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Chants
Poetry. A memoir in sonnets. "This is what history sounds like, a song that takes over us until we join the chants and become part of history. Thanks to John L. Stanizzi for showing us another path of walking into today."--Romeo Oriogun "These loose sonnets with the punning title--CHANTS--push us in various directions: towards the past, towards the present, even towards the immensely problematical future. It's the story of a Catholic boy grown into a compassionate, intelligent man looking at the world as it has configured itself in his lifetime: all the changes. The difference from a newspaper account is that Stanizzi is an observer with music on his mind: 'cause / to breathe in cleanly in t...
Four Bits
In each of these fifty 50-word prose poems, John Stanizzi dazzles with insight, humor, and story-telling.
My Tarantella
Not being a man, I bleed like this. -Bhanu Kapil, "What is the shape of your body?"
Starting with Goodbye
Starting with Goodbye begins with loss and ends with love, as a midlife daughter rediscovers her enigmatic father after his death. Lisa has little time for grief, but when her dead dad drops in for “conversations,” his absent presence invites Lisa to examine why the parent she had turned away from in life now holds her spellbound. Lisa reconsiders the affluent upbringing he financed (filled with horses, lavish vacations, bulging closets), and the emotional distance that grew when he retired to Las Vegas and she remained in New Jersey where she and her husband earn moderate incomes. She also confronts death rituals, navigates new family dynamics, while living both in memory and the unfold...
Bible Poems for Reflection and Response
A fresh way to experience the Bible! 290 down-to-earth poems, based on Bible passages, range from traditional rhyme to free verse, and speak in a personal voice to the reader. The applicable Bible verses are listed with each poem. Blank pages and wide margins provide space to creatively respond with thoughts, prayers, poems, sketches, and doodles. Looking for a new approach to Bible reading? For readers of the Bible as well as those who shy away from reading the Bible. Bible Poems for Reflection and Response offers a personal and interactive way to experience the enduring truths of God's Word. Not sure if you're a poetry person? These poems are accessible--no obscure poetic language, no hidd...
Indelible Fingerprints
David A. Estringel's first published book Indelible Fingerprints from Alien Buddha Press contains prose and verse that are reflective of the significant parts of David's life that have not only shaped him but left permanent marks (both good and bad). This published work contains 40 pieces of poetry and short fiction that have been previously published and reprinted in over 43 literary magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. Indelible Fingerprints offers 37 pieces of verse, ranging from free-verse to prose poetry to haiku, of various influences (Classical to dirty realism), as well as 3 short stories that encompass oeuvres of kitchen sink realism, speculative fiction, and the surreal.
Still Here
Sam Norman's, Still Here, is an autobiographical chronicle-in-verse of a man trying to come to grips with the sudden death of his 20-year-old son, Ben, who was just killed in a car accident. The poems in this book take the reader on a journey from the days immediately following the tragedy to about four months later. Here are the verses of a man beyond bereaved... but, despite his unbearable grief, Sam still has one outlet: poetry. Here are those poems, readable and accessible, by way of which Sam tells us that he's still here. Still here - waiting for the time when he might meet up again with his beloved Ben... Ben, who's still here too, in Sam's dreams and memories and prayers and now, too...
No Winter Maintenance
This collection of sixty poems includes a wide range of reflections and observations about society, human behavior, and the healing gift of nature. Donna Marie Merritt's sixth book of poetry begins with her husband's infidelity and makes clear from the start that no woman (certainly not this poet) will put up with that.
Sicily
Sicily: Land of Love and Strife, A Filmmaker's Journey reveals the process by which Mark Spano was able to capture on film the island nation's natural beauty, its passionate people and epic human struggles, the depth and diversity of its culture, the philosophic insights that originated there, and its wealth of historic sites - all facets of Sicily that have been obscured by the mysterious country's association with organized crime. Spano invites the reader to follow him on his quest to celebrate the real Sicily and, therefore, change public perception of his family's homeland.
Canoeing Maine's Legendary Allagash
Meet Henry David Thoreau, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and other intrepid explorers as you travel northern Maine's rugged woods and waters. In a wild country of ledge and trees that stubbornly resists encroaching civilization, find a young couple padding through the trials, triumphs, and sheer mental and physical exhaustion of wilderness travel severely testing their ability to get along and even complete the trip. Fill your ears with roaring rapids and yodeling loons. Smell pungent spruce and dank swamps. Encounter moose and majestic sunrises cloaked in morning mist. A few pages, and you will find yourself deep in the evergreen forest.
