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I figure if I can do that, I have a pretty good chance of saying something fresh and real, some part of the truth people can recognize even if they've never seen it before.</I></div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> THERE'S NO MONEY IN POETRY, </div> <div> SOMEONE SAID </div> <bR> <div> True, but wouldn't you rather </div> <div> jerk awake to the tom-tom of invisible wings</div> <bR> <div> and later, if the light is right, </div> <div> watch a river scratch itself until it bled? </div> <bR> <div> And as to the example of those who keep </div> <div> their feet firmly on the ground, </div> <bR> <div> like a telephone pole, or a feeding trough, </div> <div> or a tombstone - </div> <bR> <div> when you're in love, you're happy to board </div> <div> the wounded plane last seen disappearing </div> <bR> <div> over the mountains and never heard from again.<B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of thirteen previous poetry chapbooks, including <I>Death of the Frog Prince</I> (2004) and <I>Heartland </I>(2007), both from FootHills Publishing. He has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and five times for the Best of the Net anthology. His first full-length collection of poetry, <I>Lovesick</I>, was released in 2009 by The Poetry Press/Press Americana.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><I><B>Anomalies</B></I></FONT> is a 28 page hand-stitched chapbook - $8.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >                             </FONT></div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Anomalies"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--04"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Anomalies"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--04"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Anomalies"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--04"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <div> *******************************</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>AWAY #3</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Howard Good</B></div> <div> <B>Heartland</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1272cb30.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="435" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>I think of my poems - the better ones at least - as stories. They aren't your usual stories, though. They are more like shards of stories: short, ambiguous, fragmentary. That's because the meaning of things isn't a given anymore, but must be pieced together, often in half-light and after the fact. You and I pass through this broken world, and this broken world passes through us, and if we're interested enough and lucky enough, we might just be able to recover some wisdom, a few poems, an occasional glimmer of beauty from all the waste and heartache and loss. </I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Heartland</B></div> <bR> <div> That night in the motel I listened</div> <div> to the sounds of the highway</div> <div> and the ragged, decrepit rain,</div> <div> looking in the only mirror, </div> <div> the face of a stranger staring back,</div> <div> taut and slightly tarnished, </div> <div> like the knuckles of a fist,</div> <div> and thought about the miles,</div> <div> how far I'd get tomorrow,</div> <div> to you, maybe, in Grass Lake,</div> <div> the heartland, but the next morning </div> <div> when I started out, it was still dark, </div> <div> and the maps in the glove box </div> <div> were old and of the wrong places.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Heartland</div> <div> is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook - $7.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <div> <B>            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Heartland"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="07-AW3"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>     </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail</U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U> c</U></A></FONT><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>lick here.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> *******************************</div> <div> Howard's First Book from FootHills</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="12a78310.jpg" border=0 width="376" height="561" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>In gathering the poems for this collection, I was surprised to find that I return again and again in them to certain subjects - family, Jewishness, the terrible human penchant for cruelty, the intractability of nature, and the thin, oscillating line between love and loss. But poems are more than their subjects. They are, or should be, experiences in themselves. I hope that the poems here, though few and relatively brief, provide the kind of refreshing experiences that some go to the wilderness, and others to the bar, God, or therapy, to seek.</I></div> <div>                                                     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the Book:</div> <bR> <div> <I>CUSTOMS</I></div> <bR> <div> The man in green looks at me narrowly</div> <div> as if for an explanation of my name, my age,</div> <div> the half-moons of sweat under my arms. </div> <div> He asks insidious questions - where, how long, </div> <div> why - to which I give approximate answers </div> <div> while my suitcase lies open on the counter </div> <div> and he bends over the common articles inside</div> <div> like a doctor delving into a chest wound </div> <div> to squeeze the small pink ball of my heart.</div> <div> The line behind me grows numerous, </div> <div> unaware, or perhaps just unconcerned, </div> <div> that outside the modern glass terminal, </div> <div> starving dogs prowl the city in packs </div> <div> and the smoke of burning tires persists.</div> <div> The man in green straightens up, nods. </div> <div> This is whatever sign you say it is,</div> <div> whatever year of whatever war.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>DEATH OF THE FROG PRINCE</I></div> <bR> <div> Forgive me, frog, for what we did</div> <div> long ago with our jackknives </div> <div> behind bunk 6 at Camp Kahagan, </div> <div> so little blood that it seemed like play </div> <div> when we stabbed out your eyes </div> <div> and laughed at your predicament, </div> <div> 11-year-old boys from all over </div> <div> wiping our blades clean on the grass.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Death of the Frog Prince</B></FONT><I> </I>is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook. </div> <bR> <div> ISBN:  0-941053-32-6          $7.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Death of the Frog Prince</B></FONT><I> </I> ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Death of the Frog Prince"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="04-7"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail</U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U> c</U></A></FONT><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>lick here.</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>