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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

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

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

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

Ardor

August 28, 2017 Jacar Press

Tina Kelley

“In Ardor, Tina Kelley crafts nineteen love poems to the world, celebrating the details of the daily—a new garden, town names on an atlas, the sound of swallowing. She pays close attention to language, writing an ode to …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Tina Kelley, Women Poets

Duet

February 8, 2017 Jacar Press

Dorianne Laux & Joe Millar

Available on Kindle.

Two of our most celebrated poets, Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, weave together poems about music in a chapbook that riffs on the theme of the title; the poems move forward on …

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Posted in: Books, Greatest Hits Series Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Dorianne Laux, Greatest Hits, Joseph Millar, Women Poets

Gnomon

Jacar Press

Cynthia Huntington

“After experience is done teaching us just about everything it thinks it needs to teach us, we come back to desire, the one thing worth knowing. This time around desire shows up as a wild calm, dead center …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Cynthia Huntington, Women Poets

An Elegy

Jacar Press

Benjamin S. Grossberg

“Difficult as it is to describe honestly the spectacle of living, to describe death and dying is to go almost where language can’t: past knowledge, experience, or the reliable image. Yet what An Elegy achieves, through its …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Chapbook, Contest Winners, LGBTQ+ Poets
Disquiet

Disquiet

October 21, 2015 Jacar Press

Kelly Michels

“The philosophy and emotional pulse moving behind the words—that and the flawless lineation of the music—just wouldn’t let me go.”

Jamaal May, Hum (Alice James Books) American Library Association Notable Book Award

“Kelly Michels’ collection takes us to …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Kelly Michels, Women Poets
The Vishnu Bird

The Vishnu Bird

May 21, 2015 Jacar Press

Kathryn Stripling Byer

“The Vishnu Bird is both a memorial and a memoir in lyric poetry. This clean-spoken, deeply-felt chapbook remembers the poet’s dear friend by tracing his vocation of anthropology, and honoring his spiritual depth, through vignettes from the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Women Poets

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