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Dreams and Blessings
Six Visionary Poets: Lisha Adela Garcia Jennifer Read Hawthorne Anna Kodama Nancy Lee Melmon Angie Minkin Suzanne Dudley Edited by Diane Frank Foreword by Jennifer Read Hawthorne #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul We dream together. Write together. Celebrate together. The six of us -- Lisha Adela Garcia, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Anna Kodama, Angie Minkin, Nancy Lee Melmon, and Suzanne Dudley -- are all students of Diane Frank, San Francisco poet, teacher, and founder of Blue Light Press. Our poems take us deeper, show us what we value, help us explore the themes of our lives. We write to understand ourselves better -- and to explain the world we live in. We write to understand how all beings connect, in this world and beyond. We write to celebrate what is good in the world and why we would like our planet to survive. -- Excerpted from the Foreword
Blood Rivers
Lisha Adela Garcia's splendid debut full-length collection of poems, Blood Rivers, follows the legacy of blood-spilled, spared, reviled, holy, singled-out, intermingled, and sustaining. These are poems of cultural border crossings and personal boundary breaches as seen from the female perspective. Her "whole life is the geography between...two countries, two cultures, two languages," the Rio Grande, "hugging both sides" of her story. She envisions her "long black tongue, a computer / chewing the lessons of history." The poems can be scathing, calling us out for our absurdities, as in "St, Francis in Mesilla" where we hear how "War tames the sassy wildness of the rich / who justify themselves...
A Rope of Luna
Bold, fresh, painful, and charged with spiritual energy, Garcia's A Rope of Luna pulls us through the cycles of life with insight, passion, and "the stubbornness of a heel ground into the dirt." Poignant and sweet in its intimacy, this collection of poems immerses us in the raw wound of life as an immigrant child, as a daughter of a dying mother, as an estranged child of a faraway father, of a determined poet capturing the beauty of life in its "new botanical garden where I choose the order of petal and plant." Vividly painting the experience of leaving her native land and of being immersed in a place where her ethnicity, her language, and the prejudice of local institutions mark her as the ...
Eden Waters Press Home Anthology
Home Anthology is a volume of memoirs-essays and poems-revolving around a common theme: home. The writing is solid, down to earth, and emotive. - Sue Miller
Chicana Portraits
This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes’s portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. The collection brilliantly intersects artistic visual and literary cultural productions, allowing complex themes to emerge, such as the fragility of life, sexism and misogyny, Chicana agency and forging one’s own path, the struggles of becoming a writer and battling self-doubt, e...
Masked/Unmuted
Reading Masked/Unmuted by Jean Hackett is to experience the world as a poet living moment to moment, in today's chaotic political/pandemic world. With a naturalist's sensibility; she captures the interplay of daily coping and a larger concern for the planet. A singular eye that can speak to water still spins down the drain clockwise and leap to a car hood, pollen and backyard mockingbirds in a single poem. In this collection, nature is a character involving itself in a lover's breakup and white privilege. Masked/Unmasked deliberates the continual adaptation to circumstance. She describes COVID as: the plague smiled and waited to present itself in new clothes. Life on Zoom is described as: we...
To the Cypress Again and Again
"Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of To the Cypress Again and Again is a supple translation of Espriu's first book, Sinera Cemetery, along with selections from other collections. A reader will come away with a poignant sense of Espriu's beloved seaside landscape as well as, in Espriu's words, his "precious Catalan's/ mysterious gold" a language that was suppressed and forbidden under Franco's regime. Cassells has given us an enduring gift to the memory of Espriu-through his personal introduction, his loving translations, followed by ...
Praise at Midnight
"Sherwin Ellis, the young black man charged with the murder of the hotel owner Ed Covey, sits in jail, burning with anger. His only hope is Kwame Taylor, a brilliant attorney from Houston, who sends civil rights lawyer Bil Mermann to cover jury selection. When Taylor has to bow out of the case, Mermann finds himself defending his first-ever capital murder case. With the town's most prominent lawyer, Hayden Shipley, stepping in as special prosecutor and the Judge counting off the years until he can score an appointment to the Court of Appeals, the Ellis case looks like a slam-dunk conviction. The case threatens to explode the uneasy balance of power between the town's white and black communities. But then the town's lone Communist becomes an alternate on the jury. Mermann stumbles upon some of the town's long-kept secrets and San Bernardo is never the same"--Cover.
