Books published by Riverrun Select

There is a well of sorrow here-in existential probings bya host of alter egos through unexplored terrain, impossiblecrossings, breakdowns and absurdity. Each "figment" is astep along a trail hitherto shrouded in mist and each stepbrightens our way until illumination, action and place areone, transcending the limitations of reason.Praise for Figments-Richard Miles, poet and author of Boat of Two ShoresGerald George won the Donn Goodwin prize for poetry, was chosen poet laureate for the Maine Senior College Network, and has published poetry widely. His work has appeared in a book, Imitations of Indonesia and Other Poems (Chestnut Hills Press, 1997); in many periodicals such as Potomac Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Visions International; and in anthologies such as A Rump-Sprung Chair and a One Eyed Cat, Poems by Down East Maine's Salt Coat Sages (Black Dog Press, 2008), Red Moon Anthology of English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press 2002), and Take Heart, Poems from Maine (Down East 2013). His verse play Bailey's Mistake was performed in Portland's 2008 Maine One-Act Play Festival, and two of his other plays were performed on WERU radio. He and his wife Carol live in East Machias, Maine.

Tennyson once said, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Tennyson was an idiot. Because heartbreak sucks. If you're breathing, at some point in your life, love has probably bashed you over the head ... and then continued to kick you while you were down until you thought you might die. That's better?! Feeling like your heart has been shredded with a cheese grater and then set on fire - that's better? The pain of heartbreak is so massive and all-encompassing, most people believe the torment they experience over love is exclusive to them. But The Sorrows of Young Werther realistically attests to the fact that heartbreak began occurring way before you confessed your love for someone, only to have him or her remove you as a Facebook friend.

"On that night my friend Derek Reardon and I went to a bar in Atkinson to start drinking before we moved the partying to an old friend's house. I have no memory of being there, but for some odd reason I decided to drive home. This is still a mystery to me. I wasn't a habitual drunk driver, but that doesn't matter because I know now that one time is all it takes." Jim Scott tells an intense story of Traumatic Brain Injury and the long, grueling journey that follows. A cautionary tale for young drivers, and a source of inspiration for others suffering from a TBI.

The poems in this book are inspired by the region called the Piscataqua watershed: Portsmouth, Kittery, Rye, Eliot, Durham, and so on. Oh, and of course, we must include The Isles of Shoals, which seem to burn brightly in the minds of all our local poets.Here are poems memorializing the Memorial Bridge, celebrating our forests and rivers, our past and present, and our intense emotional connection to this region.We hope that you enjoy reading this book as much as we've enjoyed making it.