Just Published

MAYWEED

Frannie Lindsay

2009 Washington Prize winner. With seamless craft and lyricism, Frannie Lindsay elevates personal grief to a universal level. Through the natural world, she invites "mayweed, earnest as milkmaids" to flood the valley of death. Lindsay offers the reader light, often surprisinly warm, in the chill darkness of death. Cover art by Deborah Mayhall Bradshaw.

ISBN13 978-0-915380-73-2

Paper:$15
Buy Now

Books Published by The Word Works

If you would like to purchase five or more copies of a particular book and receive the bulk discount, email us at editor@wordworksdc.com. If you prefer to pay for your order using a check or money order (written on a US bank), CLICK HERE.

ACE

Richard Carr

2008 Washington Prize winner. "Ace is a gorgeously sad novel-in-verse. In a series of intimate 14-line poems, Carr follows the tragic love story of Ace and Carol, a love story born of junkyards."—Denise Duhamel. Cover art by Oosoom at Wikipedia.

ISBN-13 978-0-915380-70-1

Paper: $15

ASPECTS OF A SOUTHERN STORY

Robert Sargent

The title poem relates a casual southern anecdote that peers and pries into different versions of a story. Cover art from a wall sculpture created especially for this book by William Christenberry Second printing.

ISBN 0-915380-15-3 ISBN13 978-0-915380-15-2

Paper:$15


BAD NAMES FOR WOMEN

Hilary Tham

Rogues and rascals people Hilary Tham's irreverent yet loving study of her natal Chinese and adopted Jewish ancestors. First Word Works Capital Collection publication. Second printing. Calligraphy by Robert Groner. Also from Three Continents Press: MEN AND OTHER STRANGE MYTHS.  For a review of this book, go to berniE-zine Reviews.

ISBN 0-915380-23-4 ISBN13 978-0-915380-23-7

Paper:$15


THE BEARS OF PARIS

Miles David Moore

Moore's brilliantly eclectic work runs the gamut from first love to the American Civil War to adventures of Fatslug, the poster boy for low self-esteem. "Some North American Lorca lurks among The Bears of Paris."—Pablo Medina. A Word Works Capital Collection publication.

ISBN 0-915380-32-3 ISBN13 978-0-915380-32-9

Paper:$15

BIOGRAPHY OF WATER

Carrie Bennett

2004 Washington Prize winner. Bennett's "poetry pulses with Emily Dickinson's desire to know as well as Wallace Stevens' love of making," David Kirby. A lyrical work meant to be read aloud. Cover art by Kelvey Bird.

ISBN 0-915380-58-7 ISBN13 978-0-915380-58-9

Paper:$15


BLACK BOOK OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES

Vladimir Levchev

Longing for freedom permeates the poems of Bulgarian poet, Vladimir Levchev.  The species under threat is not fish, fowl nor flesh but the individual soul.  A termite town trampled by an elephant's foot conjures the individual in a communist state.   Bilingual edition with translations by Henry Taylor and Vladimir Levchev.   Word Works International Edition.  Cover art by Marta Levcheva. 

ISBN 0-915380-42-0 ISBN13 978-0-915380-42-8

Paper:$15


BLUE COWBOY

Jonathan Vaile

Vaile's beleaguered Blue Cowboy is an ironic survivor of the post-modern world. These edgy and musical meditations on philosophy, teaching, and love "lift, spire up, and illuminate the darkness" (Peter Klappert). Catch a 21st century look at life and love. Cover design by Janice Olson. Word Works Capital Collection publication.

ISBN 0-915380-59-5 ISBN13 978-0-915380-59-6

Paper:$15


THE BLUE DOOR

Yoko Danno & James Hopkins

In this collaboration across time zones and cultures, two poets, American and Japanese, explore the process of invoking the Muse. Strangers collect white pebbles only to discover they are primordial mates. Cover design by Janice Olson. International Editions.

ISBN 0-915380-62-5 ISBN13 978-0-915380-62-6

Paper:$15


THE BODIES WE WERE LOANED

Maria Terrone

Whether focused on Madame Curie, turn-of-the-century subway workers, or the author's own family, these finely crafted poems recognize life's impermanence--and transcendant beauty. "This powerful, moving book is a love song to the wounded world." —Maria Mazziotti Gillan   Word Works Capital Collection publication. 

ISBN 0-915380-49-8 ISBN13 978-0-915380-49-7

Paper:$15


BROKEN LIKE JOB

Donna Denize

Faith, freedom, and home find voice from Babylon to Baghdad, Haiti to Virginia. Denize's poetic theater is large and well illuminated. Cover art by Theodore Moore. Word Works Capital Collection publication. Monseurat Review said.

ISBN 0-915380-60-9 ISBN13 978-0-915380-60-6

Paper:$15


BULLETINS FROM A WAR

Helen Webster

Poems and drawings by Helen Webster as collected by Elisavietta Ritchie. This book burns through the mirror of imagination while the reality of death by cancer wails sirenlike.

