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The following poetry collections are
available for online purchase through the Jane Street Press bookstore.
For wholesale ordering instructions, please contact: info[at]janestreet.org. All prices include shipping within US. |
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Falling Backwards into the World by
Stephen Dunn (Jane Street Press, 2012)
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Challenges for the Delusional, edited by Christine Malvasi (Jane Street Press, 2012)
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Signposts to Elsewhere by
Yahia Lababidi (Jane Street Press) “Wisdom for Lababidi is on the move, a matter of suppleness rather than rigor, of insights and angles rather than rules. – James Richardson, from the foreword
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Click "Murphy Special" to purchase Stubborn Child and Thorough & Efficient at a combined discount price of $20 (includes shipping). |
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Thorough & Efficient by
Peter Murphy $12.50 (Jane Street Press) ISBN: 978-0-9723943-4-5 (30 pages) In Thorough & Efficient, Peter E. Murphy gives us a real depiction of the malaise of so-called “inner city” education. Murphy, who taught for 29 years at Atlantic City High School, is relentlessly accurate and often funny as he renders one indelible moment after another. In doing so he replaces the Hollywood script of the “hero” teacher, sacrificing everything so the orchestra can rise at the incipient miracle, with the realities of violence, indifference, intractable corruption, and everyday effort, skill, and decency. If there’s any heroism here, it is that Murphy never romanticizes his job or his students, which is probably why he lasted so long. |
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Stubborn Child by Peter Murphy
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My Other Life by Tony Gloeggler $12 (Jane Street Press) ISBN: 0-723943-1-1 (38 pages) Like the gospel song, “He’s got the whole wide world in his hands,” Tony Gloeggler has succeeded, in My Other Life, in portraying his world so vividly that you feel like he has put his life in your hands. His writing deserves a purple heart — he has survived the battles with his parents, and the hand to hand combat of trying to find the right girlfriend. (‘My useless heart tucked / in a bag marked body parts. / My name etched on a black / wall. No one snaps its picture / No finger traces its letters.’) Yet even before the smoke clears you can see how he has never stopped loving his so-called enemies. And you, the reader, will never stop loving this book. –Hal Sirowitz |
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A Hurricane
Is by Angelo Verga $16 (Jane Street Press) ISBN: 0-723943-0-3 (105 pages) "Angelo Verga's poems hurricane through urban subject matter with astounding clarity and force 'with every breath, regularly & continuously, like a messianic machine.' They 'snatch the greasy dishes, and fling them at the rusted pots and pans' of our way of life. Images swirl, narratives sting. This book resounds with indispensable noise; it's a wake-up call, filled with unflinching honesty, humor, and haunting tenderness." Laure-Anne Bosselaar read more... |
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Carthage by Baron Wormser $12.25 (A limited edition chapbook about a character who is president of the United States) From the outset we recognize "Carthage," Baron Wormser’s replica of a president befuddled by events he’s helped create, yet cognizant enough to know that he can exercise enormous power….Through his droll and deft mediation and orchestration of effects, Wormser has imagined for us a man who’s a frightening mix of power and banality. – Stephen Dunn |
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Your Whole Life by Douglas
Goetsch (2007, Slipstream Press)
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Job of Being Everybody by Douglas Goetsch (2004, Cleveland State University Press) “It’s hard to imagine a reader who could resist Goetsch’s
seductive opening lines.” Billy Collins
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Nobody's Hell by Douglas Goetsch $16.00 (1999, Hanging Loose Press) ISBN: 1-882413-60-1 (40 poems, 74 pages) "Douglas Goetsch's first full length collection introduces to a wider readership a poet of subtle technical skill and wicked good humor. But even more important than these admirable qualities is Goetsch's compassionate understanding of peoples' lives....These poems will 'stay up in the head' of any reader who cares about poetry, and what we do here, in our time." Robert McDowell |
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What's Worse
by Douglas Goetsch $11.00 (2002, Aldrich Museum) ISBN: 1-888332-18-2 (13 poems, 32 pages) Selected by US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, in the 2001 Aldrich Poetry Chapbook Competition. (What's Worse is bound in a volume with the other winner, The Soul's Landscape, by Sofia Starnes; there are two front covers, upside-down from one another). |
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First Time Reading
Freud by Douglas Goetsch $9.00 (2002, Permafrost) (20 poems, 35 pages) Winner of the 2002 Permafrost Chapbook Competition, First Time Reading Freud contains poems that have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Witness, and Alaska Quarterly Review. The chapbook is printed on fine, linen stock; the cover features the work of noted artist, Desirée Alvarez. |
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