso craftsmanship combined with intellectual and emotional honesty, complexity, and depth." In making the award they wrote: "Her arresting images derive from observation and sensation at once singular--as though each were an epiphany--and yet freighted with layers of knowledge that could only accrue over years. Enter into the most stunning of these poems and come away without words, because words have been transformed into events of pure being." LIGHT PERSISTS is available, in hardback and paperback, from Tampa University Press and Amazon. Also on Amazon you can find her first book, NAMING THE DARKNESS, with an introduction by W. D. Snodgrass. 
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Moon Road: Poems 1986-2005 Louisiana State University Press is now taking advance orders for Ron Smith's new book Moon Road Poems 1986-2005 by Ron Smith http://s50780.sites40.storefront-hosting.com/detail.aspx?ID=1644 | ||||
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How Far Is Ordinary How Far is Ordinary by Nancy Powell is available on Amazon.com and in Virginia at Knitting Sisters in Kingsmill Shops in Williamsburg, The Peninsula Fine Arts Museum (PFAC), Newport News, and Hampton Art & Glass, Hampton. People can also email her at nancyp1734@aol.com.
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Vija's War Vija’s War, by Robert P. Arthur, San Francisco Bay Press, 2007. Vija’s War contains new and older previously uncollected poems by theauthor, as well as a number of his innovative poem/plays: Vija’s War, Jamestown Symphonic, Music of Leaves, Ur, and Snow. Vija’s War is a dramatic evocation in poetry of the childhood of a little girl growing up in Latvia during World War II. Jamestown Symphonic deals with Jamestown as a British colony facing imminent disaster. The work, currently on tour in Virginia with the Eastern Virginia Brass, has received fifteen grants. Music of Leaves traces the life and work of van Gogh through poetry, Ur takes on the Old Testament, and Snow is a brief look at the Eastern Shore of Virginia through the imagination of a young boy. 200 pages. $15.00. Copies are available from Robert P. Arthur, 900 Timber Creek Place, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464. Payment by check or money order. | ||||
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Hymn to the Chesapeake Hymn to the Chesapeake, by Robert P. Arthur, Road Publishers, 1993. Hymn to the Chesapeake is the best selling book in the history of Road Publishers. It consists of the bay photography of Aubray Bodine and the author’s highly lyrical poems about the Chesapeake Bay, its history, and its people. The book is widely regarded as the finest book of poetry on the bay. The musical poem/play of the same name ran for over five years in Virginia and Maryland, played in Washington and New York City (at the Small Press Center), and received a standing ovation in St. Petersburg, Russia. It also was named by Port Folio Magazine as the Most Innovative Play in Hampton Roads in 1993. 75 pages. $15.00. The play version of Hymn to the Chesapeake is available in play-book form for $8.00. Copies are available from Robert P. Arthur, 900 Timber Creek Place, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464. Payment by check or money order. | ||||
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Phaedra Phaedra, by Robert P. Arthur, DHK Publishers, 2007. Phaedra is best described as a post-modern play in contemporary English poetry. Though based on the well-known Phaedra story of forbidden love and obsession of ancient origin, it is an original work, not a translation or adaptation. It was first performed at Christopher Newport University featuring international film star Ina Gogolova and then for an invited VIP audience from foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. Phaedra won five Port Folio awards in 1993, including Best Play in Hampton Roads. 139 pages. $15.00. Copies are available from Robert P. Arthur, 900 Timber Creek Place, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464. Payment by check or money order. | ||||
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Behind the Cane Sorcha Duncan's new book Behind the Cane is a high quality book of poetry which not only promotes understanding but also raises money for the Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. The book can be ordered directly from Dragon Rider Press (www.dragonriderpress.com) for $15.95 Reviews for Behind the Cane "Behind the Cane" is an innovative and adventurous book, bringing together a rich variety of poems in diverse forms, joined with striking and appropriate examples of original visual art....Here these gifted artists show us how the joy of art can transcend our multiple sorrows and disabilities and how the beauty of nature, the Creation, restores the wounded spirit. "Behind the Cane" is a good and worthwhile book." George Garrett 2002 Virginia Poet Laureate / Author " Behind every successful poetry collection is a poet who uses his/her gift with words to touch readers. Sorcha Duncan is one such poet" " In "Battle LInes," the poem reads like a dream, surreal in its depiction.....Like the British Romantic poet William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Duncan combines a simple, lyrical rhyme scheme with simple words to create a poem that expresses life's complexity. The poem is not only about life and death, but also about the struggle between the power of death and the determination of life." "Her contribution to the Muscular Dystrophy Association by the bearing of her soul in this collection of personal poems is further proof of her willingness to help others understand and find hope in life, no matter what it takes." Review by Josephine Chan "Sorcha Duncan's voice in "Behind the Cane" is an indomitable spirit......From her unique form in "Psychology" to her haunting retelling of a dream in "Battle Lines," Duncan's poems are as organic as nature ...."Behind the Cane" is a striking poem that is the core of Duncan's message to her readers--that behind the cane of dissability lives a zestful spirit..." V magazine for Women | ||||
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BOOTS: Echoes of Vietnam and 60-60 BOOTS: Echoes of Vietnam this chapbook is a verse expression of his experience as a combat helicopter gunship pilot with the Navy in Vietnam. 60-60 A Geezer's Guide to Gettin' On and Goin' Strong to 60 and Beyond this chapbook is a non-fiction collection of snippets of questionable wisdom, bad advice, and bad attitude from one who considers himself a Geezer loud and proud.
