While Light Is Built
Tedi López Mills
translated by Wendy Burk
56 pages, 6 x 9" paper
Price: $14 ISBN- I-888553-16-2

Tedi López Mills is in the midst of an ongoing conversation. To read her poetry is to enter the river of philosophy in one of its clearer channels. López Mills’ poetry engages the ideas and furthers the inquiries of her sharpest contemporaries and brightest forebears. These poems hold in trembling balance the tension between space and time, time and being, being and been. They invoke and asymptotically extend the eternal questions: who am I? who am I in relation to this world? what is this world in relation to God, or the idea of God? While Light Is Built houses some of the most important poems being written today. We have been invited in to the contemplation and conversation of Tedi López Mills. It is for us to enter and respond.

Kore Press First Book Award Winner 2003!

Various Modes of Departure
Deborah Fries
6 x 9" paper
Price: $14 ISBN 1-888553-18-9

"Deborah Fries’s marvelous debut collection, Various Modes of Departure, is mostly about women and the many good-byes they say – to a marriage, a long-lived in home and beloved locale, an elderly father, a threatened landscape. Fries’s lines are mother lodes of sensory images that incorporate regional descriptions, pop cultural images, brand names, references to singing stars, and expert knowledge of earth science and botany. Encyclopedic and smart, Fries’s poems both teach and delight."
      -Frances Sjoberg

Kore Press First Book Award Winner 2002!

Rigging the Wind
Jennifer Barber
80 pages, 6 x 9" paper
Price: $14 ISBN 1-888553-15-4

The poems in Rigging the Wind deal with the closeness of relationships, but also the surprising isolation, and even danger, they can bring. Ms. Barber drew on her own marriage and family relationships, as well as the time that she spent amongst those in Galicia, Spain, who still remember the way neighbors and regions were torn apart by the Spanish Civil war.