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Tag: Full-Length

Stillness in the Land of Speed

November 21, 2022 Jacar Press

Violeta Orozco

“Violeta Orozco offers a deep range of poetic sensibilities inside of plain talk and personal brown body politic. Stillness in the Land of Speed allows us to inhale the Atlantic and wade with the wisdom inside Yemaya’s skirt …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2022 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Latinx Poetry, New Voices, Women's Poetry
Speak Now This Charm front cover

Speak Now This Charm

October 29, 2022 Jacar Press

Deborah Bogen

BodiesI’ve been thinking about your body. And thebox they put it in. Wondering if you’re still inthere. If a hand under the lip of that box mightbe a way of climbing in, or being in there withyou—because once …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2022 Publications, Deborah Bogen, Full-Length, Prose Poems, Women's Poetry
The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things

The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things

June 20, 2022 Jacar Press

Sean Thomas Dougherty

ISBN 978-0-9845740-3-2

“Raw and plainspoken, heartbreaking yet humorous, this book is free of even the slightest hint of poetry-posturing. ‘I learned how to take care / of people from taking care of you I thought until I …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2022 Publications, Full-Length, Sean Thomas Dougherty
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IN/DESIDERATO

October 25, 2021 Jacar Press

Jon D. Lee

IN/DESIDERATO is a poetic meditation on what remains of us, and what has been left behind.

As refracted through the battlefields of WWII and the War on Terror, and equally through the deepest ocean depths and the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Full-Length, Jon D Lee

Earth of Inedible Things

March 22, 2021 Jacar Press

Joshua Martin

“At times an homage to icons of western culture such as Rubens and Rembrandt, and at other times the honest tracing of workers leaving the poverty of small farmers for the grinding struggle of truck driving and factory …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Full-Length, Joshua Martin

Zombies at the Disco

November 23, 2020 Jacar Press 2 Comments

Alison Stone

SORRY. OUT OF STOCK. Ebook will be available soon.

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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Alison Stone, Full-Length

Someone You Love Is Still Alive

November 17, 2019 Jacar Press 1 Comment

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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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Ephraim Scott Sommers, Full-Length

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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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Debra Kaufman, Full-Length

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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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Full-Length, Kathryn Stripling Byer

Bulletproof

February 8, 2019 Jacar Press

Matthew Murrey

“A generous range of thought-worthy subjects, approached with simplicity, wisdom, and a deft use of language.”

Marilyn Nelson

The poems in Bulletproof look at the joy and dread of being alive in this world. Even pleasurable situations hold …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Matthew Murrey

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