Blue Bone BooksPoetry Books
Blue Bone Books contains a cooperative poetry press. Its authors are: Robin White Turtle Lysne, Stuart Presley, Janet Trenchard, Marcia Adams. Barbara Thomas is an author who has recently been published by BBB. Today we also have a new anthology UNEARTHED from the Emerald Street Poets.
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Barbara Thomas began painting at age 30, after an infusion fo energy from the Holy Mother Spirit. Proof that creativitiy flows at any age, the writings in this book were created after she was 80, along with writing and pubishing three books and a DVD, painting the complete tarot deck, and maintaining a blog to share her experiences with the Elemental and Angelic Spirits who live in the redwood forest near her home.
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A NEW RELEASE BY BLUE BONE BOOKS
UNEARTHED is a collection of poetry by the Emerald Street Poets.
Emerald Street Poets are a poetry critique group in Santa Cruz, CA, that first started in Joe Stroud's poetry class at Cabrillo College in 1995.
Joe announced that he would be taking a sabbatical and Phil Wagner passed around a sheet to start a critique group among the students.
Twenty-five years later, the group has changed with fourteen poets, most have their own books today, let alone their own careers as writers and artist or photographers.
Poets include: Len Anderson, Marcia Adams, Andrew Fague, Robin Lysne, Joanna Martin, Tom McKoy, Adela Najarro, Stuart Presley, Lisa Simon, Janet Trenchard, and Phil Wagner.
Those poets who were apart of our Emerald Street Family and who will stay in our memory and hearts are Virgil Banks, Phyllis Mayfield, and Kathleen Flowers.
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New From Blue Bone Books: Stuart Presley's new book: Visible Light.
"Between the world as it is, and isn't, Stuart Presley find the luminous difference."
Michael Hannon
Hannon is the author of thirty-five poetry titles, including four full-length poetry collections: A Door in the Water (1975), Poems & Days (1985), Ordinary Messengers (1991), Trusting Oblivion (2002), Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems (2013)
From inside the book:
What a thing you are, back! Why did you decide to walk upright? Can you sit still enough to let in the light?
"Stuart's work is subtle, funny, and ironic, with a twist of the extraordinary. Always in his work, both in his photographs, and poems, a nod to what is out there to ponder and to the cosmos."
Robin White Turtle Lysne, Ph.D. Editor, BlueBoneBooks
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Newest Release! Mosaic: New and Collected Poems
Mosaic, New and Collected Poems, is a collection of 30 years of poetry from the author's life. Lysne explores this world and the spirit world and her own process capturing moments of time passing and evolving. Poet Laureate of Cupertino, Dave Denny says of Mosaic:
Robin White Turtle Lysne's Mosaic is a book of tenderness, awe, and depth. Lysne explores the natural world in the manner of the mystic. With a keen eye and open heart, she communes with wolf, owl, raven, and cat. Her poems reach deeply into relationships between family members, friends, and lovers. Throughout this vast collection, Lysne's brave poems explore the joys of a life richly lived and challenge us to do the same.
--David Denny, author of Some Divine Commotion and Fool in the Attic
$15.00, 265 pages plus $5.00 shipping and handling. Free Shipping with orders of 4 or more!
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Marcia Adams Understory
Marcia Adams is the kind of inspired poet who takes us exploring. As she grows up in Northern California, discovers WWII history in a collection of love letters, wades through sorrow, and dives into joy, we delight and laugh along with her. I treasure her words. You won’t want to miss this lovely writer.
Linda Helding
Explorer
Missoula, Montana
Tender and hard-hitting, these “under-stories” are a visceral connection between history and family. Marcia Adams’ voice is immediate and close because her people “need to be remembered.”
Pegatha Hughes – Painting the Sun
Understory takes us beneath the forest canopies of the Mokelumne wilderness from the 1850s to the 1940s to reveal lives rife with beauty and misery. These poems dignify the domestic by revealing the true hardships and untold stories of women, and portray hard-working men who labored in lumber mills and flew fighter planes in WWII. With humor and derision, Adams questions the “spiritual noise” of the Mormon faith that shaped the lives of her great grandparents and those who came after. Understory delivers a haunting exploration of the complex threads that comprise the tapestry of one poet’s profound family history.