He has also edited and published three editions of SKIPPING STONES, an annual anthology of Hampton Roads poets, artists, and photographers; and is working on the fourth edition now. He is also currently assembling two volumes of poetry and a children's verse story book. For more information see Pete's web site www.themindworm.com or contact him at the address below. Pete Freas 4705 Tanager Crossing Chesapeake, VA 23321 757-465-5995 mindworm@juno.com | ||||
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Ornithologies Joshua Poteat’s first manuscript Ornithologies (January 2006) won the 2004 Anhinga Poetry Prize, judged by Campbell McGrath. He also was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s 2004 National Chapbook Award, judged by Mary Oliver. Over the last few years he has won prizes from American Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Columbia, Marlboro Review, Nebraska Review, River City, Hunger Mountain, San Francisco State University / American Poetry Archives, Vermont Studio Center, The Millay Colony, Virginia Commission for the Arts, and many others. Recent poems can be found in such journals as Virginia Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, LIT, Ninth Letter, American Letters & Commentary, Diagram, and others. Currently, his work is part of an international traveling exhibition entitled Pivot Points, featuring three interconnected generations of painters and poets, including Larry Levis, Dave Smith, and Greg Donovan. Joshua lives in Richmond, where he works as an editor of assorted texts. ________________________________________________________________ Reviews for Ornithologies: From Campbell McGrath, judge for the 2004 Anhinga Press Poetry Prize: “This poet knows that ruin is no excuse for despair, and even as he combs the rubble for tokens of consolation, the presence among us of these clear-eyed, large-hearted poems may serve a similarly hopeful purpose for readers of contemporary American poetry.” From Mary Oliver, judge for the 2004 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Award: “It is a lyricism that reminds me of James Wright, and this I mean certainly as praise, when he employed, as I called it, an intensified vernacular—throwing me off my stride, gathering me to him by the detail of some earnest and often terrible beauty, in the easy language of our country with its sweet, oiled syntax….In this way Meditations is a dramatic book, a kind of word—or mood—theater. Poteat tells me things as if I were an audience but invisible. Or as if I were the moon. Yet something real passes between us, which is to say that the book is very good, that it leaves its mark.” From Blackbird, Spring 2003, Vol. 2, No. 1: “With natural elegance and untiring invention, Joshua Poteat writes some of the most remarkable poetry you are ever likely to encounter. In storylines that move beyond the virtues of narrative into a region of wonder, combining violence and tenderness in an intimate voice capable of revelations as swift and sudden as the sear of lighting, his poems work themselves into the cloudy fabric of your imagination and reside there as unforgettable experiences.” From Melanie Drane, Book Editor, ForeWord Magazine, May 2006 “Joshua Poteat’s stunning debut has received the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, selected by Campbell McGrath. Poteat’s poems are suffused with the cognizance that ‘nothing in this world is ours.’ Each image teeters on an unsustainable, exquisite edge, as in ‘Nocturne for a River’: ‘Tell me, sad horse, with doves nesting/under your raised hoof, in this century of longing,/how can I go on loving this ruined excuse for a city...[?]’ Yet Poteat’s insistent power of witness itself constitutes a form of solace. In each meticulously observed moment, there’s the assertion of a life well loved. The morbid is tasted on the tongue in his poems, but Poteat transforms loss into a lush homage to human experience in all its complexity: ‘To live at all is to grieve/and from what life did we gain this trust,/awake each dawn/to find the bright air/full again/rustle and coo/in the widening palms?’ ” From David Wagoner, judge for the T.S. Eliot First Book Award, 2002, on book manuscript: “In Ornithologies, the poet, using a large cast of unusual voices, gives us a number of narratives full of surprising turns of events. With a Whitman-like desire to make anything and everything his own, with the kind of strength of James Dickey had to take on any subject or landscape or aspect of himself or of his friends, the poet goes about his work with an unshrinking, ambitious audacity. “In this omnium gatherum, we discover a poet of bristling intelligence who knows what has already been done and has decided not to do it again. He is utterly without clichés. He is sometimes bizarre, sometimes seems to write four or five poems simultaneously in an urge to connect, to unite, to make each effort both bountiful and comprehensive, even at the risk of being excessive. But as William Blake observed in The Proverbs of Hell, “the road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” One sometimes gets the sense that if this poet isn’t already a novelist, he will be soon and the results will be fascinating. Auden once said of Theodore Roethke’s first book of poems: ‘He is immediately recognizable as a good poet.’ The same is true of the author of Ornithologies.” From Darren Morris, book reviewer for Style Weekly, 2006: “Be careful when reading Ornithologies by Joshua Poteat. His poems are so mysterious, eloquent and downright powerful, they may ruin you with beauty. Good poetry calls attention to what would otherwise be overlooked, but the best poetry changes us. Poteat’s poems succeed in showing us ‘what it means to be/honey in a tobacco pouch, the skin of God in a firefly’s gut.’ “Because existence is uncertain, his narrators relentlessly name the knowable world, as if cataloging can protect us against our own disappearance. He brings us closer, not merely through a rich inventiveness, but through the narrative position itself, which is reverent of all it observes. “In ‘Nocturne: For the Night Workers of the South,’ he is a night watchman at an asylum, where ‘when it rained,/spotted-moth larva would tunnel from the wet plaster ceilings/and drink the patient’s ears.’ In ‘Our Memory, the Shining Leaves (Waterford Fair Civil War Reenactment),’ while watching a faux battle, he focuses on a boy who ‘searches the field after the skirmish/looking for a trace of what he saw (gold button: hank of hair:/glass eye in a raven’s mouth).’ “This is not a poet who needs a soapbox, but one who begs a small and gentle witness to the largest questions of existence. And his world is our world — built on a type of loss that the South can ‘understand: each thing is of itself./Each thing is its end.’ The poems in Ornithologies deserve a national audience. Read them to discover why.” From Adam Day, Editor, Washington Square/New York University “Poteat won the 2004 Poetry Society of American chapbook contest, which resulted in the publication of his wonderful chapbook, Meditations. It's interesting now to see many of the poems from Meditations, a number of his other poems previously published at Blackbird.com, all together, situated among the other poems. In the new, broader context of Ornithologies, it's like seeing all of these poems almost entirely anew. This says something important about the poetry's ability to endure, its staying power, and about the quality and import of their content. “There is a kind of grandness and yet, a muscular fragility to the writing in Ornithologies, and it's a beautiful book, physically, and in content. The poems here are full and lush, and have certainly found their form and are comfortable in their bodies. There is a striking balance between the sonics, imagery and narrative, so that we are absorbed by the poems, leaving the waking world behind. The physical and spiritual worlds quietly collide in these poems, and what might seem far removed from the everyday life is brought to bear, which is to say that to read these poems is not simply an emotive, or reminiscent experience, but one that spurs one to thought. This may seem a statement to be applied to most poetry, but indeed it is the exception rather than the rule. Jarrell could have been speaking of Ornithologies when he said of Paterson, ‘The subject of Paterson is: How can you tell the truth about things?-that is, how can you find a language so close to the world that the world can be represented and understood in it?’ “Not to overstate it, but at a time when one cannot help but feel that poets are publishing too much, too often, and that so much of that work is tragically average and often unimportant, Poteat's Ornithologies feels significantly relevant to the reader's world, and thematically, rhetorically, imagistically, and otherwise substantial.” http://joshuapoteat.blogspot.com/ | ||||
