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"Book in Hand" Catalog
Rosenberry Books creates
"Book in Hand" editions for individuals and groups who wish to
have their work published in beautifully-designed hand bound editions.
Rosenberry Books responds
to the variety and richness of human endeavor, offering something very
different from the mainstream publishing
industry.
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Deluxe Edition
Standard Edition
In the Night Shallows
selected haiku by Rebecca Ball Rust
edited by Lenard D. Moore
The long view of a woman's life is told through a powerful series
of closely-observed
moments. In the Night Shallows is a selection of haiku from a lifetime
collection of fine
poetry celebrating Rebecca Ball Rust’s distinguished
career as founder of NC Haiku
Society, past President of the NC Poetry Society, dance reviewer for the Raleigh
News & Observer and editor/publisher of the North Carolina Haiku Society
Press.
Lively, colorful quilt illustrations by Diane Katz use traditional
quilt blocks and authentic
vintage fabric designs to connect meaningfully with the poetry.
Winner of innumerable awards and internationally published, Rust has been anthologized
along with Carl Sandburg, Randall Jarrell, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell and
others in
Word and witness : 100 years of North Carolina poetry.
In the Night Shallows is edited by Lenard D. Moore,
President of the Haiku Society
of America and an editor of Simply Haiku.
intermittent rain
she pulls her wedding band
on an off
end of the
old pier
a dead flounder's eye stares
at the autumn moon
In the Night Shallows is
available in two editions from Rosenberry Books:
Deluxe Edition - 6
x 9 in. hand bound hardcover —21.95
Thai mulberry flyleaves with fabric inclusions, marbled
Echizen Washi on Gold Stardream
cover, mulberry binding, archival.
* * * * * * * NEW
Books by Alexis Rotella
winner of the prestigious
2007 Kusamakura Haiku Award
ASK! again
rotellagrams by Alexis Rotella
“If you can’t find your way, Ask!” Ask Rotella’s
oracle and you shall be amused, bemused,
startled and inspired. Be a witness to the moment when Rotella sat in her meditation
room
“with brush and ream of mimeograph paper. Within two hours, about two
hundred aphorisms
and drawings flew from the brush like crows.”
Deluxe hardcover and BookCard editions
available.
Mail the BookCard to a friend -- like a greeting card!
ASK! again
6 x 9 in. hand bound Deluxe Edition— $21.95
Echizen Washi cover in the style of Japanese handmade paper. Thai Mulberry binding
and flyleaves. Archival.
Send this book to someone you Love. Red Envelope included!
ASK! again
6 x 9 in. hand bound BookCard
Edition— $9.95
Handmade Mulberry and Hemp binding. Die cut Softcover.
Bookmark to write your message on and Red Envelope included.
Ready to mail like a greeting card!
"Purple touches the heart of everyone I read it
to,
and it has become a part of my lectures.
Purple speaks the essential message to all of us
because we are all children dealing with authority figures."
Bernie Siegel, MD
Purple: a parable
by Alexis Rotella
illustrated by Diane Katzillust
“Once a woman,
not knowing why,
chased a crinkled piece of paper
blowing across an empty parking lot
and while she waited for her bus
she read the poem
and cried.”
That poem is “Purple”—which
was once a postcard “chain-letter” that traveled around the world,
and is now an illustrated book rich in color and meaning. This powerful parable
touches each
person’s creative truth, which can survive even in the face of childhood
cruelty. Page by page,
Diane Katz's illustrations take the reader ever deeper into the inner child's
profound experience.
Included in church sermons, educational texts and Bernie
Siegel MD's Love, Magic & Mudpies,
this story has lasting emotional impact.
Deluxe hardcover and BookCard
editions available.
Mail the BookCard to a friend -- like a greeting card!
"Overcoming what an authority figure
tells a kid when they are vulnerable…
Those adults are basically
hypnotists and can alter the course of a person's life.
I thought I had no creativity in my bones for years, that everyone else was
creative
but not me. Then I wrote PURPLE." —Alexis
Rotella, author of Purple: a parable,
is a poet, ordained minister, acupuncturist, and the author of more than forty
books.
Purple: a parable
6 x 9 in. hand bound Deluxe Edition— $21.95
Echizen Washi cover in the style of Japanese handmade paper. Thai Mulberry binding
and flyleaves. Archival.
Send this book to someone you Love. Red Envelope included!
