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Title  | Author | Published | Order It |
| A House of Bottles |
Robin Merrill |
2009 |
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| A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press |
Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors |
2005 |
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| A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems |
Bay River Press |
2002 |
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| Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry |
Alice Persons, Editor |
2008 |
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| Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate |
Annie Farnsworth |
2006 |
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| Be Careful What You Wish For |
Alice N. Persons |
2003 |
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| BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND |
Dave Morrison |
2009 |
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| Blues in the Night |
Herb R. Coursen |
2010 |
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| Child is Working to Capacity |
Tom Delmore |
2006 |
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| Driftland |
Michael Macklin |
2004 |
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| Drowning: A Poetic Memoir |
Claire Hersom |
2008 |
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| Early Late Bloom |
Jim Mello |
2007 |
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| ErosIon |
Nancy A. Henry |
2004 |
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| Essays in All Directions |
Robert M. Chute |
2007 |
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| Europe on $5 a Day |
Nancy A. Henry |
2005 |
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| Evidence of Light |
Marita O'Neill |
2005 |
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| Floating |
Ellen M. Taylor |
2009 |
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| Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II |
Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors |
2006 |
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| He Gives Me Flowers |
Gaylord Day Weston |
2007 |
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| How Many Cars Have We Been Married? |
Ted Bookey, editor |
2008 |
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| Humming to Snails |
Ellen M. Taylor |
2005 |
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| I Have Walked Through Many Lives |
Young Voices - Scarborough |
2009 |
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| Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison |
Dr. Blaine McCormick |
2005 |
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| Language as a Second Language |
Ted Bookey |
2004 |
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| Laundry and Stories |
Robin Merrill |
2005 |
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| Life Class |
Ruth Bookey |
2007 |
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| Lostalgia |
Ted Bookey |
2007 |
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| Never say Never |
Alice N. Persons |
2004 |
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| Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems |
Edward J. Rielly |
2007 |
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| Ordinary Time |
Kevin Sweeney |
2009 |
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| Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties |
Brenda Shaw |
2006 |
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| Rags of Prayer |
Kevin Sweeney |
2006 |
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| Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I |
Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon |
2008 |
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| Sex, Death, and Baseball |
David Moreau |
2004 |
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| Singing With the Dead |
Ted Thomas, Jr. |
2007 |
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| Socks |
Jay C. Davis |
2007 |
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| Sostenuto |
Karen Douglass |
2006 |
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| The Church of St. Materiana |
Anne Britting Olesen |
2007 |
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| The Desire Line |
Michelle Lewis |
2006 |
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| The Flame and the Fiction |
Darcy Shargo |
2005 |
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| The Hard Way |
Jay C. Davis |
2006 |
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| The Lawns of Lobstermen |
Douglas "Woody" Woodsum |
2010 |
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| The Stream |
Don Moyer |
2006 |
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| The Ur-Word |
Jim Glenn Thatcher |
2008 |
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| Things As They Are |
Eva Miodownik Oppenheim |
2005 |
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| To the Promised Land Grocery |
Bruce Spang |
2008 |
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| Traveling Through History |
Patrick Hicks |
2005 |
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| Tuscany Light |
M. Kelly Lombardi |
2006 |
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| Unidentified Flying Odes |
Dennis Camire |
2006 |
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| Vivaldi for Breakfast |
John-Michael Albert |
2009 |
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| Walking Track |
Jay Franzel |
2005 |
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| Ways of Looking |
Edward J. Rielly |
2005 |
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| What on Earth |
Marcia F. Brown |
2010 |
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| Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums |
Jay C. Davis |
2004 |
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| With a W/Hole in One |
Ted Bookey |
2010 |
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| You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional |
David Moreau |
2007 |
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Book Details
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir
by Claire Hersom – copyright 2008
ISBN 978-0-9796947-9-0
$9 including shipping and handling
Read a sample
Reviews for Drowning: A Poetic Memoir
by Nancy Henry
These are poems to make you care, to make you think of people you may know who are probably silently suffering these very deprivations but all the time it's been more convenient not to know. This poet says "to hell with shame" and champions truth with no holds barred, and with a manner artful but not crafty--in a voice beautiful in its rough truth, but not embellishing. They are poems to start a revolution of compassion. Read them.
Sample from Drowning: A Poetic Memoir
Griswold
"Fins, Ma, it has fins!" - stereo daughter chants, 1993
A roof rack redwoods could lie across
bench seats, vinyl blue
arm rests as wide as a thigh,
hood as long as their brother
a steering wheel round as the moon,
$800 and the frame was good.
It took more gas than they had money.
It fit the field hockey team.
It looked downright jaunty
with 15 inch whitewalls.
If they hit a tree no dent, no death
can't leave town - no gas.
Chevy Chase could drive it under an 18 wheeler
and live.
It was perfect.
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