We are in the process of converting several of our books to the Amazon Kindle e-book format.

Click the links below to check out our offerings:

Abyssinia, Jill Rush, by David Herrle

At Dock's End: Poems of Lake Nebagamon, Volume Two, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

At Water's Edge: Poems of Lake Nebagamon, Volume One, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

By Leaps and Bounds: Volume Two of The Seasons of Youth, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

Crossroads: Poems of a Mississippi Childhood, by Robert Hamblin

Dine-Rite: Breakfast Poems, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

From Adolescence to Senscence: A Life in Light Verse, by Ben Milder

Getting to Unknow the Neighbors: Short Fictions, by Louis Daniel (L.D.) Brodsky

A Gleam in the Eye: Volume One of The Seasons of Youth, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

Just Ours: Love Passages with Linda, Volume One, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

The Pilot's Daughter, by Gardner McFall

Rabbi Auschwitz: Poems of the Shoah, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

Reviving the Dead, by Gary Fincke

Seizing the Sun and Moon: Volume Three of The Seasons of Youth, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

With One Foot in the Butterfly Farm: Short Fictions, by Louis Daniel (L.D.) Brodsky

The World Waiting to Be: Poems About the Creative Process, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

Our newest offerings:

Hopgrassers and Flutterbies: Volume Four of The Seasons of Youth, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

In the fourth volume of the fivebook series The Seasons of Youth, Louis Daniel Brodsky traces the growth of his daughter, from ages six to eleven, and that of his son, from three to eight. His girl develops socially, attending her first sleepover and making friends with her classmates. She also matures emotionally, as evidenced during the mornings she shares with her father, who practices spelling with her, at home, and drives her to school, the two of them often sharing breakfast in one of their small town's cafés. His boy goes through phases of fascination — trains, airplanes, dinosaurs and whales — but finds his mother's avocations of drawing and painting to be his steady preoccupations, allowing him to give order to his ever-expanding world. And both kids begin coming to terms with their father's increasingly frequent business trips. Hopgrassers and Flutterbies is a touching universal portrait of a devoted, loving father and mother and their two flourishing children.

Just Ours: Love Passages with Linda, Volume One, by Louis Daniel Brodsky

Just Ours captures the tender passion of two lovers who've come to each other, as kindred souls, after full, separate lifetimes. Tracing the evolution of their relationship, from their first date to their first extended trip together, to Italy, this book of verse is a lyrical celebration of closeness, each poem a distillation of the loving oneness neither knew was possible — timeless "just ours" intimacies they create for themselves alone.

One Bird Falling, by CB Follett

The compassionate and penetrating poems in this collection focus on the natural, personal, and political. Of all the "steady and purposeful" birds that appear in One Bird Falling — ravens, doves, geese, meadowlarks, owls, vultures — the one that falls is never named but "[pulls] the sky after it," indicating "Something terrible / is coming and we pretend otherwise." The "we" of this and other poems is "far away . . . trying to do what's right" in a world controlled by what is invisible, wordless, and unpredictable as the wind.

In the poem "Belonging," Follett says, "the heart also has a brain." These poems address the heart's brain. They challenge the reader to open the heart's brain outwardly, to struggle with the incomprehensible mysteries of ordinary experience. Expect to read each of these poems more than once, and expect to be rewarded for doing so.

 Reviving the Dead, by Gary Fincke

The poems in Reviving the Dead are triggered by the death of the poet's father, but they work to do more than narrate events. Centered by the long, title sequence, these poems come at death and grief, as well as faith and skepticism, from as many angles as the poet can muster, using science and religion, history and myth, popular culture, and what seem to be trivial oddities, to create a particular way of seeing that has drawn praise from writers, editors, and readers alike. The poems are polished but electric; they are dark but vibrant with love and longing. This collection brings us the characters, places, and incidents of narrative poetry, but it also rises to the exacting lyricism of a singular voice that connects us to what it means to be human.

Swimming in Moses' Well: Poems on Numbers, by Yakov Azriel

In Swimming in Moses' Well, the fourth in his series of verse commentaries on the Pentateuch, Yakov Azriel continues to build remarkable poems around biblical passages. In this volume, Azriel grapples with the book of Numbers, to see if his faith in the ancient story and in his relationship with the God who presided over it can survive under the breaking wave of the modern world. The powerfully tender poems in this collection link the ancient history of Israel with the current moment.

Now you can see and hear our sample poems!

When we opened our doors, twenty-three years ago, we envisioned Time Being Books as a publisher of poetry in sight and sound, offering our readers print as well as audio-cassette editions of our books. With the obsolescence of cassette recordings, our "sound" objective went by the way-side.

Until now.

We are excited to announce the addition of MP3 audio capability to our Web site, allowing readers to hear our sample poems, read by the authors, to get a better feel for the nuances of each poem.

We have just begun uploading MP3 files to our site, beginning with poems written by Louis Daniel Brodsky and Ben Milder, and it is our hope that we can include many author-read samples to our book pages, by the end of 2012.