This book is inspiring.  The journey of a young American poet and family man searching for truth during the sixties and seventies.  Hewrestles with hypocrisy, self-doubt, morality, male sexuality, addiction and social expectations.  The narrative is beautiful, poetic, at times humorous, colorful and insightful.  Preview the first four chapters at www.northspur.com

Coming To Treeline: Adirondack Poems (St. Huberts Press, July 2005) 

celebrates the High Peaks Region of the Adirondacks in upstate New York. These extraordinary poems capture the mountains, lakes, streams and people who have been part of Cranston's life for over fifty years.

 

Richard Henry, editor of the literary journal Blueline says: "Coming to Treeline startles with the depth and clarity of an Adirondack lake."

 

Chase Twichell, poet and author of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises for Poets Who Teach and of The Ghost of Eden: Poems says: "This book is a hymn to a place sung in a language which flows out of close observation, reverence and love."

 

Colleen Marie Ryor, editor of The Adirondack Review says: "Written with craft and a mature sensitivity to language, Pamela Cranston's poetry sings iwth peace, hope and a wisdom that comes from her many experiences of the beauty of natural world."

 

Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben says: "I have been in most of the places where these poems are set. Pamela Cranston has captured them with grace and invested them with another skin of meaning and of beauty."

 

For more information go to: www.sthubertspress.com or www.bibliodistribution.com.

 

New age/spiritual work for the open minded....gorilla with insight and thought/;-)

This is quite possibly the greatest novel I have ever read.  The story breathes a tremendous life into the hundred year history of themythical/magical/plainly realistic Spanish town of Macondo through the history of the tragic Buendia family.  Hilarious and heart-wrenching, it is a paradox of magical realism and the struggles and limitations of human beings.  In little more than four hundred pages, this novel maps out nearly every disposition, set of circumstances and fate imaginable in the forcefully vivid and unforgettable Buendias.  In short, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder "what the hell was that?"...but ultimately, this is definitely worthy of the term "required reading."  :-)

A student of the human condition wielding the written craft to enrapture the mind much like an artist wields a brush. The pages are a blank canvas on which to draw heralded and matched only by an imagination that rises to the task.

 

For more information, visit http://outskirtspress.com/poemsfromtheheart

Published in December of 2000, its the artist first book of poetry written over the years.