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Eden in the Rearview Mirror
Susan Elbe

Word Press
ISBN: 1933456779 · 80 pages · Paperback · $17.00 + shipping

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Honorable Mention for the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2007 Posner Poetry Book Award. Judge Bruce Bennett's comments.

Review by Sarah Busse

"I can't remember a manuscript that enacts so well a painful or difficult transformation. Read and love this book as I do. " - Hilda Raz, co-author of WHAT BECOMES YOU

"Susan Elbe’s luminous lines delicately tip back and forth between outer and inner worlds. As 'the sheer silk of the river wrinkling / salmon-pink in last-ditch sunlight,' her poems sift the phenomenal world for the refraction of memories in time. These are memorable, moving poems." - Arthur Sze

"Susan Elbe’s new volume of beautifully crafted poetry reflects an enviable sense of self-awareness, as well as the weight of conviction. These poems touch with searing honesty on matters of love, loss, and disaffection, and yet even the darkest of them somehow seem lit from within—not with flash and glitter, but with a slant, silvery sheen that both illuminates and demystifies." - Marilyn Taylor

 


Light Made from Nothing
Susan Elbe

Parallel Press
ISBN: 1-893311-33-3 · 32 pages · Paperback · $10.00 + shipping

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"She has a wonderful sense of movement and a keen ear and eye for imagery. Her poems are ambitious.... There is always something to catch and please the reader in this work." - Paul Zimmer, The Georgia Review.

She "eloquently reminds us we must rely on faith, on hope, on any faint glimmer. For Elbe, there is light enough." - Vince Gotera, The North American Review.

Susan Elbe affirms that "what matters is the wanting" in her poem "This Isn’t About You" from the wonderful Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press, 2003) and in each of the nineteen poems in this chapbook we are transported by her specific language, her knowledge of what to say and what to withhold. These poems took my breath away. - Jennifer MacPherson, The Comstock Review

 


Love Over 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems
Edited by Robin Chapman and Jeri McCormick

Mayapple Press
ISBN-978-0932412874 · 124 pages · Paperback · $16.95

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Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath
Edited by John Bradley

The Backwaters Press
ISBN-978-1-935218-02-9 · 153 pages · Paperback · $20.00

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Contributors Include: Thomas McGrath, Susan Elbe, Reginald Gibbons, Denise Duhamel, Christopher Buckley, Jim Moore, John Bradley, Barry Silesky, Barbara Crooker, Kelly Russell Agodon, Ellen Bass, Susan Eisenberg, Phillip Dacey, Lyle Daggett, and others

 


Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses
Edited by Suzan Jantz

Yarroway Mountain Press
ISBN-978-0-9801141-0-2 · 600 pages · Paperback · $24.99

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Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv
Edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler

Red Hen Press
ISBN-978-1-59709-099-5 · 456 pages · Paperback · $25.00 · Available 2/1/08

 


On Retirement: 75 Poems
Edited by Robin Chapman and Judith Strasser

University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10: 158729527X ISBN-13: 978-1587295270 · 140 pages · Paperback · $13.57 on Amazon

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Contributors Include: Werner Aspenstrom, Chana Bloch, Philip Booth, Hayden Carruth, Lucille Clifton, Ruth Daigon, Susan Elbe, Sam Hamill, Mark Irwin, klipschutz, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Richard Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Grace Paley, Robert Pinsky, Carol Potter, Ishmael Reed, Claudette Mork Sigg, Ronald Wallace.

 


Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets
Edited by Elisabeth Owens

Parallel Press
ISBN 1-893311-63-5 · 80 pages · Paperback · $15.00 + shipping

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An anthology of poetry from Parallel Press poets. The collection is wonderfully representative of the poetry chapbook series that started in 1999. Each of the forty poets contributed a poem and a statement commenting on their experience with writing the poems. The anthology also contains a foreword by Ken Frazier, Director of the UW-Madison Libraries.

 


Kiss Me Goodnight: Stories and Poems by Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died
Syren Book Company, edited by Ann Murphy O'Fallon and Margaret Noonan Vaillancourt,

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ISBN 0-929636-33-3 · 246 pp · Paperback · $13.22

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"A deeply moving book. At first one hears only pain. Then one hears the courage, the strength, and indomitable faith." - Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

 


Family Matters: Poems of Our Families
Edited with Introductions by Ann Smith & Larry Smith

Bottom Dog Press
ISBN 0-933087-95-0 · 230 pages · Paperback · $16.00 ($18.00 postpaid)

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POEMS BY: e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Kenneth Patchen, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, William Carlos Williams, James Wright, and others

Contemporaries: Nin Andrews, Antler, Ellen Bass, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, David Citino, Barbara Crooker, Jim Daniels, Kate Daniels, Todd Davis, Susan Elbe, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Diane Gilliam Fisher, Kathleen Fraser, Joy Harjo, Rasma Haidri, Ted Kooser, Li-Young Lee, Jim Lenfestey, Lyn Lifshin, Diane Lockward, Peter Meinke, Corey Mesler, Chad Prevost, David Ray, Susan Rich, William Pitt Root, Michael Salinger, Vivian Shipley, Penelope Scambly Schott, Derek Sheffield, Larry Smith, Gary Soto, Susan Terris, Jeff Vande Zande, Ron Wallace, and many others

 


A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's Poetry
Edited by Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, Micki Reaman

Calyx Books
ISBN 0-934971-82-X · 218 pages · Paperback · $14.95 + shipping and handling

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A landmark collection.

"This is an extraordinary anthology of women’s poetry that is both a landmark and a cause for celebration...powerful.... Highly recommended." – Tulsa World

"From here will come our literary heritage." - John Berry, Editor-in-chief, Library Journal


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