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![ErosIon ErosIon](/images/books/th_erosion.jpg)
ErosIon, by Nancy A. Henry
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![Language as a Second Language Language as a Second Language](/images/books/th_language.jpg)
Language as a Second Language, by Ted Bookey
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![Be Careful What You Wish For Be Careful What You Wish For](/images/books/th_careful.jpg)
Be Careful What You Wish For, by Alice N. Persons
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![Driftland Driftland](/images/books/th_driftland.jpg)
Driftland, by Michael Macklin
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![Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums](/images/books/th_whispers.jpg)
Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums, by Jay C. Davis
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![Never say Never Never say Never](/images/books/th_never.jpg)
Never say Never, by Alice N. Persons
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![Sex, Death, and Baseball Sex, Death, and Baseball](/images/books/th_sexdeath.jpg)
Sex, Death, and Baseball, by David Moreau
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![Humming to Snails Humming to Snails](/images/books/humming.jpg)
Humming to Snails, by Ellen M. Taylor
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![The Flame and the Fiction The Flame and the Fiction](/images/books/th_flame.jpg)
The Flame and the Fiction, by Darcy Shargo
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![Europe on $5 a Day Europe on $5 a Day](/images/books/th_europe.jpg)
Europe on $5 a Day, by Nancy A. Henry
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![Laundry and Stories Laundry and Stories](/images/books/th_laundry.jpg)
Laundry and Stories, by Robin Merrill
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![A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems](/images/books/th_collected.jpg)
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems, by Bay River Press
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![Walking Track Walking Track](/images/books/th_walking.jpg)
Walking Track, by Jay Franzel
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![Ways of Looking Ways of Looking](/images/books/th_looking.jpg)
Ways of Looking, by Edward J. Rielly
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![Things As They Are Things As They Are](/images/books/th_things.jpg)
Things As They Are, by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim
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![A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press](/images/books/th_moxie.jpg)
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press, by Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors
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![Traveling Through History Traveling Through History](/images/books/th_travelling.jpg)
Traveling Through History, by Patrick Hicks
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![Unidentified Flying Odes Unidentified Flying Odes](/images/books/th_ufo.jpg)
Unidentified Flying Odes, by Dennis Camire
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![Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison](/images/books/th_edison.jpg)
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison, by Dr. Blaine McCormick
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![Evidence of Light Evidence of Light](/images/books/th_evidencelight.jpg)
Evidence of Light, by Marita O'Neill
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![Rags of Prayer Rags of Prayer](/images/books/th_ragsprayer.jpg)
Rags of Prayer, by Kevin Sweeney
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![The Stream The Stream](/images/books/th_stream.jpg)
The Stream, by Don Moyer
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![Child is Working to Capacity Child is Working to Capacity](/images/books/th_capacity.jpg)
Child is Working to Capacity, by Tom Delmore
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![The Desire Line The Desire Line](/images/books/th_DesireLine.jpg)
The Desire Line, by Michelle Lewis
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![Tuscany Light Tuscany Light](/images/books/th_tuscany.jpg)
Tuscany Light, by M. Kelly Lombardi
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![The Hard Way The Hard Way](/images/books/th_hardway.jpg)
The Hard Way, by Jay C. Davis
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![Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate](/images/books/th_Angel.jpg)
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate, by Annie Farnsworth
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![Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II](/images/books/th_fullmoon.jpg)
Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II, by Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors
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![Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties](/images/books/th_Maine30s.jpg)
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, by Brenda Shaw
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![Sostenuto Sostenuto](/images/books/th_Sostenuto.jpg)
Sostenuto, by Karen Douglass
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![Essays in All Directions Essays in All Directions](/images/books/th_Directions.jpg)
Essays in All Directions, by Robert M. Chute
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![You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional](/images/books/th_Hell.jpg)
You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional, by David Moreau
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![Singing With the Dead Singing With the Dead](/images/books/th_SingWithDead.jpg)
Singing With the Dead, by Ted Thomas, Jr.
