Circe's Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry
Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Eds.
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Circe's Lament collects work by some of the best poets writing today—from Ellen Bass to Frank X Walker—in celebration of the wild feminine: the fierce, the furious, the bruised and battered, the hilarious, the mythical, the stereotypical, the fairytale turned inside out. Here you'll find Miss America and Janis Joplin, Barbie and Medusa, along with—in Nickole Brown's stunning and tender homage—a grandmother who can cuss up a storm and uses 'fucker' as a term of endearment. The women in these poems behave in the most unladylike ways—swearing, sexing, drinking, dancing, hitting back, running away, bleeding, broke and broken. But just when you might start to think this celebration of 'the bad girl' is veering toward romanticizing her, comes a poem like 'The Girl,' by Linda Casebeer—as heart-breaking and frank and true a poem about being young and female and vulnerable and tough as I've ever read anywhere. Read it and weep. And be grateful for the work these editors have done to bring these voices to us."—Cecilia Woloch
ISBN: 978-1-936628-41-4
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Wash the Dust from My Eyes
Nana Lampton
In this first-of-its-kind collection of nonfiction, poetry, art and photography 100 years in the making, Nana Lampton combines the journal entries of her grandfather—a World War I cavalryman uncertain about the future the war holds, yet ready to play his part—with her own poetry inspired by his writing. As she reaches back through a century to see the world from his perspective, Lampton invites the words of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius to illustrate the timelessness of feelings that we can all appreciate—apprehension, ambition, camraderie, and love—in the face of war and in the hope for what comes after.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-38-4
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About Flight
Frank X Walker
"Up until this point in American history, no poet has written an honest and believable lament about the crippling effects from the tornado swirl of a crack pipe, how a little rock being melted between thin mesh screen creates pallid smoke: a monster, a slave to the white lady that is cocaine. In
About Flight, Frank X Walker gives us the beautiful ugly narrative of a brother who is wrestling with chemical dependency, and losing. The high, in all of its beautiful contradictions takes on the metaphor of flight, and so we soar through the terrible highs and lows of a protagonist who carries his family with him into the den of iniquity."—Randall Horton, author of
Pitch Dark Anarchy & Hook: A Memoir
ISBN: 978-1-936628-36-0
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This Wretched Vessel
Christopher McCurry, Hap Houlihan and Robin LaMer Rahija, Eds.
This Wretched Vessel is a 162-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. Our favorite poems were selected from those submitted, and the result is an emotional, courageous, and sometimes funny poetry collection featuring the work of 114 authors.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-35-3
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Deflection
Roberta Beary
"I feel astonished, happy, and lucky to have discovered
Deflection. Roberta Beary's poetry is animated with principles of Haiku, illustrative of the form but reliant on other traditions. Her work shows that a gifted poet can assert all manner of styles within a poem, sharing interests of each to give us a new breed. It's a bright sunshiny day when we get surprising, evocative, powerful poetry coined from the gold standard of ancients. These poems are vibrant with lived experience and shockingly beautiful with new expression. The lines and poetic forms are prisms from the classical, and lyrical, to distilled Asian thought. This book is essential in furthering the art of poetry."—Grace Cavalieri
ISBN: 978-1-936628-33-9
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Kingdom of Speculation
Barbara Goldberg
In this book you will be under the spell of imagination that is truly impressive. But, more than that: you will fall in love with Barbara Goldberg's syntax. The way her sentence works against her line-breaks, creating fireworks, is a fairy tale in and of itself. Her poems are magical, not because they contain princesses and ravens and thieves of eggs. They are magical because their music grabs us and won't let us be. The secret to true music cannot be understood. It can only be applauded. —Ilya Kaminsky, Author of Dancing in Odessa
ISBN: 978-1-936628-31-5
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Your Life as It Is
A. Molotkov
Your Life as It Is is the winner of the Editor's Choice award for the 2014 Poetry Chapbook competition. "Although each of A. Molotkov's daybook prose poems begins with 'You wake up in the morning …,' everything else—including the speaker's gender—is in flux. This is the multiverse wherein 'changes replace changes,' wherein the speaker must continually create and re-create perception and personal history. These poems create a cumulative effect both moving and unsettling."—Paulann Petersen
ISBN: 978-1-936628-29-2
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Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop
Lynnell Edwards
"Through empathy and penetrating observation, Edwards goes deep inside the art of glassmaking. What she brings back in the form of poems is fascinating—she has absorbed and passes on to us the jargon of the guild, as well as the cautions and the glories the 'kings of the hot shop' encounter on the way to finished creations. It is a small, self enclosed universe, and Edwards its sympathetic cosmologist."—Jeffrey Skinner
ISBN: 978-1-936628-26-1
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Her Limestone Bones
Hap Houlihan and Christopher McCurry, Eds.
