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Eve, the universal name for the feminine, is the title of Betsy Orient Bernfeld's new poetry chapbook. It takes place in the home, in the court, on the sea, on the road, on the run. A woman gives birth in a tree, learns to raise the mailsail alone on the ocean, encounters violence against women, lives with fertility and infertility, suffers through an eating disorder, smokes cigars with the guys, hides in plain sight. It addresses loves, losses, dreams and a woman's touch: "Think of a feather . . . don't hold your breath when touching, imagine blowing a feather." Bernfeld is a librarian, lawyer and writer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Eve, the universal name for the feminine, is the title of Betsy Orient Bernfeld's new poetry chapbook. It takes place in the home, in the court, on the sea, on the road, on the run. A woman gives birth in a tree, learns to raise the mailsail alone on the ocean, encounters violence against women, lives with fertility and infertility, suffers through an eating disorder, smokes cigars with the guys, hides in plain sight. It addresses loves, losses, dreams and a woman's touch: "Think of a feather . . . don't hold your breath when touching, imagine blowing a feather." Bernfeld is a librarian, lawyer and writer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The Cathedral Is Burning, Betsy Orient Bernfeld's full-length poetry collection, is a lamentation for the loss of Mothers, Grandmothers and Mother Earth. The poems are illustrated with art and photos. From the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris to the demise of Central American migrants in the Arizona desert, the poetry bounds through fire, drought, demolition and rebirth, viewed through the solace of stained glass. Bernfeld's work was supported through the 2020 Wyoming Arts Councils Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry.

Who the H is Henry David Tarantula?That's what George P. Stone, Mayor of William, Arizona, wants to know. Particularly since he is the mayor's opponent in the upcoming election.Henry David Tarantula lives in a cave above the town of William. He has assumed the unusual name as he portrays himself as the Henry David Thoreau of the Southwest. His desert residency is modeled after Thoreau's famous stay at Walden Pond. In his political campaign, Henry David stands for water preservation, and he rails against air conditioning and exotic pollen.Mayor Stone's version of Walden is a Waldon construction tractor. He promotes progress in the form of watermelon farming, and he promises to clean the caves of their free-loading inhabitants and rampant beer cans, which he avidly recycles.The political campaign is all so philosophical until Henry David meets Virginia Stone, the mayor's daughter. She is stalking him with a flower-intensive science project. The three-way power struggle is joined by an endangered wolf from Chihuahua, Mexico. The desert blooms, beer cans roll, and animals dream in this humorous environmental love story.