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Deerbrook EditionsDeserving Authors • Good BooksDeerbrook EditionsP.O. Box 542Cumberland, ME 04021phone & FAX: 207.829.5038

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Reading Peter Harris’s poems in Freeing the hook, I sensed my glasses miraculously cleansed, all the smudges gone—there was such clarity. The poet shows us all the fine ironies of choice and chance, body and soul, longing and letting go. Even the heaviest moments Harris holds with a light touch. Questioning how to separate “love from desire,” his speaker says, “I’m asking you,” and then immediately adds, “I value your silence.” Wit, wisdom and verbal dexterity are all here in finely crafted poems that give us “something truer than the facts . . .” —Betsy Sholl

We’ve all showed up naked to the big exam, says Peter Harris. Ignore that body near the door—it’s only your failed plans. These are the sort of laughable/humor-ous, piercing honesties with which Harris breaks the ice, and persuades us that his speaker has sailed through his exams naked and stumbled over the bodies. Alter-nately bemused, furious, crestfallen, optimistic, despairing—these poems speak from the sweaty field of the human condition. Freeing the hook takes you on a backstage tour of love, death, family and solitude. Their dark, inquisitive, tender humor is our immunization. Their stubborn compassion is our salvation. —Tony Hoagland

ISBN: 9780982810088 85 pages 16.95

One gets the sense from Martina Newberry’s poems of a poet that gets distinctive de-light in the surprises of sudden and enlightening insight and discovery through the practice of verse. These poems study with unflinching curiosity the peculiar ways and thoughts of modern human society. The end results are well crafted poems that have a disarming emotional honesty that is simply refreshing. —Kwame Dawes

Martina Newberry is a surprising poet. Just when you think you know what she knows, you don’t. She knows more and has the words to prove it. I found myself fall-ing for her sense of things, appreciating not only that she has earned it but that she displays it with a nicely sharp edge. —Eloise Klein Healy

Martina Reisz Newberry embodies a compelling story telling style reminiscent of Robert Frost, the enigmatic brilliance of Emily Dickinson and the working class insights of the great singer-poet John Prine. —Saul LandauISBN: 9780982810026 98 pages 16.95

Voice is key to Donna Reis’ poems. Whether it is Joan Blair, daughter of a railroad tycoon, looking back at a lost age, or Mary Lamb, sister of romantic writer, Charles Lamb, struggling to keep her inner demons from strangling her free will. Reis’ char-acters speak as living beings. The poet’s own sometimes harrowing experiences are also treated with the same unflinching eye. The result is poems that seem brought forth—rather than created—arriving fully formed. Still no Passing Zone feels jangling and unpaved. That’s the way Reis likes it, and, best of all, you’re not going to see any “Caution, Poet at Work” signs along the way. —Mary Makofske

There’s danger in this book, and near-death trauma, houses for sale and ex-hus-bands staining the couch, and ‘there’s Crazy Kate down / in the ruins forever build-ing walls, / flying her blue-blooded flag / like a Keep Out sign, hoarding / matches, storing cans of gasoline.” No Passing Zone takes the reader on a winding, some-times harrowing, sometimes giddy ride, but it’s one not to be missed; the reader is safe with Donna Reis at the wheel, ready “to venture down roads / where tragedies struck—certain, at last.” —Meg KearneyISBN: 9780982810057 76 pages 16.95

The task David Sloan takes on in this collection is nothing less than to depict the struggle to live an authentic life as a necessarily flawed human being. Sloan does not shy away from exposing what he calls ‘all my ineptitudes’ as a son, brother, father, and husband. But this uneasy awareness of the dread mingled with elation only deepens hisappreciation of those human ties—and of the world around him, whose beauty remains (as in the title of one of my favorite poems) ‘unfixable.’ —Jeffrey Harrison

The poems of the irresistible in-between read the way a river flows. You put a toe in the water and, next thing you know, you’re caught in the current, going wherever the water goes. This is a beautiful book, rendered with hard-won precision and clarity while offering the layers of emotion we quickly recognized as the heartscape of our lives. I think we want ferocious poems fueled by the actual passions and persistent anxieties that elbow around in our daily lives. These are those. —Tim Seibles

ISBN: 9780982810071 90 pages 16.95

“Etty Hillesum’s prose is distilled in a touching and authentic way through Martin Steingesser, whose versions unlock light and music. Steingesser and Judy Tierney perform in stereo, surrounded by the impressive improvisational cello of Robin Jellis. Together, images and words create a universe of humanity, forgiveness and peace.” —Raffael Scheck, Katz Distinguished Teaching Professor, Colby College

“Poignant and stirring, The Thinking Heart leaves an indelible impression.” —Robert Bernheim, Executive Director, Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine

“Etty Hillesum’s remarkable voice and The Thinking Heart Ensemble’s stirring simplicity. . . make this an intimate and profoundly moving meditation on how. . . to love.” —The Portland Phoenix

ISBN: 97809828100 44 pages $12.00