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Title	Author	Published	Order It
A House of Bottles	Robin Merrill	2009
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press	Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors	2005
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems	Bay River Press	2002
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry	Alice Persons, Editor	2008
ALMOST A REMEMBRANCE - Shorter Poems by Jack McCarthy	Jack McCarthy	2011
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate	Annie Farnsworth	2006
Be Careful What You Wish For	Alice N. Persons	2003
BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND	Dave Morrison	2009
Blues in the Night	Herb R. Coursen	2010
Child is Working to Capacity	Tom Delmore	2006
Driftland	Michael Macklin	2004
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir	Claire Hersom	2008
Early Late Bloom	Jim Mello	2007
ErosIon	Nancy A. Henry	2004
Essays in All Directions	Robert M. Chute	2007
Europe on $5 a Day	Nancy A. Henry	2005
Evidence of Light	Marita O'Neill	2005
Faulty Wiring	Bob MacLaughlin	2011
Floating	Ellen M. Taylor	2009
Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II	Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors	2006
He Gives Me Flowers	Gaylord Day Weston	2007
Heaven Jumping Woman	Pam Burr Smith	2011
HOME and Other Places	Wil Gibson	2012
How Many Cars Have We Been Married?	Ted Bookey, editor	2008	(see book detail)
Humming to Snails	Ellen M. Taylor	2005
I Have Walked Through Many Lives	Young Voices - Scarborough	2009
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison	Dr. Blaine McCormick	2005
Language as a Second Language	Ted Bookey	2004
Laundry and Stories	Robin Merrill	2005
Life Class	Ruth Bookey	2007
Lostalgia	Ted Bookey	2007
Marengo Street	Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel	2012
My First Beatrice	David Stankiewicz	2013
Never say Never	Alice N. Persons	2004
Observed From a Skin Boat	John Holt Willey	2013
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems	Edward J. Rielly	2007
Ordinary Time	Kevin Sweeney	2009
PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality	Bruce Spang	2012
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties	Brenda Shaw	2006
Rags of Prayer	Kevin Sweeney	2006
Rifles, Rumors, Gin And Prayer	Jim Donnelly	2013
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I	Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon	2008
SARX	Nancy A. Henry	2010
Sex, Death, and Baseball	David Moreau	2004
Singing With the Dead	Ted Thomas, Jr.	2007
Socks	Jay C. Davis	2007
Sostenuto	Karen Douglass	2006
Sun Shining on Snow: Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta	Ted Bookey	2012
Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw	Tom Delmore	2011
Thank Your Lucky Stars	Alice N. Persons	2011
The Bird Catcher	John-Michael Albert	2012
The Church of St. Materiana	Anne Britting Olesen	2007
The Common Law	James McKenna	2012
The Desire Line	Michelle Lewis	2006
The Flame and the Fiction	Darcy Shargo	2005
The Hard Way	Jay C. Davis	2006
The Lawns of Lobstermen	Douglas "Woody" Woodsum	2010
The Stream	Don Moyer	2006
The Ur-Word	Jim Glenn Thatcher	2008
Things As They Are	Eva Miodownik Oppenheim	2005
Through the Loop of Time	Eva Miodownik Oppenheim	2010
To Sadie at 18 Months and other poems	Edward J. Rielly	2011
To the Promised Land Grocery	Bruce Spang	2008
Traveling Through History	Patrick Hicks	2005
Tuscany Light	M. Kelly Lombardi	2006
Unidentified Flying Odes	Dennis Camire	2006
Vivaldi for Breakfast	John-Michael Albert	2009
Walking Track	Jay Franzel	2005
Ways of Looking	Edward J. Rielly	2005
What on Earth	Marcia F. Brown	2010
Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums	Jay C. Davis	2004
With a W/Hole in One	Ted Bookey	2010
You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional	David Moreau	2007

Book Details

The Church of St. Materiana

ISBN 978-0-9796947-5-2

$10 including postage and handling

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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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