Gnomon Press

Gnomon Press

Offering high-quality publications of Literature & Photography since 1965

Featured Titles

We are pleased to announce that Ohio University Press is now
the sole distributor of these best-selling titles.

Order from Ohio University Press OR click on book image to order.

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The Brier Poems

by Jim Wayne Miller

(paper) $18.95
(eBook) $18.99

Miller's poems are among the most beloved in Appalachia.
They're often read out loud when poets in the region congregate.

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Kinfolks
The Wilgus Stories

by Gurney Norman

(paper) $16.95
(eBook) $16.99

Gnomon's best-selling title.

Over 22,000 copies sold.

“This is a special book, sometimes hilarious, sometimes bittersweet.”

—Library Journal

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Payne Hollow

by Harlan Hubbard

(paper) $19.95
(eBook) $19.99

2nd Edition,
with Afterword by Don Wallis

This best-seller “joins that work of Henry Thoreau...and a growing shelf
of wisdom literature
for the alternative lifestyles movement.”

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Divine Right's Trip

by Gurney Norman

(paper) $17.50

First published
in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue. This novel “shows itself to be a subtly written and morally passionate epic
of the counterculture, a fictional explication of the hopeful new
consciousness come to birth..."

—John Updike, The New Yorker

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The Granite Pail
The Selected Poems

by Lorine Niedecker
Edited by Cid Corman

(paper) $14.50

The only woman who belonged among the Objectivist School of Poets, to whose leader Louis Zukofsky
she was close.

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Sayings & Doings and
An Eastward Look

by Wendell Berry

(paper) $12.50

Short poems unique in Berry's work. “Berry has set down moments of his life—snippets of conversations, sharply remembered scenes, folks who stopped by for coffee...and he has made little poems of them.”

—John Filiatreau

Gnomon Press

About Us

Founded in 1965 by publisher and award-winning book designer Jonathan Greene, Gnomon Press specializes in books of high quality in the fields of literature and photography.

All books are printed on non-acid paper and designed to last for years. Most of our titles are smythe-sewn.

“What we see here is the work of one of the country's preeminent book designers, Jonathan Greene of Gnomon Press of Frankfort, Kentucky.”
—Georgia Review