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FORTHCOMING BOOK
Appearances: Stories. Lamar University Press.
Jan Seale's capable evocation of peculiar personalities mixes with her sense of nostalgia and richly drawn places to create an ambiance of the extraordinary in the most commonplace of circumstances. Her characters are a delightful collection of people bewildered by life and haunted by memory but who also find themselves relying on the confidence of experience and the solidity of conviction to press on, no matter what. This is a delightful collection of insightful vignettes that remind us how human and vulnerable we all are, how wrong we often can be, and how, in the long run, it's the integrity of our intentions that makes all the difference.
—Clay Reynolds, author of Hero of a Hundred Fights |
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Nape. 45 poems on the nature of Spirit. Ink Brush Press, 2011. 96 pages. Available from Abe Books, powells.com, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, or from the bookseller of your choice.
As the "nape" connects the head to the body, Seale's flawlessly crafted poems connect spiritual contemplation to the senses in a seamless, quiet ecstasy.
—Larry D. Thomas, author of A Murder of Crows and 2008 Texas Poet Laureate |
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The Wonder
Is: New and Selected Poems 1974-2012. Second edition. Ink Brush Press, 2012. Available from powells.com, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com or from the bookseller of your choice.
Thirty plus years' worth of poems deserves a hurrah. Some—notably 'Diana the Huntress Goes for her Mammogram' and 'I Cut Open a Papaya / My Husband Reads His UFO Journal' –are especially delightful in their transgression of our daily norms.
—Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; author of Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010
Please note: This new edition contains an introduction by the author and twelve new poems.
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Valley Ark: Life Along
the Rio.
50 poems with 50 color photos of the flora and fauna of the
Lower Rio
Grande Valley of Texas.
Jan Seale, poet and Ansen Seale, photographer. The Knowing
Press, 2005. 108 pages. Available from The Knowing Press,
400 Sycamore,
McAllen, TX 78501. $16.95 + $3 s&h + $1.40 Tx. sales tax
if applicable.
Her sharp,
whittled poems, plus the photos that look as elegant
as oil paintings, complement each other superbly.
--Jim McKone
The McAllen Monitor
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The Yin of It.
Poems on stages in a woman’s life. Pecan
Grove Press, 2000. 40 pages. Available on Amazon.com.
The poems can be gentle, funny, in
your face, zany, sensuous, ripe and touching.
--Judy Bowen
The Mesquite Review |
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Homeland: Essays Beside and Beyond
the Rio Grande. New Santander Press, 1995.
146 pages.
Out of print. Used copies available from Amazon.com
Homeland is a charmer whose message
will stick with you long after you’ve turned the last
page.
--Judyth Rigler
San Antonio Express-News |
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The Nuts-&-Bolts Guide
to Writing Your Life Story. Comprehensive
guide to writing and printing your memoirs, The Knowing Press,
1998. 335 pages. Available from The Knowing Press, 400 Sycamore,
McAllen, TX 78501. $21.95 + $4 s&h + $1.81 Tx. sales tax
if applicable. Nuts and Bolts is an indispensable tool for getting your story
written.
--Eileen Mattei
Valley Morning Star |
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Airlift: Short Stories. T.C.U. Press,
l992. 174 pages. Out of print. Used copies available on Amazon.com .
These individualistic voices do
much to give each story its own flavor, develop setting and
mood,
and
make the characters as familiar as the reader’s next
door neighbor.
--Gabriel Stauf
Texas Books in Review
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A Family for Schuster. Story by Jan Seale, Illustrations by Bernice Coleman. 32-page read-aloud picture book with 16 watercolor illustrations. Available from The Knowing Press, 400 Sycamore, McAllen, TX 78501. $12.95 + $2 s&h + $1.07 Texas sales tax if applicable. |
| Other Books of Interest |
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Audie and Company. A
family’s
struggles and pleasures of 36 years with their heart-challenged
son. The Garzonie Family,
as told to Jan Epton Seale. 2005. 96 pages. $10.95+ $2.50 s&h
+ $.90 Tx sales tax if applicable.
Order from The Knowing Press, 400 Sycamore, McAllen, TX 78501. |
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What Wildness Is This: Women Write About the Southwest. Edited by Jan Epton Seale, Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Hanson, Paula Stallings Yost. University of Texas Press, 2007, 316 pages. Available from U. of T. Press and Amazon.com.
Winner of the 2008 WILLA Award for Creative Nonfiction |
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Texas Poets in Concert: A Quartet. Jan Epton Seale, R.S. Gwynn, Naomi Shihab Nye, William Virgil Davis. University of North Texas Press, l990, 128 pages. Available from Amazon. com. |
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Valleysong: An Anthology Echoing the Rhythm and Cadence of Life in the Rio Grande Valley. Edited by Jan Epton Seale. Texas Rio Writers, 2009, 208 pages. Available from Amazon.com. |
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