Family Farm
Haiku for a Place of Moons 

Winner of an Honorable Mention from 
the Haiku Society of America's Merit 
Book Awards 2000, Family Farm 
captures the seasons and individual
patterns of life on a multi-generational 
farm.    In thirteen sections, each 
identified by a Native American name 
for a full moon, more than 300 of 
Purington's skillfully crafted haiku are 
sequenced into an order that conveys 
both change and continuity. 

The farmer's hand
      almost touching its fist-sized head
           - the hidden fawn

No words between us . . .
      in the stillness of moonrise
          silver lilies

100 pp. , perfect-bound.  30 illustrations 
by Shirley L. Horn   $14.00 ppd.

From reviews of Family Farm:

"Beautifully crafted - each one
 a keeper!"         Jane Reichhold, Lynx

The Trees Bleed Sweetness
A Tanka Narrative

A tanka sequence that tells the story of 
a Native American woman.  These poems     
convey the physical and emotional 
texture of her life from childhood into old 
age through vivid natural imagery and the 
inner voice of this wonderfully imagined 
persona:

        The trees bleed sweetness
         in this bitterest season
               The men dance themselves
               to fury at an insult
        My child kicks within me

Already called "a minor classic," this 
book will delight not only readers 
attuned to the tanka genre, but all lovers 
of fine poetry.

60 pp.,  perfect-bound, 5 illustrations 
by Walter Cudnohofsky.   $12.00 ppd.

From reviews of 
The Trees Bleed Sweetness:

... every word has been considered, pol-
ished and revised until the tanka shine
liked faceted stones.
             Lynx, a journal for linking poets

A Pattern for This Place
Words of a Pioneer Woman

This companion book to "The Trees 
Bleed Sweetness," focuses on the 
physical and psychological reality 
of a pioneer woman who has moved 
with her family from Revolutionary 
Boston to a cabin west of the Con-
necticut River.  There she struggles 
to shape a new life for her husband 
and children while coping with the 
loneliness of geographical disloca-
tion and the harsh joys of wilderness 
living.

   The path to our cabin
          arrowing from east to west,
                  blazed by dreamers -
   my feet stepped across each shadow
          that barred the way

80 pp., perfect-bound, 11 illustrations 
by Stephanie B. Purington.  $12.00 ppd.


From reviews of 
A Pattern for This Place:

If you admired Carol's previous book 
of tanka, "The Trees Bleed Sweet-
ness," for the amazing experiment 
she was attempting, you will be glad 
to read the continuation and expansion 
of her idea for a theme in "A Pattern 
for This Place." ... Carol Purington is 
herself a pioneer woman ... one who 
has finely honed her craft until one is 
not even aware of the art.
           Lynx, a journal for linking poets

alone tonight
haiku, tanka, & other sudden lyrics

A collection of more than 150 haiku, 
senryu, and tanka by award-winning 
poet Larry Kimmel.

               her diary -
         if only I hadn't forced
              its tiny lock . . .

   Again tonight
   along the color-ribboned river
   I feel its frail insistence -
   this hunger, tissue thin
   behind my breastbone

         where snowflakes become ocean
         she takes my arm
                            the cry of gulls


66 pp., flat-spine.  $12.00 ppd.

From reviews of alone tonight:

"Larry Kimmel's acute haiku eye and 
talent for stirring the senses are truly 
admirable.  His attunement and one-
ness with the enviroment and humanity 
... come through strongly ..."
                              Elizabeth St Jacques

"The richness of Kimmel's poetic 
vocabulary is one of the hallmarks 
of his work sometimes moving it in 
the direction of physicality, even 
sensuality." 
            Lawrence Rungren, Nor'Easter

"... from an increasingly well-known 
voice in the haiku community, showing 
a range from erotica and intense 
lyicism [tanka] to the highly objective ..."
                                                frogpond

the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses
a collage of cherita

A collection of 100 cherita [pronounced 
CHAIR-rita] a Malay word for story 
or tale.  The form was created by ai li 
on 22 June 1997.

   crossing the churchyard in winter

                 on a head stone
      her name     yet not her name

                the electric instant
                          before
                       I hurry on

100 pp., flat-spine.  $12.00 ppd.

"Kimmel is a writer and a poet I have 
time for.  He brings every echo from 
his past to enrich our present.  We 
hear his night train, experience the 
blue smoke he blows our way with eyes 
grown accustomed to cigarette glow, 
with the steel mills etching every pass-
ing horizon. ... I may have created the 
Cherita but Larry Kimmel has 
endowed it with endless possibilities. 
... I hope you will buy this volume ...  
Immerse yourself in the poet's 
fragmented world, a world in which he 
shows us again and again how we can 
cope with the permanent ache of being 
human."

ai li, editor of still, 
an independent literary journal

A Small Silent Ordeal
a short novel

A Small Silent Ordeal is the story 
of a boy's anguished guilt for which 
there seemed no remedy, until he 
chances on a mysterious stranger 
high in the woodland above Niche 
Hollow, who talks a down-to-earth 
philosophy.  This meeting is 
followed by a series of unexpected, 
and even more unlikely, encounters 
and events.  At last, Michael not 
only finds himself free of guilt, but 
has proved himself to himself, and 
triumphed over his old rival, Alfie.  
Michael realizes that living is either 
a hardship or an adventure, all 
depending on how  you view it - an 
adventure you don't want to miss.

This modern parable of healing can 
be read by adult and middle-readers 
alike.

99 pp., perfect-bound.  $12.00 ppd.

the necessary fly
new & selected haiku 1995 - 2000

A chapbook in the original sense 
of the word, "the necessary fly" 
is a collection of 125 haiku
culled from work written between 
1995 - 2000.

      At Kate's Diner
      under the plastic cake lid
                - the necessary fly

34 pp., xeroxed & saddle-stitched.  
$2.00 ppd.

From previous reviews 
of Kimmel's haiku:

"Kimmel has a lively and perceptive 
take on the world ..."  Ebba Story

"Larry Kimmel taps all five senses 
with humor, insight, often dizzying 
language, and sharp detail ..."  
              John Sheirer, Bridge Traffic

"... in his haiku, Kimmel stays true 
to imagistic perceptions ..."   
                               Randy M. Brooks

As Far as Thought Can Reach:
a book of healing

A chapbook of 10 brief metaphysical 
essays and 8 accompanying poems.  

A selection from one of the essays, 
titled "Belief, Trust, and Knowing:"

The releasement of a disabling fear 
         takes an absolute confidence, 
         or belief,
Like learning to float on one's back.
You believe it can be done, yes,
That the water will support you, 
         certainly,
Yet there is a moment when you must 
         finally relax and let it happen -

This is called Knowing.


37 pp.  spiral bound.  $8.00 ppd.

Bridge Traffic

An anthology of haiku and related 
poetry by people of the Mass-
achusetts Pioneer Valley, edited by 
John Sheirer.  It brings together 27
haiku poets living and working 
along the Connecticut River.  Some 
of these poets are very active in the 
national and international haiku 
community, having won contests and 
awards, as well as appearing in their 
own books, including three that have 
been honored with the Haiku Society 
of America Merit Book Award.

Distributed by Winfred Press, Bridge
Traffic is a Tiny Poems Press publi-
cation.

95 pp.  saddle-stitched.  $12.00 ppd.

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