In Honey, I’m Home, Nathan Graziano gives readers an unflinching look into the mercurial worlds of marriage, parenthood, and vice. With an intrepid poetic pen, Graziano introduces a motley cast of characters, including alcoholic neighbors and sages at the Home Depot. At times his poetry will sojourn into the surreal—sharing coffee with Depression and receiving visits from the ghosts of ex-girlfriends—but, mostly, Graziano’s bold, unostentatious verse digs its heels into reality and doesn’t turn from an often unsettling truth. From the birth of his first child through his first year of marriage, Graziano chronicles the human condition with a discerning poetic eye. Honest, compassionate, eclectic, and often funny, Honey, I’m Home is Nathan Graziano’s most accomplished collection of poetry to date.

Honey, I'm Home

Nathan Graziano

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Thunderbird

Alexander Parsons

So Much Is Burning introduces readers to the inner city of San Francisco, immersing them in the infamous Tenderloin neighborhood. Poignantly observing the beauty and despair that pervade the daily lives of its inhabitants, Taylor’s poetry delves into the elements that give the bars and streets lives of their own. What results are empathetic illustrations of the human condition that possess a strong sense of place and celebrate the spectrum of emotions that comprise our existence, all tied together by photographs that complement the poetry’s stark imagery.

So Much Is Burning

William Taylor Jr.

Feeding My Heart to the Wind is Michael Kriesel's first collected work, and his first title since the award-winning Chasing Saturday Night (Marsh River Editions). Selected from his best short poems, the cover is letterpress-printed and features an original linocut by Boston-based artist Adrian Rodriguez.

Feeding My Heart to the Wind: Selected Short Poems 1999-2005

Literature & Fiction

Michael Kriesel

Poetry

Dream Big, Work Harder

Rebecca Schumejda

"You have to travel Rumble Strip with an empty satchel and an open heart to see into the specific depths of nature coinciding with man s often destructive symbols, but the reward is that you can see it all through a trained poet s eyes that show you how to step, how to breathe, and how to live without ever suffering what befalls us all in the end." --Paul B. Roth, editor & publisher, The Bitter Oleander Press

Rumble Strip

Jason Tandon

Teaching Metaphors, Nathan Graziano s sixth collection of poetry, goes beyond the lesson plans and standardized tests to probe the humanity of the modern high school. An English teacher for the past decade, Graziano uses experience and wry wit to draw composites of faculty and students as both metaphor and microcosm. From a homecoming princess sacrificed on the stake of popularity to a nostalgic literature teacher who won t let go of The Canon, Graziano juxtaposes the characters of his imaginative high school to examine the core of our common experiences. Both lighthearted and elegiac, Teaching Metaphors challenges readers to identify themselves among the stereotypes and ghosts that roam these allegoric halls.

Teaching Metaphors

In Breaking it Down, Rusty Barnes lays bare the lives of the vulnerable as they traverse the difficult paths of love. Short and punchy, these stories show the cumulative effects of heartbreak and simple dreams while keeping a reserve of hope in even the darkest of circumstances.

Breaking it Down

Rusty Barnes

Poetry. Charles Simic has said of the short poem, "Less is always more.... It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence." In this collection, Tandon takes up this dictum, juxtaposing the absurd of the everyday with a compassionate, redemptive ideal. His poetry is both accessible and democratic, in the sense that no subject is unworthy of concern--he believes in the grace and nobility of even the simplest object or human behavior. His personas are beset by fear, insecurity, defeat and loss, yet they possess the humor and imagination necessary to endure.

Wee Hour Martyrdom

Tandon, Jason

Poetry. Set against the changing seasons in suburban America, the poems of SWIMMING BACK chronicle a young woman's struggle to make sense of her world after the early loss of her father. In various guises and with striking clarity, Taylor Altman invites us to experience transcendence in the form of a broken clock, a long-forgotten photograph, or the melancholy of a summer afternoon. These poems, with their incredible range of human emotion, effectively transform grief into art.

Swimming Back

Altman, Taylor

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