Thursday, 23 November 2006

I thought this was a neat idea, elegantly and wittily compiled by Leonardo Likes Gulls [neat anagram]. She writes:
'Below is a shopping list to help you support your poetry community while also buying wonderful gifts for your friends and family this holiday season. Feel free to share the list with others as well.

Remember, you can use this list all year when you need ideas for birthdays, Valentine's Day, hostess gifts, etc.

In many cases, you can buy books directly from the publisher (which helps the press not have to share profits) or purchase directly from the poet (if you do this, you could ask about having your book inscribed). However you decide, thank you for supporting your poetry friends on Wompo.'
Give the gift of poetry to somebody... anybody!

[Um, yeah, I had to alter the spelling from favorite to favourite. I just could not leave it alone. Gah!]

Later: Added the code for your use and convenience.

Poetry Book Gift List


For All of You Who Fell in Love with Horses, or Dreamed of Doing So; and for the Lover of Rights-Both Animal and Human:
Horses and the Human Soul by Judith Barrington (Story Line Press, 2004) $15
Available from Powells.com, Amazon.com, or direct via http://www.judithbarrington.com


For Anyone Who's Visited Alaska or Wants To:
Blaze, sensual Alaskan poems by Peggy Shumaker and paintings by Kesler E. Woodward (Red Hen Press, 2005) Hardcover $39.95, paperback $29.95
Available at www.redhen.org. More titles available at www.peggyshumaker.com


For your favourite Art Lover:
Femme au chapeau, Rachel Dacus, David Robert Books, 2005 - $17.00
Available David Roberts Books or Amazon


For your favourite Bad Girl:
Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Steel Toe Books, 2006) $12
Available through Steel Toe Books, Amazon, or the author's website


For your favourite Bird Lover:
White Summer by Joelle Biele (Southern Illinois Univ. Press 2002) $15
Available at Southern Illinois Univ Press or Amazon


For your favourite Chameleon:
Shapeshifting by Celia Lisset Alvarez (Spire Press, 2006) $10
Available at http://spirepress.org/book.html.


For Creative Writing Teachers with an Experimental Bent, Collectors of Old Mimeos, or Lovers of Prose Poetry:
To Delite and Instruct (blue lion books, 2006), $19.26
Available only through café press. Be sure to search online for a café press coupon code before buying!


For your favourite Divorcee (or Sonneteer):
The Paragon by Kathrine Varnes (WordTech Editions 2005), $17
available through WordTech, Barnes & Noble or Amazon


For your favourite Domestic Goddess:
Famous by Kathleen Flenniken
Available through Univ of Nebraska Press, Amazon or your local bookstore


For your favourite DJ or any Midwesterner:
Diane Kendig's Greatest Hits by Diane Kendig (Pudding House, 2001). Chapbook, $8.95.
Available through the publisher at http://www.puddinghouse.com/ [...]
For a signed copy at no extra cost, contact the poet at diane @ dianekendig.com


For your favourite 8-12 Year-Old or K-8 Teacher, or Lover of Poetry for Children:
Spinning Through the Universe by Helen Frost (FSG, 2004)
Available through your local bookstore or Amazon (If you would like a signed bookplate, email me.)
For more information: contact via www.helenfrost.net


For your favourite Feminist and Pop Culture Critic:
Unbound & Bounded by Christine Stewart-Nunez (chapbook based on a series of artists responding to icon Kate Moss). Published by Finishing Line Press, 2006. Available at http://www.finishinglinepress.com


For your Favourite Female Who Has Been Challenged by Loss, Love, or Illness (specifically breast cancer):
Small Knots by Kelli Russell Agodon (Cherry Grove, 2004) $17
Available through Cherry Grove Press, Booksense, Amazon or signed/inscribed copies available at the author's website


For your favourite Food Lover or Regular Lover:
What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward (Wind Publications, October 2006) $15.00
Available at http://windpub.com/order.htm or Amazon.com


