A breast cancer memoir with gritty humor and cutting realism.
"The musical precision of her words is felt in the body, cutting straight to the core. You emerge from Who in This Room as if from a vigorous swim, refreshed and more alive.” — Claire Fuqua Anderson, Shelf Awareness for Readers, Featured, Starred Review
Poems from the surreal landscape of shifting family ties.
“Penelope Scambly Schott's Crow Mercies celebrates the naming of small things in order to know basic truths. An accumulative momentum rises out of the mercy of an attentive eye: not for gazing at the surface of things but looking into the heart of what matters, what keeps us fully engaged as humans. There are no shortcuts in Crow Mercies.” —Yusef Komunyakaa
Ancient poems sung in a contemporary feminist voice.
“One can’t help when reading this to think of present-day Iraq and the current cast-of-characters from President Bush on down as stand-ins for Big-Man-in-the-Sky with their hungry Humming the Blues grab for power. The poems are lush and thought provoking. This is a book for any reader fascinated by language and poetry at the intersection of an ancient culture.” Cary Waterman, The Salamander Migration
“In Far Beyond Triage, Sarah Lantz has crafted a series of poems whose fierce—indeed icy—clarity is matched by a bitter poignancy. At times visionary (observing, for instance, ‘the chaos of daybreak/and its obsession with the sun’) and at times trenchantly political (noting, for example, that ‘the distinction between/criminals and heroes/is frequently only fashion’), Lantz is always fully in command of complex and acutely relevant lyric material.” -Sandra Gilbert
“Large-hearted, linguistically inventive, historically engaged—these poems have a disarming and daft magic, an unlikely mix of sophistication and folk tale—at times, Chagallian; at others, darkened by historical sorrow" - Eleanor Wilner
Powerful poems about Cambodia awakening from the killing fields to the dawn of free elections.
“She writes with a lyrical beauty. … It’s like an intimate companion whispering secrets in one’s ear, secrets that sometimes make us gasp.” – Jewish Review
“These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.” – Andrei Codrescu
Edited by Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland,Micki Reaman
A landmark collection, on the list of Oregon 150 Poetry Books
“This is an extraordinary anthology of women’s poetry that is both a landmark and a cause for celebration...powerful.... Highly recommended.” – Tulsa World
A moving account of the author’s travels in Nepal and her journey of self-discovery
"Scot gives us the Nepal she saw, touched, visited with a feminist’s respect for difference. Hers is a tale of sharing, and we are privileged to see through her eyes, understand through her exquisite sensibility.” – Margaret Randall
Edited by Marianne Villanueva and Virginia Cerenio
Preface by Rocío Davis
Memory, joy, loss, and history – a multitude of voices
“It is very rare for me to read a book that resonates so close to my entire being…. Going Home is beautifully crafted, not just a collection ... writings like these not only serve as food for our souls, but provide insight into the human consequences of dislocation and dispossession.” – Multicultural Review
“Femme’s Dictionary takes place in a lineage with Minnie Bruce Pratt’s We Say We Love Each Other, Chrystos’ In Her I Am, and Adrienne Rich’s sequence ‘Twenty-One Love Poems’! Guess is a new lesbian voice who fulfills her longing to ‘Kiss your thighs and call it making history!’ – Lambda Book Report
Finalist for the American Library Association GLBT Fiction Award
The gorgeously multifaceted underbelly of the American Dream
“Guess deftly performs the parlor trick of handling several different voices, switching fluidly from perceptive Caddie to the clipped cadence of masculine Jo to jaded Selena. This Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore for the 1990s celebrates the differences between people without fudging the loneliness that these entail. Guess’s attempts to put a Midwestern spin on magical realism are blessedly rare: in a book loaded with so many natural surprises, any supernatural extras would be gilt on the lily.” – Publishers Weekly
“A wonderfully funny and poetic book. Maxine Combs has a keen eye for the poignant oddities of ordinary lives.” – Dori Appel, 1998 Oregon Book Award Winner
Fiction
ISBN 0-934971-72-2
Paper, 230 pages, $14.95 + Shipping and Handling
ISBN 0-934971-73-0
Hardcover, $29.95 + Shipping and Handling
An intricate and compelling work by a gifted novelist
“Patricia Grossman brings to the novel the sensibility of a classicist, the sophistication of a modernist, the intelligence and heart of a maverick…. It should be savored.” – Sandra Scofield, National Book Award Nominee for Beyond Deserving
“The Adventures of Mona Pinsky is crowded with authentic and singular characters – living and otherwise. I liked Uncle Gabe and the world of mythic spirits that fit so comfortably into Mona’s everyday world. Mona is an especially engaging character who has carved out, with her heroic reluctance and naïve flamboyance, a niche in my memory where she will always abide.” – M.K. Wren
“A tragedy, a thriller, a mystery, and a psychological profile all rolled into one.… Diamond’s first novel has the depth, characterization, and foreboding of one of the greats … a great effort from a promising author.”– Midwest Book Review
Fiction/Women’s Literature/Nature and Outdoors
ISBN 0-934971-80-3
Paper, 275 pages, $14.95 + Shipping and Handling
ISBN 0-934971-81-1
Hardcover, $28.95 + Shipping and Handling
“By making the unlikely seem commonplace, Ms. Alcalá draws on the strong tradition of magic realism in Latin American literature.” – New York Times Book Review
*“The stories are mythic and aphoristic, and each contains the key to the riddle of human behavior. ... The writing in this auspicious debut is musical and mesmerizing, carrying the reader along like a river flowing through deep canyons of feeling.” – Publishers Weekly
Fiction/African American Studies
