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My book of poetry, "Almost Full" has been delivered and is now available @ $15. Proceeds to benefit the Owl Oak Press cooperative.

Write me at enthalpypress@shaw.ca to order.

Mind giving us a sample in this thread Don?

Thanks,

Chris

Sign me up for one, Don! PM me with the order details. Congratulations - you must be thrilled!

You can see my poetry at my blog.

http://enthalpypress.blogspot.com/

--Don

Letter to Tom P.
-----------------------

I had no idea
where the path through you
would go when I first met you,
all blond on blond
with wispy bits of unruly gold
all around you.

I thought bright haired people
always avoid the cold.
In spite of the rags and bits of paper,
you looked redeemed.

When you told me about the dark,
the fever, the rage, the land of nothing,
and you sung your angry, pent-up songs,
I declared how strong you are
to avoid madness or live at the edge
of madness without slipping over.

You are bound in safety
because of the asbestos qualities of art.


Social
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The fully fattened spider
dies with compliance
following the ancient spider code
hung paralyzed amid her teeming babes
the very protein of her body
giving lessons to the cannibal future.

The salmon eagerly punches
toward death. That is his wedding day
with all the pumped up fishy fantasies
stored in his milky brain. He perishes
stuporous in one and final lastitude.

As for me,
goodbye will
turn my eyes to you as the future shrinks.
I will be nothing and you will be all.

Congratulations Don. Thats fantastic!

Congratulations

Thanks guys

the great news Don, you've gotta be stoked with that!! congrats

wow...congrats...excellent

very nice cover too...who did it?

christian

Thanks for sharing some of the poetry - great cover to. Well done.

Thank you guys. The cover is a part of a drawing I made a few years ago called "Becoming the Grocer."

Congrats on your new book launch Don! Can you order it online?

Amazing what google turns up:
http://www.tryst3.com/issue15/schaeffer.html

Quote:Don Schaeffer was born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1940. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from City University of New York (1975). He established Enthalpy Press and has published 5 chap books including "Time Meat" and "The Word Cow and the Pig O' Love." ISBN series: 0-9687017 Recent poetry has been published in The Writers Publishing, Burning Effigy Press, "Understanding Magazine" and "Quills" as well as "Tryst." His first book, "Nearly Full" will be released by Owl Oak Press in early Summer.

Or should I say, Doctor Don....

Thanks Shuttertalk--see the e-mail I sent you.