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ErosIon, by Nancy A. Henry
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Language as a Second Language, by Ted Bookey
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Be Careful What You Wish For, by Alice N. Persons
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Driftland, by Michael Macklin
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Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums, by Jay C. Davis
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Never say Never, by Alice N. Persons
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Sex, Death, and Baseball, by David Moreau
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Humming to Snails, by Ellen M. Taylor
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The Flame and the Fiction, by Darcy Shargo
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Europe on $5 a Day, by Nancy A. Henry
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Laundry and Stories, by Robin Merrill
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A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems, by Bay River Press
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Walking Track, by Jay Franzel
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Ways of Looking, by Edward J. Rielly
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Things As They Are, by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim
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A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press, by Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors
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Traveling Through History, by Patrick Hicks
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Unidentified Flying Odes, by Dennis Camire
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Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison, by Dr. Blaine McCormick
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Evidence of Light, by Marita O'Neill
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Rags of Prayer, by Kevin Sweeney
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The Stream, by Don Moyer
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Child is Working to Capacity, by Tom Delmore
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The Desire Line, by Michelle Lewis
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Tuscany Light, by M. Kelly Lombardi
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The Hard Way, by Jay C. Davis
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Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate, by Annie Farnsworth
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Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II, by Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors
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Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, by Brenda Shaw
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Sostenuto, by Karen Douglass
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Essays in All Directions, by Robert M. Chute
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You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional, by David Moreau
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Singing With the Dead, by Ted Thomas, Jr.
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Socks, by Jay C. Davis
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Early Late Bloom, by Jim Mello
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Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems, by Edward J. Rielly
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He Gives Me Flowers, by Gaylord Day Weston
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The Church of St. Materiana, by Anne Britting Olesen
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Lostalgia, by Ted Bookey
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Life Class, by Ruth Bookey
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To the Promised Land Grocery, by Bruce Spang
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Drowning: A Poetic Memoir, by Claire Hersom
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How Many Cars Have We Been Married?, by Ted Bookey, editor
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Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I, by Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon
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Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry, by Alice Persons, Editor
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The Ur-Word, by Jim Glenn Thatcher
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Ordinary Time, by Kevin Sweeney
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I Have Walked Through Many Lives, by Young Voices - Scarborough
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A House of Bottles, by Robin Merrill
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Floating, by Ellen M. Taylor
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Vivaldi for Breakfast, by John-Michael Albert
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BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND, by Dave Morrison
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The Lawns of Lobstermen, by Douglas "Woody" Woodsum
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With a W/Hole in One, by Ted Bookey
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What on Earth, by Marcia F. Brown
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Blues in the Night, by Herb R. Coursen
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Reviews for Things As They Are
by Charlotte Mandel, Center for Research on Women, Barnard College
Oppenheim gifts the reader with poems of humane resonance. In language that is fluent and graceful, yet accurate, the poems offer mindful vignettes of the city. Her skills of portrayal bring us the senses of individuals she has loved through the passages of generations, the shocks and lessons sustained as a child refugee from Nazi Germany, her evolution into mature understanding of her parents. Listening to the music of mind and memory in these poems, one's own understanding of the world is deepened.
Sample from Things As They Are
Things As They Are
Those trees
for instance
bending in the sun
without portent or promise
not as we translate them
into ourselves
but as they are this moment
--simply there.
This small brown spider
scuttling about its business on the sill
spinning away the hours
as they are offered
not solemn, not sad
and without bitterness
at the inevitable loss of summer.
The forest does not turn itself inside out
for our amusement.
It is merely itself
to be left alone
as it ignores us.
Yet we go on looking for ourselves
among the leaves.
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