Chrysalides |
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If you love poetry, Chrysalides is a book as refreshing as sweet sun after rain. Kathie Isaac-Luke writes of emotional events without sentimentality. I could call these poems silky machines, as there’s not a clunk, squeak or bump in the line. Beautifully crafted, and sparkling with language, Kathie’s poetry refashions life’s essential moments into art; but, unlike life, every moment is a bemusement and a joy. This is a generous collection by a masterful poet.— Grace Cavalieri, Producer/Host “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” |
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The Year Lived Over and Over |
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How fine to have this book, a series of poems, retrieved from a 16-year period, 32 years ago. It makes us happy when publishers are willing to go against the grain to respond to leadership in writing, bringing it from where it was to a future world. The core ideas are plainspoken ones. It could be a Norman Rockwell world layered and made sophisticated by an innovation of language and the wisdom of a philosopher. Each poem has its own trajectory with the inner explosion of self knowledge. The poetic range is psychological; the poetic changes are spiritual.— Grace Cavalieri, Producer/Host “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” |
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The Call |
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In the anthology’s title poem, “The Call,” by Calder Lowe, the mundane sound of a train whistle transports the speaker back three centuries to the landscape of her ancestors” – glass blowers in the Black Forest, kin carrying Lafayette “off the battlefield”, the Von Eberhardt’s glowing furnaces – where fragments of history lead her back to the recent past. Her ancestors’ craft sometimes succeeds and sometimes fails, glass being a difficult medium with which to work. The speaker imagines “Some of the goblets flower, some crack.” The church bells that end stanza one are then heard at the end of the poem where the immediate past is recalled in which a single mother abandons her children, her son left at “an orphanage / tucked behind the spire of a Presbyterian Church,” her creations left behind. The speaker carries her history as part of her identity, and one sound, the whistle of the train, collapses the divisions of time allowing the speaker to connect with the past. |
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The Light on His Feet |
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Calder Lowe has stockpiled some stunning prose here, coming full-force at the top of her writing career. Much of her fiction is peopled with unsentimental events — human behavior showing its startling self in a scaffolding of psychological action/adventure — fierce and bleeding.— Grace Cavalieri, Producer/Host: “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress. |
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Frozen Music |
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Michael J. Vaughn is the author of thirteen novels, most recently a 20th anniversary re-issue of his popular choral novel, Frozen Music, from California’s Dragonfly Press. As a tenor in San Jose State’s concert choir, he performed all of the pieces featured in Frozen Music… |
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Exit Wonderland |
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It all begins when Skye Pelter has a shouting match with his sister during a family vacation (yeah, politics) and leaves their cabin at Lake Tahoe. He ends up in Bridgeport, a little town east of Yosemite, and, after singing Nat King Cole’s “Nature Boy” at a karaoke bar, meets Sarge McCollum, a reclusive billionaire who lives in a mansion built into an abandoned silver mine…
Dragonfly Press has nominated Michael J. Vaughn’s EXIT WONDERLAND for an IPPY in the Best Adult Fiction E-Book category.
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All Visions of Blind Love |
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ALL VISIONS OF BLIND LOVE peers into the lives of 25 very different people across the globe, each on his or her own journey of “blind love,” whether good or bad…
Dragonfly Press has nominated Cynthia Benson’s ALL VISIONS OF BLIND LOVE for an IPPY in the Short Story Fiction Category. |
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The Light on His Feet
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Read Kathie Isaac-Luke's review of The Light On His Feet on NLAPW's book review site.
National League of American Pen Women
82nd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Award Winner
Calder Lowe's First Prize winning nonrhyming poem, "Approaching Clouds Ponder the Fate of a Mustard Seed," featured in the 82nd Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition Collection, may now be purchased here.