Her Limestone Bones is a 122-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2013 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. The result is an exciting, thought-provoking five-section poetry anthology featuring 75 authors.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-24-7
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The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
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The Season of Delicate Hunger brings us more than thirty Bulgarian poets whom the translators and editor successfully make us feel we need to listen to. The anthology is a valuable introduction to a wide variety of voices most of us have never heard before. The book comes as a gift both to international understanding and to American literature."—J. Kates, Editor of
In The Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era
ISBN: 978-1-936628-44-5
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Scotch Tape World
Tom C. Hunley
"Tom C. Hunley, on the evidence of these poems, is as in love with, as he is bewildered by, the world. And although that might seem a common way of being in the world, Hunley's ability to render his love and bewilderment precisely in his poems is unique and necessary. These poems manage to be funny without being cynical, and they manage to be honest without being cynical, and they manage to seem utterly contemporary without being cynical, and each of these achievements is a small miracle and almost an act of defiance. At one point, Hunley tells God, "I want you to fill my mouth / with water and prayer and maybe a jagged little song." I don't know how Hunley is set for water, and I don't know about his spiritual practices, but these poems read like answered prayers." - Shane McCrae
ISBN: 978-1-936628-20-9
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In Nonestica
Morgan Adams
"Morgan Adams' poems, honed from a marvelous and scrupulous attention to the world and word, simultaneously delight and terrify. In these remarkable poems, the imaginary becomes real and the real, imaginary. Every time I read her poems I am reminded of how enchanted the world is—how strange, how full of wonder." - Catherine Bowman, Author of
The Plath Cabinet
ISBN: 978-1-936628-16-2
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ransom notes
Tina Andry
"Exhale! In
ransom notes Tina Andry fills the void in between heartbeats. This collection, like the time in between the left and right ventricles, takes you for a gasping ride that may seem brief, yet each poem stays with you, as they float around in your lungs collecting the air that you inhale." - Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Author of
Of Jibaros and Hillbillies
ISBN: 978-1-936628-17-9
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A Brief Natural History of an American Girl
Sarah Freligh
Winner of the Editor's Choice award in the Accents 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest. "In
A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, Sarah Freligh pulls you into the car of a 1950's girlhood and you stay, compelled by the journey through sexual awakening and into womanhood. It's a difficult story. The narrator loses a lot—she gives kisses to the boss at Donut Delite, her virginity to a boy in a cornfield, her body to men she knows, or doesn't. She gives away a baby. She buries her mother. And hope, how 'easy to give her away.' And yet not quite. Through the accumulation of experience, through the ability to look clearly and name what she sees, Freligh insists on possibility. The poems draw our attention, then elicit a shiver of recognition. This is what one girlhood looks like; this is what human experience looks like. The journey is not over, she reminds us. You 'are not there yet.' - Wendy Mnookin, Author of
The Moon Makes Its Own Plea.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-14-8
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Frog Mantra
Suchoon Mo
"Perhaps the rarest gift is to encounter a voice that sings from an unexpected condition. In this lucid collection, poet Suchoon Mo offers this kind of voice. Both worldly and electric,
Frog Mantra is a book filled with singing. The poems approach modern life with wit, grace, and keen insight.The reader is presented with scenes that reconfigure our greater concerns about life and death. Mo presents us with a complicated world made clearer by his devotion to observation. The music of
Frog Mantra resides in secretive moments, meant to be savored through each page." - Matthew Haughton, author of
Stand in the Stillness of Woods
ISBN: 978-1-936628-12-4
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The Sounding Machine
Patty Paine
With intelligence and an awareness of the limits and possibility of metaphor, Patty Paine explores the fierce unclasping and clasping of memory as she writes of family, history, and our bonds to the world. In
The Sounding Machine, she works into the complicated, messy, hearts of situations, not shying away from multiple perspectives; in one poem the devoured prey says of the predator: "It was my blood ... muscle and sinew / warming his gut." One believes these strong forays. - Talvikki Ansel
ISBN: 978-1-936628-11-7
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I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking
Jude Lally
In
I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking, Jude Lally is "still mad as hell" and "ready for the hurt." Illuminating the mundane things in life like going to the bathroom, hopping boulders while hiking, or simply being able to jump out of bed, we are reminded of what is often taken for granted. These poems confess the dreams and demons as well as the daily joys and struggles of a writer facing a rare disease and an uncertain fate. In them, we find him living for today, fully and honestly, with a refreshing sense of humor that offers light and hope amid the darkness. He stares his condition in the face, laughs and escapes into his imagination, determined "not to dry up/and blow away." This collection signals Jude Lally is here to stay, a hardy perennial, a poet that continues to bloom. - Eric Scott Sutherland
ISBN: 978-1-936628-08-7
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The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues
Frederick Smock
"Like Virgil's before him, Frederick Smock's eclogues give us the sense of an earned peace
in the clear voice of a man at home in the world. These poems are richly allusive, elemental
moments of experience and insight.
