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This team is dedicated to helping in </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Barbra’s home town of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulfcoast for the next three to five years.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>To support Barbra in this effort, FootHills Publishing will start contributing a third of any future book sales of Disking Deep to the same fund. Disking Deep will shortly be going into a second printing.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Michael Czarnecki</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Barbra Minar's poems are a blessing, like a soothing cup of tea under a full moon, “the Queen of the Night”, as she names it, an image that often appears in her heart-spun poems. This poet is such a light, casting her wisdom of age on every woman's joys and struggles, every mother's and wife's bliss and hurt. Precise attention to detail, brave imagery, and concise, metaphoric language stir up a book that spellbinds the reader through her story of Midwestern and southern roots.  She lovingly rises from her well of solitude and reflection with a cup of gold that is this book you will drink and drink again to “set you free.”</I></div> <bR> <div> --Perie Longo</div> <div> Author of <I>Milking the Earth</I> and</div> <div> <I>The Privacy of Wind</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>These poems are meditations and celebrations of the things and feelings of everyday life, presented with such freshness of vision and language to elicit only profound gratitude from the reader fortunate enough to come upon Barbra Minar's work.</I></div> <bR> <div> --Leonard Tourney</div> <div> Author of <I>Time's Fool</I> and eight other mystery novels</div> <div> Professor of Writing University of California Santa Barbara</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Table of Contents</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Grand Round Space     </B></div> <div> <B>Full Moon Madness     </B></div> <div> <B>Light Communion    </B></div> <div> <B>Freedom     </B></div> <div> <B>The August Dance     </B></div> <div> <B>Homecoming     </B></div> <div> <B>Sibling Spaces     </B></div> <div> <B>You Don't Have To Die, Child     </B></div> <div> <B>Father's Gift     </B></div> <div> <B>The Bathroom     </B></div> <div> <B>First Kiss     </B></div> <div> <B>Bikes and Mississippi Summers     </B></div> <div> <B>After the Funeral      </B></div> <div> <B>Off Key     </B></div> <div> <B>Roots Exposed     </B></div> <div> <B>Fireflies     </B></div> <div> <B>Depression and other mysteries     </B></div> <div> <B>Silver     </B></div> <div> <B>Back Among the Living     </B></div> <div> <B>Sand Stars     </B></div> <div> <B>Our Hands     </B></div> <div> <B>Return of the Black Dog     </B></div> <div> <B>Three Gardenias     </B></div> <div> <B>Front Door Shut     </B></div> <div> <B>Metsovo Woman     </B></div> <div> <B>Last Words     </B></div> <div> <B>Bullets     </B></div> <div> <B>Alfredo Speaks     </B></div> <div> <B>Radio Jazz     </B></div> <div> <B>Mississippi Blues     </B></div> <div> <B>Baby's Mother Florida 1942     </B></div> <div> <B>Kiss Her     </B></div> <div> <B>Grandmother's Goodbye     </B></div> <div> <B>Orange     </B></div> <div> <B>Bowl     </B></div> <div> <B>Lifetime Oath     </B></div> <div> <B>Webs     </B></div> <div> <B>Disking Deep     </B></div> <div> <B>Family Secrets     </B></div> <div> <B>Common Restoration     </B></div> <div> <B>The Maker     </B></div> <div> <B>Easter Bread     </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Disking Deep</B></div> <bR> <div> At winter's end </div> <div> the earth lays cold </div> <div> glazed with frost</div> <div> a tangle of dried weeds,</div> <div> stubble, rotting roots, rock.</div> <bR> <div> Day after day </div> <div> the plow rotates metal blades</div> <div> slices skin, splits muscles</div> <div> shatters bones</div> <div> heaves to the surface</div> <div> hidden blood, bitter springs.</div> <bR> <div> Disking deep</div> <div> until rough fresh order</div> <div> rests,</div> <div> the earth </div> <div> broken open</div> <div> ready for seed.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Barbra Minar graduated from Immaculate Heart College (after marriage, three children) in Art and Creative Writing. </div> <div> Challenged with Systemic Lupus at the age of twenty, she had a serious flare up in 1984. Being forced into solitude she has written for twenty years publishing women's nonfiction books, children's books, short stories, various magazine articles, devotionals and poetry. Now she devotes her work to poetry which Barbra considers the most challenging artistic word form.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> ISBN:  0-941053-86-5</div> <div> <I>Disking Deep</I></div> <div> is a 52 page hand-sewn book with spine - $12.00</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="Disking Deep"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-01"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="12.00"> <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="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>