We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders is a collection of poems written over the course of twenty-five years as the author struggled to live with a devastating mental illness, paranoid schizophrenia. The poems be
The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making - poetry and memoir exploring the anatomy of a marriage - underbelly and crown.A practicing psychologist and former marriage therapist unveils the role of parents, re
The all encompassing theme in this debut collection is how a person holds the tension of opposites-- darkness to light, from loss to reconciliation and redemption. In the middle of life with both feet
"This poet writes like a woman with a mission. Her collection resounds with an honesty that is at once brutal and determined. "You will not go hungry into a strange soil," she writes to her jaundiced
This collection of poems and memoir is the second title from Laurel Books, CavanKerry's Literature of Illness imprint which features poetry and prose that explores the many poignant issues associated
Common Life looks at the various meanings of common, especially its senses of familiar and widely known; belong or relating to the community at large; and its twinned notions of simple and rudimentary
These fifty poems explore the primacy of perspective, both that of the poetry and those of a diverse array of individuals, historical and contemporary. Syd Lea wrote in the foreword, "Here was a writ
Mary Ruefle is an observer who seeks to bring sense and order to her world. This is a world that can span continents and centuries, but in each. the poem is defined by where she is at that moment. Ma
