Books published by CavanKerry Press

Captures the doubts of a middle-aged man, bisexuality, the illness of his bipolar daughter, recent wars, and the body's seasons

Misery Islands blends geographical and metaphorical landscapes of family and the choices we make to know who we are truly meant to be

Freedom and awakening of an adolescent, Bronx bred, Irish Catholic girl

Married life, soldiers in war, the triumph over age

The struggle and anguish in finding meaningful work in an economically depressed city

In this collection of linked poems, Andrews describes a childhood during the Vietnam War era on a farm in a divided household with a southern father and northern mother. The memories and trials of childhood come from a fabled place where whiskey and story were shared by children, and superstitions and mythmaking were a way of life.

A debut collection that sifts the Midwest's dwindling industrial cities, along with the lively avenues of Manhattan, for the crucial music engrained in everyday domains and the people who embody them.

Night Sessions is based primarily on David S. Cho's life experiences as a Chicago-born and raised child of Korean immigrants to America in the early 1970's

This volume bears witness to John Haines's position as a true man of letters. The essays, reviews, chronicles, memoirs, and poems (spanning four decades) testify to the breadth and depth of his concerns. The life - rooted for decades in Alaska - and the writing are bound together inextricably...What interests Haines throughout the various modes represented in this volume is to clear away the numerous confusing, self-justifying and downright mendacious vapors that surround various human projects - be it drilling for oil or writing poems. He is a critic in the pure sense - a truth teller who has no use for relativism. Haines's voice is an intensely American voice in the sense that it insists we can be connected to the land in ways that may redeem and vivify us. It insists that the place of poetry is central not peripheral. This volume adds to the trove that Haines has bequeathed us.

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul, Stanley Kunitz wrote. "The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call." These myths, these gods, these heroes are called upon and awakened in this startlingly confessional debut volume. While exploring the dynamics of illness, Bherwani extends his domain, evoking all that is mysterious and nonsensical, beyond family, beyond earth, to heaven, to hell, embracing those old myths, gods, and heroes to try to make sense of our own mortal situation. Within the context of a sibling's enduring love for his brother, this collection examines the intricacies of relationship that define family. Bherwani's narrator grapples with the brother's affliction, exploring, in the process, the predicaments of illness, loss, and handicap.

A strange and paranoid journey through the poet's schizophrenia

The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making--poetry and memoir exploring the anatomy of a marriage--underbelly and crown

Bear, Chase's second collection of poetry, grew from her research for a non-fiction book about an illegal bear poaching operation. In the poems, the author addresses a bear, exploring the curious line between humans and other mammals, while other poems are written from the point of view of a prisoner, jailed for unknown crimes. Aside from these, there are many autobiographical and notional poems, subjects ranging from Chase's girlhood polio to her directions about daydreaming. "Among other instructive pleasures in this new collection, Karen Chase's "Bear" poems are an innovation. I recommend them to the reader--with caution, please!"--John Haines

Brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people's lives

The all encompassing theme in this debut collection is how a person holds the tension of opposites-- darkness to light, from loss to reconciliation and redemption. In the middle of life with both feet on the ground, the poet wrestles with the realization that the ground is never stable and that life changes in a split second. The reader is led through two worlds, the geographic one--from Egypt to Malaysia from India to Cape Cod, and the inner one--entered by celebratory, riveting and dangerous poems as they move through sex, love, birth, and death.