New and open work in poetry by Joan Fiset accompanied by images of quilt-like collages by Liz Gamberg.  As one reviewer stated, it is a book that presents and evokes textures as a means of exploring nature and the self.  As one of the poems says, “we revise toward green” — altogether a refreshing and inspiring read.

A brilliant first book from poet Sati Mookherjee exploring the exile of her grandfather from India to pre-World War II Europe, his interior voyage from grief to insight and the echoes of those journeys in the lives of his descendents.

[Announcement:  MoonPath Press has announced that Sati Mookherjee has won their 2022 Award for her collection, Ways of Being, as judged by Alice Derry.]

“The eye is the first circle,” says Emerson in the epigraph to this stunning first book by Sati Mookherjee, who in widening circles embraces continents and generations.—Robert McNamara, author of Incomplete Strangers

Mookherjee’s graceful collection vividly charts his journey through an alchemy of details in which we see “ordinary things turned holy.” —John Willson, author of Call This Room a Station

The poem cycle in Eye moves in exquisite orbits, beginning with the image of the eye, then radiating out, rippling with worldly details, coalescing finally with the appearance of his great-grandchildren, even one yet unconceived, continuing the circle.” —Arlene Naganawa, author of Private Graveyard.

READ a fine review in Raven Chronicles by Frances McCue.

Also see the great interview by Erica Reid in Michigan Quarterly Review.

Distributed by Itasca Books.

Poems of the examined life, re-examined.  To quote Robert Kelly “In a time when poetry is pale with irony, these poems startle with profound seriousness.”

from “Arc”

…

not a
friction fiction
but to move by

a wooded
shutter

in a record
of distance

let the curtain begin
to imitate itself

Published by Linear Art Books, 2000.  24 pages, as new, author copy.

“One would hesitate to call these ‘love sonnets,’ as one ordinarily understands that term (but they are). They deal, with a contained relish, with the grit of the street, the pain of violation, the torment of the ‘dones/and might-have-dones’ and the irony of the incommunicability of desire.”   (from a review in  No Exit)

A poetic narrative, published by Linear Art Books, 1998.  113 pages, like new, author copy.

Now the shallows are clear/ heavens–motionless, stony,/ completely awake and truer/ than time whose horses take/ other forms……..     so begins Peter Ramos’ collection, Lord Baltimore, a pleasure tour through “the pains of growing older, of love’s glaring insufficiencies and cruelties…” (from Graham Foust’s cover comments.)

Read the interview with Peter Ramos and Kim Chinquee at Heavy Feather Review and Lisa Low’s interview at The Literary Review.