Ash Tattoos is the new e-book from Janet Buck, a downloadable in .PDF format, weighing in at 82 pages and only 99 cents by credit card. From the publisher's web page:

Ash Tattoos is a timely and poignant collection of poetry addressing the tragedy of 9/11/2001. The poems are arranged chronologically, beginning with the day the twin towers in New York collapsed before the eyes of the world and ending at Times Square on New Year’s Eve. As a writer, Janet I. Buck works through the immediate shock of the attacks, gauging both its horrors and its heroes in the face of abject terror. When the shock is at its simmering point, she moves swiftly to the juggernaut of war, demonstrating compassion for the victimized women and children of Afghanistan as well as grieving families all across the U.S.A. Ash Tattoos is rich with images of crawling smoke and falling ash, but the collection also offers a glimpse of hope. The human condition is, after all, a human thing. We must consider the winds of the world when we raise our flags.

Some of the poems in Ash Tattoos first appeared in such prestigious journals as The American Muse, The Pedestal Magazine, Facets, Kimera, and Pierian Springs; others are never before published. Buck’s opening essay discusses the crucial role of writing in coping with these tragedies. Use this book to find your own way back to triumph by wandering the thick mire of emotion and the vivid imagery of war. As one critic said, “Buck deftly unpacks each and every box of sorrow; she identifies the contents, then uses the poet’s hourglass to sift the facets of blood from ash. Where sense cannot be made, reverence must be summoned. And this is what Buck does better than any other living poet.”