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![Socks Socks](/images/books/th_socks.jpg)
Socks, by Jay C. Davis
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![Early Late Bloom Early Late Bloom](/images/books/th_EarlyLateBloom.jpg)
Early Late Bloom, by Jim Mello
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![Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems](/images/books/th_WhitmanBaseball.jpg)
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems, by Edward J. Rielly
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![He Gives Me Flowers He Gives Me Flowers](/images/books/th_Flowers.jpg)
He Gives Me Flowers, by Gaylord Day Weston
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![The Church of St. Materiana The Church of St. Materiana](/images/books/th_StMateriana.jpg)
The Church of St. Materiana, by Anne Britting Olesen
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![Lostalgia Lostalgia](/images/books/th_Lostalgia.jpg)
Lostalgia, by Ted Bookey
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![Life Class Life Class](/images/books/th_LifeClass.jpg)
Life Class, by Ruth Bookey
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![To the Promised Land Grocery To the Promised Land Grocery](/images/books/th_PromisedLand.jpg)
To the Promised Land Grocery, by Bruce Spang
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![Drowning: A Poetic Memoir Drowning: A Poetic Memoir](/images/books/th_Drowning.jpg)
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir, by Claire Hersom
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![How Many Cars Have We Been Married? How Many Cars Have We Been Married?](/images/books/th_HowManyCars.jpg)
How Many Cars Have We Been Married?, by Ted Bookey, editor
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![Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I](/images/books/th_SafeHarbor.jpg)
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I, by Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon
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![Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry](/images/books/AgreeableFriends_th.jpg)
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry, by Alice Persons, Editor
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![The Ur-Word The Ur-Word](/images/books/th_urword.jpg)
The Ur-Word, by Jim Glenn Thatcher
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![Ordinary Time Ordinary Time](/images/books/th_OrdinaryTime.jpg)
Ordinary Time, by Kevin Sweeney
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![I Have Walked Through Many Lives I Have Walked Through Many Lives](/images/books/th_Walked.jpg)
I Have Walked Through Many Lives, by Young Voices - Scarborough
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![A House of Bottles A House of Bottles](/images/books/th_Bottles.jpg)
A House of Bottles, by Robin Merrill
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![Floating Floating](/images/books/th_Floating.jpg)
Floating, by Ellen M. Taylor
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![Vivaldi for Breakfast Vivaldi for Breakfast](/images/books/th_Vivaldi.jpg)
Vivaldi for Breakfast, by John-Michael Albert
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![BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND](/images/books/th_BlackBoat.jpg)
BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND, by Dave Morrison
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![The Lawns of Lobstermen The Lawns of Lobstermen](/images/books/th_Lobstermen.jpg)
The Lawns of Lobstermen, by Douglas "Woody" Woodsum
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![With a W/Hole in One With a W/Hole in One](/images/books/th_WholeInOne.jpg)
With a W/Hole in One, by Ted Bookey
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![What on Earth What on Earth](/images/books/th_WhatOnEarth.jpg)
What on Earth, by Marcia F. Brown
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![Blues in the Night Blues in the Night](/images/books/th_BluesNight.jpg)
Blues in the Night, by Herb R. Coursen
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![Through the Loop of Time Through the Loop of Time](/images/books/th_LoopTime.jpg)
Through the Loop of Time, by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim
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![SARX SARX](/images/books/th_Sarx.jpg)
SARX, by Nancy A. Henry