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Where Giants Walked by EDWARD W. LULL, Infinity Publishing, Haverford, PA, $10.95 US, paperback, (92p) ISBN: 0-7414-2758-3 Where Giants Walked is an anthology divided into five parts with eight poems in each part. The first part contains ballads, written mostly in the classic form for ballads, but addressing a variety of topics. The second part contains stories, written in poetic form, only one of which is based on actual events. Light verse, where humor is the linking element, fills Part Three. The fourth section takes events from the author’s life and builds poetry, using both free verse and conventional forms, to relate them. The final part takes topics that have made a strong impression on the author and drove him to write about them. The title of the book was taken from a poem in this section. ISBN 0-7414-2758-3. The book is priced at $10.95 and may be purchased from Infinity Publishing at www.buybooksontheweb.com, or from Colony Books, P.O. Box 6572, Williamsburg, VA 23188. BookWire Review October 4, 2005 "Where Giants Walked" is a collection of poetry that pays homage to great people and events in the poet's life. Many of Edward Lull's poems deal with the effects of war, the sacrifices of soldiers, and the cost of our freedom. The narrator of "The War Comes Home" is a small boy who hears that Pearl Harbor has been bombed, and knows there is a war, but being a fourth-grader has "more important things to think about." When his gawky, redheaded neighbor named Gander is drafted, though, the narrator realizes "the war had just gotten closer." The small boy goes about his life, playing and enjoying pineapple shakes, until he sees in the town square that a gold star has been placed next to Gander's name. His neighbor has been killed, and even though "Dad said boys my age don't cry. / I did anyway. / The war had come home." In "Called to Serve" a newly married man is drafted and sent from his Georgia home to fight in Korea. During a battle that raged across snowy ground, the soldier is fatally wounded. "They sent his casket home; no bands nor fanfare there; / no gold star to display; no closure for the pain." The poem ends on an emotionally charged note: "He sleeps beneath his Georgia clay--unsung. / It wasn't called a war--but he was called to die." Other poems in this volume center around forces of nature, both literal and figurative. In "That Was My Dad" the narrator offers a sweet recollection of his father as a large man, a "Republican through to the core," and a "self-reliant gent" who worked hard to provide for his family. "The Gale" opens with Lull's imagery at its most lyrical: "A scarlet sky at sunup / forewarns the seasoned observer; / majestic, towering clouds; silver lined, were growing. / The sun dissolved into troubled heavens. / Rain starts down, then blasts sideways, / bullied by the lashing, random gusts." Lull's poems are sometimes wistful and sweet but more often evoke deeper emotions. He experiments with a range of poetic forms throughout "Where Giants Walked" and is most successful when writing free verse unconstrained by rhyming schemes. Edward Lull is an Executive Director and former President of The Poetry Society of Virginia. He is also a retired naval officer who served primarily on submarines.
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A POETIC JOURNEY Barbara Drucker Smith is a veteran anthologized poet, fiction and non-fiction writer --local, regional and national. She authored Darling Loraine, the Story of A. Louis Drucker. She is a certified hypnotherapist. professionall certified teach of English, Jounalism, Speech, and Remedial Reading. She is a pianist, choral singer, actress, and world traveller. A POETIC JOURNEY travels through life in these poetic sections: That's Life, World of Nature, Animal Tales, Personal Healing, Religion, Travel, Ships, Writing, Humor, Arts, War and Peace, and Death. "Barbara Drucker Smith's poems are as varied as Children's Palace in Shanghai, China, to a mother's fears for her growing child, to goldfish at a wedding. They are humorous and serious, but always approach life from its best side." prolific poet and author of The Color of Poison "Barbara Smith's poems express with imagery and careful attention to details. Her poems convey her sensitivity to people, to our companion creatures and to the earth itself: Her joy and her love of life." L. Nelson Farley, poet, and author of A Search for God Paraphrased To order a copy of A POETIC JOURNEY by Barbara Ducker Smith please send your name, full address with zip code, telephone number, and e-mail if available, and send a $20 check made out to Louraine Publishing and send to:
Louraine Publishing The book price purchased using this Website includes delivery and a personalized autograph if requested. Barbara Drucker Smith can be reached at any time on her voice mail 757-599-6229 or by her e-mail: barbaradsmith@cox.net Please be sure to state the name or names the buyer wishes the autograph to be written out to. | ||||
