Whether Connie Colwell Miller writes of a red-tailed hawk hunting for mice or a lover's underwear crumpled up on the bedroom floor, her voice is filled with a revealing breathe of candor. Her poems draw our attention to the small details in nature and of the body, often showing us beauty where we may not have expected it, as if her narrator intimately knows the people, landscapes, and events that she speaks of. (2007 selection for Sol Books Upper Midwest Writers Series)

Bodywearers

Literature & Fiction

Connie Colwell Miller

Poetry

Sol Books

Post Office Street drops readers into the red-light district of Galveston, where crooked cops and down-on-their-luck prostitutes dwell. Yet, in this seedy part of town, Carden paints a picture of hope as his main characters seek to break free from the ruts that their lives have fallen into. (Sol Books Prose Series selection)

The Prostitutes of Post Office Street

Frank F Carden

Literary

My Father's Gloves touches on that most conflicted of family bonds, the one between fathers and sons. With a hauntingly painful voice, Spiering explores the burdensome yoke of a father's expectations and the struggles a son must face as he grows into manhood. His poems are accessible and wrought with emotions, his descriptions subtle in their complexity, his pace slow and deliberate.

My Father's Gloves (Flat Sole Studio Poetry Collection)

Spiering, David

The folks of Argus, from the small-time dealer to the returning Vietnam vet, the townie grocery clerk and the new sheriff, all know what they want out of life, but the paths to their desires are conflicted and unclear. In a narrative with all the clarity and determination of a prophecy, Well Deserved chronicles the struggles of these four people as they come to the stark realization that their paths are not solitary, but entwined, and their very lives hinge on one shared moment.

Well Deserved

Gray, Michael Loyd

Blues in D minor, big bellies over factory belts, and Elvis Presley license plates--Gigs is a collection of poems that shows us the gentle beauty of ordinary life. Davis's language breathes, without labor. His metaphors fit tight. And the rhythm of each word keeps pace with our innermost beats. Absolutely every poem in this book hammers a rightly strung cord.

Gigs

Davis, John

These poems, searing with love and loss, narrate a woman's life, from childhood and adolescence to adulthood. In Mama Joy, Eileen Silver-Lillywhite's poems are lush, elegiac, graceful. She captures a woman who carries the lovely burdens of love, the tragedies that almost crush her, and the ineffable surprises that wake us all.

Mama Joy

Silver-Lillywhite, Eileen

Pat Ryan won't offer tips on dieting in his collection of short stories, but The Baseball Diet Book will appease readers' appetites for small-town America's favorite pastime-baseball. From Idaho to Minnesota, Mexico to Panama, Ryan's stories embrace those odd, both humorous and serious, moments in life and portray a reality not many of us know. The Blessed Virgin Mary appears on a Corona Beer sign, two Midwesterners plot to steal a baseball slugged out of Wrigley Field by the famed Babe Ruth, a 400-pound pitcher perfects the unhittable gyroball . . . Each story stretches readers' imaginations into extra innings, until they are lost in timeless of the game itself.

The Baseball Diet Book

Sports & Outdoors

Ryan, Patrick

Baseball

Minneota, Minnesota. Smalltown, America. For some, growing up in a place where everyone knows everybody evokes memories of grandmothers' quilts, cruisin' after school, and leaning in for your first kiss. But for others, a small town becomes a prison and as each year passes, the cell bars grow closer to asphyxiation. In The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey, Geiwitz taps into the nostalgia and claustrophobia of Smalltown, America, where each citizen learns they have an outlandish, wise, regretful, or tragic role to play, whether they choose it or not.

The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey

Geiwitz, Jim

Like the torrential flash floods that plague the town of Vista Linda, California, The Wash sweeps you up, drags you beneath its currents and desperately tries to drown you in the silt below. Clyde Derrick's excruciatingly intimate prose follows a boy contending with his mother's disappearance in the flood, a catatonic father, a racist brother, murderous ancestors and a grandmother's mistaken profession in a brothel. The Wash weaves a powerful family tapestry that proves even the strongest of us survive the turmoil as changed, and perhaps wiser, people.

The Wash

Derrick, Clyde

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Bodywearers

The Prostitutes of Post Office Street

My Father's Gloves (Flat Sole Studio Poetry Collection)

Well Deserved

Well Deserved

Gigs

Mama Joy

The Baseball Diet Book

The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey

The Wash