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3 reviews
Dorianne Laux

Eastern Washington University Press, 2007

If you like Sharon Olds, you'll love Dorianne Laux
If Emily Dickinson were to read Laux's poems, she would know she was in the presence of poetry. These poems resonate with emotional content and sound. If you like Sharon Olds, you'll adore Dorianne Laux.

This Dirty Little Heart

2 reviews
B. T. Shaw

Eastern Washington University Press, 2008

"This Dirty Little Heart" is award winning, and rightfully so
The debut anthology of poetry from The Oregonian Editor B.T. Shaw and what a debut it is. "This Dirty Little Heart" is award winning, and rightfully so, as it's unlike much poetry readers will find elsewhere in the genre - a flowing, stream of conscious narrative, quirky, yet unique and vivid in its words and imagery that it so provokes from its readers. "This Dirty Little Heart" is a must have ...

Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression

1 review

Eastern Washington University Press, 2008

An anthology of free-verse poetry
Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-Depression is an anthology of free-verse poetry collected from eighty contemporary poets who have been affected in some way by manic-depression, also known as bipolar disorder, a devastating condition known for its swings between extreme emotional highs and lows. An acutely vivid and unforgettable glimpse into the difficult world all ...

The Shapes of Our Singing: A Guide to the Metres and Set Forms of Verse from Around the World
Robin Skelton

Eastern Washington University Press, 2002

The Shapes of Our Singing presents all the major and most of the minor verse forms from the poetic traditions of the entire world. Robin Skelton gives a synopsis and list of rules for each form, and brings each form to life with an original poem, making this not only an invaluable resource but a moving testament to the poetic impulse. Featuring over 300 verse forms, The Shapes of Our Singing is Robin Skelton's magnum opus, the culmination of ...

Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents (Aesop Prize (Awards))

7 reviews
Sarah Conover, Freda Crane

Eastern Washington University Press, 2004

Long Overdue!
All I can say is that "It's about time!" We have been taking a nice, slow pace with this book (my husband, me, and our 3 young sons) and I have come to look forward to bedtime in a way that I never have before. It's wonderful to finally come across a book about Islam that isn't political, isn't out to preach and convert, isn't about gender issues. All faiths have wisdom and gentleness within ...

Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents (The Little Light of Mine Series)

13 reviews
Sarah Conover

Eastern Washington University Press, 2001

Kindness goes a long way
First I used this book with my children as we learned about different religions and spiritual views. As they got older we visited it again because these Buddhist stories are applicable to so many situations in life regardless of your views on God, theist, or atheist. Now as a religious education teacher of younger people at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship I use this book extensively when ...

Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies: Poems

1 review
Jim Daniels

Eastern Washington University Press, 2007

A Poet of Our Times
Jim Daniels never disappoints as a poet and this latest book is no exception. For years I have followed (and collected) everything of Mr. Daniels I could get my hands on . . . to say he is a blue collar poet or a poet of the people is an oversimplification of this poet's real gifts . . . he writes poems that are true and generous, and when he is on a roll, I would dare say he writes ...

The High Heart (Lynx House Book)

2 reviews
Joseph Bathanti

Eastern Washington University Press, 2007

pitch perfect
Joseph Bathanti fiction has a similarity to his poetry: pitch perfect. The characters in this wonderful book seem incredibly real, as only people existing in words and confined to the page can be. They resonate in our heart and from our own experiences. I love his wonderful book of poems, "This Metal." At moments, both this book and his poetry allow us to transcend. If you want to read an ...

The Deer on a Bicycle: Excursions into the Writing of Humor

7 reviews
Patrick F. McManus

Eastern Washington University Press, 2000

A Humor Tool
For those of us who write and want to inject a bit of humor in our writing, Patrick McManus has given us an invaluable tool with this book. It's not only instructive and reflective on what makes humor humorous, it's also a funny book in itself. It probably helps that I love to read McManus's wild stories and find them hilarious. But he's a good enough story teller that anyone will find him a ...

Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets

2 reviews
Barbara Brock

Eastern Washington University Press, 2007

A one-of-a-kind look at a draconian yet effective antidote
Written by recreation management professor Barbara Brock, Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets is a thoughtful analysis and outgrowth of the author's landmark study of hundreds of TV-free families. Living Outside the Box does not focus upon what is wrong with too much TV, but rather the positive benefits of entirely eliminating TV from one's daily life. Chapters offer ...

Fortune: Poems
Joseph Millar

Eastern Washington University Press, 2007

Only someone who has a deep capacity to love and enjoy the music of life could have written these wonderful, troubling poems. There's a tenderness at the core of Fortune, where the commonplace becomes atypical and fantastical,a nd eazch poem possesses a voice that summons and reveals. Joseph Millar is a poet we can believe.?Yusuf Komunyakaa, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for poetry "If you want the real news of how America lives, of what ...

