IAMO PRESS PRESENTS:
SMALLFISH CLOVER
BY HEATHER SHAW
FICTION / LITERATURE
"Smallfish Clover, like most affluent American boys, has many skills and inner resources. But how these gifts get used in the real world can lead to success and happiness, or useless death. It’s a test all young people must take at some time or another, although in our society we often try to postpone it indefinitely. The children of poverty, however, don’t have the luxury of wasting difficult decisions. And in a sense, the writing of this book was a kind of incantation to protect my own children from making bad choices with terrible consequences."
Heather Shaw paints a beautiful masterpiece of a story that leaves the reader feeling proud, sad, and somewhat confused—much like Smallfish and his friends feel much of the time. This is powerful, reality-based fiction—albeit of a reality few of us know, and one which no boy should ever have to face head-on the way Smallfish does. —Daniel Jolley, Top 50 Reviewer at Amazon.com
…Shaw deftly evokes the wonder of an ordinary individual’s ability to affect changes beyond his wildest dreams. —ForeWord Magazine
ORDER NOW:
Smallfish Clover, a novel by Heather Shaw
Softcover, 374 pages, $20.00, includes shipping
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IAMO PRESS PRESENTS:
THE BLUE HOUSE
BY MARLA KAY HOUGHTELING
POETRY
Here is homage finely wrought—for the home place, its seasons and people, for nature’s inventory of the living and dead—all of it tendered with virtuosity and imaginative grace. —Thomas Lynch, author of Still Life in Milford, The Undertaking –Life Studies from the Dismal Trade and Bodies in Motion and at Rest
THURSDAYS AT THE Y
When the pregnant ladies come for their lesson
Nylon ropes are reeled in and racing lanes vanish.
Water recently pounded by hard legs with passion
Becomes a tranquil surface where the ladies float
Like splendid water lilies on a chlorine-scented pond.
The water ripples and light winks across the ceiling
As the ladies gently scull and slowly kick.
Inside their bellies the babies float serenely,
Anchored by tiny air hoses to mother ships
And imitate movements in a smaller atmosphere.
The maternal cluster moves to the showers,
Stepping gingerly on the wet tiles.
The instructor tells them they are beautiful flowers
Ready to bloom when the swimmers within them
Break the surface and catch sight of a new world.
$14.49 ($11.95 plus shipping and handling)
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