Weeding the sidebar

Folks, I try to make my poems readily accessible as possible. However, the "Index to my published poems" on the sidebar now contains over 100 links, with more to come. I have therefore decided that, with the exception of a few poems that have only recently become available online, I will shortly delete the 40-some links to poems in my 2011 collection Unglobed Fruit. This book, which contains 75 poems in all, is available for $11 at amazon.com as well as at lulu.com. Lulu also offers it as an e-book for $4.99.

Review and reading of UNGLOBED FRUIT

The March issue of Friends Journal contains a review of Unglobed Fruit by Catherine Wald, the former poetry editor. Here is the conclusion:

I enjoyed this book as an adventurous foray into language and form that is heavier on wit than emotional impact. For this reason, I suspect the book will be of more interest to poets than the general public. I was also surprised that someone so keen on form chose to order her poems alphabetically rather than in terms of thematic or narrative thrust. However there's much to admire and amuse here— so help yourself!

I laughed at her comment on the alphabetical order. I daresay the book would have come out a year earlier if I hadn't been hung up on the arrangement. I read and reread Ordering the Storm, a collection of essays on how to put together a book of poetry; each and every contributor recommended crawling around on the floor, which at my age I'm physically unable to do. So in the end I decided that what was good enough for W H Auden was good enough for me.

Coincidentally, I've been asked to do a book signing and reading at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting library next Sunday, Feb 26. (1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia, 12:30-2 PM. Meeting for worship starts at 11:00.)

Update on where to get my book

My poetry collection, Unglobed Fruit, is now available from two Quaker bookstores, Quakerbooks of Friends General Conference and the Pendle Hill bookstore, as well as Lulu (has downloadable version), amazon,and (for those who live in Europe) amazon.uk.

My poetry book is out

"Unglobed Fruit" is now available from lulu.com. Go here.
I've been a bit slow getting this posted, but there is a 15% discount through March 15 if you use the code IDES305. It will be available on amazon around May 1.

The book has received one review that I know of so far, from Toni Clark on Goodreads: