BOOKS
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Everything Begins Somewhereby Amanda Lou Doster Her questions are the big ones: identity, language, memory, motherhood, fidelity. “Think of what you are meant to do,” Doster’s speaker implores. Luckily for us, Doster was meant to write these generous, insightful, terrifically human poems. |
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Then & Againby Catherine Stearns The poems in Then & Again thread the act of remembering and its attendant questions (“why else love what we love?”) with meditations on the present made possible by the past. |
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From the Other Roomby Anna M. Warrock These elegiac poems approach profound loss
as one might a new language, awed at first by its
strange idioms and later by their beauty. I am reminded,
reading Warrock, of the heartbreaking wit of
Szymborska. |
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Small Ceremoniesby Cynthia Snow The book itself works a kind of sympathetic magic, telling stories of everyday encounters in ways that reveal their essential strangeness. - Patrick Donnelly, author of The Charge, and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin |
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Frozen Ropeby Dennis Pollock The poems in Frozen Rope are set in 1804 in Hadam, a fictionalized western Massachusetts town, and capture the life of the village and the voices its people, from incorporating the town, to a village murder, to the loss of a child, among other events and visions. |
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Say Dance, Say Nightby Abbot Cutler |
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In the Provincelandsby Janet MacFadyen |
![]() | All We Can Do Is Wait
by Ed Rayher
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What Sleeps Insideby Paula Sayword |
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The Body Altersby Janine Roberts |
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Seed Case of the Heartby Susan Middleton -- Patricia Lee Lewis, A Kind of Yellow |
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blonde, red Mustang...by Art Stein -- Larry Kimm |
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Quickening
by Susie Patlove
-- Ellen Doré Watson, Director, The Poetry Center at Smith College |
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Walk Through Paradise Backwards
by Trish Crapo -- Barry Sternlieb, Editor, |
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Crossing the Barby Jim Bell Jim Bell's poems wake up your senses and remind you to pay attention. They shock you back to life. -- Jan Frazier, Jan Frazier's Greatest Hits |