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Common Wealth
Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state&’s history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their point of origin or their destination, the featured poets ultimately find what matters: heritage, pride, work, inventiveness, struggle, faith, beauty, hope. Keystone poets Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple celebrate Pennsylvania with this wide range of new and veteran poets, including former state poet Samuel Hazo, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, and W. D. Snodgrass, and Reading-born mast...
Alley Scatting
Like alleys themselves, Sharon McDermott's poems are tough, gritty and sometimes violent. They are also lively, daring, on edge, and filled with ironic juxtapositions. Many of the poems are literally set in alleyways; others deal with metaphoric passages such as adolescence, midlife, death, sex changes, and daydreams. McDermott is intrigued by "fringe space[s]," the "in-between world[s]" that constitute a "crack between ordered lives," where "boundaries [are] breached/and breached again." After all, "in-between is/both about erasure and new blooming."
Where We Live
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Stilt Man
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Edge of Damage
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Going Wrong
Going Wrong is a carefully crafted collection of poems, many of them written in traditional forms, from Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, Marilyn L. Taylor. The poetry focuses mainly on the vagaries of human nature, especially as it departs from the predictable, the straight-and-narrow, the genteel. Instead, it tends to demonstrate clearly the many delights-- and sometimes the undeniable outrageousness-- of using the old forms in surprising new ways. -- Amazon.
St. Cecilia's Daze
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