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Tag: 2019 Publications

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Nursewifery

December 2, 2019 Jacar Press

 

Ruth Williams

Wife, mother, nurse-these words invoke the vision of a woman giving of herself to sustain another with love, tenderness, care. Written in the voice of a military nurse, Nursewifery speaks from the perspective of a woman whose …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Ruth Williams, Women Poets
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Someone You Love Is Still Alive

November 17, 2019 Jacar Press

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 Collection
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Arc

September 22, 2019 Jacar Press

Eavan Boland

Arc is a curated chapbook of poems representing the career of Eavan Boland, Ireland’s most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary poet. A work of collectible book art, Arc is printed in a limited edition of 200 copies featuring …

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Posted in: Books, Greatest Hits Series Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Eavan Boland, Greatest Hits, Women Poets
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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 Collection, Women Poets
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Trawling the Silences

May 8, 2019 Jacar Press

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Out of Stock. Available on Kindle and Audible.

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. …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Women Poets
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Ache

Jacar Press

Elise Hempel

“Elise Hempel’s Ache tells of the devastating disconnect between the desire to communicate and the inability to do so due to intervening time, distance, reticence, and technology. These are well-crafted, plainspoken remembrances, clearly the result of what William …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Elise Hempel, Women Poets
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Bulletproof

February 8, 2019 Jacar Press

Matthew Murrey

Available on Kindle.

“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 …

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