The Aeneid

BY VERGIL, TRANSLATED BY SARAH RUDEN
This extraordinary new translation of the "Aeneid" stands alone among modern Vergil translations for its accuracy and poetic appeal. Quaker poet, Sarah Ruden is the first woman to translate Vergil's great epic, and she renders the poem in the same number of lines as the original work--a very rare feat that maintains technical fidelity to the original without diminishing its emotional power. Ruden adheres closely to the poet's message. Her rendering of Vergil's words gives immediacy to his struggling faith that history has beauty and purpose in spite of its pain.

Yale Univ Press 2009 308 PP. Paper

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The Afterlife Of Trees

BY WYATT TOWNLEY
"The power and scope of The Afterlives of Trees shakes you to your very bones. There is some audaciously formidable poetry in this book." John Weisman. As reviweved in the March 2012 Friends Journal.

Woodley Press Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Anthologist

A Novel

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he's having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Quaker novelist and thinker Nicholson Baker's brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry. "Baker makes poetry seem as necessary as air, and his enthusiasm is likely to wake readers up to its marvelous possibilities" Margaret Quamme, The Columbus dispatch

S & S Paperbacks 2009 243 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Battlefield Without Borders

Iraq Poems

BY DAVID SMITH-FERRI
In July, 1999, David visited Iraq for the first time, as part of an eight-member fact-finding delegation organized by the Chicago-based group, Voices in the Wilderness. David wrote two thirds of these poems while in Iraq after encounters with Iraqi people, in a wide range of settings - from hospitals to homes to bomb sites. The book sold out in four months, and in November, 2007, Haley's published a second edition of the book, with twelve new poems and a new foreword by Kathy Kelly.

Haleys 2007 122 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Bicycles

Love Poems

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is a companion volume to Giovanni's love poems of 1997. Since then Giovanni has experienced losses both public and private. The death of her mother and sister, the massacre at Virginia Tech where she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love-what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love-and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart-is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.

Morrow 2009 109 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Bride Of E

Poems

BY MARY JO BANG
These new poems explore a contrast between high and low culture. She wrote each of them through the lens of an invented character, rather than through her own eyes and her own emotions. "I tend to reject the notion that poems should somehow reveal something about the poet's life", these poems are lighter and more humorous, with a less elegiac tone. .

Graywolf Press 2009 90 PP. Cloth

$22.00 (in stock)

Brief Candles

101 Clerihews

BY HENRY TAYLOR
With hilarious irreverence, Quaker Pulitzer Prize winning poet Henry Taylor takes on people usually taken overly seriously - members of the Supreme Court, poet's laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities and New Testament figures - demonstrating through 101 clerihews that one of the primary purposes of poetry is to have fun, even while holding a high standard of craftsmanship.

Louisiana State University Press 2000 51 PP. Paper

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The Children Of Herakles By Euripedes

TRANSLATED BY HENRY TAYLOR, ROBERT BROOKES
Translated by Quaker poet Henry Taylor this is a play about war and the effects of war within the state. Herakles, the legendary hero cursed from birth, was never permitted a triumphant homecoming. Here, his descendants continue the effort to return home, seeking asylum from the persecution of the king who had imposed on Herakles the famous twelve labors. While it pursues concepts of deep moral grandeur, it ends with a denouement of astonishing physical and ethical brutality, and affords Euripides a severe comment on what he believed was the decline of the Athenian character.

1981 83 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

Creature Conversations

True Stories From The Gulf Of Mexico And Beyond

BY SHARON FITZPATRICK
Slightly psychic and intensely dedicated to peace and environmental activism, the author shares true exchanges with ants, birds, spiders, dogs and even a few humans. Mostly set in 2008, these occurrences exemplify the subtle connections among all beings, including our perceptions of the place held in common.

SF 2011 156 PP. Paper

$6.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Crooked Run

Poems

BY HENRY TAYLOR
Henry Taylor is a Quaker poet, the fifth generation clerk of Goose Creek Meeting who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book A Flying Change. In Crooked Run his poems focus on a sense of place. In the midst of suburban deveopment, he looks back at the earlier people and places with sadness, humor, and a profound sense of loss.

