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Hands No Hands

Hands No Hands is a book of twenty-eight poems in five sections that combines the personal with political, (sometimes in the same poem), celebrating the poetry of place from Western New York to the American southwest, the poetry of tribute, of eulogies and remembrances, as well as the poetry of dreams and nightmares. It has original cover art by David James Delaney.
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The Teacher Who Told Stories

The Teacher Who Told Stories is a collection of twenty-nine poems and four stories arranged in four sections, each section concluding with a story. Like The Binding Dance, the author’s previous book, The Teacher Who Told Stories is characterized by use of direct speech to engage sound, rhythm and metaphor. Stories and storytelling are dominant themes, as well as the power of dreams and of pretending. The book has original cover art by David James Delaney.  
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The Binding Dance
The Binding Dance is a book of 66 poems about what it means to exist, to have a self, to be among people. It is characterized by use of direct speech to engage sound, rhythm and metaphor. Its themes include the deceptions of time and the need for story. The last section consists of poems all written in 2020 which engage the contingencies and intensity which marked that year.  
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Ravine Street
Poems of the natural world, of the ineradicable mysteries of a new family, of the coexistence of the mundane and the ineffable. 14 poems. Unpaginated. White Pine Press.  
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Bold Cities and Golden Plains
Arranged in sections titled, Landscapes, Portraits, In Old Missouri and Dream Time, this book looks for the eternal in the every day-- the cashier at the checkout, watching one's children as they grow, chance encounters with strangers-- as well as in landscapes of vision and grandeur, in memory of relationships over time and dream. 26 poems, unpaginated. FootHills Publishing. 
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Walking Home from the Eastman House
Poems in four sections: Way Back When, Nothing Works, Universe Problem Solved and The Very Thing That Saves Us. Poems in an expanding landscape of their own including life as an ESL teacher, locales from the metropolis to the desert, pieces inspired by dream and earliest memory, elegies, observations, lyrics and brief flashes. 63 poems, 91 pages. Self-published.  
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