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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
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry	Alice Persons, Editor	2008
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate	Annie Farnsworth	2006
Be Careful What You Wish For	Alice N. Persons	2003
BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND	Dave Morrison	2009
Blues in the Night	Herb R. Coursen	2010
Child is Working to Capacity	Tom Delmore	2006
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
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
How Many Cars Have We Been Married?	Ted Bookey, editor	2008	(see book detail)
Humming to Snails	Ellen M. Taylor	2005
I Have Walked Through Many Lives	Young Voices - Scarborough	2009
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison	Dr. Blaine McCormick	2005
Language as a Second Language	Ted Bookey	2004
Laundry and Stories	Robin Merrill	2005
Life Class	Ruth Bookey	2007
Lostalgia	Ted Bookey	2007
Never say Never	Alice N. Persons	2004
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems	Edward J. Rielly	2007
Ordinary Time	Kevin Sweeney	2009
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties	Brenda Shaw	2006
Rags of Prayer	Kevin Sweeney	2006
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I	Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon	2008
Sex, Death, and Baseball	David Moreau	2004
Singing With the Dead	Ted Thomas, Jr.	2007
Socks	Jay C. Davis	2007
Sostenuto	Karen Douglass	2006
The Church of St. Materiana	Anne Britting Olesen	2007
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 Stream	Don Moyer	2006
The Ur-Word	Jim Glenn Thatcher	2008
Things As They Are	Eva Miodownik Oppenheim	2005
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
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

Life Class

ISBN 978-0-9796947-7-6

$8.00 including postage

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Reviews for Life Class

by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim, poet, editor

Ruth Bookey's poems capture time and place with the sharp eye of a painter. Her recollections of a German childhood and the parents she loved are vivid, deeply felt, yet unsentimental and rich with wry humor. We get to know a loving father, and we follow a vibrant, dynamic mother into fragile old age. We feel the tensions of life in 1939 Berlin as experienced by a naive but trusting child. Bookey is an artist as well as poet. Her portrayal of the models in "Life Class" is closely observed, amusing yet poignant. She is also a master of the pantoum and sestina. In "Hip Music" she skillfully weaves a pantoum around her adolescent zeal for big bands all about "love and sex/yearning finding having losing." Her poems run the gamut from the darkness of wartime to the brilliant sunshine of spring in Maine.

Sample from Life Class

Feeling Spring

Same thing every year, we know that,
But it's always like it's the first time.
-- Erich Kastner

I drive,
listen
to you reading.

Suddenly I feel it,
sun's changed position.
It is higher in the sky,

light leans toward spring.
In spite of snow and ice
Spring's come
through the windshield.

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