Poet Ted Kooser’s refreshingly compact meditation on his youth in Eastern Iowa is an essential addition to the growing number of prose autobiographical works by established Midwestern poets (see Mary Swander’s The Desert Pilgrim and... Read More

Experts in the field of grief therapy believe that the loss of a child is the most difficult tragedy that a person can experience. It is not the way it is supposed to happen in the natural course of events that a mother mourn a child.... Read More

As the title advertises, this new book is not itself a poem but the footnotes to one that the author insists exists only as “a text that its unnamed author could only fractionally complete.” Since T. S. Eliot added his famous... Read More

Setting off on her journey with T.S. Eliot’s quote, “intolerable shirt of flame / Which human power cannot remove,” this author goes, and stays where the heat is hottest. Immediately, certain geographical coordinates are... Read More

In the first few days following the long-awaited arrival of her precious newborn, a new mother generally faces the stresses of a “labor-weary body, lack of sleep and raging hormones.” Since she cannot see how much milk her infant is... Read More

Using clear, simple language this book addresses the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorders). This book is organized step by step so that a young child with ADD will gain an understanding and maybe even a... Read More