Cats, Coffee, and Comfort
Lisa Stice is a military spouse that is at home with her love of family and poetry. Poetry is best when rendered with words sparingly. There is beauty evident in the thought process necessary to expose that which is necessary to convey meaning. Lisa Stice packs much into each word she writes, and shares what must be shared to bring us closer to her life experiences.
Middle West Press LLC. 2018. 86 pages.
There is deep magic in Cristel Orrand’s Heartwood. The book is broken into two parts. Poetry and Prose. The prose is fiction that reads like memoir. It makes me want to sit down with Cristel, drink coffee, and hear more. Her poetry makes me listen because she understands both the nature of man, and the nature of nature. The book is broken into two parts. Both parts are heartwood.
Amalgamist Books. 2017. 69 pages.
Eric Chandler is a former F-16 fighter pilot. He endured three deployments to Iraq and one deployment to Afghanistan. Eric offers us that higher view of our earth bound lives. His gift of focusing on what is important to know, what is best to ignore, and what is important to share, is given to us poem by poem. This is Eric Chandler’s first book of poetry. Bravo Zulu.
Middle West Press LLC. 2017. 106 pages.
This collection of war poetry by Randy Brown leverages both humor and haiku. The author does his best to demystify the process and jargon of war. The broken places in my own mind are stronger and calmer now that I’ve read this book of war poetry. Thank you, Randy Brown.
Middle West Press LLC. 2015. 81 pages.
The poetry of Catherine Clark-Sayles allows us intimate access into two parts of her life – her daily practice of medicine and her observations as a skilled poet. Dr. Clark-Sayles’s book of poetry begins with her mil-brat childhood, progresses to her time at medical school, continues with her daily acts of practicing medicine, and ends with her and her patients coping with death. Death rounds out the four corners of this excellent first book of poetry.
Tebot Bach. 2008. 61 pages.