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My sister calls it…</div> <div> she doesn't call it anything, </div> <div> she just eats and excuses herself back to her room. </div> <bR> <div> ********</div> <bR> <div> My mother and I have a running argument </div> <div> (even though she's been dead many years) about the number of times </div> <div> she threw me out against the number of times I ran away.</div> <div> __________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> Excerpt from the poem</div> <div> <I>THE GRÃDINA DE LACRIMI CAFÉ</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Bine aþi venit to the Grãdina de Lacrimi Café in Bucharest. </div> <div> Located on a street overgrown with weeds, </div> <div> in a building no longer here, </div> <div> torn down by Ceausescu for catering to the higher </div> <div> appetites of intellect.<B> </B></div> <div> A quiet, weather-lit place. Open air seating. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Here all kinds of things</I></div> <div> <I>cling together</I></div> <div> <I>and their faces</I></div> <div> <I>superimpose. </I></div> <bR> <div> The hostess and waiter are the most congenial native poets, moonlighting, you could say, to support their major vocations of being dead.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Once you arrive</I></div> <div> <I>you never know who has really come</I></div> <div> <I>and who has really come from the other side</I></div> <div> <I>and even farther than the other side.</I> </div> <div> __________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Craig Czury grew up in the northeast Pennsylvania coal <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="15d16b90.jpg" border=0 width="278" height="185" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> region and spent 15 years hitchhiking North America, working in carnivals, warehouses, canneries, construction crews, restaurant kitchens; unloading fishing boats, and organizing community poetry readings. Author of 20 books of poetry, his poems have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Polish, Croatian, Macedonian, Albanian, and Italian. He works as a poet in schools, homeless shelters, prisons, mental hospitals and community centers all over the world. An avid blues harp </div> <div> and bocce player, Czury earned an M.F.A. from Wilkes </div> <div> University. He lives with the poet Heather Thomas </div> <div> in Reading, Pa.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> KITCHEN OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION</div> <div> is a 44 page hand-stitched  paper book w/spine.</div> <div> $10.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada        <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Kitchen of Conflict Resolution"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-06"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Kitchen of Conflict Resolution"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-06"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >      </FONT></div> <bR> <div>      <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> ********************************************************************</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="god_s_shiny_glass_eye"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>God's Shiny Glass Eye</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1481dc50.jpg" border=0 width="285" height="453" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> God's Shiny Glass Eye is a revised and expanded edition, with photographs,</div> <div> of the long out of print chapbook published by Great Elm Press in 1987. </div> <bR> <div> Some new material has been added as well as</div> <div> 14 photographs of colliery remnants taken by Craig. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Book endpapers are actual </I></div> <div> <I>whiteprints from a colliery</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>God's Shiny Glass Eye is a montage that offers an impressionistic vision of the eastern Pennsylvanian mining country. The authenticity of the poetry is strengthened by Czury's strong identification with coal country. The poet's imagination and the anthracite world intimately merge to produce a poetry that is poignantly barren and stripped of any artificial embellishment. It is an angry poetry, but its passion is restrained and boils beneath the structure of the book.</I></div> <bR> <div>                                                                        Michael Basinski</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Table of Contents</div> <bR> <div> GOUGED EARTH / GOUGED PEOPLE       </div> <div> COALSCAPE     </div> <div> UNCOVERING THE MINE SHAFT     </div> <div> ZOLA IN SHAMOKIN     </div> <div> FLOATING DUST     </div> <div> THE SHIPWRECKED     </div> <div> ANTHRACITE HISTORY     </div> <div> SHAMOKIN</div> <div> TO KEEP WARM     </div> <div> BELLS LIKE SAD ANGELS     </div> <div> WILKES-BARRE 1984     </div> <div> PETERSON  VITALE  KELLY  </div> <div>      THOMAS  RADYZYSKI     </div> <div> AMERICAN     </div> <div> MARCH 10 1951     </div> <div> MEMORANDUM     </div> <div> COALSCAPE     </div> <div> COALSCAPE     </div> <div> WAKING IN ONE OF</div> <div>      BOYLAN'S  JUNK CARS     </div> <div> MAMTICOKE BUS     </div> <div> HACKING AND SMOKING     </div> <div> GENETTI HOTEL     </div> <div> AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN     </div> <div> FLOOD SITE     </div> <div> FRANZ KLINE   </div> <div> PRAYER FOR THE DISAPPEARED     </div> <div> KOTO MUSIC  ON PUBLIC SQUARE     </div> <div> CARDS KIELBASA     </div> <div> AUGUST 2, 1981     </div> <div> KULPMONT HEARSAY TALES     </div> <div> I'M PROBABLY WRONG BUT IT FEELS RIGHT TODAY               </div> <div> BREATHE, BABY, BREATHE   <B>  </B></div> <div> LOVE LETTERS TO JERSEY GIRLS     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>From the book:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>GOUGED EARTH / GOUGED PEOPLE</B></div> <bR> <div> January 22, 1959 the Susquehanna River burst through the roof of the Knox Mine, up from Wilkes-Barre, flooding the entire honey-comb of mines throughout the lower northern anthracite coalfield: 12 miners dead, thousands of miners out of work forever. I was 7 years old. Within 5 years our textile industry had moved south for cheaper labor...thousands of mill workers out of work or moved out of the region forever.