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ErosIon
ErosIon, by Nancy A. Henry
Language as a Second Language
Language as a Second Language, by Ted Bookey
Be Careful What You Wish For
Be Careful What You Wish For, by Alice N. Persons
Driftland
Driftland, by Michael Macklin
Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums
Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums, by Jay C. Davis
Never say Never
Never say Never, by Alice N. Persons
Sex, Death, and Baseball
Sex, Death, and Baseball, by David Moreau
Humming to Snails
Humming to Snails, by Ellen M. Taylor
The Flame and the Fiction
The Flame and the Fiction, by Darcy Shargo
Europe on $5 a Day
Europe on $5 a Day, by Nancy A. Henry
Laundry and Stories
Laundry and Stories, by Robin Merrill
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems, by Bay River Press
Walking Track
Walking Track, by Jay Franzel
Ways of Looking
Ways of Looking, by Edward J. Rielly
Things As They Are
Things As They Are, by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press, by Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors
Traveling Through History
Traveling Through History, by Patrick Hicks
Unidentified Flying Odes
Unidentified Flying Odes, by Dennis Camire
Innumerable Machines in My Mind:  Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison, by Dr. Blaine McCormick
Evidence of Light
Evidence of Light, by Marita O'Neill
Rags of Prayer
Rags of Prayer, by Kevin Sweeney
The Stream
The Stream, by Don Moyer
Child is Working to Capacity
Child is Working to Capacity, by Tom Delmore
The Desire Line
The Desire Line, by Michelle Lewis
Tuscany Light
Tuscany Light, by M. Kelly Lombardi
The Hard Way
The Hard Way, by Jay C. Davis
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate, by Annie Farnsworth
Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II
Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II, by Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, by Brenda Shaw
Sostenuto
Sostenuto, by Karen Douglass
Essays in All Directions
Essays in All Directions, by Robert M. Chute
You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional
You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional, by David Moreau
Singing With the Dead
Singing With the Dead, by Ted Thomas, Jr.
Socks
Socks, by Jay C. Davis
Early Late Bloom
Early Late Bloom, by Jim Mello
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems, by Edward J. Rielly
He Gives Me Flowers
He Gives Me Flowers, by Gaylord Day Weston
The Church of St. Materiana
The Church of St. Materiana, by Anne Britting Olesen
Lostalgia
Lostalgia, by Ted Bookey
Life Class
Life Class, by Ruth Bookey
To the Promised Land Grocery
To the Promised Land Grocery, by Bruce Spang
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir, by Claire Hersom
How Many Cars Have We Been Married?
How Many Cars Have We Been Married?, by Ted Bookey, editor
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I, by Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry, by Alice Persons, Editor
The Ur-Word
The Ur-Word, by Jim Glenn Thatcher

Our Latest Book

The Ur-Word

The Ur-Word

by Jim Glenn Thatcher – copyright 2008

ISBN 978-1-60643-189-4

$9

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Reviews for The Ur-Word

by Jack Myers

Finally, I found a treasure among the smoldering piles of my peripatetic reading. Jim Thatcher's narrator, that of a disembodied soul on a quest to glimpse some "elusive epiphany of existence", writes with such inherent humility that it seems he is scoring the background music for our incomprehensible human epic. And my all-time favorite feeling I get while reading this little book of poems is that you feel yourself getting greedy for more of them while getting drunker and drunker on his clarity and vision. Barkeep, more !

by Natasha Saje

This is a poet who walks and who listens, who smiles at "the joy of being an infinitesimal speck in the world's mystery", who thinks about thinking. These are poems of consciousness, but also observation, and they are replete with intelligence, learning, and charm. Jim Thatcher's book of poems, THE UR-WORD, balances gravity and levity in equal measure, takes nothing for granted, and offers readers real and unusual pleasures.

Sample from The Ur-Word

Crow Morning

A sudden alarm
on a long walk in the snow.

Incredible, how
for just one moment,
with all time
alive around it,
three crows rise
from a pine top
to fill
this bright morning
with all hope,
all memory,
all meaning.