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  • Double Effect

    Poems

    by Martha Serpas, Ava Leavell Haymon ...
    Series series Barataria Poetry
    Martha Serpas’s Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringing about a good result. In resonant verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can come from destructive situations: maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, mania, ecological ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Goodbye, Mexico

    Poems of Remembrance

    by Sarah Cortez, Paul David Adkins, Diane Anhalt, Jose Angel Araguz, Jack B. Bedell, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Alan Birkelbach, David Bowels, Jerry Bradley, Augustin Caden0, Abigail Carl-Klassen1, Sherry Craven2, Carolyn Dahl3, Jim Daniels4, Margo Davis5, Martin Espada6, Maureen Tolman Flannery7, Christa Forster8, James Hoggard9, Ann Howells0, Elizabeth Humber1, Lois P. Jones2, Kate Kingston3, AM Krohn4, Peter Ludwin5, Tony Mares6, Paul Mariani7, Kathleen Markowitz8, C.M. Mayo9, Janet McCann0, Celeste Guzman Mendoza1, karla k. morton2, Erin O'Luanaigh3, Carol C. Reposa4, Alberto Rios5, Jan Seale6, Martha Serpas7, Seth Strickland8, Loueva Smith9, Sandi Stromberg0, Melissa Studdard1, Larry D. Thomas2, C. Derick Varn3, Randall Watson4, Germaine Welch5, Patrick Allen Wright6, Rebecca Young Eunn Yook7 ...
    This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Diener

    Poems

    by Martha Serpas ...
    Series series Barataria Poetry
    The Diener investigates loss and healing, change and permanence, in a hospital trauma center and the eroding landscape of southern Louisiana. The diener himself, the morgue attendant who assists the dead in the interstice between the living world and the world beyond, is the person with whom Martha Serpas most identifies in this collection. As a part-time hospital chaplain, Serpas possesses keen ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The Dirty Side of the Storm

    Poems

    by Martha Serpas ...
    "At once a love song and a dirge to a landscape being swallowed by the waters that define it."—St. Petersburg TimesAn evocative meditation on destruction and creation, the sacred and ephemeral, along Louisiana's coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water—sensuous, fecund, and destructive. As ... Read more

    $12.39 USD