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The Night Horse
A collection of new and selected poems from William Reichard's previous collections, including work from An Alchemy in the Bones, The Brightness, How to, Sin Eater, As Breath in Winter, and Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity.
This Brightness
William Reichard's storytelling ability is powerfully on display, especially in the final section of the book, Crossing Over, Crossing Back: A Portrait of Marsden Hartley, a collection of 21 prose poems about which Mark Doty writes: Reichard's homage to Hartley is a way, in these searching poems, 'to stitch the broken world back together.' This Brightness begins and ends with lived experience and is a direct confrontation with the forces of change, hope and despair, while exploring the intricacies of an inner light that beckons people to join together.
How to
How To was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. In this distinguished collection of poems, William Reichard graciously inspires his readers to celebrate as well as mourn all things transformed by choice or circumstance. "Strong meditations on the hopefulness and hopelessness that attend our attempts to connect with each other." -- Lambda Book Report
Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity
Poetry. LGBT Studies. In his poem The Crows, an achingly poignant remembrance of his dying sister, William Reichard observes that 'Silence is the secret language in our family, the long gaps / between what we can and cannot say.' In the poem that opens this new collection, he also admits to a 'learned/willful' blindness as a coping mechanism for dealing with a world where 'things change, ' an urge to evasion so that 'I will never turn into the man/I don't want to become.' Silence and blindness might seem an unpromising beginning for poetry. But then Reichard responds through his masterful juxtaposition in A Trip Down Market Street of flickering silent movie images of a doomed San Francisco w...
Sin Eater
'Sin Eater' is William Reichard's fourth collection of poetry and is the shadow companion to his third, 'This Brightness' (Mid-List Press 2007). Reichard began 'Sin Eater' as he was writing 'This Brightness,' finding that as he explored the multiple literal and metaphorical permutations of light, the shadow's afterimage became visible. The poems of 'Sin Eater' are similar to photographic double images one positive, the other negative. Every love poem has aspects of hate, every war poem holds in its core the seed of peace. The overriding theme is one of finding balance in our lives between public brightness and private shadow.The title of the book comes from a funeral rite. Practiced in Engla...
Our Delicate Barricades Downed
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. In OUR DELICATE BARRICADES DOWNED, William Reichard writes of small-town and city life on the prairie of his native Minnesota, but any association this might suggest with the work of a certain other Minnesotan is immediately dispelled in these haunted, haunting prose poems. Haunted, because there are indeed ghosts in many poems, in the abandoned houses he and his friends explored a boys, the ruined barns and abandoned sawmill and former asylum, and later "the ghost of an angry nun...outraged that two gay men and a lesbian had moved into her house," in "A Former Home for Wayward Girls," or, in another apartment, the weight he feels in bed at night of "an invisible man...
American Tensions
This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change. Living American writers produced each piece between 1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary merit and the manner in which they address one or more pressing social issues. William Reichard has assembled some of the most respected literary artists of our time, asking whose voices are ascendant, whose silenced, and why. The work as a whole reveals shifting perspectives and the changing role of writing in the social justice arena over the last few decades.
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Reclaiming the Heartland
This important and diverse new collection by writers and artists who have lived in the Midwest presents a wide range of fiction, poetry, memoir, essays, and photography, adding a vital point of view to the cannon of lesbian and gay literature.
Essential Love
In this inspiring collection of vibrant poems, contemporary American poets speak out on a universal theme: the unbreakable bond shared by parents and their children. With kindness, nostalgia, forgiveness and love, poets recall their parents. Book jacket.
