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Category: Books

If It Heals At All

November 23, 2020 Jacar Press

Ali Black

Available on Kindle.

“If It Heals At All defines personal moments that conjure reincarnations of straightforward sensibility with language that names, ‘my black is a heartbeat.’ Ali Black dares metaphors to not get it twisted as she creates …

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Zombies at the Disco

Jacar Press

Alison Stone

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly sad, these …

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What I Forgot to Say

May 22, 2020 Jacar Press

Julie Suk

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Julie Suk is a prize-winning American poet from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born Julie Madison Gaillard in 1924 in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. Her …

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In These States

April 20, 2020 Jacar Press

T.R. Hummer

In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul.

Each of us has various existences, only a few of them coinciding precisely with the boundaries of our neighborhoods. The poems in this book are …

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The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening

March 28, 2020 Jacar Press

Simon Baena

Available on Kindle.

The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening is a lyrical lament that evokes the night as the abode of ruins, of loss, and of History—the realm between silence and noise which these poems speak through …

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Nursewifery

December 2, 2019 Jacar Press

Ruth Williams

Wife, mother, nurse—these words invoke the vision of a woman giving of herself to sustain another with love, tenderness, care. Written in the voice of a military nurse, Nursewifery speaks from the perspective of a woman whose job …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Ruth Williams

Someone You Love Is Still Alive

November 17, 2019 Jacar Press

Ephraim Scott Sommers

“Someone You Love is Still Alive compels the reader to remember that they are, after all, still human. Despite a fractured world, a challenging experience of what it is to be a member of a global society, …

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Arc

September 22, 2019 Jacar Press

Eavan Boland

Arc is a curated chapbook of poems representing the career of Eavan Boland, Ireland’s most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary poet. A work of collectible book art, Arc is printed in a limited edition of 200 copies featuring …

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God Shattered

September 1, 2019 Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman

Crows and mirrors, shadows and mothers. Moving seamlessly between lyric and persona and always telling a piece of a larger story, God Shattered offers poems that are home to many familiars—family and community, landscape and weather, fairy tales, …

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Trawling the Silences

May 8, 2019 Jacar Press

Kathryn Stripling Byer

When she died suddenly from lymphoma in June 2017, Kathryn Stripling Byer had just completed her 7th, and what would be her last, collection of poetry, Trawling the Silences. It is a book of great beauty and …

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