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![ALMOST A REMEMBRANCE - Shorter Poems by Jack McCarthy ALMOST A REMEMBRANCE - Shorter Poems by Jack McCarthy](/images/books/th_Remembrance.jpg)
ALMOST A REMEMBRANCE - Shorter Poems by Jack McCarthy, by Jack McCarthy
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![Thank Your Lucky Stars Thank Your Lucky Stars](/images/books/th_Stars.jpg)
Thank Your Lucky Stars, by Alice N. Persons
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![To Sadie at 18 Months and other poems To Sadie at 18 Months and other poems](/images/books/th_Sadie.jpg)
To Sadie at 18 Months and other poems, by Edward J. Rielly
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![Faulty Wiring Faulty Wiring](/images/books/th_FaultyWiring.jpg)
Faulty Wiring, by Bob MacLaughlin
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![Heaven Jumping Woman Heaven Jumping Woman](/images/books/th_HeavenJumpingWomen.jpg)
Heaven Jumping Woman, by Pam Burr Smith
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![Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw](/images/books/th_TellThem.jpg)
Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw, by Tom Delmore
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![The Bird Catcher The Bird Catcher](/images/books/th_BirdCatcher.jpg)
The Bird Catcher, by John-Michael Albert
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![The Common Law The Common Law](/images/books/th_CommonLaw.jpg)
The Common Law, by James McKenna
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![Marengo Street Marengo Street](/images/books/th_MarengoStreet.jpg)
Marengo Street, by Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel
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![PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality](/images/books/th_PassionPride.jpg)
PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality, by Bruce Spang
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![HOME and Other Places HOME and Other Places](/images/books/th_HomeAndOther.jpg)
HOME and Other Places, by Wil Gibson
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![Sun Shining on Snow: Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta Sun Shining on Snow: Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta](/images/books/th_SunShining.jpg)
Sun Shining on Snow: Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta, by Ted Bookey
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![My First Beatrice My First Beatrice](/images/books/th_Beatrice.jpg)
My First Beatrice, by David Stankiewicz
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![Rifles, Rumors, Gin And Prayer Rifles, Rumors, Gin And Prayer](/images/books/th_RiflesRumors.jpg)
Rifles, Rumors, Gin And Prayer, by Jim Donnelly
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![Observed From a Skin Boat Observed From a Skin Boat](/images/books/th_SkinBoat.jpg)
Observed From a Skin Boat, by John Holt Willey
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![Back East Back East](/images/books/th_BackEast.jpg)
Back East, by Michele Leavitt
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![The Widow From Lake Bled The Widow From Lake Bled](/images/books/th_WidowLakeBled.jpg)
The Widow From Lake Bled, by Kirby Wright
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![Burning Chairs Burning Chairs](/images/books/th_BurningChairs.png)
Burning Chairs, by John P. McVeigh
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![Boy at the Screen Door Boy at the Screen Door](/images/books/th_ScreenDoor.png)
Boy at the Screen Door, by Bruce Spang
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![JESUS WAS A FEMINIST and Other Poems JESUS WAS A FEMINIST and Other Poems](/images/books/th_JesusFeminist.png)
JESUS WAS A FEMINIST and Other Poems, by Robin Merrill
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![When We Invented Water When We Invented Water](/images/books/th_InventedWater.png)
When We Invented Water, by Marcia F. Brown
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![Boulders, Birch and Wood Smoke: A Maine Melody Boulders, Birch and Wood Smoke: A Maine Melody](/images/books/th_Boulders.png)
Boulders, Birch and Wood Smoke: A Maine Melody, by Stephen A. Cowperthwaite
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![Nothing Is Real Nothing Is Real](/images/books/th_NothingReal.png)
Nothing Is Real, by Stanley Jordan Keach, Jr.
