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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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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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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 |
(see book detail) |
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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
Dreamscape
by Claire Hersom – copyright 2017
ISBN 978-0-9981922-4-6
$14 including postage and handling
Read a sample
Reviews for Dreamscape
by Dennis Camire
Whether meditating on the natural world or on memories of friends, lovers and family, in DREAMSCAPE the speaker often finds that the beautiful and solace-laden world she seeks is already manifest--or there to be transformed into her reality--if she just looks closely at the world and the scars they have suffered....These wonderfully wise poems, in short, are both rewarding for the serious reader of poetry and for the solemn seeker.
by Jeri Theriault
These are poems of community and faith, the universal "we" often used to emphasize the connections the poet feels. We are all in this together, says Hersom, and there is transcendent beauty in our togetherness. ...This book celebrates the bonds of nature and family, the ties to earth and season, and the 'streams of simple remembering.'
Sample from Dreamscape
For Beauty's Sake
“We must see all scars as beauty.... a scar does not form on the dying. “
- Chris Cleave
Bring the Band-Aids and gauze
the Vaseline and iodine
let’s see this open wound,
this gap between
one side and another
how we can stitch it up
smooth the edges, once again
make sure there are no tears that show
discoloration or indentations
bring the adhesive tape
and soapy water and let’s wash it clean
bring the tweezers and magnifying glass
let’s see what we can do to
make it look like nothing ever touched
this elbow or shin or eyelid skin
give me the Neosporin, let's rub it in
disinfect the nasty scrapes and bruises,
pretend nothing ever bent us to our knees,
turned our stomachs inside out
and our souls didn't flee
even for that small second
from something it could not comprehend;
and for that one doubting moment, we
didn't once think of ourselves as deserving
of a scar-maker we sometimes loved
sometimes didn't know
sometimes we had control
and sometimes, no control
when their own despicable scar
could find no peace
and transferred itself to us instead
like a gift.
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