The First Time For Love (2003)

Long-awaited '70s novel The First Time For Love by E.M. Moses portrays the struggles of one thirty-something woman to survive and make a success of life while balancing (not always gracefully or graciously) job, family, home, husband and the rest… View the full press release.

Remembering the Future
Poems of Four Decades: 1957-1997
by Coral Crosman

The print of firs against the bay, drifting
Into mist...
Chopin's "Berceuse" as eclipsed as the day,
Ephemeral under the arbor-twined oak of
Our passage
And I look back for the skate
But you have dropped it
in the bay...

The poems culled from adolescence through grandparenting trace persistent themes—the evanescence of time, the critical relationships that establish our identity, the effects of our changing landscapes and culture on what we hold to be "real" amid the transience. There is the perennial loss, the tributes to the "witnesses" from personal as well as public venues that resound through these intensive moments; all that spills into the well of poetry for further refinement when the light hits it... with the emergent refraction.

(2000, 407 pages, paperbound. $18.95)
ISBN 913884081

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Vermont Renaissance
by Coral Crosman

Poetry of the '60s by Coral Crosman: Lyrical poems that celebrate the times: love, skiing, ballet, Ravi Shankar, growth, identity, evanescent emotions, good and bad...

(1976, 36 poems, 58 pages, paperbound. $4.00)
ISBN 9138840104

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Journey to Middle Grove
by Coral Crosman

Mid-'70s lyrics that bounce off the complexities of life: career, family, commuting, traveling, the arts, the spiritual side—including the "Holy Sonnets" and the 297-line narrative (in Spenserian stanza), "The Ascension of Nanda Devi", about a young American climber's tragic death on the Himalayan peak for which she was named.

(1977, 56 poems, 80 pages, paperbound. $4.00)
ISBN 913884030

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Timbered Lives
by Coral Crosman

"She is focused in a way that few women are able to be. The result of this discipline is that, having honed language to its sharpest, she can express the most elusive shadows of thought and feeling." —Doris Vanderlipp

Poems of love and friendship, the events of the larger world as well as the inner ones that magnify them.

"Her poems not only encourage readers to slow down and listen quietly to their inner stillness, but they also celebrate life, such as running a marathon… her book would be valuable to all of us who are immersed in the busyness of everyday life… a perfect book to read a poem or two every day." —Jack Rightmyer for The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY

(1994, 60 poems, 85 pages, paperbound. $13.95)
ISBN 913884057

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Remembering The Future
by Coral Crosman

Poems culled from adolescence through grandparenting trace persistent themes—the evanescence of time, the critical relationships that establish our identity, the effects of our changing landscapes and culture on what we hold to be "real" amid the transience. There is the perennial loss, the tributes to the "witnesses" from personal as well as public venues that resound through these intensive moments; all that spills into the well of poetry for further refinement when the light hits it... with the emergent refraction.

(2000, 407 pages, paperbound. $18.95)
ISBN 913884081

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Eve of Innocence
by Coral Crosman

This slender novella, a 19-year-old's creation, is ostensibly an enchanting summer romance set in the Adirondacks, depicting contrasting characters, particularly from the vantage point of the critical (or uncritical) heroine, a college student working for the summer at a dance hall/restaurant that "caters to the locals". The lessons that Eve takes away from her brief "immersion" may be more telling in regard to her own character development than those around her she might choose to dissect.

(1984, 132 pages, paperbound. $8.95)
ISBN 913884049

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A Circle of Life
by Sally Richardson

Sally Richardson's bold tale of a '60s coming-of-age: the precarious heroine rejects a suicidal lure of late adolescence to follow perhaps more questionable imperatives in her ivory tower-to-workplace adventures.

(1998, 272 pages, paperbound. $14.95)
ISBN 913884065

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Never Trust The Fall Line
by Becky Flynn

This third novel from the Middle Grove-based press presents the tale of a plucky 20-something heroine and her engaging assault upon the alpine ski country of upstate New York and nearby Vermont. The heroine has a quest: not just to acquire skills in a recreational pastime but to achieve self-definition in a transformative way of life that becomes a particular metaphor for the '60s as she commits her psyche to the "out-of-doors" and exploits artistic freedom with a license particular to the times. Ms. Flynn's impressionable protagonist stumbles upon adventures and devises her own creative resolutions. Identifying with rock-song image "Ruby Tuesday", Vicki clearly lives for that memorable moment.

(1999, 313 pages, paperbound. $14.95)
ISBN 0913884073

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