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The Partners of the Americas (POA) is a private, non-profit and non-partisan organization of volunteers. Founded in 1964 by John F. Kennedy, the goal is to promote and increase international cooperation and understanding through cultural, educational, business, scientific, and technical exchanges in the Western Hemisphere. States in the United States of America are paired in chapters with states or countries from the rest of the hemisphere. Missouri is paired with Pará, Brazil; therefore the Missouri chapter of POA strives to promote cooperation with that region of South America. One way the Missouri Partners of the Americas has attempted to educate about Brazil is by establishing the Missouri Partners Publishing project, which aims to publish books about Brazil, especially the Amazonian region of Pará. The first publication from MPP is Santarém, Riverboat Town by Steven Winn Alexander, an American who has lived in Brazil, mostly in the Amazonian town of Santarém, for the past thirty years. Santarém, Riverboat Town is subtitled A Gringo’s Own Account of Tourism on the Brazilian Amazon and Tapajós Rivers, and is a pleasant and informative cross between memoir and travel guide to this area of the Amazon. To help promote the mission of POA, Timberline is cooperating in promoting the work of Missouri Partners Publishing.
Steven Winn AlexanderSantarém--Riverboat TownISBN 978-0-9795643-0-7
256 pages / Softcover $19.95
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Wally Swist’sMount Toby PoemsISBN 978-0-944048-47-4 35 pagesLetterpress $10.00WALLY SWIST has published four books and nine chapbooks of poetry, including Veils of the Divine (2003) and The Silence Between Us: Selected Haiku (2005). A recording of a poem from his reading in the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival is archived at npr.org. He has been awarded fellowships in poetry from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He recently was made the subject of the documentary DVD In Praise of the Earth: The Poetry of Wally Swist (WildArts, 2008).
The book is a limited handcrafted letterpress edition, the third chapbook by Wally Swist from Timberline Press. Praise for Waily Swist’s Poetry “These poems are a beautifully receptive reading of both the natural world and ourselves as ‘Wally Swist is a nature poet in the tradition of Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons, Robert Haas’s Field Guide, and Pattiann Rogers’s Splitting and Binding. Few poets have studied the hills of Connecticut and Massachusetts as closely as he has: the lace of a waterfall . . . hue of columbine and wild geranium.” — Emily Grosholz “Wally Swist’s poems are full of clean perception and clear, proportionate feeling. They
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Howard Nelson’sThe Nap by the WaterfallISBN 978-0-944048-46-7 44 pages letterpress $10.00
HOWARD NELSON lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York, west of the Adirondacks, south of Lake Ontario, east of Cayuga Lake, north of the gorges of Ithaca, north of the Endless Mountains of northern Pennsylvania. His previous collections of poems were Creatures, Singing into the Belly, Gorilla Blessing, and Bone Music. He is the author of Robert Bly: An Introduction to the Poetry, and editor of On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell: The Wages of Dying Is Love and Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman. His poems have appeared in News of the Universe, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, I Just Hope It’s Lethal: Poems of Madness, Sadness, and Joy, and other anthologies, and his poems about animals have been reprinted in Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants by Katy Payne, Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution by Allison Jolly, and Feeding Deer by Elizabeth Marshal Thomas. He teaches at Cayuga Community College. The Nap by the Waterfall collects nineteen of Nelson’s poems that explore our attachment to the mundane, as in “SUV’s, our wonder at life as in “Tubing the Esopus,” and our need for love as in “The Aide.” To use a phrase from his poem “Not Remembering the Names of Things,” Nelson’s poetry looks at the events and things of our existence in “all their amazing particularity.” The book was handset and printed by letterpress and bound by hand. |
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Kathleen M. McCannThe Sea's Rosary2008 ISBN 978-0-944048-45-0 25 pp / 19 poems letterpress Limited edition of 200 copies $7.50 Kathleen M. McCann is a nature lover who goes almost every afternoon down to Weymouth's Back river to look for egrets, herons, and to watch the dogs revel in their delight; the smell and feel of the marsh and the sea. She teaches poetry and American literature at Eastern Nazarene College in nearby Quincy, Massachusetts. McCann captures not only the sights and sounds, but the tone and rhythms of the seacoast of her New England home. And all is wrapped in a deep spirituality of communion between the sea and the life that takes its being from the sea. The book was handcrafted-handset letterpress printed on a hand-operated C & P press, then bound by hand. |
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Larry D. ThomasThe Fraternity of Oblivion(2008, ISBN 978-0-944048-44-3) 48 pp / 40 poems & 4 illustrations 8.5 x 7.5 / $15.00 The outlaw biker is the focus of Thomas's third book from Timberline Press. Based upon his experience as a probation officer, the book is the first for Thomas as Poet Laureate of Texas. "Larry D. Thomas, a grand poet of the highest order, brings us the biker world in The Fraternity of Oblivion with poems which plunge deep into a visceral culture. Thomas's bikers choose rough love, loyalty at all costs, rebellion beyond whatever Camus imagined, and they ride in road-lust that makes many of those they encounter a bit queasy with fear. This is the best look at bikers since Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels, a full-throated song to the saints of rootlessness, hard kicks, and total orgiastic emptiness." --Paul (Red) Shuttleworth, Winner of the 2001 Spur Award (Western Writers of America) |
