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One Candle – Selected Poems
One Candle – Selected Poems is the ultimate collection of Eric Greinke’s poems, drawn from poems published between 1972 and 2026, selected by the poet at the age of seventy-seven. The book is arranged in ten chapbook sized sections, each representative of one of Greinke’s primary modes: Thinking Of You collects poems dedicated and addressed to friends, other poets and the reader. Includes the award-winning poem The Wood Work. The Broken Lock contains the breakthrough title poem, a stream-of-consciousness masterpiece, as well as other surrealistic poems. Other Worlds showcases poems about the natural world and humankinds’ place in it. Includes the award-winning poem The Lake In Winter. For The Living Dead contains the prize-winning, oft anthologized, critically acclaimed title poem, plus other “scary monster” poems that utilize public symbols as oblique social commentary. A Human Chain contains docu-poems about social problems as seen through the stories of real people, based on Associated Press stories or Greinke’s personal experiences, each with the goal of expanding reader empathy for others. The Light returns to an associative mode. The poems are in couplets with associative “leaps” between them, in a form inspired by Persian ghazals. Portraits contains group and individual word-paintings. The group portraits include Family Funeral, High School Reunion, On The Beach, and Summertime Blues, a description of the crowd at an outdoor blues concert. Japanese Bones contains sixty haiku sequences of 10 haiku each, and ten tanka sequences of three tanka each. Several of the haiku were translated into Japanese by the President of the World Haiku Association and published in Japan. Lifelines contains autobiographical narratives based in different periods of the poet’s life including his time as a child, a first responder in the Coast Guard and a social worker. Includes the award-winning poem Shooting Lessons. One Candle, the final section, contains poems that make existential statements or pose philosophical questions, including two of his most frequently reprinted poems What To Do Next, and Flood Tide. Widely published throughout North America, Europe and Asia, these poems have a distinct international appeal. Greinke’s use of simple language that evokes deeper meaning is more easily translated to other languages and evokes universal human responses. His poetry is a unique combination of direct statement and implied deeper meaning. Hundreds of reviews, articles and interviews have been devoted to Greinke’s work, making him one of the most frequently reviewed contemporary American poets. 264 Pages, hardbound, softbound
The Drunken Boat & Other Poems From the French of Arthur Rimbaud
The Drunken Boat & Other Poems From the French of Arthur Rimbaud is presented in its 50th Anniversary Edition with the French of Rimbaud printed opposite the critically acclaimed versions of his 30 best poems and excerpts from his letters by popular American poet Eric Greinke. A classic of the Poetic Translation movement, these versions utilize intuitive poetic choices and contemporary colloquial language to restore the original essence, attitude and musicality of the poems, emphasizing the literate core instead of the doggedly literal aspects. Greinke studied with the progenitors (Robert Bly and Jerome Rothenberg) of the movement in the early seventies. Bly was particularly fond of these translations and he and Greinke corresponded about them for over three decades until his final illness. The book contains a lengthy introduction focused on the reality of Rimbaud’s life and the methods used to translate him. Also included is A Note on Poetic Translation, featuring excerpts from published comments by poet-critics Art Beck, Kirby Congdon and Harry Smith. The book is dedicated to Bly and Rothenberg and contains photos of Greinke and Rimbaud. The cover art depicts an inebriated ship. 108 pages, hardbound.
Anthropoetics – Poetry & Human Progress
Critically acclaimed poet Eric Greinke presents his visionary theory of Anthropoetics – an approach to poetry that is oriented to our entire species. The book is a hybrid of prose lavishly illustrated by poems that predicts and promotes a worldwide paradigmic shift in both aesthetics and human cooperation. Includes a fifty page “little anthology” of “We” poems by thirty contemporary poets in the center of the book, abridged from Greinke’s 2024 anthology Speaking For Everyone. Topics range widely from Whitmans vision of the future to ethnopoetics, creativity, archetypes, symbolism, surrealism, inspiration, imagination, intuition, imagery, collaboration and divergent thinking. Greinke draws on his experience as a psychotherapist, poet and literary editor to delve into attitudinal and psychological aspects of poetry and how they relate to both human and personal progress. He describes how globalization and the internet have made Anthropoetics inevitable as part of a progressive worldwide shift to an anthropocentric orientation with an artistic focus on universality. The book concludes with The Universal Poet – tracing a line of anthropoetically oriented poets from Walt Whitman through Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Maya Angelou and on to young poets like Amanda Gorman. The implication of Anthropoetics – Poetry & Human Progress goes far beyond poetry and the Arts, into human nature and survival itself. Every page is thought-provoking and inspiring, for both poets and general readers alike. Greinke uses poetry as a metaphor for human nature in this profound, transformative “instant classic.” A highly compressed little book packed with literary/social criticism and a prophetic vision of the future. 151 pages, softbound.