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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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| A Stranger Home |
Natalya Sukhonos |
2020 |
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| After the Parade |
Dana Robbins |
2020 |
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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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| All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey |
Bruce Spang |
2019 |
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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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| Be There or Be Square |
Alice N. Persons |
2018 |
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| Big Little City |
Mike Bove |
2018 |
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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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| Frida's Boots |
Dana Robbins |
2022 |
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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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| Giving It Up to the Wind |
Jack Troy |
2021 |
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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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| Homelands |
Ellen M. Taylor |
2022 |
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| House Museum |
Mike Bove |
2021 |
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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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| Hummingbird |
James Breslin |
2019 |
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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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| In the Afternoon |
Marcia F. Brown |
2019 |
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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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| LOST and FOUND |
David McCann |
2018 |
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| Lostalgia |
Ted Bookey |
2007 |
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| MALDEN |
David R. Surette |
2018 |
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| Marengo Street |
Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel |
2012 |
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| More Fun Than Pretty |
Tony Magistrale |
2021 |
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| Museum |
Daniel Duff Plunkett |
2016 |
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| My First Beatrice |
David Stankiewicz |
2013 |
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| Nameless Roads |
Jim Brosnan |
2019 |
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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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| One Day in One Town |
James McKenna |
2019 |
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| Ordinary Time |
Kevin Sweeney |
2009 |
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| Out of Words |
David McCann |
2019 |
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| PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality |
Bruce Spang |
2012 |
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| People, Places, Poems |
David McCann |
2023 |
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| Playing Solitaire |
Edward J. Rielly |
2022 |
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| Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties |
Brenda Shaw |
2006 |
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| Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask |
John-Michael Albert |
2018 |
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| Radost, My Red |
Jeri Theriault |
2016 |
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| Rags of Prayer |
Kevin Sweeney |
2006 |
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| Read To Me Some Poem |
Maryli Tiemann and Alice Persons, Editors |
2023 |
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| Red Stone Fragments |
Thomas R. Moore |
2019 |
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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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| So Far |
Gretchen Berg |
2022 |
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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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| 'Stitiously Speaking |
Ted Bookey |
2017 |
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| Stones |
Thomas R. Moore |
2021 |
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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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| Tangled |
Antonia Lewandowski |
2023 |
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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 Arrangement of Things |
Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel |
2018 |
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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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| Tonic |
David R. Surette |
2023 |
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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
Read a sample
Reviews for The Church of St. Materiana
by Ted Deppe
I'm moved by the deep humanity of these poems. With passion and painstaking craft, they inquire into the ways we relate to one another. Somehow, Anne Britting Olesen seems to know just how far to push as she explores the difficult and tender landscape of family life. The poems that seek to understand the relationships of mothers and daughters are particularly rich. Honest, compassionate, and luminously detailed, The Church of St. Materiana marks the debut of an admirable poet.
by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Unswerving, edgy and seamless, this collection is marked by an astonishingly powerful yet tenderly human voice. Anne Britting Olesen faces the world around her with such intelligence and emotional courage that the personal experience is instantly transformed into a universal one; and we too feel 'awash with nostalgia for a moment not yet gone,' and grateful for these lucid, wide-ranging, musical poems.
Sample from The Church of St. Materiana
Catherine Blake, Alone
"I have very little of Mr. Blake's company. He is always in Paradise."
I could say I never minded the laundry,
the lye-heavy soap and the washboard
rubbing the skin from my knuckles until I
wear my own homemade stigmata;
and as the years move on, it becomes less
a sign and more a blessing that there are no
children to be banished from the mystical
garden, where they might disturb
the angels who converse with their father
from the boughs above, our little ones fed
Bible verses morning, noon and night in place
of milk we often times cannot afford.
I could say I do not mind
the tradesmen at the door with their dingy
cuffs and rough manners, men not
fobbed off with a watercolor or psalm,
wishing to speak to the master if he's not
too busy having visions. I could say I
never minded any of this,
the shopkeepers' sneers,
the pity of neighbors, acid
burns on my clothes and hands
from his attempts to teach me
the engraver's art, if only, just once,
I too could look to the window to see
the luminous face of God gazing back at me.
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