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The Seed Thieves
Robert Fanning Paperback - September 200672 Pages
ISBN: 0-9779703-0-2
USD $14.95 In dramatic lyrics and narratives, The Seed Thieves investigates both the mundane and the extramundane. In varying styles and voices, the poems cover a wide spectrum of imagery, including: a man startled to prayer by fireflies, a teenage girl falling from a highway overpass, a drunk circling his lawn in a tractor, children scavenging through the treasures of a shattered piñata. Grappling with death, love, God, and existence in a world where “ even lifting our hands to pray / we disturb the air,” these poems turn toward death and ruin in search of real light and redemption.
White Holes
James Hart III Paperback - September 200680 Pages
ISBN: 0-9779703-1-0
USD $11.95 White Holes is a sequence of poems that attempts to give speech, broken as it might be, to the grief that is felt in the wake of a mother's death. Here, in Hart's left-behind world, what isn't said — what can't be said — carries as much weight as what is said. There is a delicate balance in these poems between language and articulation and the fractured space, both psychic and visible, that must be entered and accounted for in the aftermath of the mother's absence. It was Beckett who made the claim: "you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." No other book of poems, no other poet, in recent years, seizes hold of this declaration and makes from it an artifact that is both holy and wholly his own.
A Complex Bravery
Robert Lipton Paperback - April 200680 Pages
ISBN: 0-9712676-1-8
USD $14.95 “This is the book of childhood, love and war. Lipton’s poems are a gang that takes no prisoners: his voice is direct, his tone is clear, his diction is ironic — but his irony is earned and felt-through. The manuscript is a book of elegies that refuse to go mourning without at least a little bit of protest. Whatever his loss is, Lipton’s voice is always quirky and alive, always ready to report the world straight to us, without patronizing, for ‘this battle is parent by parent/and I have homework to do.’”" — Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Musica Humana
The Sleeping
Caroline Maun Paperback - April 200664 Pages
ISBN: 0-9712676-2-6
USD $14.95 The Sleeping, the first book of poetry by Caroline Maun, explores the meanings of what "home" is with naked vulnerability. Maun analyzes relationships with parents, her significant others, strangers, and herself in ways that are — or become — identifiable to the reader.
Solute
Daniel Padilla Paperback - September 200680 Pages
ISBN: 0-9779703-2-9
USD $10.95 Solute is a first book by a young poet who is, as it says in one poem, standing "at the threshold of desire." Desire, to want, is the verb of choice in Padilla's world, a desire to feel, a desire to be dangerous, a desire to be loved, to be understood, to be connected with others, a desire to find oneself whole in this world, not to mention the poet's own need, his "hunger for ink," to make from this desire an artifact of language charged with meaning.
Witness of Music
Alexander Suczek Paperback - September 200680 Pages
ISBN:0-9779703-8-8
USD $22.95 In Witness of Music, Alexander Suczek combs the archives and his memories to share intimate details of how Pro Musica Detroit outlasted the 19 other chapters that were established throughout the nation in the 1920s. Neither the Great Depression nor wartime nor changes in concert venues have veered the venerable concert society from its mission, which continues to this very day.Witness of Music is complete with details and reviews of many of its concerts and the impact the musicians and composers would later have on classical music on an international level. Likewise, “The Witness of Music” also recants the efforts of the many Detroit-area residents who volunteered to bring such talent to the community and leave their marks on an important slice of local cultural history. In addition to Suczek’s narration, Witness of Music includes a full roster of composers, musicians, programs as well as board members who have served Pro Musica Detroit throughout the years.
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