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i have seen war today by leah angstman ($4)...

punctuation by various authors ($4)...

aftermath by leah angstman ($6)...

senior center by ed galing ($6)...

bargain basement and other selected poems by ...

the sun's shadow... and more of my haunt...

beer & cookies... and other morbid tales ...

next exit by leah angstman ($4)...

A very personal tale, almost journal-like, of the award-winning author's brief time in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, where she lived among friends in a large house, sleeping on a hardwood floor below a window to the misty morning outside. The poetry chapbook recounts the tales of unrequited love; the beauty of the landscape; the music nightlife that yielded an obsession with a dark, mysterious, punk rock guitarist; the marriage of a best friend to a man she didn't love who didn't love her in return; the twists and turns and lies of friends, of friendships dying, and of holding on to whatever you have for however long you can for no real reason and with no real way to do it. Even the title, simply named after a rock club in a hip side of town, shows that this is a chapbook of life in the rawest form, accounts of real people making both honest and dishonest mistakes, growing in the eyes of each other, being strangers in the midst of companionship and remaining friends in the face of adversity. This is also, without a doubt, some of leah's best work to date, with experienced writing that is focused, intense, and staggeringly wayward, all in the same breath. added on 2008-12-20

the cricket on the hill by leah angstman ($5)...

the next voice you hear... by ed galing ($5)...

fancy that of london takes a quick turn from award-winning author leah angstman's earlier chapbook, this one detailing the sights and sounds of travels to London and Paris in June 1999, often whimsical, light-hearted, and adoring in her fanfare of love for a foreign city. The poems deal with the confusion and bluster of a fast-paced city, the romanticism of strangers, and the ease of not having a care in the world, written in leah's signature tongue-in-cheek style, possibly more concretely detailed and spelled out for you than some of her later, more abstract, work. The joy of this book comes equally in the tiny sketches littered throughout: a London telephone booth, the Louvre, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower, to name a few, scrawled across the pages in wild ink sketch fashion, as fast-paced and impulsive as the poems themselves, reflected in a compact sketch/poem diary to complete the reader's journey. This poetry chapbook is definitely a must as a road companion to any European country, a fun and witty little jaunt through the author's mind while seeing the sights for yourself. added on 2008-12-20

fancy that of london by leah angstman ($5)...

the literature collection by various authors ...

real-life poet by various authors ($4)...

loose ends by ed galing ($6)...

diner by ed galing ($5)...

poem poorly written by leah angstman ($5)...

crackrock #1 by various authors ($2.50)...

Words Of Wisdom combines two of Ed Galing's very first chapbooks: Words Of Wisdom and Blowin' In The Wind, first published by Peerless Press and reprinted here in a new layout and polished professional look. The poems are much different than Ed's later work, but contain the seeds of his writing growth. Preserved here for posterity, the poems are young, chipper, detailing life as observed through the eyes of a man then in his seventies, already feeling the weight of the world and age. Many of the poems carry a fragile rhyming scheme, tripping along like a babbling brook, in rhythm and with the slight swing of ease and flow and no pretense, often shorter in length with a walloping punch line. This collection hops all over the year with poems of winter, fall, spring, and summer; beaches and snowstorms; New Year's to Mother's Day to Thanksgiving to anniversaries to Father's Day to January to October and back again. Its endless rhythm of skipping and jumping through ideas and times and feelings mirrors the skipping rhythm of the poems themselves, taking you on an endless cycle of time and a fast-paced glimpsed journey of life as it flies by, caught momentarily on these pages before it leaves us in its wake. added on 2008-12-20

words of wisdom by ed galing ($5)...

just because i didn't leave the driving ...