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In this newly revised second edition Selected Poems 1985-2011 Mr. Cormier offers a balanced survey of his twenty-six years of poetic achievement. It showcases what he regards as his best poetry. Arranged in roughly chronological order, this Selected Poems strikes topical, personal, and universal themes and confirms the judgement of his long time readers of the lasting value of his work.

Will We All Pull Through Together is Mr. Cormier's new book of poems. It is themed around the subjects of mortality and mutability. The new book also includes memoir prose entries and even a smatter of song lyrics. The title of Mr. Cormier's new book raises a rhetorical question that each poem and entry seeks to answer for the reader in its own way.

This slim volume offers up extractions or short excerpts from poems written by Paul Cormier over the last 25 years.

This book is almost entirely written in 19 line terzanelle form. Its subject is mortality and mutability and traces a vivid arc from cradle to grave with particular emphasis on how early childhood events affect better or worse later adult behavior and experience.

In homage of the late great David Bowie, this is a collection of poems to and about Bowie right up to his passing this year written by the author through the last 25 years or more. It includes five new poems written this year of 2016.

Cross Lake and Other Poems is the story of the author's ancestral home in the Great North Woods of Maine. Located in the Aroostook, a mysterious narrative thread unites the disparate components of this intriguing volume. The time is 2028 and yet time stands still in these poems and many concern themselves with the past and how the past influences present and future. Incidental to this unraveling story, this volume also touches on the ravenous timber cutting of the 1800's and turn of the century logging drives, and its adverse effects on Maine's environment. The poetry finally traces the great arc from cradle to grave.

A revised and enlarged edition of the originally published 2011 SOAKING THE HARP. A collection of poems in tribute to the music and practitioners of rock and roll.