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NEW BOOKS
FROM OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Editor’s note: With the fall 2008
issue of the journal, we will be starting a new feature where we highlight
new books written by some of our contributors. We encourage readers,
whenever possible, to buy these books for their own personal libraries, as
gifts for family and friends, and perhaps even for their town libraries. |
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DROWNING: A POETIC MEMOIR by Claire Hersom; 46 pp; Moon Pie Press (www.moonpiepress.com),
2008; $9
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir
chronicles the struggle of a working-poor, single mother’s fight to socially
and economically break out of poverty’s hold on her life and her children’s
life. Drowning: A Poetic Memoir includes a forward by Deb Curtis from
Maine Equal Justice.
This is what the
Maine poet Nancy Henry says about Hersom’s book: “[T]his poet champions
truth with no holds barred, and with a manner artful but not crafty—in a
voice beautiful in its rough truth…”
If you wish to order, please visit
Moon Pie Press’s website.
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A RUMP-SPRUNG CHAIR AND A ONE-EYED CAT edited
by M. Kelly Lombardi; 96 pp.; Black Dog Press; $14.95
Poems by the Salt Coast Sages: Sharon Bray, Donald Crane, Gerald George, M. Kelly
Lombardi, Philip Rose, and Grace Sheridan. Available at bookstores in
Washington and Hancock County and a few other stores or by mail via
www.saltcoastsages.com
or e-mail to auntnabs@207me.com |
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SANDBOX CAMP TALES FROM A
MAINE STORYTELLER by Randy Randall; 240 pp.; Just Write Books (www.jstwrite.com),
2008; $24.95
Randy Randall has just
published his first book. Sandbox Camp Tales from a Maine Storyteller
is a collection of his stories and essays that have appeared in Maine
regional publications as well as in Wolf Moon Journal. In his July
18th Times Record review of the book, William Bushnell wrote, “Randy
Randall…is a lively storyteller skilled with words and he is darn good at
it.” Sandbox Camp Tales is published by Just Write Books and can be
ordered from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. The book is also available in
Maine bookstores such as Sherman’s Books, Borders, and Nonesuch Books. The
retail price is $24.95. |
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SETTLING IN NEW MARBLEHEAD: WINDHAM, MAINE,
1738–1806 by Robert M. Chute; 60 pp.; Just Write Books (www.jstwrite.com),
2008; $14.29
A prose poem sequence narrating the settlement
of Windham, focusing on the lives of the funding families, including first
settlers, Thomas and Mary Chute. Available locally from the publisher, the
author (vrchute@gmail.com),
the Windham Historical Soc., Maine Historical Soc. Bookstore, and Gulf of
Maine Books. A note: In preparation for fall release, Cat Tales, cat
poems and photographs: a stocking-stuffer, gift book edition. |
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STORM WARNINGS by H. R.
Coursen; 168 pp.; Just Write Books (www.jstwrite.com),
2008; $14.95
“If you’ve ever joined a
peace march, stood on a bridge as a protester or written a letter to a
newspaper critical of the president, H. R. Coursen’s fine new novel will
scare the heck out of you... In some ways Storm Warnings
reads like an update of Orwell’s unsettling 1984. Coursen does a superb job
of presenting unsavory characters such as Cyrod the prison camp
interrogator... The novel has an eerie believability and includes a
harrowing escape attempt from the secret prison north of Skowhegan... A page
turner from the start, it rises above the level of a political thriller...
Well-written and fascinating... It has a great cover: a black and white
depicting of swirling wind and water, in the center of which is a 1950s
picture of Coursen the jet pilot in the midst of a weather briefing.”
—Lloyd Ferriss, Maine Sunday
Telegram
This novel, about an
“uncooperative citizen” who escapes from imprisonment by his own government,
is available from Just Write Books. |
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VINCENT ANDREW HARTGEN: HIS LIFE AND
LEGACY by Carl Little; Wildflower Lane
Publishing, 2008; $55
Vincent Hartgen
(1914–2002) founded the University of Maine Art Department in 1946 and built
its art collection. He advanced arts in the state through a lifetime of
teaching and promoting Maine artists through numerous exhibitions. This book
features nearly fifty color plates of Hartgen’s watercolors and forty
reproduction of his drawings, as well as photographs of the artist. Texts
include Carl Little’s essay as well as remembrances by Hartgen’s two sons
and testimonials from friends and fellow artists. The book is available over
the Internet, through Maine bookstores, and at the University of Maine
Bookstore in Orono. |
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