Did you know that HLP’s Robert Wallace Bennett, author of the memoir The Man of the House, is also the world’s foremost expert on rabbits? It’s true!
In Raising Rabbits the Modern Way, Vermont resident Bob Bennett shares everything you’ll ever need to know about rabbits, including how to dress them, if you are so inclined. Bob continues to field urgent questions about rabbit care and identification from people around the world.
In his HLP memoir, Bob tells the story of a fatherless boy who grows up supporting his family with a dizzying array of jobs while putting himself through school. In the process, he becomes one of the most important international experts on rabbits. (Bob also saw action in the Korean War and is a distinguished veteran.)
Now, enjoy a carrot, hop over to Amazon (link above), and check out Bob’s memoir and his book about rabbits.
Two New Releases!
Homestead Lighthouse Press is proud to offer new books from Bruce Lawder and Michael Favala Goldsmith. Both of these writers spend considerable time outside the U.S., and their writing reflects a rich continental sensibility.
Bruce Lawder’s Dwarf Stories are short fictions that read like poems: not exactly poems but writing that breaks forms and resists categorization. As Lawder says about his own life changes, “I soon left the office for teaching, and America for Europe, but I kept at my dwarf stories, for I had found a way, it seemed to me, to write about what dwarfs us today, in this age of mass communication, and how we live or can live, as individual human beings, in such a world.”
Destinations is Michael Favala Goldman‘s ninth book of poetry and follows his HLP award-winning volumes Small Sovereign and This May Sound Familiar.
This new book relates literally to travel (“I am an electric / part of the landscape, / charged with embodying / all the forces nature / provides”) and also figuratively to the progress of relationships and human growth. In the collection’s first half, poems are grouped into two sections on family and marriage, both categories highlighting food as an element of unity and community. In “Seeds,” Michael writes, “I have a hard time understanding why / I can’t buy your love with raspberries.”
The second half of the collection focuses on death and memory, human impact, and insignificance. Death is not only a result of war or global forces but also something that happens to people we know and love: “The way you will die / changes daily, / like traffic, weather, / body indexes, and / trace mineral levels. [. . .] You make your will / and it is already outdated.” (“At the estate planning office”)
Pick up a copy soon and let us know how you like it.
Until next time!
Homestead Lighthouse Press publishes books for the global good.