FootHills Publishing     |   home Gelineau   |   Darling, Morton   |   Czarnecki   |   Ruggieri, Pruitt, Memmer   |   Huff   |   Desire Vail   |   Bruce Bennett   |   Czury   |   Conners   |   Gilman   |   M J Iuppa   |   Sweet   |   Brown   |   Arsenault   |   Leuzzi   |   Saling   |   MacPherson   |   Good   |   Harrier   |   Coffman   |   Donaghy   |   Coon   |   O'Brien   |   Merrifield   |   Allardt   |   Battelle, Loiselle   |   Gell Center Anthology   |   Ouzoonian   |   Myers   |   Courington   |   Betten   |   Hill-Kaucher   |   Contact FHP The Names of Winter While in the World Peter Conners lives in Rochester, NY where he works as Marketing Director for the poetry publisher BOA Editions, Ltd. His poetry and fiction appear regularly in literary journals, anthologies, and newspapers. He is founding co-editor of the literary journal, Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry & Flash Fiction, which  is published on-line by Web del Sol. His website is: www.peterconners.com     The Names of Winter A collection of prose poems. Cover art by Steve Smock. From the book: The Names of Winter (Here in this bleak city of Rochester, Where there are twenty-seven words for snow, Not all of them polite…  - Anthony Hecht) Neither one nor the other, we would whisper the name sleet as a child murmurs mother to the pale blue glow of sleep through ancestral dowels.  In this thick February no sleet or sleep or Yucatan dreams; a thick bed of salt no match for these fat flakes.  And so too forlorn loners skirting sidelong past strange atmospheres.  Cool, limpid hipster snow makes the scene.  Evoke now the orgy of cream.   Violet granule hammers.  There is no better movie than the timeless drift of eccentric patterned doilies through air; a crisp two a.m. cameo filmed in streetlight aureole, this city of whiskey and winter.  Castles, cultures, kingdoms formed without illusion, the decline of civilizations known as spring eternal.  If we are to dream ourselves away, let us dream of this… The Names of Winter is a 32 page hand-sewn chapbook - $9.00 TO ORDER  The Names of Winter ON-LINE      To order by mail see bottom of page. ************************************  While in the World Cover art by Steve Smock. In While in the World, Peter Conners' crisp ideas, nimble assertions and surprising resistances are effortlessly balanced against his snap, crack and pop music. The result is intoxicating. " Never trust the hand that bites you/once retracted/it will do it again." This is what compelling art does - it jumps up and bites you. In both poems and prose, Conners gives us a good nip and we walk away happy. - Thom Ward, author of Various Orbits A thunder of pulsating words and razor-sharp images cohesively fuse into a vigorous and potent mosaic of contemporary writing in While in the World. This organic and indomitable collection is undeniably a blast for the senses. Peter Conners is fully aware of the power of contemporary language, and demonstrates his ability to command phrases to stand for an agile and emphatic growl. He incessantly allows his reader to participate in a healthy taste of foresight, and does not deny poetic flavors, social consciousness, or acute realism. - Ave Jeanne, Editor, Black Bear Review From the book: While in the World we walked in your garden    trees fat with pregnant plums green apples wide mint leaves - the mint       leaves you plucked pressed between two fingers - inhaled - and still    wedged between teeth & tongue they lasted only moments, grandfather While in the World is a 76 page paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine - $13.00 TO ORDER  While in the World ON-LINE      To order 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!