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Flight Risk & Other Poems
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Six-time Pushcart Prize nominee Carla Martin-Wood wrote this collection in memory of her best friend in college. Barbara was... More > a paraplegic, the result of childhood polio. Like the bee, which shouldn't be able to get off the ground, yet flies anyway, Barbara rose above her challenges, helping others to do so as well. < Less
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Vintage
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Uncork a heady vintage of all things autumnal in this intoxicating anthology of poems from prize-winning poets. Bottled for... More > your pleasure by Fortunate Childe Publications. < Less
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Tipping the Sacred Cow
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So this is what happens when prize-winning poets get together to write about the classics. They turn myths topsy-turvy,... More > rewrite hallowed text, speak in defense of characters previously maligned. One poet admits to a crush on the devil, while another exonerates the Wicked Witch of the West. You’ll meet a wildly bawdy Goldilocks and feel a bit of a chill when you come face-to-face with the serpent in Eden. These poems are a mélange of the zany, irreverent, mildly shocking, serious, and scholarly. Whether you love the classics or you hate them – you’re bound to enjoy this book. < Less
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Lavender Song
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Reading these poems is like handling some lovely hand-made, carefully-wrought artefact from an age when craftsmanship and... More > elegance still remained sovereign virtues. Karen Kelsay eschews cheap gimcrack-trendy modernisms and postmodernisms, and instead evokes a more organically traditional aesthetic and praxis. It is refreshing to read poetry that, far from urgently straining for effect and ersatz novelty, quietly and touchingly speaks to more durable human virtues. Yet within this exquisitely traditional poetic vision, Ms. Kelsay addresses concerns that are as relevant today as they ever were, and she does this from her own unique perspective, and in her own authentic voice. This is poetry that enriches the reader: and thank goodness such poetry is still being written! — Paul Christian Stevens, Editor, The Chimaera Literary Miscellany and The Flea Broadsheets < Less
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Tipping the Sacred Cow
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So this is what happens when prize-winning poets get together to write about the classics. They turn myths topsy-turvy,... More > rewrite hallowed text, speak in defense of characters previously maligned. One poet admits to a crush on the devil, while another exonerates the Wicked Witch of the West. You’ll meet a wildly bawdy Goldilocks and feel a bit of a chill when you come face-to-face with the serpent in Eden. These poems are a mélange of the zany, irreverent, mildly shocking, serious, and scholarly. Whether you love the classics or you hate them – you’re bound to enjoy this book. < Less
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The Last Magick and other poems
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This collection of poems by four-time Pushcart Prize nominee Carla Martin-Wood includes the title poem from her earlier... More > chapbook, The Last Magick, as well as newer work. Perhaps, the only real magic is found within ourselves, in our ability to rise above loss and adversity, to reshape our lives with every new morning, to extend love and forgiveness to our fellow humans – and possibly, even to God. And if so, that is the last Magick – the one that will guide us home. < Less
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Songs from the Web, encore
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In 1986, Songs from the Web was first published by a struggling independent publisher, Bitter Wine Press, with a limited... More > printing of only 100 copies. It was Carla Martin-Wood’s first chapbook. Shortly after its debut, which resulted in a complete sellout, a tape of her reading of womanpoem reached the attention of the English department at the illustrious University of the South at Sewanee. The poet was invited to read for their homecoming. The Sewanee reading led to performances at other colleges and universities, for charitable, civic, and women’s political groups, and to Greenwich Village, where the poet was asked to lend the title of her book to a series of readings by several poets. Fortunate Childe Publications is pleased to present selected poems from the original Songs from the Web, accompanied by some of the poet’s more recent and previously unpublished work. < Less
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One flew east
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Known for her lyrical poetry, three-time Pushcart Prize nominee Carla Martin-Wood ventures into new territory with this... More > stark, dramatic, and sometimes, brutal collection of poems about growing up in a dysfunctional family and surviving an abusive childhood. Compassionate in its search for the motivations behind the women in the book, the poet pulls no punches in her condemnation of her abusers. This book has received accolades from mental health professionals and poets alike. < Less
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How we are loved
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With cadenced language that alternately screams, murmurs and sings, Carla Martin-Wood has shaped a most remarkable cosmos.... More > Therein, we are not only asked to confront the darkest aspects of ourselves, but also to rejoice in the wider creation that she has set before us. It is impossible to encounter the Virgin Mary of Holy Night without a shiver of recognition. No one can come away from How We Are Loved or Praisepoem without marveling at the author’s insight. Her vision embraces every boon, broken hope, bright or shadowed being that leaps or flies or darts through water. Rose, thorn and lamb are given fresh meaning in unexpected context. Though startled, we still understand. -- Brenda Levy Tate, author of Cleansing (Rising Tide Press, 2005) and Beeline (Lopside Press, 2007) < Less
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How we are loved (Hardcover Edition)
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