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Letters to Luette

Written by Joe Close
Edited by Hal Close

In 1945, Joe Close, a 37-year-old father of two and PR man, found himself on his way to Europe on a commission by the US Embassy to write radio reports for the Office of War Information. But they weren’t the only things he was writing from the war-front. When Close wasn’t celebrating his country, he was writing letters to his wife back home. This book is comprised of much of that correspondence. In part, these are love letters—Joe aches to see his wife and clearly misses his young kids—but against a backdrop of a ragged new post-war Europe we see a London awakening after its bombing siege and the opening up of Germany’s concentration camps. History is rapidly unfolding and Close is there to witness it all, offering up an intimate account of the very events that historians would pore over in the years to come.

Crocodile Shoes

poems by James Wilde

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After spending thirty-two years tracking stories across the world as a journalist for Time magazine, Wilde turns his eye for engaging detail to poetry in this eighty-two poem debut. At Time he reported on conflicts from Vietnam to Iraq, and also wrote in-depth stories about crime and the death penalty in the U.S. Now, in his poems, Wilde demonstrates his familiarity with the life’s horror and whimsy, fusing a world-weary tone with a childlike fascination with word play and animal imagery. “Cat and Mouse,” for instance, marries dark, violent language to cartoon-like visions of armies of cats and mice doing battle. Wilde’s work is most successful, however, when it takes on a quieter, elegiac quality, as in “The Funeral” in which the poet reflects on how his recently deceased friend would be most at home “haunting his old country kitchen/ Dispensing wry Socratic wisdom/ With chain smoking hyena coughing.” Moments like this provide a moving and intimate glimpse into a thoroughly lived life.

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ISBN: 0-87233-137-7 • $15.00

ANTHYMN

A children’s book by Cosy Sheridan
illustrated by Chad Niehaus

National awarding-winning song writer Cosy Sheridan and her wryly insightful songs have been showcased everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The Dr Demento Show; from The Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon to NPR’s Car Talk. Her live performances move seamlessly from satirical cultural observations to emotional explorations of family relationships, all with a mastery of pacing and sophisticated guitar work. Now she has taken her song Anthymn and collaborated with artist Chad Niehaus to create this wonderful tale.

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Hard Cover, 24 pages,
ISBN: 0-87233-138-5 • $15.00

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The Challenge of Authentic Education -Book One

Joyful Learning in a School Community

by Jay and Toni Garland

Education in America is in crisis.
Jay and Toni Garland responded to this growing phenomenon decades ago by starting their own school. Feeling dissatisfied after teaching in various private and public schools in Massachusetts and Alaska, and in answer to an appeal by Jay’s brother to educate his large family, they founded a small school in rural New Hampshire. As partners in life and teaching, they ran The Well School for thirty-four years. Their discoveries along the way provide the foundation for their educational philosophy as laid out in The Challenge of Authentic Education series.
In Book One, Joyful Learning in a School Community, we hear first Jay’s and then Toni’s experiences of how their early years shaped their beliefs about education. In sometimes humorous and often poignant anecdotes, they chronicle their individual perspectives of running The Well for the first five years.
At a time when people are searching for answers to the crisis in education, whether in public, private or home-schooling communities, the Garlands provide solutions for everyone involved in educating children.

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Soft Cover, 216 pages,
ISBN: 0-87233-135-0 • $24.00

In the Wake of Home

Christian McEwen was born in London, England in 1956, and grew up in the Borders of Scotland. She has edited four anthologies, including Naming the Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry, and Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit & Real Life. Her poems and essays have been published in The Granta Book of the Family, Virago New Poets, and My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems, as well as in numerous other journals and anthologies. McEwen has been a fellow at the Yaddo and Macdowell colonies. She teaches poetry through the Creative Arts in Learning program at Lesley University, and divides her time between Scotland and Vermont.

In poems that search, name, nab, and unsettle, Christian McEwen excavates loss-—and discovers evidence of love. Many of the poems make poignant use of the rich iambic throb and dangerous lilt of nursery rhyme, while others follow instinct and let mystery do the singing. A toddler left to a “hot smear of sunlight,” a woman watching her hands “like other people’s children,” another crying “Give me the bloody lunch that is your heart”—I am grateful for these voices’ testimony, fierce and gentle.

In the Wake of Home is a volume of acute tenderness: for a father’s drinking, a sister’s death by drowning, a brother’s suicide, a lover found and lost, and above all for the vulnerable child self that remains alive in the grown woman who seeks “a way to praise.” With a deft music at times lyric, at times analytic, mordant and comic, Christian McEwen’s poetry touches what’s most inward in us.

