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Tag: 2017 Publications

Dazzle

January 12, 2018 Jacar Press

Alison Stone –

“With a jeweler’s lapidary skill, Alison Stone has fashioned a string of gemlike poems that indeed (dare I say it?) dazzle—with wisdom, wit, and brio. She’s crafted every line to a high polish, rich in metaphor and …

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Ghazal Cosmopolitan

October 16, 2017 Jacar Press

Shadab Zeest Hashmi –

“A marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir…”

Marilyn Hacker

“…a gift that enriches our literature…”

Eleanor Wilner

“”…a celebration of, and a love letter to, the language of the world…”

Fady Joudah

“…a …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Full-Length, Shadab Zeest Hashmi

I Want to Undie You

October 14, 2017 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green –

A ritual of grace and love for what remains in memory after great loss.

I Want To Undie You is Jaki Shelton Green’s unflinching cry of sorrow at the untimely death of her daughter Imani; and Jaki’s …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Book Art, Collectible, Jaki Shelton Green

In Case of Sudden Free Fall

August 28, 2017 Jacar Press

Deborah Bogen –

“Grown-up poems for grown-ups.”

Stuart Friebert

“I loved reading In Case of Sudden Free Fall, Deborah Bogen’s beautiful and remarkable oneiric prose poem collection. A delicious gem, it takes the reader on a soulful and transformative journey. …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Contest Winners, Deborah Bogen, Full-Length

Ardor

Jacar Press

Tina Kelley –

“In Ardor, Tina Kelley crafts nineteen love poems to the world, celebrating the details of the daily—a new garden, town names on an atlas, the sound of swallowing. She pays close attention to language, writing an ode …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Tina Kelley

Duet

February 8, 2017 Jacar Press

Dorianne Laux & Joe Millar –

Two of our most celebrated poets, Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, weave together poems about music in a chapbook that riffs on the theme of the title; the poems move forward on unnumbered pages, …

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Posted in: Books, Greatest Hits Series Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar

Gnomon

Jacar Press

Cynthia Huntington –

After experience is done teaching us just about everything it thinks it needs to teach us, we come back to desire, the one thing worth knowing.  This time around desire shows up as a wild calm, dead …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Cynthia Huntington
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