NEW RELEASES from Propaganda Press

Still Life is a Human
by CEE

$4.98

Chapbook of poems inspired by antique Carreras cigarette cards of Old Staffordshire Figures. Contains the entire series of early 1900’s cigarette cards facing the poems inspired by the collection, spanning everything from mythological gods to football to the author understanding as young as kindergarten age that he simply wasn’t like anyone else he knew.

For a Few Days More
by Brad King

$6.00

The first published chapbook of Army veteran Brad King, this book is fueled with raw emotion, biting wit, and colorful language of love and loss, football as a metaphor, sexuality, art appreciation.  Contains thirty-four poems of refreshing honesty and of coming to understand one’s place in the world.

ill-fated solutions
by Joseph Veronneau

$3.00

Book number seventeen of our Pocket Protector series. Poems of life, drugs, sorrow, exploration of the self, and coming to terms with all that life throws at you.  Veronneau’s words are at once realistic and floating like a drug-induced haze into the ethereal, the imagined, the believed.  He writes from the heart and doesn’t bog the poetry down with poetry.

Poiesis #5
by various authors

$4.00

This litzine covers every emotion and topic, from tattoos to black widow spiders, from the AARP to Cosmo Magazine, from atheism to barlife to domestic abuse to Bob Kaufman, ten-year-old bank robbers to BP oil spills to pearls to holidays to Civil War to women who need to put on some different boots. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want more.

Retro
by Harry Calhoun

$6.00

A harking back to the glorious days of yore, these are poems from Harry’s younger days that he is still at peace with. Written in the 1980’s and 90’s, representative of some of Harry’s best work that stands the test of time, gathered in a collection for the first time. Emotional, gripping, cerebral, thought-provoking, emptying, humorous, important.

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Hosho McCreesh Deluxe Package

Hosho McCreesh Deluxe Package

Poetry by
Hosho McCreesh
Limited edition of 26
$10 (plus shipping)


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Hosho McCreesh is one of the gems of the small press, with words dripping with honesty and integrity, hundreds of slaps in the face and equally as many enjoyable recollections of happiness.  McCreesh is a storyteller, focusing on the tiniest of details in aching perfection and necessity, unraveling simple thoughts and teetering on the edge of complexity with just the right amount of coherence and authority.  An observer, a thinker, a deep philosopher, a quiet lover -- Hosho's stories are of people's struggles in the everyday, the legacies we pass on to children, the lies in which we allow ourselves to reside, the passage of time and all it carries with it.  His words choke to find something beautiful in the mundane, to spring up like dandelions in the dark recesses of anonymity, to find familiarity in the cold stares of strangers, to become at ease with just the thought of being human in the concrete age of technology and silence.  For those in search of a fresh voice among the blogs and dime-a-dozen poets of today, McCreesh is the poet we recommend for that breath of fresh air, that look in the mirror, the feeling that we can still connect in an isolated age and find beauty in all the simple imperfections of a world bulging at the seams to hold us all.

PLEASE NOTE that this is a very limited edition of only 26 signed and lettered bundles.  The first advanced edition sold out before we could even make the press release, and this limited public edition has only half of the bundles still available for sale.  Don't delay!  Once they're gone, they're gone forever!

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $10 (plus $3 US shipping; $6 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with several free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This Deluxe Package includes:

• Poetry chapbook: An Adamant, Unmitigated Hope Even Amidst The Doom...
• Poetry chapbook: 4th Street Vagaries [Pocket Protector 16]
• Magnet, one of a series of 26 designs
• Poetry broadside: That We Each Fill The World With A Brutal Ugliness One Passed Off As Life...

