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Craig Czury works as a poet in schools, homeless shelters, prisons, mental hospitals and community centers throughout the world. His books have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Italian, and he has been awarded many national and international fellowships to continue his collaborative poem fusion performance and mural projects (www.poet-in-education.com).

Czury lives in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he edits the Red Pagoda Press Poetry Pamphlet Series.

God's Shiny Glass Eye

God's Shiny Glass Eye is a revised and expanded edition, with photographs,

of the long out of print chapbook published by Great Elm Press in 1987.

Some new material has been added as well as

14 photographs of colliery remnants taken by Craig.

Book endpapers are actual

whiteprints from a colliery

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.

GOUGED EARTH / GOUGED PEOPLE

UNCOVERING THE MINE SHAFT

BELLS LIKE SAD ANGELS

PETERSON VITALE KELLY

AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN

PRAYER FOR THE DISAPPEARED

KOTO MUSIC ON PUBLIC SQUARE

KULPMONT HEARSAY TALES

I'M PROBABLY WRONG BUT IT FEELS RIGHT TODAY

BREATHE, BABY, BREATHE

LOVE LETTERS TO JERSEY GIRLS

GOUGED EARTH / GOUGED PEOPLE

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.

i inherited the black-star hole

through each one of these window panes

I inherited the voices and attitudes of the men and women who were shut down and abandoned. A tremendous anger...a tremen-dous silence.

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.

God's Shiny Glass Eye is a 68 page

paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine.

TO ORDER God's Shiny Glass Eye ($15.00) ON-LINE

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In My Silence To Justify

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.

flying toward one dream of wings on earth

what you try to keep to yourself

when you speak without opening your eyes

we breathe from each others lungs

even when you smoke with your eyes closed

staring at the face that becomes our face of sleep

under your dark eyelids

your leg with my leg

your head with my shoulder

the way we've known each other all our lives

one of us jerks and cries out here

we all jerk and cry out

and what if this bus were to stop

who will remember whom

at the moment of stepping off

In My Silence To Justify is a 72 page paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine.

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as if it is just a matter

letters from an abandoned script

written and erased into this blank

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. Craig lives in Reading, Pa.

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Czury lives in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he edits the Red Pagoda Press Poetry Pamphlet Series. www.poet-in-education.com God's Shiny Glass Eye God's Shiny Glass Eye is a revised and expanded edition, with photographs, of the long out of print chapbook published by Great Elm Press in 1987. Some new material has been added as well as 14 photographs of colliery remnants taken by Craig. Book endpapers are actual whiteprints from a colliery 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. Michael Basinski Table of Contents GOUGED EARTH / GOUGED PEOPLE COALSCAPE UNCOVERING THE MINE SHAFT ZOLA IN SHAMOKIN FLOATING DUST THE SHIPWRECKED ANTHRACITE HISTORY SHAMOKIN TO KEEP WARM BELLS LIKE SAD ANGELS WILKES-BARRE 1984 PETERSON VITALE KELLY THOMAS RADYZYSKI AMERICAN MARCH 10 1951 MEMORANDUM COALSCAPE COALSCAPE WAKING IN ONE OF BOYLAN'S JUNK CARS MAMTICOKE BUS HACKING AND SMOKING GENETTI HOTEL AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN FLOOD SITE FRANZ KLINE PRAYER FOR THE DISAPPEARED KOTO MUSIC ON PUBLIC SQUARE CARDS KIELBASA AUGUST 2, 1981 KULPMONT HEARSAY TALES I'M PROBABLY WRONG BUT IT FEELS RIGHT TODAY BREATHE, BABY, BREATHE LOVE LETTERS TO JERSEY GIRLS From the book: GOUGED EARTH / GOUGED PEOPLE 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. i inherited the black-star hole through each one of these window panes I inherited the voices and attitudes of the men and women who were shut down and abandoned. A tremendous anger...a tremen-dous silence. 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. God's Shiny Glass Eye is a 68 page paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine. TO ORDER God's Shiny Glass Eye ($15.00) ON-LINE To order through mail see below. ************************************************************************** In My Silence To Justify 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. In My Country** we are a village flying toward one dream of wings on earth what you try to keep to yourself when you speak without opening your eyes we breathe from each others lungs even when you smoke with your eyes closed staring at the face that becomes our face of sleep under your dark eyelids your leg with my leg your head with my shoulder the way we've known each other all our lives stranger one of us jerks and cries out here here stop here we all jerk and cry out and what if this bus were to stop who will remember whom at the moment of stepping off Craig Czury Leiszs Bridge Reading, Pa. 3/19/03 In My Silence To Justify is a 72 page paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine. TO ORDER In My Silence To Justify ($13.00) ON-LINE To order through mail see below. ************************************************* Closing Out From the book: as if it is just a matter of closing my eyes letters from an abandoned script written and erased into this blank lost conversation 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. Craig lives in Reading, Pa. Paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine. Ten Dollars. TO ORDER Closing Out ON-LINE To order through mail see below. ********************* To order any of the above listed books by mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. Send orders to: FootHills Publishing PO Box 68 Kanona, NY 14856 Thank you for your support!**