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<BODY BGCOLOR="#00CCFF" TEXT="#080000" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>FootHills Publishing</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills Publishing"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id135.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2006 Books"><U>2006 Books</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Czarnecki"><U>Czarnecki</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Dire Elegies"><U>The Dire Elegies</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id127.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="POP 10"><U>POP 10</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 11"><U>Poets on Peace #11</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF 56, 57, 58"><U>SF 56, 57, 58</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id129.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF 59, 60, 61"><U>SF 59, 60, 61</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id134.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF 62, 63"><U>SF 62, 63</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id103.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lowenstein"><U>Lowenstein</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Janus"><U>Janus</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Holley"><U>Holley</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Minar"><U>Minar</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id122.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kennedy"><U>Kennedy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id123.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Emorine"><U>Emorine</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stowell"><U>Stowell</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jackson"><U>Jackson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id138.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mullen"><U>Mullen</U></A>   |   <B>Coon AWAY</B>   |   <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Curry"><U>Curry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id141.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Evans"><U>Evans</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hallowell"><U>Hallowell</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id143.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guruianu"><U>Guruianu</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id144.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bauer"><U>Bauer</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id145.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gilman"><U>Gilman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Susquehanna Watershed Antholgy"><U>Susquehanna Watershed Antholgy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id147.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leichner"><U>Leichner</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id148.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nixon"><U>Nixon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id149.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bruce Bennett"><U>Bruce Bennett</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 12"><U>Poets on Peace #12</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>Ordering by Mail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact FHP"><U>Contact FHP</U></A></div> <bR> <div> AWAY #1</div> <bR> <div> Anne C. Coon</div> <div> Via del Paradiso</div> <div> (A collection of poems from Siena, Italy.)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3c62cd80.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="472" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Anne C. Coon's poetry collection <I>Daedalus' Daughter</I> was published by FootHills Publishing in 2004. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <I>Nimrod</I>,<I> The Baltimore Review,</I> <I>Northeast Corridor</I>, <I>Proteus</I>, <I>The Lyric</I>, <I>Earth's Daughters</I>, and <I>Women's Studies</I>, and in the anthology<I> Literature:  Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay</I> (McGraw-Hill). A selection of poems from <I>Via del Paradiso</I> was published as <I>Henry James Sat Here</I>, an illustrated limited edition from The Old School Press, Bath, UK. Anne C. Coon is the editor of <I>Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer</I> (Greenwood Press, 1994) and is a Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.  </div> <bR> <div> Kurt Feuerherm's cover illustration “Siena” is based on the Simone Martini fresco “<I>Guido Riccio da Fogliano</I>” in the Sala del Mappamondo, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy. Now living in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, he has lived and taught in Florence and traveled extensively throughout Tuscany. Works by Kurt Feuerherm appear in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Syracuse Everson Gallery, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, and Rochester Memorial Art Gallery. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Parenthetical</B></div> <bR> <div> One life opens quietly </div> <div> within another</div> <div> as a parenthesis </div> <div> spreads the words </div> <div> to make room.</div> <div> Possibility blossoms </div> <div> in this breach --</div> <div> the stroke of the closing mark </div> <div> remains out of view.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>La Mattina Presto</B></I></div> <bR> <div> I rise early</div> <div> <I>la mattina presto</I></div> <div> to walk alone </div> <div> before the furled day   </div> <div> has spread its colors.  </div> <div> The city is most pure</div> <div> when the sun just lights the Campo</div> <div> and the first cups of espresso </div> <div> appear on marble bars;</div> <div> waiters in white jackets </div> <div> set out umbrellas and potted plants.</div> <div> I walk with light steps in the empty Duomo</div> <div> where shadows fill the arches </div> <div> and the high stained-glass windows claim all light. </div> <div> Without the echoes of voices or footfalls,</div> <div> the marble has only to stand and be still.</div> <div> Invisible, I do the same.<B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Renaming the World</B></div> <bR> <div> I came to this place</div> <div> to speak a new language</div> <div> to begin to rename my world.</div> <bR> <div> Word for today: <I>Esaurito </I></div> <div> exhausted, sold out.<I><B> </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> ISBN:  0-941053-16-4</div> <div> <I>Via del Paradiso</I></div> <div> is a 64 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="Via del Paradiso"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-AW1"> <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> <div> *****************************************</div> <div> Anne's First Book from FootHills (2004)</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="daedalus__daughter"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Daedalus' Daughter</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Anne C. Coon</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3c93ff60.jpg" border=0 width="319" height="502" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Contents </B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Part One</B></I></div> <div> Daedalus' Daughter     8           </div> <div> Passenger     9</div> <div> Catch and Release     10</div> <div> Turkey in the Straw     11</div> <div> Menarche     12</div> <div> Honeoye Lake     13</div> <div> Western Wind Reconsidered     14</div> <div> What's Lost      15</div> <div> This Tender Cage     21</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Part Two</B></I></div> <div> Queen Anne's Lace     32</div> <div> Oyster Stew     34</div> <div> Duly Noted     36</div> <div> Under the Piecèd Quilt     37</div> <div> Still, electric     38</div> <div> Getting Pregnant     39</div> <div> Gramercy Park Film Noir     40</div> <div> Insomnia     41</div> <div> Memory Made Flesh     42</div> <div> Prayer     43</div> <div> What then?     44</div> <div> The First 34 Stages of Grief     45</div> <div> Don't     46</div> <div> Hang-up Call     47</div> <div> Reclaiming Earth     48</div> <div> Ephemera     49</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Daedalus' Daughter</B></div> <bR> <div> My father and I both fly at night.</div> <div> He takes off from a waterbed </div> <div> moored at the edge of the lake,</div> <div> while I, a land-locked second-story sleeper,</div> <div> rise and skim the night air </div> <div> thirty miles away.</div> <bR> <div> He soars high, agile and air-borne,</div> <div> -- bursting out of formation -- </div> <div> while I hover below ceilings</div> <div> rise through doorways  </div> <div> swim just above the details of the day.</div> <bR> <div> And tho' we've never met </div> <div> on these nocturnal trips</div> <div> we each recognized at once </div> <div> the joy the other recalled:</div> <div> the muscles in the arms drawing down </div> <div> as the torso rises aloft, pulling away, coasting,</div> <div> veering with the will of the body.</div> <bR> <div> In these solitary flights, not buoyed </div> <div> by mite-bitten feathers,</div> <div> castoffs of a better bird, </div> <div> but borne up entirely -- and only -- </div> <div> by the arched frame of imagination</div> <div> we leave behind the ideograms of our lives</div> <div> the sculpted rooms, gardens, and roads:</div> <div> seen from above, </div> <div> a labyrinth.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Daedalus' Daughter</B><I> </I>is a 52 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - $10.00.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <B>Daedalus' Daughter</B> 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="Daedalus' Daughter"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="04-12"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <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> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </BODY>