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An Adamant, Unmitigated Hope 
Even Amidst The Doom... includes: 

Cover design by Sean Lynch of 10pt. Design

Poems by Hosho McCreesh:

• Santa Monica Pier, Early Summer, 1998
• Virga
• 3 to 5...
• At the Hands of/Madmen & Drunks,/Fools & Fathers...
• Something That/Begs Back The Spirit,/The Flame...
• Call It A Battle Cry, Call It Guttural,/Call It A Harbinger, A Prophecy, A Vision,/Call It Begging, Pleading, Call It Last Ditch,/Call It The Knelling Of/The Rusted Bells Of Damnation,/Call It Whatever The Hell/You Need To Call It/To Get Them To Listen...
• An Adamant, Unmitigated Hope/Even Amidst The Doom...
• I Think Of A Murder Of Crows/Startled From The Cornstalks,/Wings Spattered By van Gogh's Blood...
• Gutted By All That Ever Is...
• It's Gotta Be The Austrians,/The Germans, The Russians,/Czechs, & Poles--
• The Only Choice/Is No Choice At All:
• Rapt With Fear, With Insecurity,/This Is How We Stumble Through Centuries,/Through Oceans Of Humanity,/Yet, Somehow,/Remain/Unaffected...
• You Will Die, I Will Die, & Everything/We've Ever Known & Loved Will Be Bulldozed,/Wreckingballed, Changed, & Will Disappear/Eventually...
• After Years of Fruitless Theory,/Years of Exhaustive, Inconclusive Research,/The New Prevailing Hypothesis/As to Why Stradivarius Violins/Sound So Desperately, Achingly Beautiful/Have the Experts Debating/Wood & Varnish & Climate & Craft...
• Sunlight,/Yellow As Dead Cornstalks,/Bleeding Down...
• Silence Blisters The Night/While The Dustmites Reign/In Their Filthy Corners/& These Are, Indeed,/Strange Days We/Inhabit...
• & The Laughter,/The Fire, The Cackle,/& The Goddamned Life Itself...
• Kidnapping The Sun &/Holding It Hostage While All That/Relies On Photosynthesis/Suffocates...
• There Is a Way to Do It...
• We Teeter, We Totter,/On the Edge of a/Lushfire Doom...
• It's a Bolt, a Shot, a Tremor Within--/Dead Glaze of Dead Eyes/Startled Back to Sparkle & Life,/When We Finally Realize...
• Why We Stare, Unflinchingly,/At All The Dead Blue Gods,//Why So Many Things, &/So Many People Fail,//& Why We Know So Much Struggle/As Our Weary Hearts Fade...
• Following Centuries Of Bloodshed, Centuries Of War/We're No Closer To Solutions & It's Only The/Pyracantha Clawing At The Windows, The/Wind & Sky Punishing Us All For Our/Many & Varied Transgressions...
• As The Weight Of An/Insentient World/Smothers Us,/As The Call Of Our/Strangled Spirits/Begs Redemption...
• On What We've Been/Charged With,What We've Been/Beckoned By The Seething Cosmos To/Get Done, Right Here, & Right Now/While It Is Ours & Before We/Lose It/For/Good...
• The Dead Know Only This...
• One For The Poets/Who Know Exactly How Many/Publications/They've Appeared In...
• To Truly Be/What You Want To Be,/What You Are/Maybe Even Meant To Be...
• The Oaks, The Cedars, & The Pines/Would Scream At Us All To Stop & Listen/If Only We'd Hear Them...
• Grab Hold The Scorching Sunflower,/Know It, Embrace It/Even As We/Blister...

   

4th Street Vagaries includes: 

Cover design by Sean Lynch of 10pt. Design

Poems and photographs by Hosho McCreesh:

[54 untitled poems]
[35 photographs]

The broadside includes: 

Glued, folded cardstock and laid paper; handmade, signed, and lettered by Hosho McCreesh:
That We Each Fill The World With A Brutal Ugliness One Passed Off As Life...

The magnet includes: 

Laser-printed full-color reproduction of original watercolor by Hosho McCreesh, Winter on 4th Street.  Set of 26 designs, each unique and featuring a different poem from 4th Street Vagaries.

Sample poem:

After Years of Fruitless Theory,
Years of Exhaustive, Inconclusive Research,
The New Prevailing Hypothesis
As to Why Stradivarius Violins
Sound So Desperately, Achingly Beautiful
Have the Experts Debating
Wood & Varnish & Climate & Craft...


