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.
"Leaving the Island of the Past" is her first novel. The author mixes the world of mathematical thought with literary works in the context of the nocturnal reflections of the heroine who suffers from insomnia.
ISBN 978-0-9788475-7-9, paperback, 128 pages, $16.90
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Elvira Laskowski does no less than go to war for her life when she is diagnosed with cancer. Driven to uncover earlier traumas, she writes it was poetry "too beautiful to bear" that inspired her to cross the land of darkness to tackle fear. Her strength and courage to look at her life with utmost honesty and a chiseled pen, allows the reader fully into her life to be equally inspired. Her images are exotic, as is her use of color. Through her struggle she finds a love that sustains her and brings her to the moment of this book, Black Spider. In examining every aspect of herself, she found love waiting for her in a "Tiny closet behind / Dusty piles of conventions." — This book is ultimately a love poem to Jack N. Mohr, artist, her publisher and true love, a testament to the healing force of love.
ISBN 978-0-9788475-6-2, paperback, 88 pages, $12.90
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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.
ISBN 978-0-9788475-0-0, 96 pages, paperback, $12.90, tax included, free U.S. shipping
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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.
ISBN 978-0-9788475-1-7, paperback, 128 pages, $14.90
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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?
ISBN 978-0-9788475-2-4, paperback, 64 pages, $10.90
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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. (Sad news: David Krieger passed away on December 7, 2023. Read more…)
80 pages, paperback, $11.90, ISBN 978-0-9788475-5-5 – SOLD OUT
Get both of Elvira Laskowski’s paperback books — the collection of poems and the French novel — for a special package price directly from the publisher.
ISBN 978-0-9788475-6-2, paperback, 88 pages
ISBN 978-0-9788475-7-9, paperback, 128 pages
special from Artamo Press
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