The Deer at Gethsemani is a well-made house of poetry,
and it is a true pleasure to spend time in its rooms."
- Greg Pape, Author of
American Flamingo
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-06-3
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Animal Time
Greg Pape
"I used to believe that Greg Pape's intimate knowledge of everything that lives and breathes
or gives light was earned sleeping beneath the stars at night, but these poems prove that he
is everywhere all at once just like the wind. And we know the wind never sleeps... Brilliant
beautiful cinematic gems. I still love Coleman and the deer, but I think the rooster poems
have become my new favorites."
- Frank X Walker, Author of
Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-02-5
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Numbered Bones
Bobby Steve Baker
"Bobby Steve Baker pulls out the scalpel and cuts away the superficial and unsecured, slicing through the flesh of lust and musculature of ego until he reaches his own
Numbered Bones. Choices are scars chiseled into the body. The bedrock of self is uncovered through the struggle and search for love. The wounds are perfect in their shape." - Eric Sutherland, Author of
Incommunicado
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-00-1
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Bloom on a Split Board
Nana Lampton
"'Come along, come along,' Nana Lampton sings in these lovely nature poems. Here she gives us ice, the edge of the sea, the half moon, and the dawn. We consort with dogs, salmon, the ravens, the owl, the warbler, deer, thoroughbreds and Audubon's pet turkey. We breathe the fragrance and sight of Daphne, roses, white catalpa and hydrangeas, wild iris. The spirit hovers and explores, unbounded." - Sena Jeter Naslund, Author of
Ahab's Wife and
Adam & Eve
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Bee-coursing Box
Matthew Haughton
"Matthew Haughton's debut collection honors and extends Kentucky's great literary heritage, which stretches from Greenup to Bowling Green, the 18th century to now. In poems that dare 'pray there's a heaven for snakes,' and dare see a man 'growing like a sycamore out of the untamed earth,' he adds his worthy voice to the chorus."
- Frederick Smock, Author of
Guest House
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Plein Jeu
E.C. Belli
This English language chapbook is the winner of the Editor's Choice Award for the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
"The poetry collection is representative of my esthetics and obsessions over the last year or so," says Belli. "My husband was away for military training this entire winter and I found myself alone in this house full of empty rooms, moths, echoes, and my piano. The collection explores that sense of being new to a place while tugging along memories from previous lives."
"The title Plein Jeu, actually refers to a type of organ registration which is composed of principals, flutes, fournitures and cymbals," explains Belli. "When the plein jeu stop is pulled, it activates all of these other stops as well. It is one of the richest tones that can be achieved. Plein jeu is what the collection feels like to me: all of the voices within me were activated."
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- Article in The Saratogian
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-4-9
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Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku
Barry George
The haiku in this book blend a distinctly urban content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. "What I admire about Barry George's poetry is the possibility for human utterance within a contemporary scene - not unlike the lyric poem in modern English - explored in Japanese short forms. In three lines he paints a scene as contemporary as Edward Hopper, strikes notes as American as Aaron Copland. George focuses our attention visually and aurally, and thus each haiku is a cinematic moment casting an afterimage long after the poem closes. Even those who are not familiar with the ever-evolving Japanese short form will find
Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku universal in compression and resonance." - Jeanie Thompson, author of
The Seasons Bear Us and Executive Director, The Alabama Writers' Forum
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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-2-5
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