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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
Ordinary Time
by Kevin Sweeney – copyright 2009
ISBN 978-1-60643-190-0
$8.00
Read a sample
Reviews for Ordinary Time
by David Roskos, Editor, BIG HAMMER
Like his small press contemporaries Alan Catlin and Joe Weil, Kevin takes a decidedly working class stance in his poetry. This rings true in his voice, in the people and places he chooses to write about, and in his plain-as-talking narrative style; all the while retaining a lyrical edge. Generosity, compassion, acceptance, humor and a good eye, combined with talent, make for good poetry. Kevin Sweeney is one of the good ones. Real good. Real.
Sample from Ordinary Time
Prisoners
The judge unblemished
rides luck, his imperturbable steed
thru recent days
into the nights of his 19th year.
He has reviewed my case
bereft of empathy.
A sentence is handed down,
the term: indefinite.
Not even as a raconteur of the
dissolute, a youth of my own
given to iconic excesses,
can I aspire to an early release.
I am now officially ridiculous.
It is in the transcript.
The stenographer's quick hands
have noted my folly.
So
I relinquish the keys,
proffer unheard
entreaties to be careful
while trolling the inexorable
as though anesthetized against loss.
In my cell
I read to pass a rainy spring
defrocked, reviled,
a penitent of failed causes
waiting to be embraced
in a distant year
by a pilgrim
who arrives unexpectedly before dark
& answers yes when
asked if he is
hungry.
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