Walter Bargen'sWest of WestIn his latest collection of poetry, Walter Bargen looks to the American West and the photography of Alan Berner to create a penetrating vision of not only that region but of the human condition. "Walter Bargen is one of the two or three best poet/critics in this country, as testified by his brilliant WEST OF WEST. One of the most startling aspects of his mind is its range; though a seemingly 'regional' writer from Missouri, his range and sophistication are international. WEST OF WEST continually delights. This is poetry to which I return, again and again." --Jonathan Holden, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2005-2007 "With his signature complex of perplexed sympathy and edgy sentiments, Walter Bargen catalogs the scapes and scrapes of our difficult westering." --Scott Cairns, Author of Short Trip to the Edge ISBN 978-0-944048-42-9 76 pages, $12.00 |
Operation SupergooseA Novel by William HartStanding on the shoulders of the master satirist Voltaire, William Hart creates his own Candide to discover that whatever is, is not necessarily right, especially with U.S. imperialism. His novel both enlightens us and makes us laugh at the absurdity of our Mideast and anti-terrorist policies and those who create the policies.William Hart's training in political science/international relations and his skill as a novelist (Never Fade Away, 2002) fuse in this droll take on 21st-century patriotism. Hart has written many books of poetry and fiction and produces feature documentaries for PBS with his wife, film-maker Jayasri Majumdar. "In the midst of the war in Iraq and the so-called 'war on terrorism,' I'm looking for hope--and people who can give me hope. I'm finding it in the sea-change taking place in Latin America. Am also finding it in [Hart's] comic antiwar novel." -Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder, School of the Americas Watch "Toxic times inspire . . . caustic commentary. In his bold, prescient, oft-outrageous novel, William Hart entertains, educates, accuses, and offends with the best of 'em. He also gives the reader something far too rare in this kind of book: a handful of characters, scattered amongst the villains, whom we can root for and, indeed, love. Both as story-telling and as scathing satire, Supergoose soars." -Paul McComas, author of Unplugged and Twenty Questions ISBN 978-0-944048-38-2, 204 pages, $15 |
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The Devil's SongWilliam HeyenWilliam Heyen creates the atmosphere of a folktale in this nine-page narrative poem about a farmer and the devil he purchases at a country marketplace. The devil labors for the farmer until the "handsome red-shelled fellow" turns the farmer's life into a nightmare.tra-la-lally this devil's story / born from the stars in devils' gloryLetterpress printedISBN 978-0-944048-43-6$7.50 |
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Alles KaputtPoems of World War IIbyStanley NoyesWhen Stanley Noyes was a young GI in Germany during the waning months of World War II, he heard the expression "Alles kaputt" (German for "All is broken") all around him. More than sixty years later, the statement of finality came to him as an apt title for this collection of poems based on his experience during the war. "This collection is a gem caught in poetry. Clear vignettes of Stan's young manhood in World War II, the stark excitement, camaraderie, revelations, tragedy, horror and fear, and even the beauties of war are held in his rhythms. Stan Noyes' book is honest and revealing. His poetry is excellent." -Keith Wilson Alles Kaputt: Poems of World War II was produced by handset and printed letterpress and bound by hand. The typeface is 12 pt. Garamond Old Style. The text paper is Wausau Royal Linen (natural), and the cover is Neenah Classic Linen (greystone) with Wausau Royal Silk end-paper (scarlet). ISBN 978-0-944048-39-9 31 poems / 41 pages Letterpress Edition: $10
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Robert Dyer'sORACLE of the TURTLE --- Poems on the I Ching
This third and final edition of Oracle of the Turtle, which is based on the I Ching, fulfills Dyer's vision to which he not only has the poems but accompanies each poem with an illustration to make a marvelous graphic presentation. "Oracle of the Turtle is in fact a stunning book that succeeds remarkably well at all levels. The poetic commentaries are accurate and enlightening, and at the same time each poem maintains its integrity as a world in itself. In addition, the whole series conveys a distinct sense of completeness that can only be compared to the I Ching itself. "Like the oracles of the I Ching, these poems resonate with mystery and meaning and are vital meditations on existence able to evoke responses from the deepest realms of the unconscious. Those who seek additional insight into the I Ching and those who appreciate fine books of poetry are advised to consult this beautiful book, which Confucius himself would have found worthwhile." Howard Schwartz, St. Luis Post Dispatch ISBN 978-0-944048-37-5 78 pp / 64 poems & ills. / letterpress $20.00 |
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Emily Borenstein'sNIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASSandTRANSFORMATIONS
In 1981, Timberline Press published Emily Borenstein's Night of the Broken Glass, which won critical praise. "A moving and darkly beautiful book helping us to remember." --William Heyen "A poet of quality. Your Holocaust poems should be printed, framed and hung up at Auschwitz and at the War Memorial in Israel." --Marjorie Schuck "The poetry is original and arresting. It reflects a spirituality that is deep and sincere." --Thomas Merton For the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, Timberline proposed to reissue it, but the poet had a different vision of Night of the Broken Glass and her poetic career since 1981. The result is Night of the Broken Glass and Transformations, which presents Borenstein's expanded vision of her spiritual life. 279 pages / offset Paperback ISBN 978-0-944048-40-5 $20.00 Hardback ISBN 978-0-944048-41-2 $25.00 |
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