RALPH ADAMO -- HANOI ROSE
"[This] is a love story that depends on language, and thus, as well, a story of language in the service of love. [It] moves from ecstatic foreboding in Part I through passion's inevitable distortion and lilt toward bitterness, then into almost willful madness and finds firm ground again if not resignation or reconciliation in Part IV." Contact Maxine Cassin, publisher of New Orleans Poetry Journal Press, at mcassin@gmail.com

RALPH ADAMO -- WATERBLIND
"... collects thirty years of Ralph Adamo's poems, long needed by us all, so dazzling is his voice, so singing his syntax, so original his art that we may have forgotten what we hungered for in poetry were it not for him. I celebrate Waterblind with awe and gratitude." -- Carolyn Forché. Contact Maxine Cassin, publisher of New Orleans Poetry Journal Press, at mcassin@gmail.com