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
Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Come down from your Tower of Loneliness and enter the hurly burly of Love in Lorna Dee Cervantes’ magnificent book of poems, Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems. Each poem is 100 words long. Each poem overflows with an abundance of poetic energy, insight, eroticism, and above all, humor. Someone once said you know when you’ve read a good poem because when the poem stops, you go through the windshield. In this collection, you go through the windshield at almost every line. As Lorna Dee says in her poem “100 Words to the Chaos (Without You),” whatever pattern of attraction she has for you, the reader, she longs to “lay it on a Fibonacci /sequential spiral dance to you.” Buy this book. Read it. It’ll keep you young and in love forever. — E. A. “Tony” Mares, author of With the Eyes of a Raptor and Astonishing Light: Conversations I Never Had With Patrociño Barela
As If The Empty Chair / Como si la silla vacía by Margaret Randall
These twelve exquisite poems depict, with razor-precise clarity, the realities of the “disappeared” in Latin America and the emotional devastation of the families left behind. As human beings, we can find the strength to bury our dead, grieve for them always, and yet somehow move on. Not so with our disappeared loved ones: every moment is filled with the horror of what they must be suffering in some secret torture cell. We never escape from their screams, and we never stop trying to find them. As Margaret Randall so vividly writes, “We cannot move on, for where would they find us when they stumble home?”
Crazy Love by Pamela Uschuk
Life lived at the fever pitch of awareness and care—intensely present eye and voice, to ripped-out rooms, distant battles, vivid landscapes, succulent soil cupped in the fist and loves unending—Pamela Uschuk moves at eloquent, passionate depth through the glories and pleasures of our haunted days. In language both rich and sturdy, she reminds us it is “never too late for repair” in any realm of being.
Ciento: 100 100-Words Love Poems
As If The Empty Chair
Crazy Love
Bryce Milligan
Wings Press Bryce Milligan
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.
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The Pecan Grove Press Proudly Presents Two New Books
Author, Publisher Palmer Hall
Pecan Grove Press Palmer Hall
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.
Bedrock by Bonnie Lyons Bonnie Lyons’s first full-length book of poems, In Other Words, was published by Pecan Grove Press in 2004. Her chapbooks, Hineni (2003) and Meanwhile (2005), were both published by Finishing Line Press. She is also the author of Henry Roth: The Man and His Work and co-author of Passion and Craft, interviews with fiction writers. A professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, she has received teaching, creative writing, and research awards from the university. She has taught as a Fulbright professor at the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki and at the Central and Autonoma Universities in Barcelona, and has also been a Fulbright lecturer in Athens, Rome, Florence, Haifa, and Tel Aviv.
Feeding Time by Emily Scudder Emily Scudder is the author of two chapbooks, Natural Instincts and A Change of Pace (Finishing Line Press) and the editor of the blog Fiddler Crab Review: The Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review. Her poems have been published in Harvard Review, Agni Online, Salamander, New Letters, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives with her three favorite land creatures, her husband and two children, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Inherent Vice by Pat Valdata Patricia Valdata has an MFA in writing from Goddard College. Her publications include two novels, The Other Sister (Plain View Press, 2008) and Crosswind (Wind Canyon Publishing, 1997), plus an earlier chapbook from Pecan Grove Press, Looking for Bivalve (2002). Her poetry has won first place in the Eastern Shore Regional Poetry Competition and the Icarus Poetry Competition. She has twice received Maryland Individual Artists Grants for poetry.
Kurt Heinzelman
The Names They Found There by Kurt Heinzelman
Kurt Heinzelman co-founded and for ten years edited the award-winning journal The Poetry Miscellany; he is currently editor-at-large for the Bat City Review as well as editor-in-chief of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL). He has been a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize; his first two books of poetry, The Halfway Tree (2000) and Black Butterflies (2004), were both finalists for Poetry Book of the Year from the Texas Institute of Letters. A scholar and translator, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Dylan Thomas Prize in Swansea, Wales. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Susan Sage Heinzelman.
Wildflower. Stone.
Wildflower. Stone. Poems by Marian Haddad
Marian Haddad’s new collection of poetry grows by the sea like wildflowers in the dunes of Padre Island. Glover Davis writes about the spiritual and poetic journey that Haddad has undertaken throughout the poems: “In Wildflower. Stone. there is a sensibilty to water, light, flower, desert mountains and their colors, textures, odors. Marian Haddad’s words move across landscapes from San Diego to Padre Island and linger on places in between.” Yet, these wildflowers have their own secrets. The poems reflect the wild beauty of Texas from Gruene at the river to Scenic Drive.
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