Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own “brilliant, trivial unmooring.” As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her moods mirrored in the calendar of the seasons, making lush music of the materials at hand and accepting the seismic changes in her life with an appreciation for the incidental scraps of beauty she chances upon.Throughout these luminous poems–which touch movingly on the illness and loss of her husband–Digges marvels at the brio with which we fling ourselves daringly into the night:See how the first dark takes the city in its armsand carries it into what yesterday we called the future.O, the dying are such acrobats.Here you must take a boat from one day to the next,or clutch the girders of the bridge, hand over hand.But they are sailing like a pendulum between eternity and evening,diving, recovering, balancing the air.

    Eichhorn has been a bartender, dishwasher, cook, doorman, process server, stable hand, sailor, bouncer, taxicab driver, phone interviewer, hod carrier, publisher, firefighter, and paralegal investigator. He's also been writing comic stories about his life and experiences for the past fifteen years, illustrated by some of the finest cartoonists in the world. Such luminaries as Peter Bagge (Hate), Dave Cooper (Ripple, Overbite), Jim Woodring (The Frank Book), Joe Sacco (Palestine, The Fixer), Chester Brown (Louis Riel), Peter Kuper (The Metamorphosis), and Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise) are only a few of the contributors to this volume.

    Dogs are also family members, heroes, rescuers, daredevils, and much more. They come in all shapes and sizes and are brave, smart, loyal, and even goofy! Real all about some amazing canines whose stories will make you laugh, gasp, smile, or cry.

    Two Collections of Forlorn Funnies by Paul Hornschemeier