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Tag: Chapbook

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

An Elegy

Jacar Press

Benjamin S. Grossberg –

“Difficult as it is to describe honestly the spectacle of living, to describe death and dying is to go almost where language can’t: past knowledge, experience, or the reliable image. Yet what An Elegy achieves, through …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Chapbook, Contest Winners
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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Kelly Michels
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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Kathryn Stripling Byer
Marks of the Witch

Marks of the Witch

November 24, 2014 Jacar Press

Catherine Carter –

“Catherine Carter’s poems wrestle with contemporary human dilemmas: identity, aging, nostalgia, desire, as well as our place in the natural world. I’m drawn to her diction, spiky and sharp, grounded in the imagery of experience.”

Joseph Millar,…

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Catherine Carter, Chapbook, Contest Winners
Widow Poems

Widow Poems – Sorry, Sold Out

August 28, 2014 Jacar Press

Betty Adcock –

These deeply moving poems about grief, its aftermath, and learning to embrace the world again rank with Betty Adcock’s finest work.

A new book of poetry by the author of six award-winning collections from LSU Press.

  …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Betty Adcock, Chapbook
Feeding the Light

Feeding the Light

July 16, 2014 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green – Sorry, Sold Out. Available on Kindle.

“Rooted in hypnagogic logic and deeply seated in the tradition of Jayne Cortez, Quincy Troupe and Ntozake Shange, Jaki Shelton Green’s verse narratives pay homage to the orphic ethos of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Chapbook, Jaki Shelton Green
Steal Away

Steal Away

Jacar Press

Shelby Stephenson –

An intimate, tender and lyrical chapbook that looks back at a childhood, where friendship, family, and slavery intersect. These poems ponder the conflicted emotions, from joy to sorrow, that come from meditating on one’s legacy.

Shelby Stephenson’s Family Matters: Homage …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Chapbook, Shelby Stephenson

The Garden of Persuasions

October 17, 2013 Jacar Press

Maura High –

Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Chapbook Contest

The Garden of Persuasions speaks in a low voice you must quiet yourself to hear. “I have left some things out of this picture,” it says in one of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Maura High

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