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Category: Books

Creeks of the Upper South

March 3, 2016 Jacar Press

Amy & William Wright

“The poems in Creeks of the Upper South rely on call and response—both within individual poems and from poem to poem—which seems fitting, given the collaborative nature of the collection. At times, the  voices and personal …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Amy Wright, Full-Length, William Wright

After the Three Moon Era

January 18, 2016 Jacar Press

Gary Fincke

Winner of the 2015 Jacar Press Poetry Book Prize

In After the Three Moon Era, Gary Fincke keeps returning to the missing, the vanished, the disappeared. The speaker of his sharply-etched poems is a man in late middle …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Gary Fincke
How Small, Confronting Morning

How Small, Confronting Morning

November 9, 2015 Jacar Press

Lola Haskins

OUT OF STOCK.Available on Kindle.

“W.S. Merwin believes ‘Haskins writes with the startling freedom and grace of a kite flying, and with the variety and assurance of invention that reveal, in image after image, the dream behind the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length, Lola Haskins
Astonished to Wake

Astonished to Wake

Jacar Press

Julie Suk

“The poetry of Julie Suk is at once deceptively spare and metaphorically rich, and the sensual mystery of her perfectly pitched and etched lines is haunting, elemental, and wild.”

R. T. Smith

In her sixth collection, Suk continues …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length, Julie Suk
Intimacy

Intimacy

October 28, 2015 Jacar Press

Ed. Kaufman, Krawiec, Levin, Parker

Intimacy is a state of closeness that transcends explanation. It is a feeling of being at home emotionally and physically, a biological need so severe that when we don’t have intimacy with those who are …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Alan Michael Parker, Anthology, Debra Kaufman, Richard Krawiec, Stephanie Levin
Disquiet

Disquiet

October 21, 2015 Jacar Press

Kelly Michels

“The philosophy and emotional pulse moving behind the words—that and the flawless lineation of the music—just wouldn’t let me go.”

Jamaal May, Hum (Alice James Books) American Library Association Notable Book Award

“Kelly Michels’ collection takes us to …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Kelly Michels
The Road to Ballyvaughan

The Road to Ballyvaughan

September 2, 2015 Jacar Press

Gibbons Ruark

“There’s a clean, lively language at work here, full of fine words clearly relished, while those poems lodged in Irish landscapes, both physical and literary, shine with the virtue of authenticity: they see, feel and communicate what’s actually …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Full-Length, Gibbons Ruark
The Vishnu Bird

The Vishnu Bird

May 21, 2015 Jacar Press

Kathryn Stripling Byer

“The Vishnu Bird is both a memorial and a memoir in lyric poetry. This clean-spoken, deeply-felt chapbook remembers the poet’s dear friend by tracing his vocation of anthropology, and honoring his spiritual depth, through vignettes from the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Kathryn Stripling Byer

Astir

April 29, 2015 Jacar Press

Kevin Boyle

“Rich in detail and attentive in focus, Kevin Boyle’s poems rock back and forth between tenderness and irony. In language both fluent and metrical, they explore what it’s like to be alive and awake in today’s shifting cultural …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Full-Length, Kevin Boyle
Delicate Thefts

Delicate Thefts

April 5, 2015 Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman

“If you have any doubt that Debra Kaufman is one of our best contemporary American poets, then read this collection.”

Kathryn Stripling Byer, Descent, Coming to Rest, Catching Light and 3 others from LSU Press 

“Which universe does …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Debra Kaufman, Full-Length

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