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Tag: Full-Length

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 – Sorry, Not available

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 …

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

Anonymous

January 12, 2018 Jacar Press

Monique-Adelle Callahan D. –

“Anonymous follows vulnerable bodies impelled to service—for work, lust, purgation, and song. Even that last knells from halls where “the applause is from the whips.” This, the caustic art of Monique-Adelle’s often brutal debut: for every …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2018 Publications, Full-Length, Monique-Adelle Callahan D., New Voices

Dazzle

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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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Alison Stone, Full-Length

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

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

A Dog’s Life

August 30, 2016 Jacar Press

Adam Scheffler –

Winner 2016 Jacar Press Full-length Contest

“A Dog’s Life is a delightful romp through Americana by way of ‘real’ America with sly, politically engaged poems. Though this poet issues a rallying cry against ‘siren songs of entertainment,’ …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Adam Scheffler, Contest Winners, Full-Length

Raising the Sky

Jacar Press

Howard Craft –

Raising the Sky is unpretentious, attempts no lofty poetic experiments with heavy themes but rather surges with philosophy caked on the sneaker bottoms of young slickster/trickster wannabes, and top-shelf gold standard prose shuffled across army fatigue blankets. …

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Threshing Floor

Jacar Press

Renee Emerson –

“Threshing Floor is a serious book of poems in series.  These retellings of the Biblical Naomi are compelling and soulful.”

Denise Duhamel

“Threshing Floor tells the story of three women, their vulnerability and displacement; it will grip …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length, Renee Emerson

Dante's Anteroom

Jacar Press

Margaret Rabb –

“Margaret Rabb’s career in poetry was a romance with words…This descendant of Confederates, this servant of transvestites, cloud- chronicler, bibliophile, Anglican and Romantic, knew that the distance between the searcher and the bookshelf was intercontinental and yet …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length, Margaret Rabb

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