Book Announcements

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Approximate Sonnets, an engaging new poetry collection from Alan Elyshevitz of  East Norriton, PA.

About Approximate Sonnets, Joseph Kenyon, author of All the Living and the Dead writes: “Reading the poetry of Alan Elyshevitz is akin to walking out your front door and seeing the landscape you live with every day in ways you’ve never seen it before…Elyshevitz takes the traditional sonnet form and refashions it for our perfectly fragmented age. This sense of the foreign familiar makes his poetry so urgent and alive that it not only bears re-reading but demands it. A master work from a master craftsman.”

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of How We All Fly the captivating new poetry collection from Bill Griffin of Elkin, NC.

About How We All Fly, Patricia Hooper, author of Wild Persistence (University of Tampa Press), writes: “Bill Griffin’s poems combine the trained eye of the naturalist with the metaphorical mind of the poet…boiling water poured into a frozen bird bath…becomes holy water, initiating the hope that the ‘God of holy ice’ will look after our children…Through close observations of the physical world, these clear, direct poems yield insights into the corresponding life of the spirit.