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KD: a Jazz Biography

$17.95

This book-length poetic biography traces the story of musician Kenny Dorham's career performing with the greatest legends of jazz history's bop and hard bop eras-including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane.

"With an astoundingly unique structure of line length and rhyme, Dave Oliphant has incorporated and turned into poetry a vast and impressive knowledge of jazz. The text and its deeply researched factual information and at times nearly Shakespearean and Spenserian richness of language will long provide and provoke both pleasure and scholarship."

—David Ray, author of Music of Time: Selected and New Poems

KD: a Jazz Biography

by Dave Oliphant

ISBN: 978-1943306145

the almost stories

$15.95

This collection of short fiction delves into relationships with poignant insights, illuminating realities of living, dying, and innocence set in an idyllic world that can change quickly to become harsh and sad. In these “Almost Stories,” characters struggle with life against seemingly impossible odds. They do not always win, but they do not give up.

"Whether Dorothy Barnett is contemplating a father's indiscretions, sidestepping unpleasant youthful losses, or navigating scenes of a ten-year-old at a domino game free-for-all, her storytelling is the next best thing to living it. Her descriptions of bittersweet losses were enough to jog my own memories about the past. I read these fifteen stories (almost fiction and almost fact, as Ms. Barnett calls them) in one sitting ending at four o'clock in the morning. They are a wonderful teaser for what I hope will be many more stories to come. A must-read book!"

--Diane Wilson, author of An Unreasonable Woman and Holy Roller

thealmoststories

by Dorothy Ellis Barnett

ISBN: 978-1943306121

The Hero's Fall I Fell For: Jazz Poems

$15.99

With these poems devoted to jazz, Dave Oliphant offers a testament to the variety and significance of the art form and its artists. These poems are an attempt to pay homage to the art of jazz and to its musicians, whose lives and performances have long been a source of pleasure, inspiration, and solace.

The Hero's Fall I Fell For: Jazz Poems

by Dave Oliphant

ISBN: 978-1943306091

Old Men on Tuesday Mornings

$14.95

Lyrical poetry on the process of aging and the transition from one life-stage to another, on the passing of time and its relentless impact on masculinity and the male image, and on on the place of the solitary individual in 21st Century America.

Old Men on Tuesday Mornings

by Lyman Grant

ISBN: 978-1943306084

Bly's Dust

$15.95

"Dorothy Ellis Barnett’s savvy work mirrors a life lived in the service of art. Her fine diction and syntax, 'the best words in the best order' (Coleridge), reveal a poet who misses nothing remaking a world she has learned to see so well. Nor does she remain silent about being engagé in our political climate. And it is thedifferences in her poems—never a sameness—that propel her toward excellence." — Ken Fontenot, author of For Mr. Raindrinker

Bly's Dust

by Dorothy Ellis Barnett

ISBN: 978-1943306138

Austin: A Poem

$15.99

"Written with knowledge and sympathy, the poem contains a delightful tangle of details. Lyndon Johnson, Elisabet Ney, Peter Flawn, Custer, O. Henry, and Joseph Jones (the sage of Waller Creek)--public figures and personal friends interact in the city of Oliphant's imagination....A lengthy proem, set at the grave of Stephen F. Austin in the State Cemetery, contains a brilliant passage about Austin in prison.... The oblique narration is kept on track with masterful transitions....[T]he language is carefully crafted, with interesting and often beautiful sound-play in virtually every line."

--John Herndon, Austin American-Statesman

Austin: A Poem

by Dave Oliphant

ISBN: 978-1943306107

Backyard Volcano: And Other Mysteries of the Heart

$17.95

These stories help define the world of the Texas-Mexico Frontier--an explosive world where lives break, loves shatter, and healing happens. Kathryn Lane, a native of Mexico, explores this world, leading readers on a journey through time and geography with the promise of magic and transformation.

Backyard Volcano: And Other Mysteries of the Heart
by Kathryn Lane
ISBN: 978-1943306046

Between Two Gardens

$14.95

A native of New Orleans, with deep roots in south and central Louisiana, Laura Quinn Guidry lived and worked as a healthcare administrator in Houston for years. Then tragedy changed her life and her amazing poems began. Grief and Gratitude are the "two gardens" this poet moves between. These are poems of love, loss, recovery, lived life, and abundant nature.

Between Two Gardens
by Laura Quinn Guidry
ISBN: 978-1943306053

U.S. and Them: The Re-Enchantment of a Cold War Childhood

$17.95

In this memoir of growing up in the 1960s Cold War, Patricia Bjorklund narrates a girlhood filled with John Birch Society activism, racial tensions, concepts of sin and hell, and the ominous and omnipresent fears of nuclear apocalypse--and, conversely, the glowing redemptive powers of hope and happiness.

U.S. and Them
by Patricia Bjorklund
ISBN: 978-1943306022

Maria's Book

$15.95

A book forty-one years in the making, written between 1975 and 2016, Dave Oliphant's MarIa's Book presents what Douglas Flaherty has called "a delicately passionate record of an internationally conspired love affair. Oliphant's poems to his wife are valentines for the ages."