For your favourite Friend Obsessed with Hardness and Vulnerability:
Armor and Flesh by Mendi Lewis Obadike (Lotus Press, 2004) $12.00
Available at Amazon.com and lotuspress.org


For your Friend Who Maybe Likes a Sestina Now and Then:
Passing by Eloise Klein Healy (Red Hen Books, 2002) $11.95
Available at http://www.redhen.org/catalog.asp or Amazon


For your favourite Friend with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder):
Radiance by Barbara Crooker (Word Press, August, 2005) $17.00,
available at http://www.word-press.com/crooker.html or Amazon or Barnes&Noble.com


For your Favourite Funny Foodie:
Miracle Fruit by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Tupelo Press, 2003) $14
Available at Tupelo Press, your local bookseller and Amazon


For your favourite Global Traveler, or for your Favourite Armchair Traveler:
Cures Include Travel by Susan Rich (White Pine Press, 2006) $14
Available from http://www.susanrich.org. Susan will inscribe the book as you would like and also sign it.
Also available from www.amazon.com or http://www.elliottbaybook.com [...]


For your favourite Grown-Up:
Five Terraces by Ann Fisher-Wirth (Wind Publications, 2005), $14.
Available at Wind Publications and Amazon


For your favourite Healer, or Older Woman, or Anyone Grieving and For All Who Need Consolations in the Face of the Terror:
Duties of the Spirit, Patricia Fargnoli (Tupelo Press, 2005) $16.95
Available through Tupelo Press, your local independent bookseller, or Amazon.


For your favourite Homebody with a Checkered Past:
Laura Cherry's chapbook, What We Planted (Providence Athenaeum), $5.
Available through the Providence Athenaeum


For Anyone Who's Interested in How Poems Come into Being:
Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets (Parallel Press, 2006). $15 (Each of the 40 poets contributed a poem and a statement commenting on their experience writing the poem.)
Available through Parallel Press, $15 includes shipping and handling.


For your favourite Latina in Crisis:
The Stones by Celia Lisset Alvarez (Finishing Line Press, 2006) $14
Available at Finishing Line Press


For your favourite Literate Healthcare Provider:
A Form of Optimism by Roy Jacobstein (University Press of New England, October 2006) $15.95, available at 1-800-421-1561 or www.upne.com, or Amazon


For your favourite Lovelorn Friend or Relative:
Love is a Weed by Lana Hechtman Ayers (Finishing Line Press, October 2006, 29 pages) $12,
Available from Finishing Line Press or for a signed, personally inscribed copy with free shipping via PayPal, email author at moonlit.cloud @ yahoo.com.


For Anyone who Loves Language and Sees Life's Lessons as a Journey Toward Wholeness:
Light Made from Nothing, Susan Elbe (Parallel Press, 2003). $10
Available through Parallel Press, $10 includes shipping and handling.


For Magpies in Love with Shiny Gold Items and Love Poetry:
Locket by Catherine Daly (Tupelo Press, 2005), $16.95
Available through Tupelo Press, your local independent bookseller, or Amazon.


For your favourite Mathematicians and Pattern-seekers:
Rare Momentum by Athena Kildegaard (Red Dragonfly Press, 2006) $15.
Available through www.reddragonflypress.org, your favourite independent
bookstore, or Amazon.


For your favourite Neophyte Cosmic Gazer Obsessed with the Rhythm of Death, Sex, & Recklessness:
South of Here by Lydia Melvin (New Issues Press, 2005), $14.
http://www.wmich.edu/~newissue/


For your favourite New Mom/Mum:
Blue Positive by Martha Silano (Steel Toe Books, 2006) $12
Available at Steel Toe Books, your local bookstore or at Amazon.


