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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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The Hard Way
by Jay C. Davis – copyright 2006
ISBN 0-9785860-2-6 $8.00 including postage
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Reviews for The Hard Way
by Chris Bowe, Longfellow Books, Portland
Jay Davis is the Bob Dylan of contemporary poetry. Subtle, brilliant, and impossible to ignore... makes the ridiculous sublime and the sublime ridiculous. The Hard Way is a triumph.
Sample from The Hard Way
How to Know Everything
Concentrate only on the nonintuitive, there's no reason to learn the rest.
Assume the lowest motives on the part of others, and the highest of yourself.
You will often be wrong in this, but rarely disappointed.
It usually takes less time to find out you're wrong than that you're right.
You'll never learn why she loves you and only possibly that she does.
Miracles change everything. Randomness is unlikely.
The interested is retained longer though it is also more likely to be misinterpreted.
You will always knows why she doesn't love you, but rarely that she doesn't, and never when she doesn't.
Having knowledge does not preclude not acting on it, in fact invites it.
History deceives consistently and retroactively. Knowledge is safer to pursue in the present.
Fear changes the truth; no other fact is this scary.
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