Louisiana State University Press 2006 62 PP. Paper

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Don't Turn Away

Poems In Search Of Spirituality

BY JIM TEETERS
"Teeters poems point to the way our lives flutter between the extremes of many continuums" from the review in Friends Journal.

Create Space 2011 86 PP Paper

$18.50 (in stock)

Edge By Edge

BY GLADYS JUSTIN-CARR, HEIDI HART, EMMA BOLDEN, VIVIAN TETER
A collection of four smaller books by accomplished women poets, including Friend Heidi Hart. Heidi Hart's poems, full of music, are a quiet testament to her mature perspective of those middle places where "each of us holds light, but none / is spared some of the darkness." "Edge by Edge sets four very active and impassioned voices in motion, and it asks us to let those voices pass through us as they travel toward each other." - David Rivard, from the foreword.

Toadlily Press 2007 67 PP. Paper

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Elegy

BY MARY JO BANG
64 poems elegies written after the death of her 37 year old son from an accidental perscription drug overdose. Devastated, but still writing clearly and with great intelligence the poems have garnered great praise. She intended the poems to be a distraction from her sorrow; they offer no hope, no consolation and no solution. She wrote them for one year as a conversation with her son and then stopped.

Graywolf Press 2007 92 PP. Paper

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Evidence

BY MARY OLIVER
Evidence is a collection of forty-seven poems on all of Mary Oliver's classic themes. She writes perceptively about grief and mortality, love and nature, and the spiritual sustenance she draws from their gifts. Ever grateful for the bounty that is offered to us daily by the natural world, Oliver is attentive to the mysteries it imparts. The arresting beauty she finds in rivers and stones, willows and field corn, the mockingbird's "embellishments" or the last hours of darkness permeates her poems.

Beacon 2010 88 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Exploration In Art

Journey Of A Mother And Daughter

BY JUDITH AND ANNEKE BENDER
"Exploration in Art: The Journey of a Mother and Daughter" presents the artistic ventures of a mother and daughter. Judy Bender's beautiful watercolor/dyes paintings and Anneke Bender's poignant poetry move between independent expression and coming together in mood, subject, and world view.

Produccicones de La Hamaca 2011 69 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Findings

Poets And The Crisis Of Faith - Php 310

BY JOHN LAMPEN
Poems can help express mystical experience.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1993 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Flying Change

Poems

BY HENRY TAYLOR
Quaker poet Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry. Here he is immersing himself in the beauty of the Blue Ridge mountains, pleasures for which a real farmer has neither the time or inclination. An anti-modernist in pursuit of states of grace, Taylor revels in such things as a "frisbee floating like milkweed," women's hands and "the charming old songs in their illegible syllables." His affection for his region is faithful and unmixed, and produces sweet variety in his moderate pastoral.

Louisiana State University Press 1986 55 PP. Paper

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From Me To You

Love Poems

BY U.A. FANTHORPE AND ROSIE BAILEY
The respected English Quaker poet largely unknown in America and her partner Rosie Bailey write together, of love.

Enitharmon Press 2008 66 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

From Parsonage To Prison

Collected Poems

BY JANEAL TURNBULL RAVENDAL
Collected together for the first time are the selected poems of Janeal Turnbull Ravndal, who "is solidly Quaker: she sees the beauty and the power of the worship and the work. She also sees the warts. In felicitous words, rhymed or not, she tells us truth, sometimes using the sharpest of scalpels, sometimes merely gentle irony. She sees us clear." -- Margaret Lacey

Quaker Bridge Media 2012 138 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

The Gift

Poems By Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
With this stunning gift edition of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices.

Penguin 1999 352 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Growing Pains

Poems

BY ALAN BRICK
Alan Brick has led many popular workshops on writing for friends at the FGC gathering and at Pendle Hill. He has worked for AFSC and the FOR. This book is divided into seven sections of poems; about being young to growing old, reflecting on how life "is" as one grows, on people, on religion, on war, and on politics.

