Poetry
(FootHills Publishing)
"Patricia Roth Schwartz's compelling poems unflinchingly address family's history and history's family, and we are the better for it. Hers is a voice of empathy and grace, a voice that reminds us in all ways to be mindful of 'the other.'"
Down the Middle with a Nickel: a Memoir of a West
Virginia Childhood in Poems
(FootHills Publishing)
"With all the vividness and clarity of a Brownie home movie, these vignettes of a West Virginia girlhood are a mnemonic triumph. Young Patty confronts all the terrors that 1950s America could conjure: the Bomb, polio, Russian spies, the junior-high dance. We watch her growing awareness of rural poverty, marital disharmony, sexual repression and gender regimentation--the hidden casualties of an age of confident conformity. Alternately comical, nostalgic, and poignant, this poetic memoir is notable for its range, its skill, and its sensitivity, but especially for delightful surprises at every turn."
(FootHills Publishing)
"With all the vividness and clarity of a Brownie home movie, these vignettes of a West Virginia girlhood are a mnemonic triumph. Young Patty confronts all the terrors that 1950s America could conjure: the Bomb, polio, Russian spies, the junior-high dance. We watch her growing awareness of rural poverty, marital disharmony, sexual repression and gender regimentation--the hidden casualties of an age of confident conformity. Alternately comical, nostalgic, and poignant, this poetic memoir is notable for its range, its skill, and its sensitivity, but especially for delightful surprises at every turn." Hungers
(Blue Spruce Press)
A gentle yet fierce first collection of lyric poems from the heart of the women's movement of the 70s--yet deeply personal, the poems of a 30ish woman coming out: as a poet, an urban dweller on her own, a lover of women navigating the perilous waters of love and friendship betrayed, lost, renewed. Their four titles funded by a Community Arts Grant from Aetna Life in Hartford, CT, The Blue Spruce Poets Collective--Helen Lawson, Norma Blacke-Bragg, Joan Shapiro, and Schwartz--pioneered contemporary women's poetry. $8.00
A gentle yet fierce first collection of lyric poems from the heart of the women's movement of the 70s--yet deeply personal, the poems of a 30ish woman coming out: as a poet, an urban dweller on her own, a lover of women navigating the perilous waters of love and friendship betrayed, lost, renewed. Their four titles funded by a Community Arts Grant from Aetna Life in Hartford, CT, The Blue Spruce Poets Collective--Helen Lawson, Norma Blacke-Bragg, Joan Shapiro, and Schwartz--pioneered contemporary women's poetry. $8.00The La Brea Tar Pits Blues: a Memoir of Los Angeles Adolescence in Poems and Lyric Short Prose (FootHills)
"...language bubbles and ensnares readers into an adolescence blooming with emotion and color. ... This collection is rich; a poetic cache of the past, the gems and bones of an early life, intact and flickering on the page."
--Sonya Livingston, Ghostbread $8.00
The Crows of Copper John: a History of Auburn Prison in Poems
(Olive Trees Publishing)
Journey with us deep into the dark heart of the history of
Auburn Prison, the forbidding fortress that has dominated the landscape of this
small city since 1821... Learn about how the first convicts were forced into
solitary confinement and total silence... Why have a murder of crows come to the trees surrounding the
prison again and again generation after generation for almost two hundred
years? In this volume of lyric narrative poems--which serve as dramatic
monologues--the voices of Auburn Prison and its grisly yet sometimes inspiring
past speak to us... All share their stories... Yet in the end it is still the
cries of the crows bearing witness that echo through the night. $10.00
The Loneliness of Squash, and Other Writings:
lyric short prose, creative non-fiction, prose poems,
and poems
(Blue Heron Publishing: an Imprint of
The Literary Guild of the Finger Lakes)
“To read The Loneliness of Squash, and Other Writings is to come away convinced that Patricia Roth Schwartz is a flat-out poet--one who meets life with intensity, living its truth completely and intimately, then distills her experiences into passionate, authentic fiction, non-fiction and prose poetry. Writing in this context is more than writing: It is a metaphor for a life.”
--G. E. Schwartz,
author of Lvng in Tongues (Hank’s
Original Loose Gravel Press) $8.00
Original Loose Gravel Press) $8.00
Short Fiction
The Names of the Moons of Mars
Winner of a Lambda Literary Award in 1989: a volume of short fiction from the 70s and 80s published by New Victoria Publishing, a woman-identified press: developed with a keen eye for detail and substantial attention to the craft of its genre, these pieces explore how we light--or fail to light--the candles that lie deep within each others' hearts. "Pat Schwartz's characters are just like ourselves: spirited, sensual, funny, aching with the difficulty of being human in an unjust world. Enjoy this book, It's better than therapy."
Books Edited by Patricia Roth Schwartz:
Doing Time to Cleanse My Mind: an Anthology from the Inmates' Poetry Workshop
of Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, New
York, 2001-2009 (FootHills) $15.00
Guerillas in the Mist, and Other Poems, by Michael Rhynes,
a chapbook (Olive Trees Publishing) $5.00
“I’m a Lyrical Brother, and I Can Feel It in My Bones:” an Anthology from Auburn Correctional’s Monday Night Poetry Workshop/Urban Monks
(Olive Trees Publishing) $5.00
Exiting the Prism—Fade to Black..., by Jalil Muntaqim
(Olive Trees Publishing; currently distributed
by The Jericho Project NYC)
to order, please email fireflypoet@sage-thyme.com; further instructions will be given
by The Jericho Project NYC)
to order, please email fireflypoet@sage-thyme.com; further instructions will be given