ISBN 0-934971-17-X
Paper, 120 pages. $9.95 + Shipping and Handling
ISBN 0-934971-18-8
Hardcover, $19.95 + Shipping and Handling
“These subtle, alluring stories depict the beauty and the myriad contradictions of her native Filipino culture as a sumptuous, sometimes bitter feast.” – Utne Reader
Fiction, Asian American Studies
ISBN 0-934971-19-6
Paper, 120 pages, $9.95 + Shipping and Handling
ISBN 0-934971-20-X
Hardcover, $19.95 + Shipping and Handling
“Black Candle is a book that bears witness to the condition of women and to the condition of the world. Rich with colors, sounds, scents, with flowers and spices and fabrics and waters and sorrows and smoke, the world in this book is a necklace of bright pearls that burns the skin, yet is daily lifted up and owned, fastened to the body with a jeweled clasp: the compassion of Chitra Divakaruni’s fiercely seeing heart.” – Jane Hirshfield
Poetry/Asian American Studies,
ISBN 0-934971-74-9
Paper, 128 pages, $12.95 + Shipping and Handling
ISBN 0-934971-75-7
Hardcover, $26.95 + Shipping and Handling
“In a culture of too little respect for difference, The Woman of Too Many Days is a compelling and cohesive collection that quite confidently insists on the value and wisdom of the homeless crone at its heart.” – Deb Casey
“In the poems of Sandra Kohler the aubade [or dawn song] tradition is given fresh and surprising shape in poems of rich harmonies where a dark undertow, a sweet languor pulls back towards dream.… Her full-bodied, meditative songs of mother-love, sexuality, desire, and discovery unashamedly unfold a life in these memorable ‘long cadences of morning’” – Eleanor Wilner, author of Otherwise
Translated by Carolyne Wright, Paramita Banerjee, and
Jyotirmoy Datta
The hot breath of the gods
“It’s a rare pleasure to read translations of poems that convey them as poetry. These versions from the Bengali...evoke that thrill of recognition: that across culture and language we are encountering a great world poet. [Her] vision is simultaneously poetic and political, local and horizonless, moved by love and utterly unsentimental.” – Adrienne Rich
Poetry/Women’s Studies
ISBN 0-934971-51-X
Paper, 112 pages, $12.95 + Shipping and Handling
$12.95 + $4.50 shipping and handling,paper
ISBN 0-934971-52-8
Hardcover, $23.95 Shipping and Handling
“A book of uncompromising emotional integrity, imaginative verve, even virtuosity, and at the heart of each poem is her heart, her poet’s heart, her nurse’s heart – clarifying, celebrating, elegizing. This is a powerful and beautiful book.” – Thomas Lux, author of Split Horizon and The Drowned River
Poetry/Women’s Studies/Health
ISBN 0-934971-57-9
Paper, 96 pages, $11.95 + Shipping and Handling
ISBN 0-934971-58-7
Hardcover, $23.95 + Shipping and Handling
“Notable for its strong feminist, intergenerational, personal, and political messages, this is recommended for all poetry collections.” – Library Journal
Poetry/Women’s Studies/Jewish Studies
ISBN 0-934971-33-1
Paper, 96 pages, $9.95 + Shipping and Handling
ISBN 0-934971-34-X
Hardcover, $19.95 + Shipping and Handling
The sinewy, emotional beauty of heritage and hearth
“The poet’s control of forms holds her readers in place while Sornberger steals, retells, and resignifies women’s stories.” – Hilda Raz, editor of Prairie Schooner
Discover humanity’s meditations and mediations in this tender, intense collection
“Here the personal and the political meet in a fine lyric intensity. Color Documentary is the debut of a poet who makes us believe in ‘the silk line of the voice.’” – Susan Ludvigson
“Christa writes clearly, concisely and unequivocally ... describes an intimacy and an idyll... [that] startles not only men, but women as well.” – EMMA Magazine
“James creates a jazzy, tough-minded voice that is easy to imagine as that of an avant-garde poet of 1550 transported to the late 20th century.” – Seattle Times
Poetry
ISBN 0-934971-05-6
Hardcover, 75 pages, 19.95 + Shipping and Handling
Edited by Micki Reaman and the CALYX Young Women’s
Editorial Collective
Bumbershoot Bookfair Award
Pushcart Prize for contributor Kristin King’s story “The Wings”
Voices from the future
“Sistas, you sing, make my spine shiver: what you know, I know—the diaspora of your lives crystallizing in words, the pissed-off frantic sweet lyric the resounds for all of us here in present tense. My thanks to you.” – Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
Literature and Essay, Art, Multicultural Studies, Women’s Studies
Edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly
American Book Award
The ground-breaking first Asian American women’s anthology
“Asian American women writers step out of the shadows of anonymity, beyond the cultural boundaries of forbidden subjects, to reveal an often stunning radiance…a monumental task…chosen with admirable focus and sensitivity.”– The Seattle Times
Edited by Jo Alexander, Debbie Berrow, Lisa Domitrovich, Margarita Donnelly, and Cheryl McLean, et al.
Strong stuff from old women
“Strong Stuff from Old Women.... The anthology makes old women visible with positive images, close attention and space to show their world.” – Library Journal
Edited by Barbara Baldwin and Margarita Donnelly, et al.
The first color reprints of Frida Kahlo’s artwork published in the U.S.
The first English translations of work by Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska
A DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION of International art and writing by women
“It is awesome how such a span of time and space has been made in a single volume to demonstrate a presence so consistently credible. This volume is a must for every library with a Feminist collection....” – Small Press Review
“Nietzke courageously treats Natalie as something other than another ugly feature of the urban landscape, revealing, through her personal testimony, Natalie’s human face.” – Publishers Weekly
“A fine and tonic introduction to the mysteries of pan-culturalism and the future. A terrific read. Sibyl James has given us a delightful and useful gift.” – William Kittredge, author of Owning It All
