This House(1st Edition) A Poem in Seven Books by JimBodeen Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 1999 by Tsunami Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9644440-6-5, ISBN: 0-9644440-6-2
"The bass play wonders/ what’s going to happen next,/ but he doesn’t let go of the string./ He’s holding back to make the song./ Commanded to follow, and obey, the dream, This House explores what the dream gives, traveling and mapping internal and external worlds, listening and telling stories, including la jornada sagrada to Macchu Picchu with young Latinos. This House tells their stories too. Sacred journeys. Sacred lives. Finally, it ..."
Whole Houses Shaking by JimBodeen Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1999 by Blue Begonia Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-912887-30-2, ISBN: 0-912887-30-3
"Praise for the 5th bottle of chemicals, the last drink/ on a week-long binge, for the job of the chemicals/ is to out-poison the poison in your body./ Praise for the nausea, for in our time/ it is a synonym for cancer./ Praise for the little Christ’s, rhythmic, literal,/ who hear the clock ticking words of Jesus./ Praise for the asshole, working around the clock/ carrying the obscenities from your body to the sewer.// Casas Enteras Temb ..."
Impulse to Love(1st Edition) by JimBodeen Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1998 by Blue Begonia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-911287-27-1, ISBN: 0-911287-27-2
"We keep the strong Black Medicine, coffee./ We shed the fat of the soldier food./ We are shirt wearers. We are big-hearted./ We have been sHADOWmARKED./ From defeat we have achieved a new fierceness,/ a new kind of recklessness./ from Mari Sandoz Crazy Horse Camp North Dakota, Chile, Viet Nam. Extreme places. Isolated places. A seizure calls to poetry from these places. And in each instance it is in these worlds that poems find themselv ..."
"A six-foot cedar post, the word POETRY carved on both the east and west sides, planted in a garden on a street corner in Yakima, Washington, pushpins stuck in the wood. For ten years, hundreds of people have pinned thousands of poems to the Poetry Pole at Blue Begonia Press. Weathered Pages is a sampling of the work of those who have used the Poetry Pole as a source of inspiration. This book includes over 200 poems by poets from all c ..."
"Abrecaminos: Opening the Ways: An Anthology of Story, Poetry, Testimony Abre means to open. Caminos means way. An abrecaminos is one who opens the way, who makes a way where there is no way. One who opens one way opens many ways. These young writers explore their worlds in two anthologies accompanied by the literature of the best Latino/a writers. Each book begins with a writing peregrinage/pilgrimage to Macchu Picchu accompanied by ..."
Birdwomen(1st Edition) Escape of the Birdwomen Vol. 6 by Linda Andrews, Randy Lesage, JimBodeen Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 1998 by Blue Begonia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-911287-25-7, ISBN: 0-911287-25-6
Lockup(1st Edition) by JimBodeen Paperback, 22 Pages, Published 1988 by Blue Begonia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-911287-12-7, ISBN: 0-911287-12-4
Our Mother Blooming by JimBodeen Paperback, 23 Pages, Published 1986 by Blue Begonia Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-911287-09-7, ISBN: 0-911287-09-4
Hammer and praise poems by JimBodeen 20 Pages, Published 1986 ISBN-13: 978-0-937160-12-1, ISBN: 0-937160-12-1
"Jim Bodeen, October Crush Publications. This jelly is offered as a kind of salve.
Call it The Jelly of Foolishness. Most of the jelly given over the past fifteen years
has been given without poems. One voice in this discussion says, This is as it ..."
Blue Bowl(1st Edition) by Lynn Martin, JimBodeen Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 2000 by Blue Begonia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-911287-42-4, ISBN: 0-911287-42-6
""This afternoon, for a moment,/ I felt surrounded by prayers/ when I wandered into a field of oysters/ and saw the ruffle of upraised hands./ I walked among them, amazed.// What was it I almost let go of?// I followed a path of water/ and sand dollars to find my way back.// It was pure gift,/ the way seeing the spotted fawn/ standing by the road, this morning, was." from The Oyster Field"
"JUDITH ROCHE In Nicaragua where eighty percent of the people read and write
and this accomplished in only four years there is still the cutting of roses for a
fallen companera because in (North) America we are sending the remnants of
our comfortable shreds and those loose ends trail in blood mostly for others but
not exclusively. In Argentina where women endlessly circle the zocalo calling the
names of the missing there are not alw ..."
Confluence Poems of Tom Pier by Tom Pier, Editor JimBodeen Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 2004 by Blue Begonia Press, Yakima, Washington Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-911287-50-9, ISBN: 0-911287-50-7
The Reservoir(1st Edition) by Daniel Peters, JimBodeen Paperback, 89 Pages, Published 2002 by Blue Begonia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-911287-49-3, ISBN: 0-911287-49-3
"Opens with a long poem about an accident. It is followed by poems recording the poet's first three years as a teacher in the public schools."
Inmigración indocumentada Participación de México en el mercado laboral estadounidense (Solar colección) by JimBodeen 275 Pages, Published 2000 by Fondo Estatal Para La Cultura Y Las Artes ISBN-13: 978-968-6862-27-0, ISBN: 968-6862-27-7