We encourage readers, whenever possible, to buy these books for their own personal libraries, as gifts for family and friends, and perhaps even for their town libraries.

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IN THE DISAPPEARING WATER by Caroline Sulzer; 208 pp; Plain View Press, 2009; $14.95″In the Disappearing Water [by Caroline Sulzer] focuses on the inhumanity of slaughterhouses, so the images and overall effect are both lyrical and devastating. This theme weaves through the story of two young women, their friendship and childhood memories, evoked with elegant understatement. Sulzer’s heroines emerge as humans we know, and the animals we encounter are spared sentimentality. This captivating novel is both a warm-hearted portrait and a hard, 21st-century look at our relationship with the animals we eat.” -Kitty Beer, author of What Love Can’t Do (PVP 2008). In the Disappearing Water is available at select bookstores. It can also be ordered from any bookstore, the publisher, or the author. For more information, contact Plain View Press sb@plainviewpress.net 512-441-2452, or Caroline Sulzer at cisulzer@gwi.net 207-667-0382.

JUSSTICE: THREE STORIES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN by H R. Coursen; 406 pp; Just Write Books, 2009; $19.95

In these three novellas, three men of similar backgrounds and with similar experiences collide with the justice system. One escapes from his native land. Another is imprisoned within the U. S. A third fights against his imminent arrest. Some of their antagonists are identical, and the three men have, by their opposition to the status quo mentality, invited retribution. But their responses vary. Their conflict with authority helps them define themselves in a society that demands conformity. None of the three yields to what each considers unreasonable demands, but each pays heavily for his resistance. H. R. Coursen was born in New Jersey and has lived in Maine since the early 1960s. As well as a master storyteller he is an award-winning poet, an astute critic of government affairs, and a noted Shakespearean educator. In 1996, a poll conducted by Penn State University named him one of the 25 “Master Teachers of Shakespeare” for the past 100 years in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.

NOW – WORKS ON PAPER 1976-2006 – POETRY AND ANTIPOETRY by Tom Fallon; 112 pp; Transition Press; 2008; $13.95.
The former Maine Times poetry editor explores literary form from free verse to concrete poetry to antipoetry to happenings to “word pieces for the wall.”  Fallon’s exposure to modern art began in Auburn, continued to the small town of Rumford, with forays into the creative chaos of New York City’s Off-Off Broadway during the 1970s. Subjects range from jazz pioneers, nature, race prejudice, the spiritual, modern artists, ordinary life, etc., with six recent experiments on 11 x 17 inch sheets included as inserts. Available only at Maine independent bookstores, Amazon, and http://home.gwi.net/tomfallon/

ROOM FOR DARKNESS, ROOM FOR LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1972-2008 by David Adams; 261 pp; Blue Shale Books, 2009; $16

Robley Wilson Jr. has this to say about Room for Darkness, Room for Light: “Who’d have dreamt that ordinary people-farmhands, factory workers, housewives-and familiar geography-the rustbelt Midwest, the stricken South, austere New England-could inspire such a treasury of wise and patient lyrics? David Adams has, and all of us are the better for it.”

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