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Title	Author	Published	Order It
A House of Bottles	Robin Merrill	2009
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press	Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors	2005
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems	Bay River Press	2002
A Stranger Home	Natalya Sukhonos	2020
After the Parade	Dana Robbins	2020
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry	Alice Persons, Editor	2008
All Four Seasons	Jim Mello	2014
All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey	Bruce Spang	2019
ALMOST A REMEMBRANCE - Shorter Poems by Jack McCarthy	Jack McCarthy	2011
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate	Annie Farnsworth	2006
At Bunker Cove	Ralph Stevens	2017
Back East	Michele Leavitt	2013
Be Careful What You Wish For	Alice N. Persons	2003
Be There or Be Square	Alice N. Persons	2018
Big Little City	Mike Bove	2018
BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND	Dave Morrison	2009
Blues in the Night	Herb R. Coursen	2010
Boulders, Birch and Wood Smoke: A Maine Melody	Stephen A. Cowperthwaite	2014
Boy at the Screen Door	Bruce Spang	2014
Burning Chairs	John P. McVeigh	2013
Child is Working to Capacity	Tom Delmore	2006
Compass Rose	Ellen M. Taylor	2015
Dreamscape	Claire Hersom	2017
Driftland	Michael Macklin	2004
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir	Claire Hersom	2008
Early Late Bloom	Jim Mello	2007
ErosIon	Nancy A. Henry	2004
Essays in All Directions	Robert M. Chute	2007
Europe on $5 a Day	Nancy A. Henry	2005
Evidence of Light	Marita O'Neill	2005
Fancy Meeting You Here	Alice N. Persons	2015
Faulty Wiring	Bob MacLaughlin	2011
Feasting on Air	Eva Miodownik Oppenheim	2015
Floating	Ellen M. Taylor	2009
Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II	Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors	2006
He Gives Me Flowers	Gaylord Day Weston	2007
Heaven Jumping Woman	Pam Burr Smith	2011
HOME and Other Places	Wil Gibson	2012
How Many Cars Have We Been Married?	Ted Bookey, editor	2008	(see book detail)
Humming to Snails	Ellen M. Taylor	2005
Hummingbird	James Breslin	2019
I Have Walked Through Many Lives	Young Voices - Scarborough	2009
I Still Feel the Swirl	Ruth Bookey	2017
Imminent Tribulations	Kevin Sweeney	2016
In the Afternoon	Marcia F. Brown	2019
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison	Dr. Blaine McCormick	2005
JESUS WAS A FEMINIST and Other Poems	Robin Merrill	2014
Language as a Second Language	Ted Bookey	2004
Laundry and Stories	Robin Merrill	2005
Life Class	Ruth Bookey	2007
LOST and FOUND	David McCann	2018
Lostalgia	Ted Bookey	2007
MALDEN	David R. Surette	2018
Marengo Street	Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel	2012
Museum	Daniel Duff Plunkett	2016
My First Beatrice	David Stankiewicz	2013
Nameless Roads	Jim Brosnan	2019
Never say Never	Alice N. Persons	2004
Not Just Anybody	Bruce Spang	2015
Nothing Is Real	Stanley Jordan Keach, Jr.	2014
Observed From a Skin Boat	John Holt Willey	2013
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems	Edward J. Rielly	2007
One Day in One Town	James McKenna	2019
Ordinary Time	Kevin Sweeney	2009
Out of Words	David McCann	2019
PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality	Bruce Spang	2012
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties	Brenda Shaw	2006
Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask	John-Michael Albert	2018
Radost, My Red	Jeri Theriault	2016
Rags of Prayer	Kevin Sweeney	2006
Red Stone Fragments	Thomas R. Moore	2019
Rifles, Rumors, Gin And Prayer	Jim Donnelly	2013
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I	Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon	2008
Same Bird	David McCann	2016
SARX	Nancy A. Henry	2010
Saving Nails	Thomas R. Moore	2016
Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber	Jenny Doughty	2017
Sex, Death, and Baseball	David Moreau	2004
Singing With the Dead	Ted Thomas, Jr.	2007
Socks	Jay C. Davis	2007
Sostenuto	Karen Douglass	2006
Stable	David R. Surette	2015
'Stitiously Speaking	Ted Bookey	2017
Sun Shining on Snow: Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta	Ted Bookey	2012
T'ai Chi of Leaves	Elizabeth Potter	2016
Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw	Tom Delmore	2011
Thank Your Lucky Stars	Alice N. Persons	2011
That Mischievous Moon	Jim Donnelly	2017
The Arrangement of Things	Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel	2018
The Bird Catcher	John-Michael Albert	2012
The Church of St. Materiana	Anne Britting Olesen	2007
The Common Law	James McKenna	2012
The Desire Line	Michelle Lewis	2006
The Flame and the Fiction	Darcy Shargo	2005
The Hard Way	Jay C. Davis	2006
The Lawns of Lobstermen	Douglas "Woody" Woodsum	2010
The Left Side of My Life	Dana Robbins	2015
The Stream	Don Moyer	2006
The Ur-Word	Jim Glenn Thatcher	2008
The Widow From Lake Bled	Kirby Wright	2013
THE WILDEST PEAL: Contemporary Animal Poetry II	Alice Persons, Editor	2015
Things As They Are	Eva Miodownik Oppenheim	2005
Through the Loop of Time	Eva Miodownik Oppenheim	2010
To Sadie at 18 Months and other poems	Edward J. Rielly	2011
To the Promised Land Grocery	Bruce Spang	2008
Traveling Through History	Patrick Hicks	2005
Tuscany Light	M. Kelly Lombardi	2006
Unidentified Flying Odes	Dennis Camire	2006
Vivaldi for Breakfast	John-Michael Albert	2009
Walking Track	Jay Franzel	2005
Ways of Looking	Edward J. Rielly	2005
What on Earth	Marcia F. Brown	2010
When We Invented Water	Marcia F. Brown	2014
Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums	Jay C. Davis	2004
With a W/Hole in One	Ted Bookey	2010
You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional	David Moreau	2007

