San Antonio Small Presses Pecan Grove Press & Wings Press A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American by Carmen Tafolla From Many Springs by Joan Strauch Seifert
Wings Press attempts to produce multicultural books, chapbooks, CDs, DVDs and broadsides that, we hope, enlighten the human spirit and enliven the mind. Everyone ever associated with Wings has been or is a writer, and we know well that writing is a transformational art form capable of changing the world, primarily by allowing us to glimpse something of each other's souls. Good writing is innovative, insightful, and interesting. But most of all it is honest. Likewise, Wings Press is committed to treating the planet itself as a partner. Thus the press uses as much recycled material as possible, from the paper on which the books are printed to the boxes in which they are shipped. Authors published from 1975 to 1993 included such notables as Judson Crews, Vassar Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Phillips, and singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt. During those years, Wings Press published approximately 50 books by 42 authors. These were primarily collections of poetry, though works of fiction, history, and music were published as well. Many of the books were hand-sewn, printed by both offset press and/or letterpress. The poetry almost always had letterpress covers. Editions ranged from 200 to 5,000 copies. After Joseph Lomax died, Joanie Whitebird took over as publisher.
Moments of Delicate Balance
Wings Press www.wingspress Proudly Presents Moments of Delicate Balance by David Lee and William Kloefkorn
In a collection of poems "full of tenderness without sentimentality, laughter without derision, wisdom without sanctimony," Lee and Kloefkorn strike a "delicate balance" on numerous fronts, both within their own work and in an unintentional dialogue that finds lyric introspection and narrative wit addressing the same topics. Truly western writers in love with the land, both poets bring their highly literate acumen to bear upon both the mundane and the magnificent. These poets have been compared to William Carlos Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor and others whose ear for the American voice is unerring and unflinching.
Indios by Linda Hogan
Indios by Linda Hogan
This work is available only from Wings Press until April 2012, when Indios will be available everywhere. Indios is set "in the timelessness of our lives," writes Linda Hogan. "Time is different in the cell structure of bodies created from and on this continent." Indios speaks to us the truth of a history twisted to suit the needs of a conquering power. It is an old story and yet a tragically contemporary one. Indios, the character, speaks to us from a jail cell, a Native woman falsely accused of the death of her children. In her plight we hear echoes of Malinche, cursed and blessed as both a race traitor and as the mother of all mestizos. We hear echoes of Pocahontas, of La Llorona, and ultimately, of Medea—not, Hogan stresses, the Medea of Euripides, but the captured princess of the original story in which her children were murdered by the people of Corinth—and Medea herself was feared for her cultural differences and her knowledge. As Indios says of herself, she is an "aftershock" of history. This powerful poem is her legacy.
Crazy Love by Pamela Uschuk
Crazy Love by Pamela Uschuk Reviewed by Cynthia Hogue, author of The Incognito Body
Pamela Uschuk's Crazy Love is a radiant new collection by a poet writing at the peak of her powers. These poems are as vast as the universe, large-hearted, wise. We savor the delicate observations, the careful detail, wed to passionate vision. Out hiking, one speaker says she wants to hold her friends in "the blue clarity of this altitude, make them fall / desperately in love with sneezeweed / and coreopsis the color of absinthe, / with the small gray teeth of talus / that clatter like broken crockery " ("Climbing down from Engineer Mountain"). Music and humor ripple through these poems, as does grief for environmental destruction, for poverty and war. As the speaker of "Self Help Manual" proclaims, "I will chew blue glass until it releases / the captive language of stars. / I will . . . learn the clogged pipes / of hatred, of scorn, then / flush them clean." I read these gorgeous poems and feel that Uschuk's words restore us to ourselves, to our senses.
Word Design Studio Presents Oasis in the Sky by Michaud L. Lamrouex From Many Springs by Joan Seifert WUI: Written Under the Influence of Trinidad Sanchez by Juan Manual Parez
Valerie Bailey
Word Design Studio Valerie Bailey Since 1998
The Word Design Studio, founded in 1998, is committed to publishing selected high quality poetry collections, anthologies, and other paperback books, fiction and non-fiction. Word Design Studio is author-friendly and strives for author satisfaction through every step of the process toward the final published product. The editor, Valerie Martin Bailey, has been in the writing, editing, and publishing field since 1970. She spent twenty-one years managing a large printing facility and seventeen years editing books and magazines. An accomplished writer and award-winning poet, she donates much of her time promoting poetry at the local, state, and national level. The latest three poetry collections produced by the Word Design Studio are Oasis in the Sky, a collection of poems and stories by Michaud L. Lamrouex; From Many Springs, a collection of poems by Joan Strauch Seifert; and WUI: Written Under the Influence of Trinidad Sánchez, a poetic tribute to the late Trinidad Sánchez by Juan Manuel Pérez. For more information, please visit www.worddesignstudio.com.
Established in 1988, Pecan Grove Press is sponsored by The Louis J. Blume Library of St. Mary’s University. The press publishes books and chapbooks of fine poetry and, very rarely, short works of prose. PGP also publishes a regular chapbook series for students at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Pecan Grove Press is pleased to announce the availability of Jeffrey Greene’s new collection of poems: Beautiful Monsters; and also of Lana Hechtman Ayers’s new collection of poems: A New Red. Other new books are from Kurt Heinzelman, Marian Haddad, Scott Wiggerman, David Starkey, and many others.
Presence Poems by Scott Wiggerman from www.Pecan Grove Press
Presence is Scott Wiggerman’s second volume of poetry, the long-awaited follow-up to Vegetables and Other Relationships. Wiggerman is the chief editor of Dos Gatos Press in Austin, where he has co-edited the annual Texas Poetry Calendar for the past seven years. He has also edited Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair, an anthology of Texas-themed poetry, and recently co-edited Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry, a collection of poetry- writing exercises from teaching poets across the country.
What We Sign Up For
What We Sign Up For poems by Lisa L. Siedlarz's Comments by Sean Thomas Dougherty “Between fragmentary slippages of found language, photos, poems derived from photos, linguistic collage, personal correspondence and poems of her soldier brother fighting in Afghanistan, Lisa Siedlarz offers us a deeply insightful and penetrating vision of ‘what we don’t see.’ In a century where conflict is the poet’s common script, this book stands tall for its ambition and its bravery. Out of these fragments and small narratives something wholly human and sustaining emerges. Something both personal and communal. This is a book, that in the right hands, could end a war. Read it and believe.”
Nothing More Happens in the 20th Century: Haiku Dangers
Nothing More Happens in the 20th Century: Haiku Dangers by Gary Hotham
Comments by Maxianne Berger
"Readers of contemporary haiku in English can welcome this new collection by Gary Hotham. In our language, haiku’s structure of juxtaposition is expressed in the sparest of lines. That moment of grace or Zen—the essence—is more important than a syllable count, and Hotham is a master of its understated simplicity. Where each haiku is its own universe, when read in sequence, through the cycles of the changing seasons, his poems quietly share a loved one’s illness as naturally as a morning glory or snow. These kigo—season words—make several appearances, and each new guise recalls the old one. The dew of the first haiku, near 'the danger sign' reappears later at 'a small curve in the path' from which “we” recall that 'we haven’t walked anywhere/ the dew hasn’t been[.]' These are poems to read and to re-read; this, a book to own and to give."
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From Many Springs
WUI: Written Under Influence of Trinidad Sanchez
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