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Earl Coleman: Books
| Like Father Like Son (Villa Florentine Press, 2007) |
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| My latest book, Like Father Like Son, combines a selection of my lyric poetry and prose poems with the lyric poetry of my son, Allan Douglass Coleman. This quality paperback has an unusual two-cover design by Allan, with each poet's contribution occupying half the volume. Each half includes an extensive interview with the poet. (My interview is the one conducted by Wayne Lanter for River King, also available here.) |
| Like Father Like Son, published by Villa Florentine Press, had an official publication date of April 30, 2007. |
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The book is priced at $15. Copies can be purchased directly from the publisher via this book's homepage. |
Earl Coleman — Greatest Hits 1960-2003 (Pudding House Publications, 2004)
Pudding House (which had published several of my poems) invited me to publish a chapbook with them as part of The Poets Greatest Hits National Archives Series from Pudding House Publications, a series they publish to archive poets they choose (more than 200 chapbooks in this series issued thus far). These books are never allowed to go out of print and are housed in several collections (the libraries of Ohio State University., SUNY/Buffalo, Brown University, to name a few). Each contains five pages of biographical material and 12 poems that the poet considers crucial in his/her development. Published June 2004.
For excerpts from the book, click here.
To order by mail, send your check for $8.95 to:
Pudding House Publlcations
81 Shadymere Lane
Columbus, OH 43213
You can also order via email: info@puddinghouse.com.
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A Stubborn Pine in a Stiff Wind (The Mellen Poetry Press, 2001)
As seen in the American Poetry Review, September 2001
I’ve been published widely, but I’d never had a solo book before. This one is 84 pages, published by The Mellen Poetry Press and now out of print. The list price was $14.95. Copies are sometimes available from Amazon.com.
For excerpts from the book, click here.
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| Carolyn Stoloff, poet and artist, comments on Stubborn Pine:
"Fueled with
superabundant vitality, a driving cadence
and a trunkful of allusions, historical
and literary, Earl Coleman guides us on
a jeep tour of the rough terrain of more
than half a century. We make stops in
bedrooms, bars, churches, war zones and
social arenas where ritual struggles are
in progress. His pungent, often mordant
wit spares no one, least of all himself.
With a quick finger he points to areas
of privation, pain and vulnerability which
we attempt to skirt or camouflage. An
exhilarating trip!"
Eric Blau, poet
and novelist, comments on the book:
"What makes
Stubborn Pine important is the poet’s earned language. The minor technical conceits have long ago been incorporated into his surer hand. What impresses me as most important in Coleman's poetry is that through it he has given us himself — a tough, realistic, romantic, aware lover of the life around him. He breathes, the poems breathe, we breathe."
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© Copyright 2001-2007 by Earl Coleman. All rights reserved.
For reprint permissions contact Earl Coleman,
emc@stubbornpine.com.
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