Steve Donachie - Miami, FL (USA):

This book has wooden covers and opens with a hinge. It
    is the log of a square-rigged ship, and was bolted to the
    captain's chart table.
This book is a diary of dreams, but was writ with an
    ink that fades, so the earliest passages are nearly invisible, while the
    latest are still bright and crisp and clear.
This book consists of twenty volumes and is an attempt to capture
    the entire life of its central character, omitting no friends or acquaintances.
    The author had it illustrated with sketches.
This is the photo album of a young man who went to
    war in the 1940's. Half way through the pictures end and the
    rest of the pages are blank and black.
This is a book from Bali, written in pictographs on palm leaves
    strung together like a venetian blind. When you ruffle through the
    pages you can smell the aroma of a tropical breeze from long
    ago, as if a window had opened.
This book is infinitely long, but it still fits in its cover
    because each page is nine tenths as thick as the one before.
This book was etched on incredibly thin plates of glass which have
    stuck together, piling all the words on top of one another and
    making it impossible to read.
This is a book imagined by Italo Calvino. Its words have
    been sorted according to frequency of use.
This is a book of plans for a house, including a full
    size mockup that unfolds from the center.
This book is a play in which each line is uttered by
    a different character, not unlike this library.

Alfred J Bruey - Jackson, MI (USA):

This book is psycho so you can never tell whether the next
    chapter will be a tender love story or a horribly detailed adventure
    of a serial killer.
This book is psychosomatic so if you bend down a corner of
    one of its pages, it develops a migraine headache and if you
    bend its spine, it believes it will never be able to walk
    again.
This book is psychogenic but it is happy with this diagnosis because
    it thinks that means photographs of it turn out well.
This book is psychopathic but it doesn't matter because, even if it
    weren't, it still wouldn't like people and still wouldn't have respect for
    their property.
This book is a psychologist that could help any of the previous
    four books above with their problems, but it won't because, although the
    books all have jackets, none of them have pockets in which to
    carry their consultation fees.

Sarolina Shen Chang - Canton, Michigan (USA):

This is the book about a little creek where the author casted
    a net for all the thoughtlets that'd swum upstream, before the legendary
    ducks returned to claim their territories.
This is the book about an overpass where the author met the
    old woman, the main character he created in another book. The
    old woman was very angry, because the author hadn't found a way
    for her to go home.
This is the book about a bathtub under a tree that bordering
    two bickering villages.
This is the book about a railroad track that divided a city
    into paradise and hell.
This is the book about a well that'd been dry for a
    millennium and people still dropped the bucket in to fetch water.
    A stubbornness disguised as perseverance.

Diane Cochrane - Poughkeepsie, NY (USA):

This bestseller by my best friend's sister makes people say when they
    meet her, "I thought you were dead."
This wanna-be book is a loose knit collection of camouflaged reflections that,
    if published, might make my sister wish I was dead.
   
Here is a terse book of verse signed by an author who
    confessed, "I'd never want my poems to hurt anyone."
If there's a Best Blest for saintly writers, no doubt she'll head
    the list. Meanwhile, devil's advocate, I cast her down
to this shelf next to the text on armadillos and a biography
    of the man who professed, "Writing is an axe."

Katherine Borghardt - Ottawa, KS (USA):

This book was an invitation to the birthday party,
the reception, the banquet, the wedding, and I accepted,
drinking till my head spun, till all the colors melded into one
delicious swirl, seeping out the corners of my consciousness
like meringue, when it weeps.

Bennett Rader - Plymouth, Ohio (USA):

On a two-page spread, this book displayed the maze of life filled
    with little icons representing the traps, misdirections, and pots of words.
The mysteries in this book are Elementary because it never reached high
    school.
This book had Thanksgiving dinner in Alice's church.
This book knows that the time has come
and that Freddy Bean has proven that pigs have wings.

Navtej Bharati - London, Canada, (USA):

On a bubble of water I have written
a tale of the sea signed by the river
letters on shoulders
the bubble is carrying eternity
to the sea

Diane Cochrane - Poughkeepsie, NY (USA):

These books are his first picks for a Presidential Library someday.
They're all written on 100% unrecycled paper by men he says have
    good hearts.
Pocketbooks yet they speak volumes. He claims there gonna be bestsellers.
   
I dunno, but here they are: American Arsenic, Caribou-hoo No More,
    The Supreme Court Shanghaied Express,
The Wheezing of America and, my personal favorite, Republicans for Dummies.

Denise Dunn - ABQ, NM (USA):

This book is exhausted from having to lie face down on the
    shelf because it is too large. No one ever checks it
    out. It is usually holding a stack of smaller books.
This book was made by a three-year-old girl, using her cereal box,
    some honey, and an old phone bill she had crayoned over.
    When it came unstuck she licked the seams and started over.
The other books used to make this book cry until it became
    the public's favorite.
Fortunately, the pages of this book are strong enough to stand on
    their own, because its cover is a wreck.
This is a long story of wasted days and wasted nights, so
    fine.

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