Blind Painting

Bold and daring, Blind Painting introduces readers to the multi-layered poetry of John Tamilio III. Systematically deconstructing the human condition, the themes of love and death, faith and despair, transgression and redemption, are all summoned through innovative metaphors that sample the poet’s extensive theological and literary background. Rich in natural imagery, readers are taken on a journey along the shoreline and through the landscape of the poet’s native New England—astutely capturing “the space between thought and pen.”

John Tamilio III is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and serves the First Congregational Church of Wakefield, New Hampshire as their senior pastor and teacher. He received his B.A. in English and philosophy from Salem State College. He also holds a M.A. from Northeastern University in British and American literature and a M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School. Currently, he is working towards his Doctorate at the Boston University School of Theology. John lives with his wife and children in Wakefield Corner, New Hampshire.

Keen of Philadelphia
the collected memoirs

William Williams Keen was not only one of America’s pioneer surgeons and a remarkable medical educator and teacher, but [also] was vitally involved in many of the social currents of his day. Like Henry Adams, his almost exact contemporary, he wrote an autobiography when nearly eighty, but then lived another fifteen years. He was able to add to his original “Autobiographical Sketch” an almost equal volume of vivid writing continuing up to his death in the Great Depression.

In Keen of Philadelphia, Keen’s great-grandson, W. W. Keen James, has interpreted this new and never previously published material, along with the original “Sketch,” and edited and annotated the whole with great sympathy and skill. He has given us a fascinating portrait of this gifted, original and many-sided man and his nearly hundred years of life—from the age of Andrew Jackson to FDR.

This memoir represents a thoroughly faithful portrait of a gifted man and the age in which he lived. William Williams Keen maintained voluminous records of his exceedingly busy life, and in his eighth decade he assembled a compulsively honest account of his varied activities for the benefit of his family. Keen’s recollections are assertive, painfully frank, sometimes chronologically disjointed, often uncompromisingly judgemental, but doubtlessly authentic. . .

Keen was witness to and an active participant in a third of this nation’s history. He was born on the last day of Andrew Jackson’s tenure as president and died during the depths of the Great Depression in the waning months of Herbert Hoover’s administration. Keen saw active service as a battalion surgeon in the Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War, and also served in the Army in World War I (records indicate that he was the only commisioned officer to have served in both of these armed conflicts.) With Halsted, Gross and a few others, he was one of the acknowledged founders of modern American surgery. His patients included presidents from Grover Cleveland to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Others recognized Keen as an outstanding patriot, as one of the fathers of modern surgery, as America’s first brain surgeon, as the author of hundreds of significant medical articles and textbooks, and as teacher to generations of young physicians. Keen viewed himself as a medical evangelist striving to fulfill his fervent belief that a human life, to be purposeful, must aspire to the virtues of honesty, sobriety, frugality and industry.

In this volume, Keen James has provided us with a faithful distillation of the writings of his eminent ancestor. Read these pages and you will surely enter the world of W. W. Keen.

A must-have for medical historians as well as doctors interested in late-19th and early-20th century medical practices.

Hard Cover, 392 pages, illustrated. Index and Appendices.
ISBN: 0-87233-129-6 • $40.00

An Historical Guide to Rhode Island Stained Glass

Rhode Island is truly a museum of stained glass windows. Many of its churches are galleries displaying in their walls creations of great beauty that serve also as symbols of religious faith. It is too large a collection of religious art and artistic talent to remain unrecognized.

Paul Norton has a thoroughly documented guide to the stained glass windows of Rhode Island. His exhaustive research provides a register of stained glass studios and their designers, in addition to a town by town description of most of Rhode Island’s churches and their glorious windows.

256pp. Illustrated with 64 color and black & white photos as well as 150 diagrams of the buildings.

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Speak Antique: A Pronunciation Guide and Glossary for the Arts and Antiques

It’s easy to read about antiques and collectibles, but can you talk about them without sounding like a novice? Try saying "netsuke," "Sèvres," trompe l’oeil, "Gallé," "Worcester," or "Thonet." If you hesitate for an instant you must read this book. We all want to Speak Antique.

Donna M. Stone has taken the guesswork out of pronouncing difficult words related to the arts. As a gallery owner and former antiques appraiser she found that encountering words that were unfamiliar -- because they were foreign or belonging to different historical periods -- posed an embarrassing problem. This pronunciation guide and glossary is her wonderfully useful answer to an age-old problem.

Doctors Afield and Afar

This book brings to life the stories of twenty famous individuals who were trained as physicians before they went on to make names for themselves in other fields. With insight, honesty and humor, Dr. William McDermott looks at some of history’s most influential figures in the last five hundred years—writers, poets, explorers, soldiers, and inventors who once rested their youthful dreams on medicine before achieving fame in a wider world.

The late Dr. William McDermott had a long and distinguished career at Massachusetts General and New England Deaconess Hospitals. He retired in his eighties as chairman of the department of Surgery at Deaconess. A Harvard graduate, he was Cheever Professor of Surgery Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and the author of several medical texts, including Atlas of General Surgery.