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![All Four Seasons All Four Seasons](/images/books/th_AllFourSeasons.png)
All Four Seasons, by Jim Mello
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![Feasting on Air Feasting on Air](/images/books/th_FeastingOnAir.png)
Feasting on Air, by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim
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![Stable Stable](/images/books/th_Stable.png)
Stable, by David R. Surette
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![Compass Rose Compass Rose](/images/books/th_CompassRose.png)
Compass Rose, by Ellen M. Taylor
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![THE WILDEST PEAL: Contemporary Animal Poetry II THE WILDEST PEAL: Contemporary Animal Poetry II](/images/books/th_WildestPeal.png)
THE WILDEST PEAL: Contemporary Animal Poetry II, by Alice Persons, Editor
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![Not Just Anybody Not Just Anybody](/images/books/th_NotJustAnybody.png)
Not Just Anybody, by Bruce Spang
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![The Left Side of My Life The Left Side of My Life](/images/books/th_LeftSideLife.png)
The Left Side of My Life , by Dana Robbins
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![Fancy Meeting You Here Fancy Meeting You Here](/images/books/th_FancyMeetingYou.png)
Fancy Meeting You Here, by Alice N. Persons
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![Same Bird Same Bird](/images/books/th_SameBird.png)
Same Bird, by David McCann
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![Museum Museum](/images/books/th_Museum.png)
Museum, by Daniel Duff Plunkett
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![Imminent Tribulations Imminent Tribulations](/images/books/th_ImmTrib.png)
Imminent Tribulations, by Kevin Sweeney
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![Radost, My Red Radost, My Red](/images/books/th_Radost.png)
Radost, My Red, by Jeri Theriault
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![T'ai Chi of Leaves T'ai Chi of Leaves](/images/books/th_TaiChiLeaves.png)
T'ai Chi of Leaves, by Elizabeth Potter
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![Saving Nails Saving Nails](/images/books/th_SavingNails.png)
Saving Nails, by Thomas R. Moore
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![At Bunker Cove At Bunker Cove](/images/books/th_BunkerCove.png)
At Bunker Cove, by Ralph Stevens
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![I Still Feel the Swirl I Still Feel the Swirl](/images/books/th_FeelTheSwirl.png)
I Still Feel the Swirl, by Ruth Bookey
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![Dreamscape Dreamscape](/images/books/th_Dreamscape.png)
Dreamscape, by Claire Hersom
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![That Mischievous Moon That Mischievous Moon](/images/books/th_MischievousMoon.png)
That Mischievous Moon, by Jim Donnelly
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![Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber](/images/books/th_SendingBetteDavis.png)
Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber, by Jenny Doughty
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!['Stitiously Speaking 'Stitiously Speaking](/images/books/th_Stitiously.png)
'Stitiously Speaking, by Ted Bookey
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![MALDEN MALDEN](/images/books/th_Malden.png)
MALDEN, by David R. Surette
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![Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask](/images/books/th_Questions.png)
Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask, by John-Michael Albert
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![LOST and FOUND LOST and FOUND](/images/books/th_LostnFound.png)
LOST and FOUND, by David McCann
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![The Arrangement of Things The Arrangement of Things](/images/books/th_Arrangement.png)
The Arrangement of Things, by Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel
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![Big Little City Big Little City](/images/books/th_BigLittleCity.png)
Big Little City, by Mike Bove
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![Be There or Be Square Be There or Be Square](/images/books/th_BeThereBeSquare.png)
Be There or Be Square, by Alice N. Persons
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![Red Stone Fragments Red Stone Fragments](images/books/th_RedStoneFragments.jpg)
Red Stone Fragments, by Thomas R. Moore
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![Hummingbird Hummingbird](/images/books/th_Hummingbird.png)
Hummingbird, by James Breslin
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![All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey](/images/books/th_Derive.png)
All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey, by Bruce Spang
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![Nameless Roads Nameless Roads](/images/books/th_NamelessRoads.png)
Nameless Roads, by Jim Brosnan
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![One Day in One Town One Day in One Town](/images/books/th_OneDayInTown.png)
