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Music downloads: Order through Bandcamp.

All items below: email me  to tell me what you’re ordering and to send shipping address, then pay by Paypal: paypal.me/mollytmusic or venmo: @Molly-Tenenbaum. If you’d like to arrange payment by personal check, let me know in your email. If you are ordering several items, I can give you a deal, and shipping will cost less, so let me know in your email!

NEW! The Book of S.L.O.W. Gardening, my first illustrated book!

The Book of S.L.O.W. Gardening. (Cat Hair Productions 2024). $16.99 + $5 shipping.  ISBN: 979-8-9915476-0-4. Order directly from me by Paypal (paypal.me/mollytmusic) or Venmo (@Molly-Tenenbaum), and contact me to tell me the address for sending.

A comic book of adventures in the garden. The amusing illustrations show garden meditations, a gardening alphabet, childhood garden memories, garden joys, as well as garden doubts and errors.

 Why S.L.O.W. Gardening? The drawings detail the hazards of FAST gardening. Thoughtful, funny, and colorful, the book meanders through the many moods and experiences in a life of gardening.

With her hat at a jaunty angle and her clippers in her hand, the illustrated character of Molly Tenenbaum walks you along her garden paths.

NEW! THE ARBORISTS–poetry

The Arborists: Poems (MoonPath Press 2023). $16.99 + $3.50 shipping.  If using Paypal, please add the fee of 60 cents.

Available directly from me by Paypal (paypal.me/mollytmusic) and Venmo (@Molly-Tenenbaum), also available through Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon

Praise for The Arborists: “Rilke wrote, “The things of this world… seem to need us.” Molly Tenenbaum, better than any poet I know, hears the call of things—banjos, clematis, paintings of chickens—and translates for us their happiness and pathos. She brings this genius toThe Arborists, set in a time of great personal loss and romantic discovery. This is that rare and wondrous collection that takes my breath—deeply moving, effervescent, utterly original and alive.”  –Kathleen Flenniken, Poet Laureate emerita, Washington State

MUSIC

Banjo lesson–single: $70 (See banjo lessons for more detail, and contact me for scheduling)

 

 

 

Goose and Gander: Songs for Old-Time Banjo (CD)
with Dan Tenenbaum on guitar and harmony vocals . $10 + $2 shipping.

 

 

Instead of a Pony: Old-time Banjo Songs and Tunes (CD). Featuring The Queen City Bulldogs, Rich Hartness, Dan Tenenbaum, and Cliff Perry. $10 + $2 shipping. If using Paypal, please add the fee of 60 cents.

 

 

Go vintage! The Hillsides Are All Covered with Cakes, old-time banjo (originally on cassette). Download from Bandcamp.

 

 

 

The recordings above are also available for download at my Bandcamp Page.

BOOKS

The Arborists: Poems (MoonPath Press 2023). $16.99 +$3.50 shipping.  If using Paypal, please add the fee of 60 cents.

Available directly from me via Paypal (paypal.me/mollytmusic) and Venmo (@Molly-Tenenbaum), and also available through Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon

Praise for The Arborists: “Rilke wrote, “The things of this world… seem to need us.” Molly Tenenbaum, better than any poet I know, hears the call of things—banjos, clematis, paintings of chickens—and translates for us their happiness and pathos. She brings this genius toThe Arborists, set in a time of great personal loss and romantic discovery. This is that rare and wondrous collection that takes my breath—deeply moving, effervescent, utterly original and alive.”  –Kathleen Flenniken, Poet Laureate emerita, Washington State

 

 

Exercises to Free the Tongue: poems and text by Molly Tenenbaum, artist’s book by Ellen Ziegler, printing and binding by Paper Hammer.  The artist’s book is printed in a limited edition of 20 copies; a less limited spiral-bound edition is SOLD OUT. 5” x 13”, 42 pages.
Click here to see more poems and pages from the book. Limited edition: $175 + $10 shipping.

 

 

 

 

 Mytheria: Poems (Two Sylvias Press, 2017). $16 +$3 shipping. If using Paypal, please add the fee of 60 cents.Or order directly from Two Sylvias Press.

About Mytheria: How many books do you know that contain two bears, reappearing pajamas, animated eyebrows, a just-smelted bloom of iron, and one fermata? In Mytheria, all this–plus an anagram, an old car beating like a heart, and a bottle of water–sustain a figure learning to live in the strangeness of having been born to those shape-shifting minor gods, parents, whose shapes shape the world.

 

The Cupboard Artist: Poems (Floating Bridge Press, 2012). $10 + $3 shipping. If using Paypal, please add the fee of 60 cents.

Praise for The Cupboard Artist: “In Molly Tenenbaum’s The Cupboard Artist we get mauve and jet and puce and garnet, bronze-gold thread, and flame. We get caterpillar yarn, chocolate suede, clotted malt, firefall velvet dresses, and blue aromas of pine. We get braids of burlap and rose-brown grass and wedges and spindles and trusses and tweezers and peppercorn cheese. In short, we get every color, texture, taste, and almost-fingertip-touched longing in this keenly noticed collision of the inner and outer life–this erotic, musical, painterly, reflective, and seriously joyous book. I love every page of it.”  –Christopher Howell

 

Now: Poems  (Bear Star Press, 2007). $10 + $2 shipping. If using Paypal, please add the fee of 60 cents.

Praise for Now: “Now is a valentine from a poet in love with the world, and she has found the words to prove it. Read these poems aloud; let them swirl in “your earhol’s riviera.” Follow her into her garden, kitchen, library, heart. She will not lead you astray, or maybe she will, but you will eat well, laugh, dance, and cry. Nothing is ordinary–her peace march turns into a ‘peach march.’ These poems are a sensual delight.” –Barbara Hamby

 

By a Thread: Poems  (Van West & Co, 2000).  $10 + $3 shipping. If using Paypal, please add the fee of 60 cents.

Praise for By a Thread: “The poems in By a Thread–like the most intriguing melodies, the most alluring chords, the happiest and saddest of sounds and cadences–mesmerize. These poems have been structured and laid carefully, line upon line, nuance upon nuance, by the hand of a gifted writer. There are few conclusions stated among the brilliant and surprising images, no tight resolutions, no glib summaries. Read these poems for the truth of the reality they remember and for the truth of the reality they create.” –Pattiann Rogers

All items above: Paypal: paypal.me/mollytmusic or venmo: @Molly-Tenenbaum, and email me  to tell me what you’re ordering and to send shipping information.