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Eating the Light, by Mary Barbara Moore

In Eating the Light, these new poems of Mary Moore ‘s new poems offer a feast for the reader. On subjects both natural and human-wrought, her eye is the painter’s: vividly clear. She creates an appetite for looking and a fulfillment of seeing. Moore’s perceptions are sensuous, intelligent, and the world in the poems is a world transformed both physically and emotionally. Her metaphors illuminate and satisfy, and having dined with her, we begin to glow, sated on such delectables. These poems embody a kind of mystical sensitivity to the sources of life: immediate, continuously perishing, making its considerable mark in these gorgeous lines.

Holy Ghosts of Whiskey, by Marty Silverthorne

Holy Ghost of Whiskey is a beautiful commitment to the god-force of memory. Marty Silverthorne reminds us over and over again how poetry strengthens our root. These deep evocations of language and ghosts create pathways that charm us into honky tonk heavens. From beginning to end these poems offer a haunted awareness of the joys, sacrifices, and sorrows that are singing in the hinges of three room shot gun shacks. These poems lift up the roots and reveal well-crafted tenderness and emphatic imagination that bears witness to the longings and challenges we all have confronting our angels, our ghosts, loves, and losses.

Return, by Cristina Albers

This collection is a powerful testament to the ebb and flow/ highs and lows of early recovery. Return provides a glimpse into a process seldom seen. The process of recovery skillfully woven into a poetic style of descriptive precision. Return is a snapshot of body bags, key tags, 90 day intervals and the triumph of that first year of freedom. For this poet, this is only the beginning.

Sacajawea’s Song, by Judith Fuller

The history of Sacajawea, who traveled with Lewis & Clark on their expedition, has been documented by the writings in their journals, and her story has been told and retold through the years, even to our school children. But how often do we get a chance to travel along with Sacajawea on her inner journey as well?

Sacajawea’s Song is the beautifully-imagined journey — both across the land and the landscape of the heart — of one of this country’s best-known native daughters, Sacajawea.

The Essence of Less, by Nancy Clark

The Essence of Less invites you, from the time you discover you have too much stuff—or too much media-, information-, social-, work- and device-driven overload – to enter its pages and allow focus to be your guide through Clark’s exploration and celebration of “lessness” — including the times to

“Let it go—bow your head, drop your eyes with a sigh;/ Give the pearl to the sea, the balloon to the sky.”

The Way the Rain Works, by Ralph Earle

This is a deeply felt book about a family in crisis that lives inside you and lends itself to multiple readings. Sad, but not without its small, yet sustaining, redemptions: “In the evening, overflowing with secret love,/ I dangle my feet above the receding/ spillway and listen: ripples. The moon’s/ reflection rides them like a blessing.

Letters for my Little Sister, by Cecilia B.W. Gunther

Letters for my Little Sister began as a conversation peppered with questions — between women who found they had little to no idea what to expect from this phase in their lives.

Compiled from letters, essays and poems from almost seventy women around the world, Letters is written for every woman to read, to share — with each other and with the men and women who love them.

How Far Light Will Travel, by Steve Roberts

Experiences that sear but do not wither the soul. Steve Roberts has established himself a voice that does not falsify the cruel circumstances that have commanded these powerful poems to be written.

Unabated honesty and fastidious craftsmanship make these lines almost unnerving in their intensities. Strong stuff — and strongly recommended.

and so she told me, by Barbara Kenyon

A beautifully illustrated memoir in poetry form, by Hillsborough’s poet laureate, Barbara Kenyon.

Real Girls Have Real Problems, by Kelly Rae Williams

Sexism. Racism. You don’t have to look very far in the news to find that these problems that should already be behind us – indeed, decades ago — are still with us and uglier than ever. Once again, our young people are speaking out. One such young person is Kelly Rae Williams.