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A Fragile Shelter
A Fragile Shelter collects into one volume several decades worth of poems, new poems as well as select poems from the author's four previous books: Necessities, Least Resistance, Stone and Sky, and The Initiation of Praise.
Perfect Dragonfly
Poetry. Limited Edition. This anthology, selected from books published by Red Dragonfly Press over the press's first fifteen years, includes over three hundred pages of poetry and represents the work of over sixty poets. Limited to 750 copies, the dust jacket of this hardcover edition was letterpress printed at Red Dragonfly Press. Includes an introduction by the editor, as well as a bibliography of Red Dragonfly Press books.
The Sabine Women
Betrayal, abduction, reconciliation. Among the stories of Rome's founding is the tale of the women from the beautiful region of Sabina-stolen, forced to marry the Roman men, and ultimately brokering peace between two nations to become matriarchs of the Roman Empire. The poems of The Sabine Women explore this complicated story through the imagined voices of the women, and through examining the works that artists, inspired by this story, have made through the ages.
Broken Gates
Poems.
The Ice-cream Vigils
Poetry. Philip Dacey published many books of poetry in his lifetime. This posthumous collection of poems is his gift to poets and poetry readers, to his many friends and admirers. How fitting that the title of this book alludes to an act by the poet Walt Whitman, a small act of kindness fronting the large inevitabilities of fate.
Dragonfly Notes
When a seemingly routine medical procedure results in her mother's premature death, Anne Panning is left reeling. In her first full-length memoir, the celebrated essayist and short story writer draws on decades of memory and experience, piecing together hard truths about her own past and her mother's. We follow Panning's winding path from rural Minnesota to the riverbanks of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. A stark, poignant tale of two women deeply connected, yet forever apart, Dragonfly Notes is a testament to the prevailing nature of love, whether in the form of a rediscovered note, a sudden moment of unexpected recall, or sometimes, simply, the sight a dragonfly flitting past.
Old River, New River
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. OLD RIVER, NEW RIVER, as a literal miscellany, comprises a gathering of short essays, memoirs, contemplative notes, and even a few poems. Various well-chosen corners of North America, including the author's hometown, provide grist for these meditations and speculations. Some celebrate brief moments of revelation. Some ponder the elusiveness of history, the songs of birds, or the dimensions of place. Several reflect on facets of writing (both prose and poetry): how the art arises, is induced by the world, and how it functions once it is fledged.
The Infernal
A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror—an utterly original and blackly comic debut In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal.
Augur
Poetry. Finalist for a 2019 CT Book Award for Poetry. The augurs of ancient Rome were charged with studying natural phenomena, like the flight habits of birds, in order to look for propitious or unfavorable omens. The poems in AUGUR are attempts, in prescribed and open forms, to "decode" the signs of a world in the midst of tremendous and often bewildering upheaval. Written from the interlocking perspectives of father, husband, son, brother, educator, and citizen, the poetry in AUGUR seeks to engage life with clarity. Many of the poems are charged with the energies of the natural world, including the patterns of bird flight the augurs once looked to, not as an escape, but as a source of information and insight. Ultimately, we must inscribe the signs with meaning and reject the small priesthoods and corrupt officials who claim all vision (and power).
The Disjunctive Dragonfly
The Disjunctive Dragonfly is Richard Gilbert's update of a portion of his seminal Poems of Consciousness (Red Moon Press, 2008), wherein he investigates how language experimentation in contemporary English-language haiku both connects and radically departs from 20th century conventions. Gilbert identifies 24 varieties of disjunction that haiku poets have at their disposal, with examples and explication. This volume is the most important theoretical study of English-language haiku in the new century, and will leave its imprint on the genre for generations.
