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Vintage Chapbooks
1988 - 2001
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The Eyes of a Vertical Cut
Ronald Wardall 2001 (CB-14)
What Wardall does so well is to restore the past of his childhood and of a time and place in America. —Jason Shinder
Dancing with the
One-Armed Man
Alison Pelegrin 1999 (CB-12)
"A celebration of place—New Orleans and environs—as the vivid voices of its people. Like a full-bodied wine, it offers subtlety, satisfaction, and a dizzying delight." —Enid Shomer
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Gravel
Leslie Ann Mcilroy 1997 (CB-10)
A fiery collection of deeply personal yet wonderfully accessible poems woven through themes of love, loss, friendship, and the awkward, intractable moments of everyday life.
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Hubba Hubba
Katharine Harer 1995 (CB-8)
"There's a magical tenderness, a sly wit, a bebop jauntiness to every poem in this marvelous book." —onthebus
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Shock Treatment
Kurt Nimmo 1993 (CB-6)
A testament to the decaying American dream. Seething with the hopelessness and bitterness of a marginal existence one paycheck away from poverty. Nimmo has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes for his fiction.
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The Color of Poison
Serena Fusek 1991 (CB-4)
"Fusek is great at drawing out personal images of some of the more camouflaged people in the world." —Factsheet Five
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The Fatboy with No Imagination
From Down the Block
Richard Amidon 1989 (CB-2)
A poignant and playful romp through life's seasons, from the lusty optimism of adolescence to the crash and burn of a marriage gone awry.
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Breaking the Captive's Fetters
Laurie Mazzaferro 2000 (CB-13)
Laurie Mazzaferro's poetry strikes an emotional chord that will resonate through you—heart, soul, and bones.
Longing Fervently for Revolution
Renny Christopher 1998 (CB-11)
"Renny Christopher's poems allow working-class people to feel visible and respected in a genre that usually ignores or objectifies them."
—Carolyn Whitson
The Nietzche Itinerary
Matt Buys 1996 (CB-9)
An account of Buys' three-year trek as a reporter in Latin America when he survived by living in two-dollar rooms and eating one-cent bananas. "He pulls no punches and is a story teller of great regard." —Semi-Dwarf Review
The Insomniacs
David Chorlton 1994 (CB-7)
"This is poetry wondrously intelligent and spectacularly descriptive, drenched with color." —Dusty Dog
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I Would Steal Horses
Sherman Alexie 1992 (CB-5)
The very first poetry chapbook by Sherman Alexie, whom Adrian Lewis called "the brightest star in the younger constellation of American Indian poets."
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The Trial of Mary McCormick
Robert Cooperman 1990 (CB-3)
A powerful sequence of poems which chronicle the life of a young girl caught up in a passion play of lost faith, temptation, and betrayal.
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A Constituency of Dunces
Gerald Locklin 1988 (CB-1)
Locklin's debut publication for Slipstream and Winner of our very first poetry chapbook competition. A witty and wry collection of poems from which Locklin drew heavily when performing live.