For your favourite New Mother, Old Southerner, or Feminist Biblical Revisionist (and lover of heavy rains):
Garnet Lanterns, a chapbook by Sally Rosen Kindred (Anabiosis Press, 2006) $6.50
Available at: http://garnetlanterns.quietmoon.com/


For your favourite (Overworked) Woman with Mate and Children:
Kitchen Heat by Ava Leavell Haymon (LSU Press, Aug, 2006) $17.95
Available through LSU Press and Amazon


For your favourite Peace Activist:
Homefront, Patricia Monaghan (WordTech Communications, 2005) $17.00
Available From WordTech Communications or Amazon.


For your favourite Person Who Cares About Others and the Life of Our Planet:
Sight Lines, poems by Charlotte Mandel (Midmarch Arts Press, 1998) $12.50.
With photographs by artist Judy Siegel.
Available from Midmarch Arts Press, 300 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10025.



For Your favourite Person Obsessed with Death but Looking for Comfort Anyway,
Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006) $12
Available at Red Morning Press


For your favourite Philhellene:
On the Altar of Greece, winner of the 2005 Gival Press Poetry Award, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee (Gival Press, 2006) $15.00
Available through Gival Press (1.866.203.8926 + 7444; http://www.givalpress.com/) or Amazon.com (On the Altar of Greece)


For your favourite Poetry Lover: childhood/mother/marriage poems
Keep and Give Away (Winner of the SC Poetry Book Prize) by Susan Meyers (University of South Carolina Press, 2006), $14.95
Available through the University South Carolina Press, your local independent bookseller, or Amazon.
Press info for Susan Meyers: 800-768-2500


For your favourite Sister, Teenager, High School English teacher, Genealogist, Scots-Canadian, lover of historical (1850's) novels-in-poems:
The Braid by Helen Frost (FSG, 2006)
Available through your local bookstore or Amazon (If you would like a signed bookplate, email me.)
For more information: Contact via www.helenfrost.net


For your favourite Teenager, High School English teacher, or Lover of novels-in-poems (sestinas and sonnets):
Keesha's House by Helen Frost (FSG, 2003)
Available through your local bookstore or Amazon (If you would like a signed bookplate, email me.)
For more information: Contact via www.helenfrost.net


For your favourite Urban Contemplative:
Here from Away by Kate Bernadette Benedict (CustomWords, 2003) $16,
available from the publisher or Amazon.


For People You Don't Want To Give a Book of Poetry, But Do:
Whimsy Daybook, 2007 Maryrose Larkin (flash + card press, 2006)
[it is an actual day book, spiro bound, heavy stock, full color painting repros, calendar] with "poetic" (they were published as poetry) entries for everyday (ex., "Diffuse Radiance Week"), illustrated with paintings by Nita Hill
$12 directly from Maryrose Larkin, maryrose at gmail dot com.


For your favourite Person Grieving the Loss of a Parent:
Night In The Shape Of A Mirror, Lynne Knight (David Robert Books, 2006) - $17.00
Available at David Robert Books or Amazon


For your favourite Visual Artist or Ekphrasis Enthusiast:
Nude in Winter by Francine Sterle (Tupelo Press, 2006) $16.95
Available through Tupelo Press, your local independent bookseller, or amazon.com.


For Those Who Dare To Hope:
NorthSight by Lois Roma-Deeley (Singularity Press, 2006, cloth) $25.00
Available at http://www.singularitypress.biz/northsight.html or Amazon.com


For a Poetry Reader Who Knows Motherhood Is Way More Complex Than Greeting Cards Ever Suggest:
What if your mother by Judith Arcana (Chicory Blue Press, 2005) $15.00
Order from your local independent bookseller, Amazon.com, or direct from www.chicorybluepress.com.


For your favourite Wilderness Backpacker/Adventurous Woman/ or Buddhist:
The Strict Economy of Fire by Ava Leavell Haymon (LSU Press, Aug, 2004) $16
Available through LSU Press and Amazon


For your favourite Women's History Buff, Medievalist, or Lover of Saints:
The Love of Unreal Things by Christine Stewart-Nunez (chapbook based on the life of Catherine of Siena). Published by Finishing Line Press, 2005. Available on amazon.com


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