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body psalms by Audrey Gidman
"This is a collection of incantations, meditations, conjurings, 'a bowl of water on the ground…a bowl catching grief like rainwater.' In this compact collection, the poet asks if we can make something sacred of our lives….Her deep lyric awareness beckons a reader into the world of iikááh, a holy place where 'gods come and go.' From memory and the honoring of earth, trees, and the body, Gidman reframes trauma…." — Lisa C. Taylor
"body psalms is a book of wonder, blood, and holy longing for flowers and seeds and wind and stone and their echoes in the human form. Her poems are the sound of song in the wind, music of the earth in cupped hands. They are made of the body the way prayer is made of breath…." —Jeffrey Thomson
"This collection is a rarity, a ritual space incubated in the wilderness, steeped in mythic and ecstatic consciousness…." —Timothy Liu
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Singer in the Gray of Jean-Michel by Lynn Shorter
"Lynn Shorter’s poetry is pitched on the point of song, finding its place in the ear and throat to echo back through communities forged in Black struggle, art and counter narratives, and forwards into all the sonic possibilities of a world imagined otherwise. The space of the page is a score for unfolding identities, sinuous voicings transposing the fluidity of jazz into new keys of poetry. This is joyful and necessary work." —Zoë Skoulding, author of A Marginal Sea
" Lynn Shorter’s Singer in the Gray of Jean-Michel is a pyrotechnical achievement. Shorter’s mastery of rhythm places her book among the very best of Black experimentalism and Afro-Futurism. Her poems move, coursing through a self that is actual, irreplaceable, and totally comfortable in its uniqueness. The poems push beyond identity into a form of sharing. The voice is filtered through whale-songs, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among other figures. Constantly surprising, the poems are both spontaneous and inevitable at the same time." —Sean Singer, winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for Today in the Taxi
Changeable Gods, by Richard Wollman
Elyse Wolf Prize Winner
With echoes of Rilke's sonnets, Changeable Gods compels the reader through a sequence of beautifully imagistic love poems, in which the changing hues of early morning and the gods themselves emerge and recede, only to reemerge under the poet's painterly eye.
"In this remarkable book, Wollman uses clear and lyrical human speech to create a sequence of poems at once complex and intimate. The gods he speaks of do not always inspire trust, but do, however, inspire lyric poetry of sheer beauty....[When] the gods take flight and the poet is thrown back upon himself, he has that self to fall back on....deeply changed by having participated in the creation of days...." — Alfred Nicol
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