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A Rising & Other Poems
Poetry. "Years ago, I predicted that David Sloan's name would easily join those who revel in the stubbornly elusive meld of craft and lyric. Ever since I've known him, he's mastered it with enviable ease, in deftly-spun poems probing what consoles and disquiets us--inexplicable loss, love that illuminates, the quirks and quandaries of the natural world. This is the book that will do it."--Patricia Smith "David Sloan's second collection of poems astonishes and delights at every turn, literally as each line breaks upon a next elegant phrase, apt image or surprising metaphor. There are several ekphrastic poems that are among the best I've ever read, a sestina that definitely is, a supple and in...
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Where You Happen to be
Poetry. "With variously sized poetic scopes, ever focused, Leonore Hildebrandt finds us connective paths through space and time, delineating the material and spiritual dimensions of shelter. WHERE YOU HAPPEN TO BE takes its cue--and title--from Buckminster Fuller's directive: 'The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time.' A poet of the keenest relational reasoning, Hildebrandt marks out the directions of a nostos poetics, venturing, but never claiming, the way ...
Memory Won't Save Me
Poems.
Indebted to Wind
Poetry. "The wind in these eloquent, elegant, tensile poems is present as spirit, of course; as spirit it can manifest as the longing or fate of the body (it expires), as intellectual momentum (it inspires), as power for social justice (it aspires). In all these modes, L.R. Berger both controls the energy as form, and honors the charge of the moment,--perception by brilliant perception, breath by mortal breath."--Stephen Tapscot "In this beautiful new book, words are unusually alive and active in the poet's capable hands. A whispered finale meaning finally, a riff on up, an exploration of the letter p: these are among the linguistic players that address both personal loss and political realities, which L. R. Berger explores with searing honesty, emotional depth, and lyrical grace. No precious word is wasted here; you will read carefully and gratefully, and want to read again."--Martha Collins
How to Start Over
Maine Poet Laureate's new book of poetry includes some experimental poems using source words supplied by others. Some of these poems were made- or sparked- by lists of random words given to the poet. But really nothing is random to an imagination that can see the whole from its scattered parts, see in disparate elements a "full spectrum holiness."
Fictionfields
Fiction. Art. Richard Kostelanetz's FictionFields: Microscopic Narratives, is a completely new rendition of a form that he has done before. The typography presented in this project, using many typefaces and styles, creates an entirely new experience for new and existing readers of Richard's work. The pages themselves breath between static-linear and spiraling-shifting shapes, but each word or group of words (no more than three) stands alone, with unique stories and a separate set of stimuli to the imagination, "bestowing conceptional resonances the words wouldn't otherwise have." "About experiences that happened I write essays; my fictions portray what hasn't happened. For decades now I've w...
Prayers & Run-on Sentences
Poetry. "Stuart Kestenbaum is a poet of immense fluency, elegance, and deep humanity. I bow to his work"--Naomi Shihab Nye. "Stuart Kestenbaum writes the kind of poems I love to read, heartfelt responses to the privilege of having been given a life. No hidden agendas here, no theories to espouse, nothing but life, pure life, set down with craft and love"--Ted Kooser. Kestenbaum is the author of two previous poetry collections, Pilgrimage and House of Thanksgiving, and is the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine.
Guest Boy
Djelloul Marbrook, a prize-winning poet and novelist, celebrates 15 years of research and writing in this epic trilogy, which recalls The Odyssey and The Seven Voyages of Sindbad. He builds a bridge between Arab and Western civilization in this suspenseful and searching adventure at a time when such a bridge is needed most. Marbrook is the author of ten books of poems and ten of fiction. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. He is a U.S. Navy veteran, a civilian sailor, a retired newspaper reporter and editor, and an admired photographer.
Nests
Sharon Beals' gorgeous photographs of nests offer a new window onto the life and beauty of birds. Drawn from the collections of the California Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, these birds' nests from around the world offer astonishing insight into the intricate detail wrought by nature's most fastidious architects. Lovely images of nests and eggs are set against rich black backgrounds, and are accompanied by fascinating and informative portraits—conveyed through words and illustrations—of the birds that built them. A beautiful volume, Nests is the perfect gift for birders, bird lovers, and anyone captivated by the fleeting and fascinating splendor of the natural world.
