Dream Straw by Mariflo Stephens (2019)

 Dream Straw

Mariflo Stephens

Finishing Line Press

(c) 2019

Very thin collection. Another collection of poetry looking back at a life lived. 

All Animals Want the Same Things by Jeanne-Marie Osterman (2021)

 All Animals Want the Same Things

Jeanne-Marie Osterman

Slipstream

(c)2021

Narrative personal poetry collection. Nothing wrong with the poems at all but I am weary of all the "first personal singular" throughout. Also, I am not certain that all animals do want the same things. 

Poems of Affection by Hugh Pendexter III (1994)

 Poems of Affection

Hugh Pendexter III

Armstrong State College

Savannah, GA

(c)1994

Staple-bound larger format chapbook. 48 pages. Credited listed on back cover (never saw that before)

Prisoner in the Streets of Paradise (1984)

 Prisoner in the Streets of Paradise

Mao Penha

St. Thomas Graphics

Virgin Islands

(c)1984

Wheelchair bound, Mao Penha had this book released in 1984. His is an unfortunate and tragic story and yet he has, as of 2005, made the best of a truly terrible situation. 

Beaches by Ruth Messenger (1981)

 

Beaches

Ruth Messenger 

The Partridge Press

Hudson, OH

(c) 1981

Illustrations by Janet Child. Staple bound collection of island poems. The author had a number of chapbooks published by this printer in the 1970s, apparently, and this was one assembled from some previously published work suggested by the subtitle of the book, "selected poems". There is an address for the author to the person who bought the copy from her and the address is in the Virgin Islands. 

Winter Me. Summer Me. by Becky Lee Weyrich (1974)

Winter Me. Summer Me.

Becky Lee Weyrich

Sentinel Press

Jessup , GA

(c)1974

In the world of "hen's teeth", this is one. Published in 1974 and inscribed and signed by Mrs. Weyrich this HAS TO BE among the first things published by the author. She included her address on St. Simons Island and a phone number (no longer in service, I called) 

Illustrated throughout by the author. Quite the find.