Books and Authors

New Book by Jeanne Shannon

Released in May 2006
Angelus: Poems (Author's Bio)
Jeanne Shannon, ISBN 1-56474-455-8
Published by Fifthian Press, 2006
Price: $14.00

Poems reflecting epiphanies of the heart, the imagination, and the mind. The poems are for the most part sensuous, although many are given to ideas, including an entire section devoted to the Canonical Hours.

A review of "Angelus: Poems" appears on Page 5 of the
July newsletter of SouthWest Writers, "The Southwest Sage"

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The Wildflower Press - Current Books

Eleven A.M. (Author's Bio)
Poems by Julie Dunlop, Gayle Elen Harvey, Lyn Lifshin and Jeanne Shannon. No ISBN.
Price: $9.00

Poems inspired by subjects as diverse as sunflowers, geese, landscapes, paintings (Hopper, Miró, Van Gogh), bees and the people who keep them, and Katherine Mansfield’s garden party.

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Frozen Light: The Crystal Poems (Author's Bio)

Harvena Richter; ISBN 0-9714343-1-X
Price: $9.00

Poems that address the scientific and aesthetic properties of crystals, their geometry and their architecture, while not forgetting some of the legends that surround them.

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Letters from Jian Hui (Author's Bio)

Poems by Phyllis Hoge Thompson. ISBN 0-9714343-0-1
Price: $12.00

Poems drawn from the author’s experience of living and teaching in China in the late 20th century.

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No Hole In The Flame: A Memoir on Love
and Grief in Poetry and Prose
(new and expanded edition)

Maryhelen Snyder. ISBN 978-0-9779933-2-1 (Author's Bio)
Price: $15.00

A memoir of the author’s long marriage and a recounting of how she coped with her husband’s sudden death. An extraordinary set of glimpses into a marriage and a bereavement delivered with remarkable honesty and self-knowledge.

Note: This new edition includes a chapter called "Afterward: Legacy," her thoughts about the legacy her late husband Ross left behind. The chapter is in the form of a letter to their grandson, who never knew his grandfather.

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The Painted Clock: Memoirs of a New Mexico
Ghost Town Bride

Phyllis Hoge Thompson. ISBN 0-9714343-4-4
Price: $19.00

Author's web site: http://www.phyllishoge.com

The true story of how a couple, somewhat along in years, attempt to adapt themselves to the surprises of life in the almost uninhabited ghost town of Mogollon, New Mexico. Newly married, husband and wife try to figure out each other as well as the character of their chosen home, from the ramshackle remains of the beautiful old mining town to the wonderful idiosyncrasies of their neighbors.

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Stars Scattered Like Seeds

Jeanne Shannon; ISBN 0-9714343-5-2 (Author's Bio)
Price: $14.95

Poems and stories drawn from the author’s early life in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia.

Writing about this book, acclaimed novelist Lee Smith says, “Jeanne Shannon has an astonishing ability to capture the exact feeling of time gone by. Her gift for precise imagery has given me back whole chunks of my earlier life. What a wonderful writer she is!”

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Accidental Magic

Peggy Pond Church; ISBN 0-9714343-6-0 (Author's Bio)
Price: $19.95

Poems by the late Peggy Pond Church (1903-1986), one of the American West’s major (and too often overlooked) poets.

As well as painting vivid word-pictures of the Southwestern landscape, Church examined the dilemmas of life in the modern world, particularly those that came with the arrival of the atomic age, and addressed them in her work. In this collection she also turns her gaze courageously upon herself, her family, and her friends and provides an autobiography in poems.

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Passage to Teheran

Harvena Richter; ISBN 0-9714343-7-9 (Author's Bio)
Price: $12.00

A somewhat fictionalized account of a trip taken by the author in 1956.

They were two poet/journalists off on a writing junket. The route their Vespa scooter followed to Teheran took them from Genoa to Venice, across to Trieste, into Yugoslavia, down through Greece and into Turkey, and over the pass where Xenophon came storming in the other direction. Through deserts, by Mt. Ararat, by bones of cattle and dead trucks, by the walking skeleton of a bearded artist going home from India. Through Maku, Khoi, and Tabriz, the old capital of Persia. It would be the most dangerous journey of their lives.

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Coming True

Poems by Karen McKinnon; ISBN 0-9668073-1-6 (Author's Bio)
Published by Watermelon Mountain Press, 2000
Price: $14.95

“Karen McKinnon is the consummate poet of any world common to any one of us. It’s as if she took on the burden of thinking about it, the days passing, the nights with their various confusion…the irreducible place of human relationships. . .the presence of someone’s telling, thinking, feeling in the world, as we do – who is here too, now and forever, in these pages.”

From the Introduction by Robert Creeley

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Les Fables des Fleurs (Author's Bio)

Sapphire Pleiades; ISBN 978-0-9714343-9-4
Price: $12.00

Twenty little tales about flowers—a flower arrangement, a book of poesy. Sapphire Pleiades says, "Think of this book as a bouquet of expression about feminine lives and their psychological experiences".

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Call Me Myriad

Constance Hester, ISBN 0-9714343-8-7 (Author's Bio)
Price: $14.95.

Poems drawn from a variety of life experiences and organized around "a myriad" of themes, including Rain, Shadows, Raspberries, Money, and Ambition.

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