Deerbrook Editions publishes deserving authors and artists in the New England region. Google Deerbrook Editions to learn more.

Deerbrook Editions honors authors with full length books who have published in reviews and journals and have been recognized by an award or contest. Most of our authors are or have been actively enriching the community by teaching writing or working in arts and humanities.

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Cumberland, Maine 04021

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Welcome to the publication list of Deerbrook Editions.

Individuals: To order titles please send us a check for the price of the book plus shipping and handlingcharges listed with the book on the order form. We try to keep the order form up to date with new shipping prices, but basically the amount we need is the price of the book, 5 per cent tax if applicable, and MEDIA MAIL shipping, which now is $2.23 for up to one pound. Most single orders are less than a pound except perhaps for the hard cover book, Marlowe the Great Detective, a full color children's book.

Please note that US Priority and Express mail rates are up and all ratees will be going up in May 2009.

All books shipped via media mail unless instructed and paid to do otherwise, thank you.

For more information please call: phone & FAX :207-829-5038. Please feel free to call and leave an order with the title and your shipping information and we will send the book with an invoice.

Titles are also available at www.amazon.com . Now direct links are provided below. If amazon says a book is unavailable, order it anyway. The only title that is currently suspended is House of Thanksgiving.

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Deerbrook Editions, PO Box 542, Cumberland, Maine 04021-0542

Bookstores: Please mail, call or FAX a PO# to us and we will ship titles via Media Mail with an invoice at a standard discount of 40%.

Titles are also listed with Books In Print and Title Source.

See our listing online with Small Press Distribution at www.spdbooks.org. Search by title or advanced search putting in our name for publisher and all titles will come up.

Our books are now distributed by Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh Street, Berkeley, CA 94710=1409; Ph. 510.524.1668; 800.869.7553; E-mail: orders@spdbooks.org

Notable News: Dawn Potter, our poet from Harmony, Maine, author of Boy Land & Other Poems, has received a poetry fellowship from the Elizabeth George Foundation of Langley, Washington, a private foundation that supports writers.

PRINTABLE ORDER FORM

Poetry 2009

Hyacinth for the Soul

Poems by Joan I. Siegel

ISBN: 978-0-9712488-9-2

6 x 9, 87pages

price $16.95

Joan I. Siegel is recipient of the 1999 New Letters Poetry Prize and the 1998 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award. Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY/Orange.

read endorsements and a Mary Makofske review on our blog

review in Chronogram

from Makofske review

. . . the title poem of the book, weaves a mysterious saying from her mother ("Bake two loaves of bread. Give one away and plant a hyacinth for the soul.") with questions about family photographs and her love of the natural world. There is no answer to the poet's questions, and the pattern of repetitions in the poem mirrors the cycling of memory, time, and artistic creation:

I sit out the bruised hours wondering / who are the faces in the photographs / until words rise through the dead leaves. / Flower. / I kneel in the dirt, plant hyacinths for my mother.

Who are the faces in the photographs? / I never understood and she did not explain. / so I kneel in the dirt, plant hyacinths for my mother, / bake two loaves of bread as she used to say.

2009 Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry

The Last Island

Deerbrook Editions 2008

Poems by Mimi White

ISBN: 978-0-9712488-8-5

6 x 9, 82 pages

price $14.00

cover photo by Sharon Beals

Christian Science Monitor review

also reviewed in Small Press Review July ÐAugust, Vol. 40 N0s. 7-8 Issue

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Author Candice Stover at the 2008   Maine Literary Festival

Poems from the Pond

by Candice Stover

ISBN: 0-9712488-7-7

6 x 9, 45 pages

$10.50 includes shipping

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Candice Stover is a native of Maine who has traveled and taught widely, including two years in Shanghai, China and workshops in New Zealand. A former reporter for The Boston Globe, she is the author of two poetry collections, Holding Patterns (Muse Press), selected by Mary Oliver for a Maine Chapbook Award, and Another Stopping Place (Oyster River Press), as well as appearing in the anthology, The Other Side of Sorrow: Poets Speak Out about Conflict, War, and Peace, and a variety of journals and magazines. She lives on Mount Desert Island, where she teaches at College of the Atlantic, designs and facilitates independent writing workshops, and swims in or bicycles by or walks to Somes Pond almost every day.

 

 

Prayers & Run-on Sentences

poems by Stuart Kestenbaum

ISBN: 0-9712488-6-9

6 x 9, 72 pages

price $14.00

$16.85 includes shipping and handling

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Stuart's first book

September, 2008 American Life in Poetry: Column 181 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006

"Stuart Kestenbaum, the author of this week's poem, lost his brother Howard in the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. We thought it appropriate to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, by sharing this poem. The poet is the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine."   http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/current.html

In Praise of Prayers & Run-on Sentences, from the back cover--

Stuart Kestenbaum writes the kind of poems I love to read, heartfelt responses to the privilege of having been given a life. No hidden agendas here, no theories to espouse, nothing but life, pure life, set down with craft and love. ÑTed Kooser

Stuart Kestenbaum is a poet of immense fluency, elegance, and deep humanity. I bow to his work. ÑNaomi Shihab Nye

From this book the poem Psalm was read on Writers Almanac on August 30, 2007.

Find it here.

 

Carl's book has a nice Idian miniature on the cover.

 

Ocean Drinker

New & Selected Poems

by Carl little

ISBN: 0-9712488-5-0

6 x 9, 102 pages

price $14.00

$16.85 includes shipping & handling

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Marlowe was a real cat.

 

Marlowe the Great Detective

by Katharine Whild

ISBN:0-9712488-4-2

11.25 x 7.25 hard cover children's book

color illustrated

price $16.95

$19.95 including shipping & handling

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Dawn Potter is an editor and teacher.

Boy Land

& Other Poems

by Dawn Potter

ISBN: 0-9712488-3-4

68 pages

price $12.00

$14.55 including shipping & handling

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This book won the Jane Keyon Award for Outstanding Poetry.

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2003 Jane Kenyon Award

for

Outstanding Book of Poetry

The Unexpected Aviary

by L.R. Berger

ISBN: 0-9712488-2-6

96 pages

price $14.00

$16.85 including shipping

http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/FIELD/70.htm

House of Thanksgiving

by Stuart Kestenbaum

76 pages

ISBN: 0-9712488-1-8

price $12.00

$14.55 with shipping

 

Martin Steingesser is a performer and teacher throughout Maine.

Brothers of Morning

by Martin Steingesser

73 pages

ISBN: 0-9712488-0-X

price $12.00

$14.55 with shipping

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