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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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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. Please send orders directly using the printable order form to: 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.
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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.
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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
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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 order this book from Amazon 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. |
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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 order this book from Amazon |
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.
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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 order this book from amazon |
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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 order this book from amazon |
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& Other Poems by Dawn Potter ISBN: 0-9712488-3-4 68 pages price $12.00 $14.55 including shipping & handling order this book from amazon |
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order this book from amazon 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 |
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House of Thanksgiving by Stuart Kestenbaum 76 pages ISBN: 0-9712488-1-8 price $12.00 $14.55 with shipping
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Brothers of Morning by Martin Steingesser 73 pages ISBN: 0-9712488-0-X price $12.00 $14.55 with shipping order this book from amazon |
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