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  • There's a Fractal in My Soup

    by

    These poems engage the reader in a playful and entertaining journey encompassing all the elements of comedy, irony, tragedy, and romance. Enhanced by startling images and capricious humour, they reveal patterns often found in myth, dreams, and ...


  • The Greatest Trick

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    The Greatest Trick by Madeline Speer is a hauntingly beautiful collection of poetry and prose revealing episodes of pain, endurance, and survival in the aftermath of abuse and divorce. In this deeply raw and painful collection, Speer’s genuine ...


  • Dis-Shelter of Being

    Poems 1978-1984 by

    The poems collected in this volume offer personal and philosophical reflections on an age of disintegration. Written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it is divided into three parts. The second Part arose out of the character of the author's ...


  • A Lifetime of Feelings

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    This collection of free verse poetry examines the deep questions of the human condition: death and disease, love and God, and the endurance of the human spirit. Inspired by the author’s life, the poems are both unique and universal, asking readers ...


  • Bruised Fruit

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    In Bruised Fruit, pride hangs from a tree like a plum, is plucked, and left to rot on the ground. A cow jumps over the moon and lands on the highway. A heart is made of glass. Blushing is “a wound / in my cheek.” A breath is an ocean wave. Love is ...


  • Bring Light

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    In her third collection of poetry, Trudy Kleckner reminds us of the transformative power of attention, describing with wonder the unaffected beauty of nature and the preciousness of human life. These poems offer pause for reflection and nourishment ...


  • The Things I've Left Unsaid

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    Here’s the diary of a soul who finally found courage to express the truths that must be told. Conveying the ways in which filth trickled by and eroded every piece of humanity left inside. Here’s a challenge to the world in all the atrocities it must ...


  • The Comfort of Stone

    New and Selected Poems by

    The Comfort of Stone is a collection of finely crafted free verse and lyrical poems that trace the author’s intimate recollections of her life experience and family history. The old stories told around the kitchen table become reality as personal ...


  • Gypsy Muse

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    We all create false mountains to climb. Gypsy Muse is a collection of free verse poetry chronicling that journey, and how we move beyond. Its subject matter strolls the depth and breadth of life: reinvention of the self later in life, the majesty ...


  • A Bedouin Dies in the City

    And Other Works by

    A Bedouin Dies in the City is a deep, introspective collection of short stories and poems that will challenge readers’ thoughts and feelings regarding a variety of topics, from faith to identity to love, revenge, and death. Above all, it calls ...