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new full-length collection from poet James Babbs
Disturbing The Light



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Disturbing the Light

sitting here in
the living room watching
the way the sunlight falls
across the floor making
these rectangles of light and
I remember how you
always avoided them
whenever you got up to
go to the bathroom or
the kitchen stepping
carefully over them or
walking around them but
never just going through them and
one day I asked you
why you did this and
you laughed, softly
said you didn’t want to
disturb the light and
now you’re gone and
I want to run around the room
scream at the top of my lungs and
step into the middle of
all those rectangles so
the light shines on me and
no longer touches the floor

New Book from Richard J. Cronborg

Blue Collar Journal by Richard J. Cronborg is now available at amazon.com. Blue Collar Journal is a diary of a retired heavy equipment operator. It contains stories, poems, and daily reflections. It is written simply and directly. It is sometimes dark, but often humorous. Above all it is always honest. The book takes the reader on a magical journey into the author's blue-collar world.

Paperback: 562 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (February 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1453774424
ISBN-13: 978-1453774427
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

About the Author
Richard Cronborg spent thirty-three years as a Local #150 union heavy-equipment operator, in the Chicagoland area. He has had many blue collar jobs in his lifetime: Pizza delivery driver, warehouseman, painter, bartender, flower delivery man, clothing salesman, employment agency "headhunter", and a variety of other menial jobs in his colorful career. His stories and poems are mainly autobiographical, but many are about other people he has met or imagined. Cronborg is now retired, and resides in Wheaton, Illinois with his wife, Debbie. He has a B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University. He is a well-known Chicago artist who has been featured in Chicago Magazine and the Chicago Tribune. Cronborg has also appeared in a variety of major network television shows in the Chicagoland area. "Blue Collar Journal" is his fourth book. It is a diary of a man who has seen life from many angles. Sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, the book takes the reader to many places. Cronborg is first and foremost a story teller. He loves to look at contemporary American life as it relates to the world. Much of what he has internalized as a working man has affected his verse. Cronborg continues to ponder his life and the world at large from a philosophical and sociological point of view.

New Book Release from Epic Rites Press

Epic Rites Press announced the release of Can't Stop Now by John Yamrus, 136 pages, $17.50, ISBN: 978-1-926860-06-0, Epic Rites Press, 2011. It is available for purchase from Small Press Distribution.

Since the release of his first book in 1970, John’s work has been published in hundreds of magazines, taught at both the high school and university levels, and translated into numerous languages.

The cover of Can’t Stop Now!, by the great multi-media artist Pablo Vision, depicts a 17th century perpetual motion machine – symbolic of John’s remarkably consistent body of work.

“Two major qualities prevail in Yamrus’ recent work: economy and punch. No word is unnecessary or out of place; the timing is impeccable; and, most difficult of all, the endings hit just the right balance of summation, revelation, and surprise.” – Gerald Locklin, author of Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet

When asked about the economy of his poetry, John remarked:

“I think the hardest thing for a writer to learn is what NOT to say. Writers want to talk and talk and talk in their work and show their readers how good they are. Flashy. That’s not me. I don’t want to impress my readers with bells and whistles. I want to hit them over the head with blood and guts and bone. I don’t want to create an unreality. People can’t relate to that. I want to give them something more. I want to give them something that they know and lead them into thinking something a little deeper about it.”