A collection of poetry and essays, inspired by Mali Mann's husband's decline from Alzheimers. Beautiful paintings too. She says that her painting and poetry open up a path to hope for her. "Many of these lyrical poems are steeped in sadness that leaves one feeling not depleted, but stronger, enriched, vitalized." Thomas Ogden, author "Even as Mali Mann's pen eases her sufferings ("planting them one by one in the garden") their passion and pain carry over again and again in these lines. That brooding, monolithic sense of silence, as witness to the responsiveness that slips slowly away, is anguishing. Yet hope peaks in those few, precious flickers of recognition and love passing across that heavy fog. And it does in other lines of loss: 'tell me how your courage is my wardrobe.'" Joseph Caston, San Francisco Psychoanalyst and Poet "Mali Mann's poems frequently migrate between self and other, now and the not-now, observer and the observed. Her moving work marks the quest to arrest attention with language and to ask important questions of it in turn." Forest Hamer, San Francisco Psychoanalyst and Poet

“Then, O Belovèd, Whisper To The Worm” is a fantastic collection of selected poetry by the French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867). Baudelaire's wonderful poems are known for their masterful use of rhyme and rhythm which, together with their Romantic exoticism, inspired a whole generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé. The perfect collection for poetry lovers and fans of Baudelaire's seminal work. Contents include: “Poems in Prose, Translated by Arthur Symons”, “Additional Poems in Prose, Translated by James Huneker”, “Little Poems in Prose, Translated by F. P. Sturm”, “Additional Translations of the Flowers of Evil, Translated by James Huneker”, “Two Poems from Baudelaire, Translated by Richard Herne Shepherd”, and “Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire, Translated by Guy Thorne”. Other notable works by this author include: “La Fanfarlo” (1847), “Les Fleurs du Mal” (1857), “Les Paradis Artificiels” (1860), and “Le Spleen de Paris” (1869). Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories. Drawing upon elements of the Aristotelian dramatic structure and the Hero's Journey, Please Come Off-Book is both a love letter to and a scathing critique of American culture and the lenses we choose to see ourselves through.

Poetry. MELANCOL�A explores the emotional and psychological landscape of today's mad world. The poems wrestle with loss, despair, love, longing, the challenges of being a father and a husband, the search for identity, and the fight for one's soul. While the collection is not without hope, it resists easy redemption and facile optimism. "Agitations both tender and muscular simmer inside these poems. A sadness that's palpable and physical haunts this poet; so does rage at the power- mongers' forces that keep children hungry, that fester poverty in terrifying mutations. Poet of engagement, Garc�a speaks to the moon, to his sister, to the seasons and the garden, to his body a vessel: 'these hands like a chunk of asteroid-full of taking & giving.' This book offers us a photo-real blueprint of one man's life-space, an elegant blues-print of one man's heart, with direct utterance and lavish music." —Judith Vollmer "Roberto Carlos Garc�a is, it seems to me, poet-kin of both Lorca and Neruda, but also things like rain, wind, the color yellow and the color green. In MELANCOL�A we have a collection of gorgeously quiet poems rendered by intellect and the dream where lyricism is born out of the dusky space between mystery and the everyday. Here is a breathtaking archive of an imagination at work, a body made up of effort and world. See: 'My friends I am not above you // I can hear the song of reckoning in the rose thorns' and 'In my mouth Melancol�a is an orchard, / a yellowing day & bluing night, // In my ribcage Melancol�a is an ecstatic lilt / made of pearls, my heart-wet sand, / pungent as dogwoods.'" —Aracelis Girmay "In these sensuous poems everything is up for inspection and interrogation, including the speaker himself. Here are echoes of Lorca and Neruda, their depth and power, but in a voice entirely the poet's own. Roberto Carlos Garc�a's poems take beauty as a gift, and also as a sometimes foil against capitalism and the numbness of the suburban life we are supposed to desire. '& what is poetry if not what we need?' We need poems like these, with their living language and their vision of where we are and where poetry, ecstatic and elegiac, can take us." —Anne Marie Macari "These poems ache and plead and yearn, and never forget song. Never forget song." —Ross Gay

From celebrated New Zealand poetess F.D. Soul comes her highly anticipated second collection of poetry, prose, illustrations, and wisdom. Her messages grapple with relationships: interpersonal relationships, her relationship with herself, and the relationship between poetry and the world. Unchaptered and raw, Between You and These Bones reads much like a memoir or meditation yet maintains all the musicality of poetry. “This book is a garden, a hymn, a forgiveness. A falling back in love. It is all the pieces of light you forgot you held, remembered.”

Sailing away from her first book, An Ocean of Grey, Kamalia Hasni’s second book, A Wave of Dreams, is another collection of poetry and prose, each one complemented with gorgeous illustrations by three featured artists. The book follows the author's journey in healing from previous heartbreak, her empowering discovery of self-love and independence, her experiences and struggles in living alone in a new country, and her courage in giving love a second chance.

An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. In so doing he reveals an experience that is part of our heritage and mythology. For Lyle, Ray, Clara, and App, the struggle to survive on an independent family ranch is a series of blameless failures and unacclaimed successes that illuminate the Western character. The Meadow evokes a sense of place that can be achieved only by someone who knows it intimately.