This book is modeled on a book of Chinese and Japanese poems that I gave to a friend on the west coast. It was a very small book with a yellow cover, stapled together. No adornments. Just the poems, alive after hundreds of years. J.M.W.

New and selected poems make an excellent introduction to a fine American poet. Dixieland piano late at night in a pine woods ... an elderly woman's blue dress ... a postal clerk dispensing stamps, packaging, and devotion ... a ring and a prayer thrown into the River Ping ... a Thai lover on the back of a Honda 125 ... a man singing in a sidewalk machine shop ... an unexpected death ... The author's recent poems were written in Maine, Thailand, and Australia. They continue and extend the work in his three full length collections (each generously sampled here). The author uses clear words, usually beginning with a description, moving as he writes toward deeper understanding of the subject. "Every poem is a battle against style," he has said, "not to repeat yourself, to let the subject speak with its own voice." There is something for everyone in this book. The poems have a glow that strengthens on re-reading. A treat for poetry lovers.

Title: The Richmond Examiner during the war, or, The writings of John M. Daniel: with a memoir of his life.Author: John Moncure DanielPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00241100CollectionID: CTRG10166803-BPublicationDate: 18680101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 232 p.; 24 cm

This is the third full length collection by one of the finest contemporary American poets. The first poems were written in Panama; most of the book is set in Maine on Peaks Island. People get to know each other on a small island. The poems are intimate and vivid, conveying between the lines a positive and healing acceptance of reality. "Sans Fin" (without end, forever) is titled in honor of Alberto Giacometti and "Paris Sans Fin," lithographs of Paris scenes that Giacometti produced during 1957-62. The author says, "I work similarly, from the outside in, finding in the act of description, celebration and an opening without end."

Maine, Seattle, Hawaii, and India are the settings for these humorous and gallant stories of late awakenings, integrity, and persistence. "The line across her eyebrows and tapering along her jaw was right. He'd left out a lot, but that didn't matter. If what was there was true enough, you knew the rest--like a Michelangelo shoulder emerging from stone."

Joe Burke is handsome, capable, getting a little gray at the temples. Divorce has left him wondering what's next. He throws a few belongings in his truck and leaves town to find out, a search that takes him from Maine to Hawaii. A joyful, powerful, book about sex, love, art, and finding one's teachers.

Harry is well born, well educated, determined to outdo his father. Charley is a local hero, a natural athlete, good natured, and fiercely independent. They join forces in a drug buy and are busted on the Maine coast. Charley runs; Harry games the system, using his family's money and connections. Their struggle is inevitable and compelling.

A solitary man in a diner on the coast of Maine. A tall beautiful stranger. A whip. A bronze heart. Hawaii. The Northwest ... How far will he go to face the truth about himself? ... This is a story about borders: between sex and love, between life and death.

A story of first love and discovery in Woodstock, N.Y. during the early sixties. Patrick, an army brat, and Willow, a musician from a west coast academic family, drift separately into town and are attracted to each other in spite of their differences. It was an exciting time; America was bursting free. The cast of characters includes Bob Dylan and Joe Burke, of "Joe Burke's Last Stand," Wetterau's first novel. The writing is sunny and clear, believable from the first page. The author has written,"I'm not Joe Burke, but I was there."

Many years ago, my grandmother brought back from the Woodstock library, "Zen In The Art Of Archery" by Eugen Herrigel. Miraculously, a book written by a stranger defined the road I wanted to travel. These poems are recent stops along the way--mostly in Hawaii, Maine, and India. Each is an effort to see more clearly, to share a local truth, to realize the freedom that arises from understanding. JMW