Spruce & maple
dragged from the northern slopes
of Tarvisio Forest,
dark ages wood, with
meat so dense, veins so small
it could survive the
brutal temperatures
of that minor ice age,
yes, the wood,
the age of it;

or some magical recipe of
sandarac and madder root
some concoction
impossible to
decode or repeat;

the immeasurable quality
of the workmanship, the craft,
the carving, shaping, polishing,
the love & the mastery;

300 years of kings & princes,
of wars & slaughters & betrayals,
of bombs & heists & double-crosses,
of resting in the hands of the
finest musicians the world has made
year after year after year after year,
the tremble of fierce, haunting chords,
all that energy added
to the atomic vibration;

Yes, yes, yes, beyond even these
notions & best guesses,
yes, as is with most things,
it's the sruggle
that makes them
beautiful.

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DEATH IS MY SUBJECT by Christopher Cunningham

Death Is My Subject

Poetry by
Christopher Cunningham



Limited Deluxe Edition
$6 (plus shipping)
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The twelfth book in our Pocket Protector series of mini-chapbooks, Death Is My Subject is Christopher Cunningham's look at beauty in suffering, strength in withering, purity in the wilting of youth and time and passion and life. It is an uplifting look at death, the all-encompassing darkness, fear, straight-forward marching into the blackness; but there is more: Cunningham shows you the light in all of it, the sparks of necessity, the blips of sanity even in the bleakest moments. Instead of focusing on the negativities or finalities of death, this book truly teaches the intricacies and beauty of living. Full of grit and realism, this book, marching us into a graceful death, also symbolizes the laying to rest of all of Cunningham's work up to this point, the close of a chapter, the death of a decade. Truly poignant and moving.

The Limited Deluxe Edition comes with the Pocket Protector chapbook; a supplement chapbook with different previously-unpublished poems continuing the theme; one laminated bookmark in a series of six designs, numbered and signed by the author; and a full-color poetry broadside, numbered and signed by the author, all wrapped in a black crepe paper package with a ribbon and a thin cloth leaf. This is a beautiful limited edition package, and once it's gone, it's gone!

The Limited Deluxe Edition can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $6 (plus $4 US shipping; $6 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with two free random books from the archives while we clean house. You can also purchase just the Pocket Protector book to complete your collection without all the deluxe works for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) online or through the mail to the same address.

The Pocket Protector includes:

the deepest glass
the neighborhood
and the ride home
an uneasy horizon
another, better reason
dust upon the crucifix
the loyalty of a dog
this box of wooden matches
a light worth dying for
North Carolina
the animals
he has time
all night long
good morning, george orwell
a typical destruction
still reaching
springtime
a walk in the desert
song of a cold heart
on a clear night
the tide going out
mice
standing naked in the pouring illusion
metaphor
to the peddlers of jesus at my door
strange eyes
so what's your excuse?
here and now

The supplement chapbook includes:

those who do not dream
yet the dusk comes
an otherwise featureless landscape
one way out
sleeping
a sound I hear in color
waylaid in the desolation, strangely smiling
days of emergency
he won't be riding a pale anything
hope for the future
not really a betting man
not many nights
the curb
to find a way
holiday spirit
black fingertips and ashes
and I should be sleeping

The bookmark series includes (1 of 6 poems/designs):

rage
style
musical
everything beautiful burning to live
clothes of sand
the pistol

The broadside includes:

like some mutual disease

Limited Deluxe Edition
$6 (plus shipping)
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~~New books and mail art in the Indie Zine Library Archive [View them in FULLSCREEN by clicking on the button in the upper left hand corner of each page]:

Revolution Calling Advertisement #1 HERE; The Hours That Matter by Christopher Cunningham HERE; This Is The Day by S.A. Griffin HERE; For Hank by A.D. Winans HERE; Untitled by A.D. Winans HERE; Marymark Press Give-Out Sheet Series May 2009 HERE; Revolution Calling Advertisement #2 HERE; To Be The Fourth Wise Man by Giovanni Malito HERE; TimeLikeToons August 2009 Mailing HERE; Moscow-esque by Mark Sonnenfeld HERE; 2 Year Poems by George Kuntzman and Mark Sonnenfeld HERE; Neal Wilgus August 2009 Reprint Mailing HERE; Beatlick News Volume 2 Issue 27 HERE; Marymark Give-Out Sheet Series 2004 HERE; Meat #7 HERE; and R. Emolo Give-Out Sheet Series August 2005 HERE.

