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Poetry

 Our goal is to minimize confusion while maximizing the wattage of common and uncommon words and phrases, affections, and connections.  For verbal delight mixed with both common and uncommon insight, you've come to the right place.  


CArl Nelson

The author is awfully tall (6' 8") to fit in such small books.  But he folds his notions well and writes humbly.

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A Poet's Past Lives by Carl Nelson

Shoving My Way Into the Conversation by Carl Nelson

Shoving My Way Into the Conversation by Carl Nelson

poetry, fun with words, fanciful poetry, ruminations

 This first book of poems by Carl Nelson delights in verbal play, rumination, assonance and dissonance, silliness and sadness, the comedy/drama of the small event, the inspired flight of thought, and topics of all sorts from Dumbo to Oscar Wilde.  What's a book for if not a place to fly poems like paper airplanes.  

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Shoving My Way Into the Conversation by Carl Nelson

Shoving My Way Into the Conversation by Carl Nelson

Shoving My Way Into the Conversation by Carl Nelson

poetry, polemics, philosophy, ruminations, memoir

 Poems that push the contrary.  Poems that vent.  Poems that stick their tongue out and don't wash their hands.  Poems that are critical.  Poems that eulogize Bukowski. Poems that embrace unpopular topics and thoughts.  Poems that embrace religion and bourgeoisie life and still enjoy small birds, kids, and dogs. 

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I'm Forgetting Things in My Dreams by Carl Nelson

Shoving My Way Into the Conversation by Carl Nelson

I'm Forgetting Things in My Dreams by Carl Nelson

ruminations, poetry, small-town life,  aging

 Poems taken from a current life of moseying around a small Ohio river town.​ 

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Nellie Hufford

My grandma read me poetry from an old 1800 poetry book by Longfellow.  She had the book forever.  She almost lost it in the 1913 flood but found it in the mud outside her house when the river went down. 

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Proof of My Existence by Nellie Hufford

Proof of My Existence by Nellie Hufford

Proof of My Existence by Nellie Hufford

Appalachia, memoir, poetry, tragedy

 The poetry of a woman's life lived in rural Appalachia on the Ohio River. Deftly written characters and piquant stories will engage you. 

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take the next step by Nellie hufford

Proof of My Existence by Nellie Hufford

Proof of My Existence by Nellie Hufford

Appalachia, memoir, river town, poetry, women,

I met my friend when we were nine and in the third grade.

When anyone talked to her she hung her head

and chewed her long stringy hair.

We had a couple of things in common, so she talked to me.

Our dads and grandfathers were friends.

Both of our grandfathers also committed suicide a few days apart.

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Christopher Friend

Grotesque spirits talk to Christopher with encompassing metaphors in short utterances.

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Crossroads: the Poems, Writing and Drawings of Christopher Friend

spiritual, dark sources, hallowed spirits,

 Christopher Friend gives us a bejeweled accounting of the spiritual presences inhabiting his West Virginia, in drawings, poems, and essay form.  Odd word pairings, curious accounts, and strange images will challenge the reader. 

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