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This Document Should Be Retained as Evidence of Your Journey

June 29, 2021 Jacar Press

Colleen Coyne

“THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD BE RETAINED AS EVIDENCE OF YOUR JOURNEY begins with a strange kind of urgency, ‘When the dead speak, we have to listen.’ I’m compelled to lean in, listen, get a closer look into this book’s …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Chapbook, Colleen Coyne, Women Poets
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If It Heals At All

November 23, 2020 Jacar Press

Ali Black

Available on Kindle.

“If It Heals At All defines personal moments that conjure reincarnations of straightforward sensibility with language that names, ‘my black is a heartbeat.’ Ali Black dares metaphors to not get it twisted as she creates …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2020 Publications, Ali Black, Black Poets, Chapbook, New Voices, Women Poets
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What I Forgot to Say

May 22, 2020 Jacar Press

Julie Suk

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Julie Suk is a prize-winning American poet from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born Julie Madison Gaillard in 1924 in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. Her …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Chapbook, Julie Suk, Women Poets
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In These States

April 20, 2020 Jacar Press

T.R. Hummer

In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul.

Each of us has various existences, only a few of them coinciding precisely with the boundaries of our neighborhoods. The poems in this book are …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Chapbook, T. R. Hummer
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The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening

March 28, 2020 Jacar Press

Simon Baena

Available on Kindle.

The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening is a lyrical lament that evokes the night as the abode of ruins, of loss, and of History-the realm between silence and noise which these poems speak through …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Chapbook, Simon Baena
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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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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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Ache

May 8, 2019 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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The War Against the Obvious

July 30, 2018 Jacar Press

Cornelius Eady

“Cornelius Eady’s poems sing America, as Whitman’s did, but amending our national bard, they are mindful of the distance between his America and ours. Race, culture (especially music), family history, and urban life are all in play in …

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Posted in: Books, Greatest Hits Series Filed under: 2018 Publications, Chapbook, Cornelius Eady, Greatest Hits
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I Want to Undie You

October 14, 2017 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green

A ritual of grace and love for what remains in memory after great loss.

I Want To Undie You is Jaki Shelton Green’s unflinching cry of sorrow at the untimely death of her daughter Imani; and Jaki’s insistence, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Black Poets, Book Art, Book-Length Poem, Chapbook, Collectible, Jaki Shelton Green, Women Poets

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