Old, Blind, and Pissed Off
(2006) $12.95

Eliana Beam uses irreverence to convey to her readers the subtle losses endured with blindness and aging. Her lyrical verses are salted with an edge of attitude. Beam is pissed off, because she's lost her central vision along with a lot of other precious things like her memory, friends, driver’s license, and four inches in height. If that isn’t enough, she rants about picayune frustrations over “child proof” safety caps, shrink wrapping, outsourced call centers, and people who mumble.  Links to web sites provide invaluable information for the aging population and their caregivers.       read more

Mother Goose Uncensored
(2005) available soon

These 50 take-offs on the original Mother Goose rhymes cover hot topics such as child welfare, wife abuse, divorce, road rage, corporate corruption, drug dealers, spousal murder, money laundering, and even Viagra.  Double entendras delight adults while still being safe reading for children.  Put it on your coffee table or give it as a gift.

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Between or Among?  or I’ll Be Hanged If I’m Hung:  Terse Verses for Grammarians and Wannabees
(2001)  $12.95

These 101 lessons in verse cover grammar, word usage, and pronunciation, providing a lively alternative to dry English grammar textbooks.  For example, do you know that convince and persuade are not interchangeable?  Why these kind is bad grammar?  When to use lie or lay? Give it to your spouse, teenager, or boss as a gift.  Click to test your own grammar skills.       read more

Children’s Book Series
(1995-2005) unpublished

Writing more prolifically than ever in her eighties, Eliana’s great-granddaughter inspired her wickedly delightful Sabrina children’s book series, about an extremely clever and willful little girl whose misadventures impart valuable life lessons.  These are narrative verses, each about 100 lines, written in rhyme and meter.

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In Courtrooms of the Mind: 
Poems for Ordinary People
(2000) $10.95

This collection of 30 years of work is Eliana’s most serious and ambitious poetry, containing profound ruminations on love, suicide, disappointment, and isolation.  She juxtaposes dark poems of despair with ones of beauty, hope, and wisdom.  The style reflects Eliana's mastery of her craft:  extended metaphors with strict rhyme and meter.

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This Town 
(1961) out of print

The roles of mother, wife, and newspaper editor provided the grist for Eliana's early poems about a young mother’s ragged nerves, her children's triumphs and tears, marriage, town gossip, neighbors, nature, and taxes.   These 60 poems are divided into three sections:  This Town, This Trap, and This Truth.

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The Beekeeper’s Wife
(1947-1952) available soon

Eliana’s banker husband, Jimmy, kept bees to pollinate their orchard.  Her “bee” poems appeared monthly on the cover of The Beekeeper’s Magazine for four years.  Reminiscent of Thoreau’s essays, these beautiful metaphors about bee behavior reflect upon loyalty, ego, faith, war, family, and more.   

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