-Maggie Paul, Borrowed World
$15.00, plus $5.00 shipping and handling. 71 pages. Free shipping with orders of 4 or more.
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Janet Trenchard's Infrared
Janet Trenchard's Infrared is a poetic montage of poetry and paintings spanning 20 years. Her first book of poems, she traverses vast landscapes of personal dreams, visions, and self reflection. Through the SoulCollage process, she creates a memory collage from her past and imagination.
What Others are saying!
In Janet Trenchard’s first
collection, Infrared, the poems survey a crumbling past sifted
through memory and imagination, a kaleidoscope where at every turn a new
pattern is revealed, a new perspective falls into place. Trenchard pairs her
artist’s keen eye with equal attention to language’s music and rhythm to create
an at times haunting collection where goddesses and gods walk among us, mere
mortals rise from ashes, and where that which falls apart finds shape and
meaning once more. Unforgettable.
Sally Ashton, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate
(2011-2013), Editor-in-Chief of DMQ Review, author of three poetry
collections, most recently Some Odd Afternoon.
These musical
poems traverse a landscape of human encounters, some domestic, others
alcohol-soaked, all compelling. In “Night Owls,” two friends drink the night
away as a dark presence hangs over them: “it was enough to know / that it could
be owls / calling to me through whiskey.” In “Wedgewood Stove,” a woman sits in
her kitchen, the scene set for a quiet evening, but the “cracked patio” and
“hole in the sky / with light raining down” suggest otherwise. In “Sparks,” a
mattress burns for days, the energy “waiting to burst out / like so many red
bees.” These poems illuminate the unexpected links in life and love.
Erica Goss,
Los Gatos, CA. Poet Laureate Emerita
Infrared is a luminous book. Like the artist she also is,
Janet Trenchard paints with words, as in her opening poem, Spirits: “I need the color amber in the palm of my hand…” Words
emerge “as trumpets summoned up/from underground that dark gold/that everything
is made of”. Poems of smoke, night owls, scarab beetles, or a weekend at God’s,
are painted with an imagistic brush. Here, too, is an old Wedgewood stove
lighting a table that holds, like Janet’s poems, a book filled with whale
posters, a clawfoot tub, Nina Simone on the stereo. One is drawn in, as in her
final lines, as “angels in the Torah bending over/each blade of grass”.
Dane
Cervine, author of “How Therapists Dance”, and, “The Jeweled Net of Indra”
77 pages, $15.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. Free shipping with four copies or more.
In Janet Trenchard’s first collection, Infrared, the poems survey a crumbling past sifted through memory and imagination, a kaleidoscope where at every turn a new pattern is revealed, a new perspective falls into place. Trenchard pairs her artist’s keen eye with equal attention to language’s music and rhythm to create an at times haunting collection where goddesses and gods walk among us, mere mortals rise from ashes, and where that which falls apart finds shape and meaning once more. Unforgettable.
Sally Ashton, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate (2011-2013), Editor-in-Chief of DMQ Review, author of three poetry collections, most recently Some Odd Afternoon.
These musical poems traverse a landscape of human encounters, some domestic, others alcohol-soaked, all compelling. In “Night Owls,” two friends drink the night away as a dark presence hangs over them: “it was enough to know / that it could be owls / calling to me through whiskey.” In “Wedgewood Stove,” a woman sits in her kitchen, the scene set for a quiet evening, but the “cracked patio” and “hole in the sky / with light raining down” suggest otherwise. In “Sparks,” a mattress burns for days, the energy “waiting to burst out / like so many red bees.” These poems illuminate the unexpected links in life and love.