One Day in One Town, by James McKenna
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![Out of Words Out of Words](/images/books/th_OutOfWords.png)
Out of Words, by David McCann
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![In the Afternoon In the Afternoon](images/books/th_InTheAfternoon.png)
In the Afternoon, by Marcia F. Brown
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![After the Parade After the Parade](/images/books/th_AfterTheParade.jpg)
After the Parade, by Dana Robbins
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![A Stranger Home A Stranger Home](/images/books/th_StrangerHome.png)
A Stranger Home, by Natalya Sukhonos
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![House Museum House Museum](/images/books/th_HouseMuseum.png)
House Museum, by Mike Bove
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![Giving It Up to the Wind Giving It Up to the Wind](/images/books/GivingItUp_th.png)
Giving It Up to the Wind, by Jack Troy
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![More Fun Than Pretty More Fun Than Pretty](/images/books/th_MoreFunThanPretty.png)
More Fun Than Pretty, by Tony Magistrale
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![Stones Stones](/images/books/th_Stones.png)
Stones, by Thomas R. Moore
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![Playing Solitaire Playing Solitaire](/images/books/th_PlayingSolitaire.png)
Playing Solitaire, by Edward J. Rielly
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![So Far So Far](/images/books/th_SoFar.png)
So Far, by Gretchen Berg
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![Homelands Homelands](/images/books/th_Homelands.png)
Homelands, by Ellen M. Taylor
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![Frida's Boots Frida's Boots](/images/books/FridasBoots_th.jpg)
Frida's Boots, by Dana Robbins
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![Tangled Tangled](/images/books/th_Tangled.png)
Tangled, by Antonia Lewandowski
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![Tonic Tonic](/images/books/th_Tonic.png)
Tonic, by David R. Surette
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![People, Places, Poems People, Places, Poems](/images/books/th_PeoplePlacesPoems.png)
People, Places, Poems, by David McCann
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![Read To Me Some Poem Read To Me Some Poem](/images/books/th_ReadToMeSomePoem.png)
Read To Me Some Poem, by Maryli Tiemann and Alice Persons, Editors
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Read a sample
Reviews for Never say Never
by Jennifer Matthews / Ibbetson Update
"Never Say Never" is an achievement that carries the reader through a window-eye into roomfuls of lilacs, mud and onyx...then to portraits of moments freeze-framed by the art of lyrical perception. In her poem titled: "Letter Perfect," Alice Persons delivers a perfect litany to the world of "O." Very clever.
Ms. Persons is an enjoyable poet to read. She writes owl sharp cantatas of life's snapshots captured in beautiful well-crafted collages of words.
Not pretentious, but real...something to soak your feet into while gazing inward...her chapbook displays moments of contemplation that lingers in your thoughts, well after you have read her and digested.
Jennifer Matthews / Ibbetson Update / http://www.jennifermatthews.com Jennifer Matthews is a vocalist and poet and the author of the poetry collection "Fairytales and Misdemeanors." (Ibbetson 2003)
by Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Maine
The poetry of Alice Persons is deeply alert to the mundane moments of living on earth, moments that in the hands of a poet aren't mundane at all. Alice Persons is very much such a poet as she deftly fashions scenes and perceptions that register genuine intensities and then lets go. Her sense of how a poem can do its work quietly yet passionately is a delight.
Sample from Never say Never
To My Cat With An Eating Disorder
You were thrown out of a moving vehicle on a dirt road in chilly winter downeast Maine, little fur scrap, and I hope you don't carry that memory with you, but the hunger, the deep fear that you'll never see food again is still there five years later when you are huge and sleek, a sumo Buddha of a cat.
I've seen you, after a big meal, heave yourself from a sound sleep, pad into the kitchen, launch your bulk onto the counter, and check the food supply, then crouch there chewing and chewing, green eyes empty, concentrating on your burden, your compulsion, doggedly eating, whether you want to or not.
There are stories about Holocaust or Depression survivors whose refrigerators and pantries are always full, just in case, how some of them still wake in the night and check their abundant supplies, run their hands over the packages, or eat without hunger, just because they can.
Cat, I stand in the dark kitchen stroking your broad back, wishing I could banish the fears of one small, common creature, those bad dreams that awaken you, that hollow place in your memory which can never be filled.
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