Böcker utgivna av Small Harbor Publishing

In these honest and imaginative poems, Demaree gives us a glimpse into a father's whole and blessed acceptance of his children for who they are and for who they will be. In these poems, the father is present and reachable and therefore fallible. Here is a world where a child is an ocean or a ship, squints at the problems of the world or runs naked through the streets. Here the magic of childhood meets the real and often surreal concerns of love and parenting. Here is a world where the darkness isn't shied away from, but the fierce light shines bright enough to tame it.- Donna Vorreyer, author of to everything there is

An abecedary, or alphabet book, teaches letters, the primary pieces of language and of story-making. In Ladies' Abecedary, each letter is a woman, each woman is a poem, and each poem is a narrative of female identity. These micro-biographies-in-verse present a series of anonymous characters (historical and mythological, contemporary and composite, unique and universal) in a collection that reveals "the diverse and complex nature of women's interior and external lives." Letter by letter, Ladies' Abecedary "exemplifies the importance of the project to reclaim voice, agency, and equality for women," and raises a remark about how a woman's story is told.

July Westhale is an essayist, translator, and the award-winning author of Trailer Trash and Via Negativa, which Publishers Weekly called "stunning" in a starred review. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney's, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Hayden's Ferry Review, and The Huffington Post, among others. She also has an inventively-named collection of salty chapbooks. When she's not teaching, she works as a co-founding editor of PULP Magazine. www.julywesthale.com