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New Titles: Late 2009
Sasha Pimentel Chacon
Coming December 1
Insides She Swallowed
by Sasha Pimentel Chacon
Passionate and sensuous, these poems address both mind and body. The young Filipina poet proceeds with a sure understanding of the power of images to confront the instability of the world around her. Family, growth and decay, the politics of liberation are reflected with intensity.
80 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-8-0 � $13.95
Inside Idaho: Poems 1996-2007
by Charles Potts
In this volume legendary poet Charles Potts explores his Idaho roots and makes his meditation on family and geographical memory come full circle. Observant, scrupulous, passionate, and courageous, he describes his life as it embraces the lives and events that came before it.
112 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-4-2 � $13.95
Sketches
by Maisha Baton
These poems reflect years of observation: checking out the street, listening to talkers, getting inside the heads of family members, and locating an aesthetic in the work of others. Maisha Baton casts a wise eye on a chaotic world where the human is sometimes obscured.
54 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-9-7 � $11.95
Velroy and the Madischie Mafia
by Sy Hoahwah
In this tightly written poetic saga of a modern Comanche village in Oklahoma, the young narrator is surrounded by gambling thugs, drugged-out gangs, and memories of the glory days of warriors who tried to preserve the land. The tragicomic narrative mirrors a life neither easy nor forgettable.
58 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-7-3 � $12.95
Recent Releases from
the West End Press New Series
Rock Candy
by Jenifer Rae Vernon
Truth-telling with a homespun accent, these poems reflect the poet�s raising in a logging town in Washington state. Beneath the sweetness of some language is a sense of threat, endangered sexuality, and the need to create a makeshift existence to keep promise and courage alive.
76 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-6-6 � $12.95
Work Is Love Made Visible
by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
This book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the author is an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveling and a feminist intellectual with a formidable critical vocabulary. Add in the heartbreak, lustiness, traditional wisdom, Okie determination, and Indian legacy of these poems and you have quite a bundle.
72 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-3-5 � $12.95
The Red Window
by Marianne Aweagon Broyles
In these poems, Marianne Broyles acknowledges the historic oppression of Native Americans and other peoples, tracking the painful consequences. She also focuses on the resilience and surviving spirit of the people themselves. Mild in manner but clear in statement, she offers a strong cure: confronting tribulation and sorrow, she finds cause for empathy, service, and hope.
48 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-1-1 � $10.95
Odes to Anger
by Jason Yurcic
These poems reveal the heart of a survivor. In the title section, the poet, caught in �the unspoken language of pain,� escapes his beginnings only to find that the culture of violence has followed him. In the second section, �Meditations on Breath,� he charts his journey to survival. In the last section, �Walking into My Mind,� he contrasts the backbreaking manual labor of his day job with his real work, �to write/Love/Hold my children while rocking them to sleep/Children of the flesh/Children of the word.�
64 pages � ISBN 978-0-9816693-2-8 � $11.95