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STATE POETRY SERIESTales of the François VaseA Poem and Radio PlayJulia OlderVolume III. Julia Older’s obsession with the famous François Vase led toboth the radio play and the book-length poem. The dramatic 25-centuryjourney of the vase winds through a subterranean inferno of greed, passion,and terror. Twice it was smashed into 600-plus pieces, came unglued, andwas puzzled together, each time with a piece missing. A third time—duringthe 1966 Florence Flood—a scientist intentionally broke the vase. He restored it with the missing piece, and at last it was whole. Older’s book offers readers the entire fascinating story. The poem is illustrated with the vase figures from the Iliad and the book includes a “backstory” with Older’s original translations of her research.isbn 978-0-9845921-2-8 Paperback with CD, 88 pages $20.00Cathedral of Nervous HorsesNew & Selected PoemsW. E. ButtsVolume IV. A collection of new and selected poems by W. E. Butts, New Hampshire Poet Laureate, 2009–2013.“Cathedral of Nervous Horses looks back on thirty years of poetic accomplishment . . . I am most stirred by [the author's] uncanny evocations of the 1950s and 1960s. . . . No one, and I mean that emphatically, exclusively—no one can claim, as might the fabulous R & B musicians he catalogs in ‘Radio Time,’ to be a more masterful ‘historian of desire.’ ”—Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureateisbn 978-0-9845921-7-3 Paperback, 128 pages $16.00The Briar PatchSelected Poems & TranslationsJ. KatesVolume V. A collection of selected poems and translations by J. Kates. “I have always admired the clarity and quiet intensity of J. Kates’s poetry. This long-overdue collection includes a generous sampling of not only his own wry, precisely-worded poems that bring to mind Seamus Heaney (“Starting School” is one of my favorites in that vein) but also his accessible translations, ranging from the ancient Romans to some of Russia’s finest voices. This volume should bring him more of the attention he has long deserved.” —Joseph Bruchacisbn 978-0-9845921-8-0 Paperback, 112 pages $16.00603-672-4317 A publisher of fine books that will change your world • 5