Multicultural Books and MBooks Publishing Services
Multicultural Books
Suite 307, 6311 Gilbert Road
Richmond, B.C.
Canada V7C 3V7
Contact: Joe Ruggier
Telephone: (604) 600-8819
E-mail: jrmbooks@hotmail.com
MBooks has
published the following books by THT poets and writers of similar caliber.
Ordering information appears immediately below the descriptions of the books.
New books will be added to this page on a fairly regular basis, so please check
back often!
Lunar Rhapsody
by V. Ulea
Sometimes it is difficult to talk about what you have done in your work and why,
especially when it concerns such an enigmatic topic as the moon. No matter what
astronomers say about it, for poets and artists the moon has always remained a
living creature, mysterious and mesmerizing, that watches over their dreams and
determines the flux of their inspiration, even as it determines the ebb and flow
of the tides. At this point Lunar Rhapsody is not a collection of
isolated poems, but rather an uninterrupted myth of the moon, cosmos, and human
soul. All parts of the collection – from the cycle of the same name to “Blue
Beard” – grow from that myth. To read the myth, however, one should have his own
“key” because, like the moon itself, the myth is composed of various “faces”
that touch upon different sides of the lunar kingdom, including the dark ones.
It is not my intention, though, to define what the myth of the Lunar Rhapsody
is, because in each reader the melody of the rhapsody should sound different.
After all, everyone has his unique relationship with the universe…
V. Ulea
ISBN 978-1-897303-06-1
Publisher — Joe M. Ruggier
Multicultural Books
307 Birchwood Court, 6311 Gilbert Rd, Richmond, BC, V7C 3V7
Tel: (604) 600-8819
E-Mail: jrmbooks@hotmail.com
Book Review of Lunar Rhapsody by Betty Jo Tucker
Take Me Home to Pringus
by Zyskandar A. Jaimot
This Gardener’s Impossible Dream by Emery L. Campbell 1st print edition—May 2005
Emery Campbell
369 Cottage Way
Lawrenceville, GA 30044-4523
Phone: 770-339-8752
Emery L. Campbell is a past vice president of the Georgia Poetry Society and was a nominee for the Georgia Author of the Year. He writes poetry, short fiction and nonfiction, and contributes a regular column on grammar and usage to the newsletter of Georgia Writers, Inc. Here's what "people in the know" are saying about his first poetry book, subtitled "A Not So Green Thumb (Or Why I Took Up Poetry Instead)" ...
Norman Shapiro: "Emery Campbell is an adept practitioner of 'light' verse, that deceptively dubbed genre that demands no less inventive imagination, craftsmanship, and love of language and its resonances that its 'heavy' cousin--which, be it said, he practices with equal skill. A natural wit, he has long delighted those who know his work ..."
William Heyen: "I've enjoyed the wit and concision of Emery Campbell's poetry
for years. His rhymed and rhythmic gists and piths remind us that often the best
thing we can do is to discover and reveal our stupidities, and to laugh at
ourselves. It's a pleasure to have this selection of Campbell's deft poems
accompanied by translations that echo and compliment his own sensibility."
Madelyn Eastlund: "Reading this book is to romp through the quirky mind of Emery
Campbell, who delights in taking even the most serious subjects and giving them
an unexpected spin."
Michael R. Burch: "Emery Campbell knows how to keep readers turning pages: by
tickling their funnybones!"
A book review of This Gardener's Impossible Dream, reviewed by Ethelene Dyer Jones
Joe Ruggier: "I am positively captivated by her work. I am still as impressed
as ever by the pathos and melody of her sensitive and intelligent verse ... Hers
was a sensitive soul and rare indeed: she felt love keenly and she knew sorrow,
and whatever she felt she felt intensely, and passion did not fail her. Her
simple delight in the sheer music of words and the sheer beauty of well-done
rhetoric, and her bold experiments with all kinds of metre ... testify to the
truth, before which any true artist has always knelt and lit a candle, that
human passion is a beautiful thing ... Having lived with Meisel's verse for more
than a year, I am in tears over her poetry. In spite of the fact that they are
at times uneven, I find these poems as remarkable for their intelligence,
clarity and perceptive subtlety as for their passionate, lyrical intensity."
Michael R. Burch: "Meisel's best poems will delight many a reader into saying,
along with the poet: " I have run lightly through the asphodel / and danced
among the blue bells and the clover." But Meisel does not allow the reader to
linger long in any garden of Edenic delights: her poems intently and resolutely
explore not only nature, but also the human conundrums of flesh and spirit, of
apathy and love, of gravity and levity, of earthly stagnation and heavenward
flight. Meisel, who was physically disabled and suffered a nervous breakdown,
was able to look both deeply into and wildly beyond her precarious mortal
condition; like all good poets, she compels the reader to travel with her, to
the point of seeing something in himself of what she saw in herself. Poems like
"Consummation," "I Would Go Out" and "Tell Me Spirit" challenge us to consider
ourselves as full-fledged spiritual beings, not mere sacks of sagging decaying
flesh. If you too "would know / the joy of being unconfined, the peace / of
perfect freedom after narrow rooms," then reading Meisel's poetry is an avenue,
perhaps even a flight plan, to liberation ..."
A book review of 42 Poems in Rhyme & Meter, reviewed
by Laurel Johnson of Midwest Book Review
Pharaoh’s Children
by Roy Harrison
3rd Canadian edition—July 2005
ISBN 0-9738392-0-1
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