ARTAMO PRESS
ARTAMO PRESS is an independent publisher of modern literary fiction, non-fiction and contemporary poetry in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
ARTAMO PRESS is an independent publisher of modern literary fiction, non-fiction and contemporary poetry in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
Elvira Laskowski holds a PhD summa cum laude in French literature and moved from her hometown Berlin, Germany to Santa Barbara, California in 1997. She does research in the field of modern literature, especially in combination with mathematics. Her articles are written in German, French, and English and have been published in literary magazines and scientific publications in Germany, France, and the United States. She also took part in literature panels at UC Berkeley and UCLA. Elvira Laskowski began writing poetry in the year 2000. Her poems are published in various anthologies and chapbooks in the US.
96 pages, paperback, ISBN 000-0-0000000-0-0, $12.90, tax included, free U.S. shipping
Perie Longo’s poems transport us from the spectrum of emotion:
tragic and cathartic to funny and hilarious. She is a virtuoso in
each form she chooses, carrying us with her, laughing and crying.
Poems in Perie Longo’s book, With Nothing behind but Sky —
a journey through grief, cover a nine
year period from the diagnosis of her husband’s leukemia, through his treatment,
death and beyond showing how time changes grief,
and how the relationship of a husband and wife
continues even after death, always there like the sky, which offers hope even when life seems darkest.
96 pages, paperback, $12.90, tax included, free U.S. shipping
ISBN 978-0-9788475-0-0 > BUY NOW
While Starkey’s poetry has appeared in hundreds of literary
journals and limited edition books
and chapbooks, Ways of Being Dead is the first time his major work has been collected in a single volume. Readers acquainted with Starkey’s poems will recognize his wry voice, impec-
cable ear, and wide range of form and subject matter.
128 pages, paperback, $14.90, tax included, free U.S. shipping
ISBN 978-0-9788475-1-7 > BUY NOW
In Charm School Homer’s Odyssey springs to life
in comically witty, psychologically
rich poetry full of epic resonance. The drama of Odysseus’ delayed home-coming from the Trojan War is told as encounters
with five strong women: Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa,
Athena, and Penelope. All the famed encounters are
there, the Cyclops, the Lotus Eaters, the Clashing
Rocks, the descent into the Underworld, but the real
story here is one of seduction, faithfulness, devotion
to duty, and the ultimate testing of love. Who is the
hero: tardy Odysseus or long-suffering Penelope?
64 pages, paperback, $10.90, tax included, free U.S. shipping
ISBN 978-0-9788475-2-4 > BUY NOW
In Adventures of the Minor Poet
David Starkey offers what most any reader desires: story, a great character, humor, wit, a rich engagement with the physical world that takes us past it, insights trickling through before we realize it, an earned and subtle poignancy. — And what fun it is to read this book. What a pleasure to ride the intelligence of this language.
80 pages, paperback, $11.90, ISBN 978-0-9788475-3-1 – SOLD OUT
Glenna Luschei’s poetry collection Libido
Dreams was inspired by the Greek poet
Odysseas Elytis. All of her poems respond
to variations of his philosophy of love,
beauty and justice.
84 pages, paperback, $12.90, ISBN 978-0-9788475-4-8 – SOLD OUT
David Krieger’s collection, The Doves Flew
High, tells the truth with
courage, clarity, and passion.
Each poem is a seed of peace. Together
they create a bouquet for life that we
will want to take into our
hearts for no less than the survival of
the human race. This book, as David Krieger’s first book of poetry, Today Is Not a Good Day for War (2005), received the Peace Writing Award of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology.
80 pages, paperback, $11.90, ISBN 978-0-9788475-5-5 – SOLD OUT
With Nothing behind but Sky
A Journey Through Grief /
Poems by Perie Longo
Ways of Being Dead
New and Selected Poems
by David Starkey
2 books together for $18.90
(save more than 30%),
tax included, free U.S. shipping
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With Nothing behind but Sky
A Journey Through Grief /
Poems by Perie Longo
Charm School —
Five Women of the Odyssey
A Poetic Drama in Five Parts
by Randall J. VanderMey
2 books together for $15.90
(save more than 30%),
tax included, free U.S. shipping
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Ways of Being Dead
New and Selected Poems
by David Starkey
Charm School —
Five Women of the Odyssey
A Poetic Drama in Five Parts
by Randall J. VanderMey
2 books together for $17.40
(save more than 30%),
tax included, free U.S. shipping
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Santa Barbara, California
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