Xlibris 2007 146 PP. Paper

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Half Wild

Poems

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
This winner of the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets is a spiritual biography wound backwards, spiraling into the world rather than out of it. Here sacred inquiry is grounded in a passion for the natural world, resolving questions through lyric, erotic, and sensual responses from the Quaker author of Barn at the End of the World.

Louisiana State University Press 2006 62 PP. Paper

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The Horse Show At Midnight

And An Afternoon Of Pocket Billiards - Poems

BY HENRY TAYLOR
The poet is clerk of Goose Creek Meeting in Virginia, and, indeed the fifth in a direct line of descendants to hold that same post. This collection of 24 poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a coldly factual style which beneath the surface carries great passion. Some of the poems masterfully employ twists of irony; others utilize grotesque, yet real, characters and situations; others are nimble parodies. All of the poems, however, proclaim Taylor's sensitivity to the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech. All touch the unusual, the comic, the despairing, the hopeful.

Louisiana State University Press 2006 128 PP. Paper

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I Heard God Laughing

Poems Of Hope And Joy

BY HAFIZ, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
Hafiz captures the many forms and stages of love. His poetry outlines the stages of the mystic's path of love-a journey in which love dissolves personal boundaries and limitations to join larger processes of growth and transformation. With this collection, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and spiritual voices. If you haven't yet had the delight of dining with Daniel Ladinsky's sweet, playful renderings of the musings of the great saints, I Heard God Laughing is a perfect appetizer.

Penguin 2006 112 PP. Paper

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The Iliad

Or, The Poem Of Force - Php 91

BY SIMONE WEIL
Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

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Leading From Within

Poetry That Sustains The Courage To Lead

EDITED BY SAM INTRATOR, INTRODUCTION BY PARKER PALMER
A wonderful collection of poems from well-loved poets, with a brief personal commentary from a "leader" explaining its significance to them. The contributors include Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, MoveOn.org cofounder Joan Blades, Brian McLaren, and many other leaders. In their reflections, they explore how they have been inspired by poets such as T.S. Eliot, Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Rumi, May Sarton, Wallace Stevens, Wendell Berry, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Introduction by Parker Palmer. THE 2011 ONE BOOK ONE YEARLY MEETING CHOICE. 10% of regular price of $19.95

Jossey Bass 2007 288 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Letters To A Young Poet

BY RAINER MARIA RILKE, TRANSLATED BY M. D. HERTER NORTON
Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1903 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chonicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

W. W. Norton 2004 90 PP. Paper

$9.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Love Poems From God

Twelve Sacred Voices From The East And West

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
In this transcendent collection, Daniel Landinsky - best know for his gifted and best-selling translations of Sufi and Hafiz - brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Landinsky reveals his talent for creating inspiring, profound, and playful versions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi's joyous, ecstatice poems; St. Francis's loving observations of nature; Kabir's wild, freeing humor; St. Teresa's sensual verse - these and other writers considered to be "conduits of the divine" make up this rich and luminous collection.

Penguin 2002 380 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Many Miles

Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver

BY MARY OLIVER
This second CD from best-selling poet Mary Oliver contains thirty-seven previously published poems and four as yet uncollected, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry-from her classic nature writing, to her verses for her mischievous bichon Percy, to her ever-deepening spiritual poems. The CD comes in a handsome full-cloth package that includes a booklet with an introductory essay by the poet on the magical dynamic between speaker and listener, a table of contents, text of the title poem, and a photo of the poet.

Beacon Press 2010 AUDIO CD Audio

$19.95 (in stock)

Mysticpiece

Poetic Work

BY SHARON FITZPATRICK
Most of these short poems came to Sharon Fitzpatrick in worship with Sarasota Monthly Meeting. For example Knowledge:There is no Ledge from which to fall: What Yahweh knows, may overflow for all.

Sharon Fitzpatrick 2009 55 PP.. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)