Poetry Pokey


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How I Got Lost So Close to Home


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Matching a fine (and often funny) imagination to a sharp, plainspoken intelligence, the poems in How I Got Lost So Close to Home move through familiar landscapes: the busy intersections of streets and parks, the changing topographies of self and family, and the hard won territory of beauty in an imperfect world. With their remarkable clarity, Dryansky's poems make us feel as though we too are present in her landscapes, and not just looking at them. The gift of these poems is their exacting detail, their compassion without sentimentality, and their ability to draw us into what the poet ultimately calls "home," a fluid awareness of the self that must be returned to again and again.




Poetry for Growing


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Rachael Goodman thought she had life pretty well figured out after she finished law school, took a job as a Navy lawyer and became a JAG lieutenant, junior grade. Now she's not so sure as she goes to her first duty station in the Philippines and learns the truth behind the recruiting pitch "It's not just a job, it's an adventure." While keeping the world safe for democracy, Rachel is finding out first hand that sailors and Marines have a well-deserved reputation. But while she's keeping the world safe, who's going to keep her safe? As one of the few single American women on a base with lots of sailors and Marines a very long way from home, she's getting lots of attention. And the new love of her life, a Navy SEAL named BB, is giving her a quick education in romance and military life. There's lots of adventure as Rachael navigates here way through courtrooms, barrooms and the world, finds out about the Navy, Navy SEALS, San Miguel beer, and gains perspective into affairs of the heart. Rachael has lots of growing up to do and lots of new experiences are in store. If only she can survive without becoming just another lawyer joke!




A Spell in the Pokey


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Hokey Pokey


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Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and badlands of Hokey Pokey."




Poetry Review


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Music Words, Selected Short Stories & Poems from the Usual Bohemian


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These sixteen stories and fourteen poems will send you on an amazing journey of artistry. The creativity and imagination will dazzle the reader with vivid adventuring into many diverse genres: from humorous works such as The Wautowma Worm Moon Festival Talent Show, to fine romantic pieces such as It Happened in the Library; the reader will be moved to profound emotion while reading, Drinking Banana Milk at Matt Marshs and Traipsing to Auschwitz. The Usual Bohemian provides a fine, literary and refreshing style that will find a place near the top of contemporary American fiction.




My Vagabonds


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A Spell in the Pokey


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Poetry. Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Hugh Walthall (1948-2015) was born in Roswell, New Mexico, and lived his adult life in Washington D.C., where he was active in the regional poetry community. He worked variously as a taxi driver, dispatcher for a clown service, blueprint copy machine operator and law librarian. In addition to his work as a poet, he was a member of D.C.'s theater community and both appeared in plays and had his own produced. This is his collected poems.