Like a bookstore where you are welcome to browse,
like a gallery where you may wander at your own pace,
like a library complete with helpful staff,
here you will find everything that threehalf press offers:
Poem Pages and printable poem texts
Photographs
To view the photographs that appear on our Poem Pages gallery or as book illustrations, click on the individual thumbnail.
Books
We offer here selections from a number of longer works. Some are available as downloads, as traditional paperback books, as commissioned artists' books or as CD and DVD. See individual listings for availability.
Books by Marnie Reed Crowell with photographs by Ann Flewelling:
Also by Marnie Reed Crowell:
Greener Pastures, in praise of traditional country living originally published by Funk & Wagnalls, now in paperback. This chronicle of daily chores and changing seasons recalls for the reader the pleasures of observing nature in its marvelous detail. Among the skills essential to living well with little, readers will find hints on tending bees, making maple syrup, brewing goldenrod wine, and smoking hams, as well as recipes for old fashioned pie crust, mincemeat, and honey nut bread.
"A return to the garden of the world" was the headline when Dorothy L. Parker wrote in the Christian Science Monitor, "With a dexterity and tact that are really functions of character and sensibility as much as style and control, Marnie Reed Crowell manages handsomely to avoid the bogs, swamps, and pitfalls that beset nature writers." Click here for an excerpt from the book.
Flycasting for Everyone, an Orvis-endorsed how-to, written with Gary Lewis, head flyfishing guide of Lone Mountain Ranch, Montana, originally published by Stackpole Books, paperback. Given both a new fly rod and a book about fly casting, probably every fisherman on earth will pick up the fly rod first. It is also true that he or she will not be satisfied with those first casts. So pick up the book now. Keep the fly rod handy, and use both the book and the rod as you work through this guide.
We all have twenty-nine bones in each arm, but we are not all built alike. We each have our own style of doing thins. What style will work for you? Casting is a subtle art, but it is not difficult. Here are five steps that will teach you to cast elegantly and efficiently no matter what size and shape you are. Try to fix in your mind the simple sequence for casting correctly. Get the flow of the cast in your mind and muscle memory. Then when you are ready to review, you will find some casting tips. You will learn to be your own coach. Happy casting! Click here for an excerpt from the book.
Great Blue, odyssey of a heron, chronicle of a heron's journey from Maine to the Caribbean, originally published by Times Books
Especially for children by Marnie Reed Crowell with photographs by Ann Flewelling: