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Tag: Full-Length

The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things

The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things

June 20, 2022 Jacar Press

Sean Thomas Dougherty

“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 realized / …

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

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

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 poems take advantage of the leaps …

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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

Life Without Furniture

June 1, 2018 Jacar Press

Sharon Fagan McDermott –

“In Life Without Furniture ‘the whole visible world flows through one white birch.’ Sharon Fagan McDermott inhabits the spaces between the common and the uncommon: the rich landscapes between ‘A State of Un-Union’ and ‘Driving Home …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2018 Publications, Full-Length, Sharon Fagan McDermott

Yes, We Be

February 5, 2018 Jacar Press

Patrick Howell –

Yes, We Be is an integrated-design poetry book that connects with the Black Arts Movement, Harlem Renaissance and Afro-Futurism. Proceeds will benefit Black Lives Matter, SistaWRITE, and COR AME community programs.

“Patrick Howell’s Yes We Be is …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2018 Publications, Book Art, Full-Length, Patrick Howell

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