</div> <bR> <div> <I>i inherited the black-star hole</I></div> <div> <I>through each one of these window panes</I></div> <bR> <div> I inherited the voices and attitudes of the men and women who were shut down and abandoned. A tremendous anger...a tremen-dous silence.</div> <bR> <div> One high school student, after listening to me read my poems about the gouged earth, gouged people, sulfur creeks and mountains of slag, asked me if I was an environmentalist. I flipped off the lights, opened the window, rearranged my chair...hacking and smoking.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="14973ab0.jpg" border=0 width="371" height="427" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="40" VSPACE="100"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="14a763f0.jpg" border=0 width="374" height="575" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <bR> <div>    </div> <div> God's Shiny Glass Eye is a 68 page </div> <div> paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine. </div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER God's Shiny Glass Eye<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > </FONT>($15.00) ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="God's Shiny Glass Eye"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="04-14"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="15.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <div>      <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <div> ****************************************************************************</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="in_my_silence_to_justify"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>In My Silence To Justify</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="14dbd230.jpg" border=0 width="189" height="291" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> IN MY SILENCE TO JUSTIFY unifies ten years of poetry from a bridge between Mexico (Diary W/o Names), my new life with Heather across the Schuylkill River (Parallel Rivertime), my thoughts on writing (Between Sleep And Waking, Diverse Articulitus, White Pall), September 11 (Aphoristic Shrapnel), and its aftermath (In My Country). These are poems given to ideas and spacious thought grounded in a profound spirit without borders, without sanctuary.</div> <bR> <div> <B>In My Country</B></div> <bR> <div> we are a village</div> <div> flying toward one dream of wings on earth</div> <div> what you try to keep to yourself</div> <div> when you speak without opening your eyes</div> <div> we breathe from each others lungs</div> <div> even when you smoke with your eyes closed</div> <div> staring at the face that becomes our face of sleep</div> <div> under your dark eyelids</div> <div> your leg with my leg</div> <div> your head with my shoulder</div> <div> the way we've known each other all our lives</div> <div> stranger</div> <div> one of us jerks and cries out <I>here</I></div> <div> <I>here stop here</I></div> <div> we all jerk and cry out</div> <div> and what if this bus were to stop</div> <div> who will remember whom</div> <div> at the moment of stepping off</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Craig Czury</div> <div> Leiszs Bridge</div> <div> Reading, Pa.</div> <div> 3/19/03</div> <bR> <div> In My Silence To Justify is a 72 page paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine. </div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER In My Silence To Justify<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > </FONT>($13.00) ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="In My Silence to Justify"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="03-4"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="13.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <div>      <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <div> ***************************************************</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="closing_out"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Closing Out</B></FONT></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="151ba2a0.png" border=0 width="186" height="298" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> as if it is just a matter</div> <div> of closing my eyes</div> <div> letters from an abandoned script</div> <div> written and erased into this blank</div> <div> lost conversation</div> <bR> <div> Craig Czury (www.poet-in-education) works as a poet in schools, prisons, hospitals and community centers throughout the world. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, with poems translated and published in several foreign languages. His collaborative Poem Fusions (multi-voiced poetry performances) are a community doc-umentary of voices that have become backyard, stage and radio plays. 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