ISBN 0-915380-11-0 ISBN13 978-0-915380-11-4

Paper:$10


BY THE NEST

Kathi Morrison-Taylor

With a cast of characters that includes sea monkeys, Marco Polo, the Tooth Fairy, Betty Crocker, Bach, and even Jack Daniels, Morrison-Taylor considers how childhood and parenthood present a perilous stage where kindship may both tear us apart and make us whole. Cover art by Grier Torrence. Hilary Tham Capital Collection.

ISBN13 978-0-915380-69-5

Paper:$15


CABIN FEVER: POETS AT JOAQUIN MILLER'S CABIN

edited by Jacklyn Potter, Dwaine Rieves, Gary Stein

Prize winners, nationally known celebrities, first-timers, including outstanding high school students have all shared the mike at the historic Miller Cabin. This anthology, compiled and edited by Cabin Director Jacklyn Potter and poets Dwaine Rieves and Gary Stein, includes Elizabeth Alexander, Michael Collier, Roland Flint, Reed Whittemore, and others. This book was funded in part by the DC Commission on the arts and Humanites and the National Endowment for the Arts. Cover design by Janice Olson. Read a review in Electica Magazine.

ISBN 0-915380-51-X ISBN13 978-0-915380-51-0

Paper:$20


CALL FROM PARIS

Prartho Sereno

2007 Washington Prize winner. Song, incantation and a disarming but everyday mysticism punctuate the poems of Prartho Sereno. She creates a universe that is both exotic and familiar. Cover art is by the author.

ISBN 0-915380-68-4 ISBN13 978-0-915380-68-8

Paper:$15

 

CHARLOTTE BRONTE, YOU RUINED MY LIFE

Barbara Ungar

2011 Hilary Tham Capital Collection publication.

ISBN13 978-0-915380-79-4

Paper:$15


COOL FIRE

edited by Christopher Bursk

Poems from the participants of the Word Works sponsored workshop at the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) shelter, featuring shelter residents, and Washington area poets Patricia Garfinkel, Reuben Jackson, Kweli Smith, and Hilary Tham. Poetry speaking to issues of the homeless.

Chapbook

Paper:$10


COUNTING

Hilary Tham

From Malaysia through Europe to America, from Taoist Buddhist to Roman
Catholic to American Jew, Tham’s poems braid philosophy, religions, culture
shock, married love, parental angst, an immigrant's look at America into a
fascinating one-of-a-kind story. Word Works Capital Collection publication.
Cover art by Marta Levcheva.

ISBN 0-915380-45-5 ISBN13 978-0-915380-45-9

Paper: $15


CROW'S EYE VIEW: THE INFAMY OF LEE SANG, KOREAN POET

translated by Myong-Hee Kim

Too advanced for his time, Lee Sang's Kafkaesque surreal poetry outraged Korean society during his brief, tragic life. The selected poems and fiction read as freshly as if he wrote of present-day angst. Revered in Korea today, Lee Sang's work premieres in this first-ever English collection. Word Works International Edition. Original art by Janice Olson.

ISBN 0-915380-48-X ISBN13 978-0-915380-48-0

Paper:$20


CURTAINS FOR YOU

Harrison Fisher

Short, taut poems verging on a 'pure poetry.' Booklist said "Fisher is fun to read."

ISBN 0-915380-10-2 ISBN13 978-0-915380-10-7

Paper:$15


The CUTOFF

Jay Rogoff

1994 Washington Prize winner. Part Odysseus, part Dante, a minor league baseball outfielder turns 30, becomes a father, and ponders his future. A sequence of lyrical monologues, this book is a love story: man/woman, baseball, country Cover art by Lance Richbourg, "George Bell" oil on canvas, 72" X 30" from the collection of Peter John Goulandris.

ISBN 0-915380-31-5 ISBN13 978-0-915380-31-2

Paper:$15


A DIAMOND IS HARD BUT NOT TOUGH

Ann Rae Jonas

1997 Washington Prize winner. Embracing the spectrum of human life from joy to unexpected grief, Jonas blends scientific concepts with a precise poetic vocabulary. Cover art by Randy Jewart.

ISBN 0-915380-36-6 ISBN13 978-0-915380-36-7

Paper:$15


EIGHT PALE WOMEN

James Hopkins

Poems that explore geography of self, from the landscape of the rural South and the darkness beneath its soil to exotic pilgrimage routes that insist on transcendence. A Buddhist present, informed by a past of yourthful indiscretions and country fairs. A wild ride. Word Works Capital Collection. Cover photo by James Hopkins. Monseurat Review said.

ISBN 0-915380-53-6 ISBN13 978-0-915380-53-4

Paper:$15


FAREWELL TO THE BODY

Barbara Moore

1990 Washington Prize winner. Out of the "bright confusion" of the body, these poems rise above our earthly attachments to find an indecent clarity.  Philip Booth has called Moore "brilliantly grave." Cover photo by Carole Clem.

ISBN 0-915380-27-7 ISBN13 978-0-915380-27-5

Paper: $15


Books Continued

LIST BY TITLE

Back to Top

LIST BY AUTHOR

Back to Top