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A Commerce of Moments A Commerce of Moments by Sofia M. Starnes (Pavement Saw Press, Ohio, 2003; Editor: David Baratier) Paper Trade: ISBN 1-886350-68-X PRICE: $12.00 6 by 9 inches, 88 pages, POETRY Editor's Choice for the Transcontinental Poetry Award, this first full-length collection includes poems published in Hayden's Ferry Review, Poet Lore, The Laurel Review, Gulf Coast, The Marlboro Review, Pleiades, and many others. Sofia Starnes, a writer of Philippine-Spanish heritage, was born in Manila and received a degree in English Philology from the University of Madrid. She was awarded the 1997 Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Prize, the 2001 Aldrich Poetry Prize, Editor's Prize in the 2002 Marlboro Poetry Prize, and, more recently, the 2004 Conference on Christianity and Literature Poetry Award. Sofia also is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Couplet by couplet, Sofia Starnes leads her readers on a poetic quest for understanding. Her perfect pitch and her acute sensitivity to the pace and nuances of language are reason enough for us to follow. A Commerce of Moments is a gathering of very special poems. —Billy Collins A Commerce of Moments is a work of awe-nspiring clarity and purity of language from a poet whose wide-awake eyes allow us to experience a vivid, lasting world. Blessed is a poet so connected to what is most essential to this life, and perhaps the next, too. This book will enchant; a fine collection indeed. —Virgil Suarez
Ah, what the soul gives for shape —
at the temple, to be cumbered
from plantations in heat; what it gives
on wrists, loose-leaf palms it befriends, of all this, and this place… (from The Soul's Landscape) Books are available through the publisher (1.614.445.0534 / editor@pavementsaw.org), through SPD (Small Press Distribution) /1341 Seventh St. / Berkeley, CA 94710 / 1.800.869.7553, and through major booksellers, such as Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com. Paper Trade: ISBN 1-886350-68-X Signed copies may be obtained from the author for $12.00 plus postage (Virginia residents, please add tax). For more information, contact Sofia Starnes at whsstarnes@widomaker.com. | ||||
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Cabin Boy to Captain: A Sea Story Cabin Boy to Captain: A Sea Story by Edward W. Lull. The glory days of sailing ships and exploration in Elizabethan England provide the setting for this tale of historical fiction. The protagonist, Robert Fuller, a boy of 14 at the beginning, takes the reader on a series of voyages from 1577-1588. The story is told in four linked parts. The first includes the three-year circumnavigation of the globe with Francis Drake. Next, Fuller travels to the New World with Richard Grenville and John White. The third part covers an important Drake expedition that disrupts the Spanish plan to attack England in 1587. The final part includes the historic confrontation between the English seamen and the imposing Spanish Armada. The entire saga is written in blank verse. The book may be purchased for $15.00, plus $1.50 postage from: Colony Books, P.O. Box 6572, Williamsburg, VA 23188. ISBN: 0-9704804-2-3. | ||||
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Baseball: The National Pastime in Art & Literature This volume, featuring 24 poems, has just been issued by Time-Life books. Edited by David Colbert, it is really big and impressive and beautiful. And it includes member Ron Smith's poem Striking Out My Son in the Father-Son Game. Ron is one of 22 poets represented, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Hall, Robert Francis, Ogden Nash, and Ernest L. Thayer. Prose writers include Stephen King, W.P. Kinsella, Roger Angell, Don DeLillo, and Bernard Malamud--and of course Yogi Berra, But Abbott and Lou Costello. But the great attraction of the book is its layout and the many beautiful illustrations by such artists as Norman Rockwell, Elaine de Kooning, and Thomas Eakins. | ||||
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The Williamsburg Poetry Guild Toasts the 20th Century Vintage Wine and Good Spirits This anthology, edited by Edward Lull with Philomene Hood, Joanne Scott Kennedy, and Rita Durrant, features poetry by all twelve members of the Williamsburg Poetry Guild. Attractively bound, the book contains ten chapters, 121 poems, and a forward written by the Poet Laureate of Virginia, Joseph Awad. There are chapters on events, nostalgia, nature, war, protest, aging, and so forth. The title comes from a delightful poem on aging by Rita Durrant, President of the Williamsburg Poetry Guild. Vintage Wine and Good Spirits is now out of print. | ||||
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