Maria's Book
by Dave Oliphant
ISBN: 978-1943306015

For Mr. Raindrinker

$17.95

Meet Kent Soileau, a young man from a Cajun-speaking New Orleans family. Kent lives an upside-down life as a professional job-hopper and as an inmate of a nut house. He has assembled an impressive resume of diverse and comical experiences, from being a driver for Mississippi River-boat pilots, to a French Quarter bartender, to a genetics research associate. Kent is a true searcher, whether searching for food, a place to stay, happiness— or the meaning of life. Thanks to his friendship with the indomitable Mr. Raindrinker, Kent’s life takes some amazing but good turns. Not since John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces have readers been taken on such a big and easy ride through America’s greatest city.

For Mr. Raindrinker
by Ken Fontenot
ISBN: 978-0990863274

ABWW14

$15.95

An anthology of poetry and prose by the award-winning instructors and participants of the 2014 Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop, which met in Seadrift, Texas. Writers include Lee Meitzen Grue, Lowell Mick White, Kathryn Lane, and Diane Wilson.

ABWW14
Edited by Lowell Mick White
ISBN: 978-0990863267

Blood at the Root

$18.95

Blood at the Root is a quirky novel set in southern Louisiana, a fly-on-thewall look at an aspect of New Orleans culture that borders magic, imagination, sex, and the sisterly bonds that stretch beyond death. If Blood at the Root feels authentic, that is because Lee Grue is a true authority on New Orleans, having been steeped in the pungent atmosphere of the city for most of her life. Lee Grue writes what she knows: a festinating tale betwixt Camilla Jane, High John the Conqueror, and Creeping Jesus.

Blood at the Root
by Lee Meitzen Grue
ISBN: 978-0990863236

ART STRONGER THAN HATE! (hardcover)

$39.95

In Issa Nyaphaga's new book, Art Stronger Than Hate!, the social justice advocate and former artist for the French magazine Charlie Hebdo offers a visual commentary on our current political, social, and economic world, arguing for Free Speech rather than Hate Speech. Art Stronger Than Hate! is evidence that art can save lives and inspire the human spirit.

Art Stronger Than Hate!
by Issa Nyaphaga
hardcover
ISBN: 978-0990863250

ART STRONGER THAN HATE! (Paperback)

$29.95

In Issa Nyaphaga's new book, Art Stronger Than Hate!, the social justice advocate and former artist for the French magazine Charlie Hebdo offers a visual commentary on our current political, social, and economic world, arguing for Free Speech rather than Hate Speech. Art Stronger Than Hate! is evidence that art can save lives and inspire the human spirit.

Art Stronger Than Hate!
by Issa Nyaphaga
paperback
ISBN: 978-0990863243

Like That: New and Selected Poems

$14.95

In this collection of poetry, Sybil Pittman Estess takes readers on an intensely personal journey, a deep exploration of life in contemporary America. "These are poems of witness," says 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Larry Thomas. "...of witness to a life fully lived, of witness to birth, friendship, death, and the unforgiving pain of loss; and of witness to a world rife with the wounds of global warming, the violence of guns, yet a world still teeming with transient beauty."

Like That: New and Selected Poems
by Sybil Pittman Estess
ISBN: 978-0990863229

The Cowtown Circle

$15.95

Dave Oliphant's thirteenth book of poetry, The Cowtown Circle, is divided into six sections, moving from an eclectic gathering of poems devoted to nature, topical issues, and the imprisonment of captured WWII German soldiers in Hearne, Texas, to a section of María Poems (a series begun in 1976) and to sections on grandchildren and a visit to New York City, on music (classical, jazz, and Indian), on U.S. Presidents, and on a group of modernist Texas artists active during the Second World War.

The Cowtown Circle
by Dave Oliphant
ISBN: 978-0990863212

Janie's Garden

$12.95

Meeting to discuss their work in a beautiful, quiet, bayside garden in Seadrift, Texas, the instructors and participants of the 2014 Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop resolved to write poems about their experiences. This anthology is the result, featuring an Introduction by Diane Wilson and work by Dorothy Barnett, Linda Caplin, Linda Dane, Graciela Fleming, Lee Meitzen Grue, Gina Harlow, Julie J. Johnson-Jones, Diane Kramer, Kathryn Lane, Barbara Williams Lewis, Bob Lindsey, Jay Minton, Aubrey Parker, Sophie Rousmaniere, Janie Waghorne, Hazel Ward, and Lowell Mick White.

Janie's Garden
Introduction by Diane Wilson
Edited by Lowell Mick White
ISBN: 978-0990863205

ABWW13

$14.95

Poetry, fiction, and memoir from the participants and instructors of Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop, Austin 2013. Featuring work by Rebecca Byrd Bretz Arthur, Linda Caplin, Lee Edwards, Grace Fleming, Ken Fontenot, Lori Spence Galloway, Lee Meitzen Grue, Larry Heinemann, Diane Kramer, Kathryn Lane, Barbara Lewis, Kathryn Millan, Stephanie Moore, Daniel Peña, Tomás Salas, Reji Thomas, Javier VanWisse, Claudia Voyles, Hazel Ward, Lowell Mick White, Diane Wilson

ABWW13
Edited by Lowell Mick White
ISBN: 978-0615950570