Books published by Birch Brook Press

This is Gwendolyn Jensen''s third book of poetry from Birch Brook Press. It was being written while she was also working with Chiara Frenquellucci to translate works by the distinguished Italian poet Alda Merini. When it came time for Jensen to complete this book -- a narrative of love, illness, death, and grief, it seemed to her "there were obvious and natural places to include many of the Merini translations". So the poems were joined in one book, leaving it to the reader to decide whether or not this experiment is successful. Clearly Jensen has succeeded not only in presenting the vivid intimacy of her own poetic vision, as in her poem, "And When I Bathe You", but in sharing Merini''s deft, tough language with more readers. A stunning letterpress edition with art by Helen Febbo.

An exploration of Heisenberg''s "physics of poetry" and his "uncertainty principle" via the poetic medium.

An anthology which brings together serious and workaday poets who extol baseball in verse. Printed letterpress. Baseball wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair.

An engaging cycle of unorthodox interpretations of Biblical stories. Wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair.

Delicious translations of a selection of Petrarch''s love sonnets.