A Surgeon in Combat

Dr. William V. McDermott

Set against the Allied liberation of Nazi occupied Europe, Dr. William McDermott’s vivid memoir offers a first hand glimpse of history through the eyes of young doctor, fresh from Harvard Medical School. Based on letters he wrote from the front to his young wife, Blanche, back home in Massachusetts, A Surgeon in Combat offers an original, compelling remembrance of war, one that turns over a number emotional cards, from tragedy and humor, to drama and irony. Complimented by his snapshots from this period-some startling photographs taken at the time by the author— they give an immediacy to the narrative. 332 pp. Maps.

Just reprinted • Part of Tom Brokaw’s "The Greatest Generation"

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ISBN 0-87233-120-2 • $27.50

Saint Sophia at Constantinople

Saint Sophia is surely one of the most-discussed buildings in the history of architecture. . . The quantity of information about Saint Sophia is vast; how, then, is this little book different from the rest? Kleinbauer examines contemporary, as well as ancient sources of Byzantine architecture, . . . in a book so clearly written that students will find it invaluable and so thoroughly researched that scholars will be unable to ignore it, he achieves that goal.

Trained at Berkeley and Princeton, and Professor of Fine Arts and Near Eastern Languages at Indiana University, Eugene Kleinbauer is a noted scholar and author of several books on Early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture. He was the 16th holder of the Frederick Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design at the University of Louisville. This study of Saint Sophia grows out of his 1995 Morgan Lecture.

Ruins as Architecture

Thomas J. McCormick, a noted scholar of the century of Enlightenment, examines the phenomenon of the creation of man-made ruins as an architectural form. Picturesque grottos, Gothic Temples and “ruins to be inhabited by a hermit” are the focus of McCormick’s study as he looks at these frequently playful yet melancholy monuments.

McCormick is Professor of Art History, Emeritus at Wheaton College. He was trained first as an art historian at Syracuse and later at Princeton where he earned his PhD. A noted scholar and author, McCormick has become a powerful and important voice in the field of art history and in particular the study of architecture. He was the 15th holder of the Frederick Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design at the University of Louisville.

Opening Book

As its title suggests Opening Book is the first published selection of Patrick Gillespie’s work. His poems, written over the last decade—35 of them in all—range from a few spare lines of Haiku to "All Hallows Eve," a full narrative that as Richard Wilbur notes, harkens back to Coleridge and Keats "with the summoning of a lover upon a traditional eve."

Gillespie’s work has appeared in such publications as the New England Review, the Formalist, the Threepenny Review, Singular Speech Press and the Red Candle Press.

Born in Germany, Gillespie earned his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and his M.A. in childrens literature from Simmons College. He currently lives in Vermont.

Some Sense of Transcendence

The author’s sixth book of poems. Hailed by Denise Levertov as "one of the most gifted and accomplished of younger poets," Worth has since drawn praise for his poetry from Hayden Carruth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archibald MacLeish and Richard Wilbur. Born in 1940, Mr. Worth lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also pursues a late-blooming career as a song writer and jazz alto saxophonist.

Classics on the Street:
An Automotive Odyssey
France 1953

Author Robert Straub brings to life the sleek and sexy cars of yesteryear that dominated the streets of France following World War II. Before "the conservative industrial blandness of the 1960s" Straub, later an engineer at General Motors, ventured off for a year of study abroad roaming Paris and the rest of the country with his camera and snapping pictures of cars that would soon vanish from French society. Complete with Straub’s journal notes from the trip, Straub's evocative photographs of these classics—Delahayes, Delages, Bugattis, Tatras, Hotchkiss', Rosengarts, Hispano Suiza's, to name a few-are the substance of this book. 288 pp. 120 plates.

Nora S. Unwin: Artist and Wood Engraver

The definitive work on Nora S. Unwin, artist and wood engraver. Born into the prominent Unwin book publishing family of England, Unwin studied at the Royal College of Art and helped to revive wood engraving in America, to where she moved in 1946. She is represented in major museums, and gave more than forty one-woman shows and won over fifteen major awards. This beautifully printed book contains 160 of Nora Unwin's engravings, drawings and sketches, as well as an extensive catalogue of her work. A must-have for any student of wood engraving, this book won the 1990 Award For Excellence in Typography. Hailed as a dedicated artist and identified as one of the key figures in the renaissance of wood engraving earlier in this century, Nora S. Unwin won numerous awards including the Hamilton-Merrill prize of the American Society of Etchers and Engravers in 1951. Her engravings display a thorough knowledge of natural forms as well as the human figure. In this look at her life, Unwin brings together a number of examples of her work, treating artists of all types to her talent.

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