My Books
Here is a list of my books, from “The Weirdest Is the Sphere” (“math poems”, 1979) to my two latest (published in the same week!), the flyers of which appear on my home page.
The Weirdest Is the Sphere (poems inspired by math — there’s no ACTUAL math in it!), Seven Woods Press, NY, 1979
Tuesday Nights (anthology of women’s poetry, poems read at a series coordinated by Wemara and me), self-published with a grant from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1977
An Ambitious Sort of Grief (diary of neonatal loss), Ide House, TX, 1983, and The Liberal Press, TX, 1985
The Shadow of an Angel (diary of subsequent pregnancy), The Liberal Press, TX, 1985
A Garden Flower (diary of life with the new Cesarean baby), The Liberal Press, TX, 1985
The Temper Tantrum Book (poetry), WordWorker, PA, 1983
Mother Poet (ed., with four others — anthology of poetry about motherhood), MOTHERING Publications, NM, 1984
She Was Born She Died (poems about my horrible experience with neonatal loss, and a few about the subsequent pregnancy), Centering Corp., NM, 1984
The Sitting-Down Hug (the first in what I call “the well spouse poetry trilogy” — A well spouse is a person whose spouse is chronically NOT well), The Liberal Press, TX, 1987
Counting to Zero (miscarriage poems), Center for Thanatology Research, NY, 1987
The Limits of Miracles (ed., anthology of poems about the loss of babies), Bergin and Garvey, MA, 1988
The Level of Doorknobs (poems and prose about being a well spouse), Centering Corp., NM, 1988
Extreme Points (booklet to accompany exhibit of my poems and Anna Moon’s “well spouse photography”), Center for Thanatology Research, NY, 1988
These Covers to Crawl Under (the solipsist poems), MAF Press, MA, 1989
Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse (at-home caregiving memoir), Temple University Press, PA 1995
Epsilon Country (the second in “the well spouse poetry trilogy”), Center for Thanatology Research, NY, 1995
Crossing the Equal Sign (poems about the experience of, and my passion for, math), Plain View Press, TX, 2007
Surviving the Alphabet, husband-published (rather than self-published! — a chapbook of “collected poems”), Huge Pathetic Force Press, PA, 2007
Chronic Progressive (the third in “the well spouse poetry trilogy”), Plain View Press, TX, 2009
Parables for a Rainy Day (poems/parables), Green Fuse Poetic Arts, CO, 2013
Sizes Only Slightly Distinct (more poems/parables), Green Fuse Poetic Arts, CO, 2014
Still the End: Memoir of a Nursing Home Wife, Unlimited Publishing, 2014
Lights I Have Loved (poetry), Red Dashboard Press, PA, 2014
Closer to Dying (poetry), WordTech Communications, OH, 2016
What I’m Wearing Today (poems about thrift-shopping), dancing girl press, 2016)
Truth and Beauty (poems about the interaction in the course I developed, Mathematics in Literature), WordTech Communications, 2017
New Heights in Non-Structure (poems about my views on children, education, and society), dancing girl press, IL, 2018
The Project of Being Alive (poetry), New Plains Press, AL, 2018
The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems (about societal micro-aggressions; I have never been raped or assaulted but…), Rhythm and Bones Press, PA, 2019
The Fuss and the Fury (poetry written 30 years previous, after the joyous and Angst-y time of my life after having my last baby), Alien Buddha Press, 2019