~~Reviews of Befallen by K. Alma Peterson at Poets' Quarterly (Current Issue) HERE and Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene HERE.

~~Review of under the el by David Stone at Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene HERE.

~~Review of All This I See Before Me, All This I Cannot Resist. by Adrian Manning at Poet Hound HERE.

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NEVER TRUST A MAN WEARING PURPLE SHOES by J.J. Campbell

never trust a man wearing purple shoes

Poetry by J.J. Campbell
Pocket Protector book 11
$3

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Book #11 in our Pocket Protector series of mini-poetry chapbooks, never trust a man wearing purple shoes is the story of a man who's had too much, has dealt with his share of pain, and is coming to terms with the possibility of nearing the end at an age far too young. Over the past few years, Campbell, a 33-year-old veteran of the contemporary small press, has overcome serious health problems, insomnia, a rare blood disease, blood clotting, and obesity to remain standing, one foot on the edge and pen in hand, to tell you about it. This book centers around the psychological and physical aspects of those health problems, genetic defects, hospital stays, heart monitors -- the loneliness, the surrender, and the dark humor that goes with the pain and the knowledge that any day could be your last. The words are dramatic, cautious, hard -- sometimes cold, but always passionate -- reflecting on youth and death in one breath, collapsing into fantasies of love that's hard to find in such conditions, while toying darkly with the idea of suicide and reaching the end. This book takes you on one man's journey of not just coming to terms with the possibility of death, but also with the possibility of survival.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art by leah angstman

Poetry by J.J. Campbell:
welcome to the small press kid
last morning of 2008
the wonderful unknown
5 pm in ohio and it suddenly all makes sense
twisting
safety first
forever a romantic
unemployment
the sadness
this stoic insane face
on god forgetting i exist
the spark of my youth
a bedtime story
somehow it still gets hard
yet fruitless
4818
sunshine on a cloudy day
plastic made perfect
more relief than fear
birthdays
the empty promise of potential
another nail in my coffin
from my empty bed
prey
piss poor aim
suicide watch
an endless trail of pain

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DIVERTIMIENTO by Julian Gallo

Divertimiento

Poetry by Julian Gallo
Pocket Protector book 10
$3

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Divertimiento, the latest book from Julian Gallo, is book 10 in the Pocket Protector series of mini-poetry-chaps. Don't get us wrong -- mini in size does not mean mini in poetry, as this chap weighs in at a hefty 33 poems packed into a 1/16th sized book. These poems weave music, past loves, present loves, life experiences, city tales, Sicilian heritage, and politics into an interesting varied life story. Full of emotion, sarcasm, questioning, and longing, Gallo's words are honest, story-like, easy to understand while remaining mysterious; comprehensible and relatable while staying poetic. Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art by Julian Gallo:
3:30am

Poetry by Julian Gallo:
Repulsion
Dead Leaves
Gulag
Bound For Glory
Santa Ana
Cracks In The Paint
Leonard Cohen Missed
Pebbles And Bricks
Dogma
Hoboken Sunrise
Patterns
Salt
Auteur
The Joke
Footsteps
Horizon
Finger Puppets Suffering Under My Gaze
Barriers
One Late Night
Abstractions
Beautiful Cronopio
Saturday Afternoon
Illumination for the rare few
This Is How It Is
Your Voice
Humpty Dumpty Incident
Le Beaupre
A Sort Of Mirage
Armistice
Dark Windows
Venga qui!
Revolution
Pulling The Thread



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~~Our poetry clearance sale is still going on! Check out our sweet deals! HERE.