Book Details

Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask

ISBN 978-0-9981922-9-1

$15 including postage and handling

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Reviews for Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask

by Kathy Biehl

Mike's poetry dances across the time/space continuum of his life He pops in on his beloved--flora, fauna and fellow inhabitants of the New Hampshire seacoast, kaleidoscopic through the seasons; dear friends who entered his heart along the way and have stayed despite distance and death...He's an engaging guide, with a painter's eye and a story teller's empathy that deliver you-were-there emotional and visual impact. Where to now? I'd follow him anywhere.

by Melissa Thompson

Questions You Were Too Polite To Ask is a testament to the power of survival and an unvarnished love song to the beauty and mystery of the natural world...And because this is poetry, he chronicles the most searing partings of all: the death of a beloved friend in "The Language of the Dead' and "he Origin of Ancestor Worship, It's All In the Roux." Mike Albert has crafted his own roux, spun from a blend of word, sound and memory. This is the foundation for a fine feast indeed.

Sample from Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask

Do Something Else

The Dalai Lama repairs watches.
Suleiman the Magnificent was a goldsmith.
Japanese novelists are all CEOs or bankers.
The Psalmist was a king.
Wordsworth and Churchill were painters.

Write poetry with the mind of a musician,
a physician. Your work will grow large and strong
if you let it feed on the grass in adjacent fields.
Scratch poems in the margins of scores.
Scribble poems on prescription pads.

Imagine Frank O�Hara without New York City,
without all that pavement, that noise, those lights.
Imagine Whitman without journalism,
without nursing, without America�s open roads.

Look at all the poets who are mothers and fathers.
Take their husbands and wives, their children,
out of their poetry, and what�s left?
Who will they sing to, and about what?

Librarians and hospital administrators by day,
parents by night. Startling poems suddenly appear
on the backs of greasy napkins at lunch; on bills,
next to the wine stains, on the first of the month;
on the desk calendar, beside their next appointment.

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