Purple: a parable
6 x 9 in. hand bound BookCard
Edition— $9.95
Handmade Mulberry and Hemp binding. Die cut Softcover.
Bookmark to write your message on and Red Envelope included.
Ready to mail like a greeting card!
A Sprinkle of Glitter
one-liners by Alexis Rotella
Alexis Rotella has been called a superstar in the field of Japanese forms
written in English.
Endlessly innovative, she experiments in A Sprinkle of Glitter with how
rich a single line
of poetry can get. Rotella's sensual awareness and arched-eyebrow humor cut
through
fragments of dreamscape drawings that unroll through the book in stream-of-consciousness
fashion. "I wrote these one-liners one morning while sitting in the sun on my
patio with my cat
Rufus in Los Gatos, California...."
Winner of many poetry awards, Rotella won the prestigious
2007 Kusamakura Haiku Award
in Kumamoto, Japan.
A Sprinkle of Glitter
6 x 9 in. hand bound, 66 pp—
$16.95
Echizen Washi cover and flyleaves — in the style
of Japanese handmade paper. Archival.
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a tanka companion
by an'ya
an'ya —a household name
in the haiku-world— is editor of moonset
Literary Newspaper.
an'ya cracks open the book of her heart into tanka so apt that they describe
our own hearts
as well. Make a personal journey of discovery though an'ya's 124 deeply-felt
poems.
a tanka companion
6 x 9 in. hand bound, 112 pp.
— special price
17.95 (regular retail $21.95)
Thai mulberry flyleaves with botanical inclusions,
Thai Unryu interleaving,
Echizen Washi cover in the style of Japanese handmade paper, archival.
seasons of a hermitess
101 haiku by an'ya
an'ya walks quietly through the
seasons and observes. 101 haiku touch 101 moments as they pass.
With a deft and innocent brush of her hand, an'ya opens the door to each season
with a sumi-e painted haiga.
"We must not discount the complexity of this art form. It is far more
difficult to be creative
in three lines of limited syllables ... In haiku, the impact must be immediate
— then fleeting,
just as those real moments in our lives and in nature." from
the preface
seasons of a hermitess
6 x 9 in. hand bound, 112 pp.
— special price
17.95 (regular retail $21.95)
Thai mulberry flyleaves with botanical inclusions,
Thai Unryu interleaving,
Echizen Washi cover in the style of Japanese handmade paper, archival.
The Winking Stars
by John Martell
With a scholar's mind and a lover's heart, John Martell observes "the Floating
World."
With an introduction by Dave Bacharach and brush paintings by an'ya and Heike
Sackmann,
this rich collection of 118 haiku, senryu and tanka is deeply observed and expressed—
a stray cat
howling at me
as if
i don't know
what it means to be lost
and sometimes humorously poignant—
three old guys
killing time at the bus stop—
exhaust fumes
The Winking Stars
6 x 9 in. hand bound— $17.95
Echizen Washi cover — in the style of Japanese
handmade paper. Archival.
Deluxe Edition Standard
Edition
Beneath the Willow Tree
poems from the North
Carolina Haiku Society
edited by Lenard D. Moore, Artwork by Diane Katz
Lenard Moore, Executive Chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society, President
of the Haiku Society
of America and an editor of Simply
Haiku has selected work from the best of his fellow North Carolinian
haijin for Beneath the Willow Tree. Handmade papers in a Japanese stab
binding, spacious design, with
sensitive and unusual illustrations provide a sense-heightening context for
thirty haiku in two handbound editions.
In addition to Lenard Moore's own haiku, the volume
includes poems by Richard Straw, Charlie Smith,
Dave Russo, Bob Moyer, Kate MacQueen, Richard Krawiec, Curtis Dunlap, L. Teresa
Church, and Philip Bizzarri.
For each illustration, Diane Katz "had the pleasure
of sifting through linoleum carvings made in each decade
of my life...selecting pictures and textures often so serendipitously suited
to the poem. Through energetic rubbing,
hidden images magically reveal themselves...." Fleur-de-Lisa
has put Willow Tree to music—hear
the CD!
Beneath the Willow Tree is
available in two editions from Rosenberry Books:
Deluxe Edition - 6
x 9 in. hand bound hardcover —17.95
Thai mulberry flyleaves with bamboo inclusions, additional
illustrations, color printing, archival.
Sermons that are a good read? Yes!