~~New book reviews on Open A Real Book Reviews: For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 In Memoriam HERE; R. Emolo Give-Out Sheets June 2009 HERE; From The Marrow #74 HERE.

~~New zines added to the Indie Zine Library Archive [View them in FULLSCREEN in the website's top left corner]: Revolution Calling #14 HERE; For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 In Memoriam HERE; R. Emolo Give-Out Sheets June 2009 HERE; From The Marrow #74 HERE.

~~A letter by leah angstman was included in the new broadside For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 In Memoriam HERE.



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DAYS IN HEAVEN NIGHTS IN HELL by A.D. Winans

Days in Heaven
Nights in Hell
Poetry by A.D. Winans
Pocket Protector book 9
$3

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The latest in our series of teeny-tiny mini-poetry chapbooks, book 9 in the Pocket Protector series is a telling of veteran poet A.D. Winans' life, spanning many years of observing the world and dissecting the streets of San Francisco. This collection runs the gamut of A.D.'s life, from war memories and military life in Panama; to Jazz and the roots of American music; to random worldly events, such as the United airplane crash of July 1989. Many poems deal with the revelations of death, reflections of the past, and coming to terms with getting older, approaching 68, then 70, then 72, weaving the tales of those years and what comes with them. A.D. is also an expert at catching the feelings of San Francisco, writing about the streets he loves, the people who inhabit them, the clashing backgrounds of so many cultures meeting together in one place, from the fighting of street gangs to the old Italians of Aquatic Park to the yuppies in North Beach. A.D. is truly the voice of this fine city and paints it with a rollercoaster blend of poetic romanticism and brutal realism. A must-have for your collection! Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art:
from Dream From Mona Lisa by Zlatko Krstevski

Poems by A. D. Winans:
ON MY WAY TO BECOMING A MAN
PANAMA MEMORIES
PANAMA TEN
CITY POET
SAN FRANCISCO STREETS
CITY HAPPENINGS
NORTH BEACH YUPPIE BAR
DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
MIDNIGHT POEM
GOING BACK IN TIME
68
APPROACHING 70
UNTITLED
71 Going On 72
WORDS
DEATH ON THE MIND
THE OLD ITALIANS OF AQUATIC PARK
WINTER POEM
BLUE CAFE
SUNDAY MORNING BLUES
UNITED AIRPLANE CRASH IN IOWA, July 1989.
LETTING GO
AUDIENCE OF ONE
POEM FOR CHARLIE MINGUS
JAZZ IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE
FOR LOUIS ARMSTRONG
OLD WARRIOR OF NORTH BEACH
ROAD RAGE
WINDING DOWN THE HOURS
HOW I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED

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SHORTS SHOTS by Alan Catlin

Short Shots
Poetry by Alan Catlin
Pocket Protector book 8
$3

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The latest in our series of teeny-tiny mini-poetry chapbooks, book 8 in the Pocket Protector series is no small or short feat! This tiny book is jam-packed with tons of poems about Catlin's bar life, broken into two sections: Short and Shots. The section of shorts are quick swigs of observations about patrons, sketches of random moments at the bar, painted in the same hazy way as a drunk would be thinking, the abstract blips coming together to create a larger story. The section of shots are full character profiles of different patrons who fit the names and types of various drinks and shots that Catlin, a now-retired bartender, has made a thousand times in his life. These are the people onto whom one stumbles in any bar, able to be pinned to their drinks easily, the stereotypes and inner monologues revealed as fists are pounded on the bar for one more round; or the batting of an eyelash requests a free treat; or the stubborn martini drinker needs his drink extra extra dry, stirred not shaken over light ice, slightly dirty, straight up, with three olives... and then sends it back because it's too watery, of course, after he drank over half of it. This little gem is a tale of bar life, a life most of us have encountered at least once, and of which many can so easily or shamefully relate. A must-have for your collection! Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art:
leah angstman

Poems by Alan Catlin:
Part one: short:

[Blue flame on]
[Bar with no name]
[Inside sleazy dive]
[Waking drunk after]
[Old men silently drinking]
After reading Eileen Myles
[Low cut t-shirt]
[She was so hot]
After hours
[In dim tavern light]
Tequila Sunset
[One ski pole broken off at]
An American Werewolf in London
[In neon bar light,]
Sick Shit
[Drunk young woman]
[Power failure in the bar]
[Lights up after]
almost
Signed sealed delivered
[She sd.]
[First light through]

Part two: shots:

Flying Dutchman
Golden Cadillac
Irish Bastard
Sex on the Beach (without sand)
It was hard to explain
Pink Lady
Brave Bull
Kamikaze
Velvet Hammer
Mind Eraser
Dead Head
Between the Sheets
T.K.O.
Aggravation
Italian Stallion
Silk Panties
Primal Kamikaze
French Connection
Screaming Orgasm
Belfast Bomber
L.I.T.
Sicilian Kiss
Monster Shot
Buckshot
The Big Chill

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THE LIGHT OF FIELDS BY MICHAEL KRIESEL

The Light Of Fields
poetry by
Michael Kriesel
$3

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Book seven in our Pocket Protector mini-chapbook series, this book is a reprinted edition of Kriesel's second chapbook, originally published in 1982, by Jump River Press, Inc., out of Prentice, Wisconsin. The poetry book follows a young Michael, age 20, through a coming-of-age paralleled by images of growth in nature and the birth-to-death cycles of people, fields, trees, leaves, mountains surrounding him. Using cyclic visuals that repeat and resound in almost the same way nature does - traveling through seasons with age, time, observations - Kriesel captures an important and endearing part of youth, innocence, awareness, and knowledge in words far mature for their age. Copies can now be purchased online; through the mail for $3 (plus $2 shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Poems by Michael Kriesel:
BREAKING SILENCES
OFFERING
YOU
SUNDAY
EVOLUTION OF FISH
RISING IN NIGHT
THE LIGHT OF FIELDS
PILGRIMAGE
WAKING
TO A WOMAN
TELLING THEM
WALKING FROM FUNERALS
SEED
PSALM BEFORE DARKNESS
OPENING
THE LEAN TREE
BENEDICTION
WORDS FOR A BIRTH
RETURNING TO THE EARTH
HARDENING
HYMN
THE GREAT LAKES
PREPARING
TRYST
REPETITIONS
MARRIAGE
THE HOUSE
TWENTIETH YEAR
THE STARS THAT COME DOWN FROM THE HILLS
WINTER HARVEST
THE GIVING
PROLOGUE TO A SEASON

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POLITICAL PRISONERS BY RAYMOND SAPIENZA

Political Prisoners
poetry by
Raymond Sapienza
$3

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Political Prisoners, book six in our Pocket Protectors mini-chapbook series, is now available! The January collection is squeezed full of excellent short poems revolving around politics, social commentary, war, justice, and changing times, penned by a master of light rhyme and gentle reason, Raymond Sapienza. Full of strong opinions, beautiful punches, honest words, startling imagery, and past experiences, this book will take you through life as we know it on a political journey of truth and exploration. Copies can now be purchased online or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA, or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover artwork:
the cages of hands by leah angstman

Poems by Raymond Sapienza:
political prisoners
trench politics
histories on parchment
peace
running
obsession
one
scrolls
lost pulse
Amsterdam, 1942
pieces in a box
volume
rush hour
flies
speaking
small
pass the earplugs and blinders please
at a club in the heart of town
wake
wages
lament
holy ground
blind
a life worthwhile
bog people
universology
avoidance
who i am
the telling of time
speed of life
weight
coffee futures
sanctuary
so they say
cardboard
not us
fix
vacancy
mix
language packed loose
waste
the sorrow of death
into the light
distance
flailing
out of step with friends
lack
wade
hand out
in wait
antithesis
con-sequence
too much knowledge can spoil the fun
it is autumn and rain falls
would it matter so much
polling places
architecture
quicksand
loquacious
last words
vacuum

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