Ninety-six poems about writing, about hell and damnation, about writing in hell and the hell of writing. The book contains speculative poetry that often steps into horror. Note that this book contains some profanity. It's difficult to write about curses without a few curse words. This is thematically an heir to the Elgin-nominated ‘Pocket Full of Horror’ (2017) and ‘Beneath the Greasepaint’ (2003). Dr. Herb Kauderer is an associate professor of English at Hilbert College. He holds an MFA i...

The Book of Haibun is science fiction, fantasy, a splash of horror, dark and brooding, mysterious, and speculative. These poems use the ancient form of the haibun, which is compsed of a compacted short story concluded by a brief verse. Award-winning poet Herb Kauderer travels the reaches of the universe, and the psyche in his twenty-second collection of poetry. Two of the haibun in this book were nominated for the Rhysling Award, and "Frozen Hurricanes" won third place in the Dwar...

You’ll find water in some form mentioned in all these poems. Oceans, rivers, clouds, tears, ice, and vapor. Distillation removes impurities. These poems ARE THOSE IMPURITIES.They are also a celebration of the North American Science Fiction Convention being held in Buffalo, New York at the northeast tip of Lake Erie, where the Niagara River begins its journey to the Mighty Falls of Niagara.Among the poems are a Rhysling finalist, and a Dwarf Star finalist, along with a lot o...

Wedding Songs is an intimate book of poetry about family, love, marriage, parenting, and cats. Renowned Canadian poet and editor John Robert Colombo observed that Herb's poems “are exceptionally vivid in describing situations, rather than ideas per se, and in establishing mature responses to paradoxical situations, especially situations like those that involve your young daughter. It'll be a long time before I forget your poem, “self image”.Written on the ...

The Book of Answers is full of poems that answer other poems and other poets, some famous, some not, some serious, some not. Along the way, five of the poems have been nominated for major awards, and the book itself is currently a nominee for the Elgin Award (for the second time). Poets addressed include Dorothy Parker, Don Sheller, Sharon Olds, Timons Esaias, Andrew Marvell, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Landis, Mary Turzillo, David Clink, Oscar Wilde, Carolyn Clink, Robert Frost...

Sixty-nine poems related to business and industry by award-winning poet Herb Kauderer. Many poems are set today, many more look ahead to the future. This book is proof there can be art in mass production factories, and corporate mergers.

This is a book of poems all of which respond to other words, written or spoken. But these are also poems of family and romance, with a smattering of social observations and comments. There is an afterword written just for the ebook. 'Words Begat Words' is the spiritual successor to 'Hate Mail & Love Letters' (2001). Both books are by award-winning poet Herb Kauderer. A small caution: there is a profanity used for humorous purposes.Herb Kauderer is a retired facto...

This is a collection of thirty-seven deeply personal poems about family, romance, and the hardships of everyday life, by an award-winning poet. The print version was published in 2001. The new ebook version has a new afterward and more. With all the changes of the last quarter-century, somehow hate and love haven’t changed much at all.Herb Kauderer is a retired factory worker/truck driver who grew up to be a tenured associate professor of English at Hilbert College with a PhD, an M...

This is a book of dark fantasy poetry exploring dreams & nightmares, ghosts & madmen, myths & beasts.

The sleeping world is surreal by definition. Take a journey through the imagination from common lives to cryogenic sleep to future beings, this book mixes the mainstream, slipstream, and speculative poetry genres. Sleep and insomnia, dreams and nightmares, the mundane and the fantastical. This book contains many takes on the third of our life that is spent sleeping, or wishing we were sleeping. This collection includes two award nominees "luddite's dream" and "Team Enrollment."Herb...

In 1202 Fibonacci Leonardo published his seminal book of mathematics, Liber Abaci, which included his description of the Fibonacci sequence of ascending numbers. Given that poetry is writing with some measure of music, and all music includes math (but math with soul), in the late 20th century poetry integrating the Fibonacci sequence emerged, and quickly became ‘fibs.’ In 2020, a year like no other, award-winning poet Herb Kauderer explores the double edge of fibs. One edge is life’s small...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Written Image® has released the eBook version of Beneath the Greasepaint: Poems about creating & creators by Herb Kauderer. This book of poetry is also about poetry, as well as about the people who create poems and other artistic expressions. These poems are fictional, autobiographical, formal and informal, light and dark. The author’s meeting with Margaret Atwood is chronicled, New Year’s resolutions are c...