Erica Goss, Los Gatos, CA. Poet Laureate Emerita
Infrared is a luminous book. Like the artist she also is, Janet Trenchard paints with words, as in her opening poem, Spirits: “I need the color amber in the palm of my hand…” Words emerge “as trumpets summoned up/from underground that dark gold/that everything is made of”. Poems of smoke, night owls, scarab beetles, or a weekend at God’s, are painted with an imagistic brush. Here, too, is an old Wedgewood stove lighting a table that holds, like Janet’s poems, a book filled with whale posters, a clawfoot tub, Nina Simone on the stereo. One is drawn in, as in her final lines, as “angels in the Torah bending over/each blade of grass”.
Dane Cervine, author of “How Therapists Dance”, and, “The Jeweled Net of Indra”
In Janet Trenchard’s first collection, Infrared, the poems survey a crumbling past sifted through memory and imagination, a kaleidoscope where at every turn a new pattern is revealed, a new perspective falls into place. Trenchard pairs her artist’s keen eye with equal attention to language’s music and rhythm to create an at times haunting collection where goddesses and gods walk among us, mere mortals rise from ashes, and where that which falls apart finds shape and meaning once more. Unforgettable.
Sally Ashton, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate (2011-2013), Editor-in-Chief of DMQ Review, author of three poetry collections, most recently Some Odd Afternoon.
These musical poems traverse a landscape of human encounters, some domestic, others alcohol-soaked, all compelling. In “Night Owls,” two friends drink the night away as a dark presence hangs over them: “it was enough to know / that it could be owls / calling to me through whiskey.” In “Wedgewood Stove,” a woman sits in her kitchen, the scene set for a quiet evening, but the “cracked patio” and “hole in the sky / with light raining down” suggest otherwise. In “Sparks,” a mattress burns for days, the energy “waiting to burst out / like so many red bees.” These poems illuminate the unexpected links in life and love.
Erica Goss, Los Gatos, CA. Poet Laureate Emerita
Infrared is a luminous book. Like the artist she also is, Janet Trenchard paints with words, as in her opening poem, Spirits: “I need the color amber in the palm of my hand…” Words emerge “as trumpets summoned up/from underground that dark gold/that everything is made of”. Poems of smoke, night owls, scarab beetles, or a weekend at God’s, are painted with an imagistic brush. Here, too, is an old Wedgewood stove lighting a table that holds, like Janet’s poems, a book filled with whale posters, a clawfoot tub, Nina Simone on the stereo. One is drawn in, as in her final lines, as “angels in the Torah bending over/each blade of grass”.
Dane Cervine, author of “How Therapists Dance”, and, “The Jeweled Net of Indra”
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Poems for the Lost Deer by Robin White Turtle Lysne, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Poems for the Lost Deer offers
a lament for Nature and what we are doing to our Mother Earth. The news articles
and interviews of an actual event in 2008 document the poems. Native Wisdom in harmony with nature is contrasted with Western-based capitalism. The book addresses women's issues, emigration, and what patriarchy assumes it can do in our own National Park Service.
Here is what others are saying about this book:
"Poems for the Lost Deer
is much more than poems. It is a tract that is, at once, lamentation
and praise song, dirge and testament and manifestation. And an inquiry
into values and hierarchy and a series of addresses to the faces of
power. …"
C.S. Giscombe
Author of Into and Out of Dislocation, and others
"This (book) is passionate, compassionate, skillful, meticulous, graceful, vital, and heartbreaking. …"
Heather Nagami, Author, Editor
Echoing Blake’s
Songs of Innocence and Experience, Robin Lysne’s Poems for the Lost Deer
documents the recent systematic slaughter of “non-native” Axis and
Fallow deer from the Point Reyes National Seashore. Presenting “what
happened” in an assemblage of overlapping voices -- factual “evidence”. …Robin Lysne has given us, one whose time has come not a moment too soon.
Stephen Ratcliffe. Author of Real, Portraits and Repitition, and over 20 books of poetry and criticism, and is a long time Professor at Mills College.
$15.00 plus $5 postage, free postage if you order 4 or more.
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