The PKP Plenitudinous Poetry Pack

One of every in-print PKP title. Currently includes: Almost Grown, by Jack DeWitt; circumnavigation, by Tara Shoemaker Holdren; matter no matter, by Joel Chace; chains, by derek beaulieu; Silent Type, by Barbara DeCesare; Too Bad It’s Poetry, by Jim Warner; Out of Character, by Geof Huth; Half Moon Over Midnight, by Mala Hoffman, American Know-How: Patent Pending, by Craig Czury; Zoo Haiku, by Michael Czarnecki (with illustrations by calligrapher Debra Dick); Spinning with the Tornado, by Andrea Jade Talarico; and Part of a Geography: Gilbert Street, by John E. McGuigan. This is a $155.00 value, offered at the very low price of $125, including shipping.

Almost Grown, by Jack DeWitt

“There are only a few people working in this utterly unadorned, unsung blue-collar vein, and Jack DeWitt is the master of the genre.”—Stephen Berg, author of X=, The Elegy on Hats, and Oblivion

72 pages, $14 (includes shipping)

circumnavigation, by Tara Shoemaker Holdren

“Tara Shoemaker Holdren writes with an uncompromising pen, giving us the unsettledness of domesticity: the imbalances of woman and man, old and young, hope and realization. Her poems, as the best poems do, contain glimpses of discovery - of our humanity - in language filled with subtle and unexpected turns. Circumnavigation is a fine first book, one that presents and voice that is seasoned and fresh. It is an engaging read.” —A.G. “Jerry” Wemple, MFA, Associate Professor of English, Bloomsburg University

72 pages, $14 (includes shipping)

matter no matter, by Joel Chace

matter no matter offers up a cornucopia of approaches to the poem: it arrives at cohesion through collage, creates a dance of lyric in flowing small word songs, tackles head-on the strange bedfellows of poetry and academia, and operates with a social-reflectiveness reminiscent of the works of Olson and Oppen. Joel Chace has done it all, satisfaction guaranteed!—Lisa Jarnot

94 pages of poetry. $14 (includes shipping)

chains, by derek beaulieu

With chains, derek beaulieu once again turns his attention to how “language regards itself, stalks itself, begins, slowly, to eat itself” (Canadian Literature) in a series of graceful abstractions made entirely from antiquated dry-transfer lettering. In chains, letters gather in elegant arrangements, architectural constructions and sinews of meaning.

92 pages of visual poetry. $12 (includes shipping)

Silent Type, by Barbara DeCesare

“Barbara DeCesare is one of the most exciting and original poetic voices in the Mid-Atlantic region. I’d follow her voice anywhere.”
—Richard Peabody, Editor
Gargoyle Magazine

“Here, from first verse to last, is a poetry of the heart. But don’t expect the pleading, defensive heart of confessional verse or the nostalgic, self-involved heart of romance. The heart in Silent Type is a stubborn, insistent, relentlessly defiant interlocutor, a ‘bastard of a thing’ to be wrested from the self and wrestled into form. And what living, breathing, bleeding, unforgettable forms DeCesare repeatedly achieves. This is a book to be lived with and wrestled with and cherished.”
—David Shirley
Devil’s Coach Horse (Old Blue Books)

“I have come to only read Pablo Neruda and Barbara DeCesare. Since Pablo Neruda is no longer publishing, the appearance of Silent Type is, for me, an unimaginable, unutterable joy.”
—Leonard Gontarek
Author of Deja Vous Diner (Autumn House Press)

84 pages of poetry you wish you wrote. $18 (includes shipping)

Too Bad It’s Poetry, by Jim Warner

"The amazing poem "east/west" is a must read. Warner successfully weaves--or more aptly fuses--references to music, spirituality, psychology, pop culture and literature as he explores themes of exile and identity. In these electric poems we journey with him as he both searches for and invents a new home--this one made of language."- Toi Derricotte

A 45-sized collection of poetry, $16 (includes shipping)

Out of Character by Geof Huth, May 2007

“Who says letters and words are flat, arbitrary signs? In Geof Huth's Out of Character, they are animate, vibrant, interactive, intra/inter/connecting us and eye.”—Crag Hill

A pocket-sized collection of visual poems from Geof Huth. 4"x4". Perfect bound. $9.00 (includes shipping)

Half Moon Over Midnight by Mala Hoffman, December 2006

A chapbook-length collection of poems that sweep away the dust of everyday life to reveal the lustre hiding beneath. 4.25" x 11", Saddle-stitched. $10.00 (includes shipping)

American Know-How: Patent Pending by Craig Czury, illustrated by Dino Patane, September 2006

48 pages of poetry and artwork, perfect bound, glossy cover, 9x4 oblong. $12.00 (includes shipping)

My Dance is Mathematics by JoAnne Growney, April 2006, EDITION CLOSED

A chapbook-length collection of poems that dance in and around mathematical ideas and formulae. Japanese stab bound. The last copies of this book may still be available from the author. Order Here

Zoo Haiku by Michael Czarnecki, May 2004, $12.00 (includes shipping)

A whimsical and entertaining collection of haiku written about animals observed at a Minnesota Zoo. Illustrations by calligrapher Debra Dick.

Spinning with the Tornado by Andrea Jade Talarico, November 2003, $12.00 (includes shipping)

“Andrea Jade Talarico’s first collection, Spinning with the Tornado, does exactly as its opening poem promises — to break out of the uncomfortable, to back down from the unknown.”—Jennifer Judge Yonkoski, King’s College

Nightcrown by Jennifer Hill-Kaucher; photography by Michael Downend, August 2003, EDITION CLOSED

A crown of sonnets in hand-bound lotus book form. Limited edition of 100.

Part of a Geography: Gilbert Street, by John E. McGuigan, February 2003, $12.00 (includes shipping)

John E. McGuigan’s second collection of poetry, Part of a Geography, is a 40 page perfect bound book containing poetry about his childhood home, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

“Jack’s sure hand with language, his clear eye, his heart show through in these fine poems—evocations of a life we all should slow enough to savor. From ironing to fruitcake, the world he so lovingly provides draws us in.”—Karen Blomain, author of A Trick of Light

John E. McGuigan is a retired secondary school teacher with thirty-four years experience teaching creative writing and television production in New York and Pennsylvania. His first collection of poetry, A Wonderment of Seasons was published in 1969.