The Urge To Travel Long Distances: Poems

1 review
Robert Bly

Eastern Washington University Press, 2005

A moody and reverentially respectful soliloquy about the splendor of the wild
The Urge To Travel Long Distances is a brief collection of free-verse poems by award-winning author and poet Robert Bly, about observing the shifts of nature and the seasons. A moody and reverentially respectful soliloquy about the splendor of the wild, The Urge To Travel Long Distances is easy to read through quickly yet deserves to be slowly savored. Gnats: This cloud of gnats resembles / Ghost ...

The Words of Bernfrieda: A Chronicle of Hauteville : The Chronicle of the Life of Fredesenda Wife Oftancred ...

5 reviews
Gabriella Brooke

Eastern Washington University Press, 1999

A woman tells the tale--finally!
Gabriella Brooke has masterfully illuminated the life of medieval women. The novel is narrated by Bernfrieda, a woman lucky enough and intelligent enough to learn the skill of writing from a friendly monk. Bernfrieda uses her talent to chronicle the life of her half-sister and mistress Fredesenda. Bernfrieda struggles to accept her servitude to her beloved half-sister, who is tormented by two ...

Sleepwalk: California Dreamin' and a Last Dance with the '60s

1 review
Christopher Buckley

Eastern Washington University Press, 2006

A 'must' for any interested in California culture.
The California memoir SLEEPWALK: CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' AND A LAST DANCE WITH THE '60S provides essays which cover growing up in California during the late 50s and early 60s, written by an observer who comments on California catholic schools, fashion, politics and more. His memories follow his California life and blend cultural and social observation with autobiography in chapters that recreate ...

Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat: The Hmong and America's Secret War in Laos

6 reviews
Keith Quincy

Eastern Washington University Press, 2000

Hmong History best be presented by Hmong Intellecuals !
I rate this book a five stars. One for Quincy's interest in Hmong by putting out his time and effort, two for another volume added to the Hmong Historical Record, yet still just another presentation through an outsider point of perspective. And the last three I reserved for my Hmong intellectual brothers and sisters to take up the book and begin analyzing the fact that No one, no matter how ...

My Piece of the Puzzle (Lynx House Book)

1 review
Doren Robbins

Eastern Washington University Press, 2008

Filled with simple yet delicate observations of the world around us
Highly experienced and prolific poet Doren Robbins presents his sixth full length volume of poetry in "My Piece of the Puzzle". Filled with simple yet delicate observations of the world around us, and touching on the various eccentricities of human nature be they mean, idiotic, or magnificent, Robbins' poetry is sure to move readers in one way or another. "My Piece of the Puzzle" is a top pick ...

Beyond Popcorn: A Critic's Guide to Looking at Films

5 reviews
Robert Glatzer

Eastern Washington University Press, 2001

See movies more sharply
This book was just what I needed. I love to watch movies, and I know what I like, but I never really knew why I liked them. It is the perfect book for someone like me who has never studied film but would like to know more. It covers how movies are made, the roles of all the folks involved, and what separates good writing, directing, or acting from the bad. Also his "all time best" lists, ...

Overtime

2 reviews
Joseph Millar

Eastern Washington University Press, 2001

Overtime is a hit
This book opened my eyes to the secret life of men. Camille Paglia, Philip Levine, Richard Hugo and Larry Levis would love this book. If you've ever worked, raised a child, been married or divorced, had a desperate love affair, drank too much, tried too hard, missed your father or read Keats out loud to the salt marches, this is the book for you. A great accomplishment by a wonderful new poet.

Hmong: History of a People

7 reviews
Keith Quincy

Eastern Washington University Press, 1997

An Excellent Book
Mr. Quincy did an excellent job on putting this book together. I have not yet read a book by anyone who would have gone as far back as Mr. Quincy did with this book. As a little Hmong girl growing up, I have always been curious of where Hmong people really existed from. My father tried his best to educate me on who we- the Hmong people were. Many of what he taught me seemed to be unreal, until ...

At Work in Life's Garden: Writers on the Spiritual Adventure of Parenting (Little Light of Mine Series)

1 review

Eastern Washington University Press, 2005

Inspirational and touching for any parent
There are many books on parenting, but none that I think captures so well the joy and pain, the challenge and reward of being a parent in the modern age. I am the parent of an adult son, and At Work in Life's Garden carried me back into the emotional roller-coaster of pregnancy; the sweet learning to engage with a newborn; the years when dependence and rebellion collided head-on; and the deep ...

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