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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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| All Four Seasons |
Jim Mello |
2014 |
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| ALMOST A REMEMBRANCE - Shorter Poems by Jack McCarthy |
Jack McCarthy |
2011 |
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| Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate |
Annie Farnsworth |
2006 |
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| At Bunker Cove |
Ralph Stevens |
2017 |
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| Back East |
Michele Leavitt |
2013 |
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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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| Boulders, Birch and Wood Smoke: A Maine Melody |
Stephen A. Cowperthwaite |
2014 |
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| Boy at the Screen Door |
Bruce Spang |
2014 |
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| Burning Chairs |
John P. McVeigh |
2013 |
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| Child is Working to Capacity |
Tom Delmore |
2006 |
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| Compass Rose |
Ellen M. Taylor |
2015 |
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| Dreamscape |
Claire Hersom |
2017 |
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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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| Fancy Meeting You Here |
Alice N. Persons |
2015 |
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| Faulty Wiring |
Bob MacLaughlin |
2011 |
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| Feasting on Air |
Eva Miodownik Oppenheim |
2015 |
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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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| Heaven Jumping Woman |
Pam Burr Smith |
2011 |
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| HOME and Other Places |
Wil Gibson |
2012 |
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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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| I Still Feel the Swirl |
Ruth Bookey |
2017 |
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| Imminent Tribulations |
Kevin Sweeney |
2016 |
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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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| JESUS WAS A FEMINIST and Other Poems |
Robin Merrill |
2014 |
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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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| Marengo Street |
Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel |
2012 |
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| Museum |
Daniel Duff Plunkett |
2016 |
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| My First Beatrice |
David Stankiewicz |
2013 |
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| Never say Never |
Alice N. Persons |
2004 |
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| Not Just Anybody |
Bruce Spang |
2015 |
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| Nothing Is Real |
Stanley Jordan Keach, Jr. |
2014 |
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| Observed From a Skin Boat |
John Holt Willey |
2013 |
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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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| PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality |
Bruce Spang |
2012 |
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| Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties |
Brenda Shaw |
2006 |
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| Radost, My Red |
Jeri Theriault |
2016 |
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| Rags of Prayer |
Kevin Sweeney |
2006 |
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| Rifles, Rumors, Gin And Prayer |
Jim Donnelly |
2013 |
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| Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I |
Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon |
2008 |
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| Same Bird |
David McCann |
2016 |
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| SARX |
Nancy A. Henry |
2010 |
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| Saving Nails |
Thomas R. Moore |
2016 |
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| Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber |
Jenny Doughty |
2017 |
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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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| Stable |
David R. Surette |
2015 |
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| Sun Shining on Snow: Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta |
Ted Bookey |
2012 |
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| T'ai Chi of Leaves |
Elizabeth Potter |
2016 |
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| Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw |
Tom Delmore |
2011 |
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| Thank Your Lucky Stars |
Alice N. Persons |
2011 |
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| That Mischievous Moon |
Jim Donnelly |
2017 |
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| The Bird Catcher |
John-Michael Albert |
2012 |
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| The Church of St. Materiana |
Anne Britting Olesen |
2007 |
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| The Common Law |
James McKenna |
2012 |
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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 Left Side of My Life |
Dana Robbins |
2015 |
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| The Stream |
Don Moyer |
2006 |
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| The Ur-Word |
Jim Glenn Thatcher |
2008 |
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| The Widow From Lake Bled |
Kirby Wright |
2013 |
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| THE WILDEST PEAL: Contemporary Animal Poetry II |
Alice Persons, Editor |
2015 |
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| Things As They Are |
Eva Miodownik Oppenheim |
2005 |
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| Through the Loop of Time |
Eva Miodownik Oppenheim |
2010 |
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| To Sadie at 18 Months and other poems |
Edward J. Rielly |
2011 |
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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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| When We Invented Water |
Marcia F. Brown |
2014 |
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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
Be Careful What You Wish For
by Alice N. Persons – copyright 2003
$10 including postage and handling
Read a sample
Reviews for Be Careful What You Wish For
by Annie Farnsworth, publisher and editor of Animus
While some poets take the well-mapped scenic route to get from observation to truth, Persons writes as the crow flies: a straight line between those two points. Persons views the world through a keen and unsentimental lens, and manages to capture with brief turn of phrase things we've all been witness to but unable to quite pin down. The result on paper is a gutsy, honest collection that reads like a breath of fresh air.
Sample from Be Careful What You Wish For
Postcard from Mexico
After a week of rain, your card arrived,
but not the sun. I read it still soaked;
some of the writing bled. Here, towels and jeans
never quite dry, and sooty water swells the gutters.
Caught in the cold rain, the city is helpless;
drowned worms thread the sidewalks.
All night, cars hiss; I dream of you,
brown on white sand.
Out walking, feet wet, I pause
in the scent rising from a laundromat.
Where you are, white walls hold the long day's heat
and careless flowers leaven the night air.
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