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Tag: Debra Kaufman

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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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Intimacy

October 28, 2015 Jacar Press

Ed. Kaufman, Krawiec, Levin, Parker

Intimacy is a state of closeness that transcends explanation. It is a feeling of being at home emotionally and physically, a biological need so severe that when we don’t have intimacy with those who are …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Alan Michael Parker, Anthology, Debra Kaufman, Richard Krawiec, Stephanie Levin, Women Poets
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Delicate Thefts

April 5, 2015 Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman

“If you have any doubt that Debra Kaufman is one of our best contemporary American poets, then read this collection.”

Kathryn Stripling Byer, Descent, Coming to Rest, Catching Light and 3 others from LSU Press 

“Which universe does …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Debra Kaufman, Full-Length Collection, Women Poets
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What Matters

October 17, 2013 Jacar Press

Ed. Kaufman, Krawiec, Levin

Available on Kindle.

Questions, answers, meditations, and explorations on the why and how of living.

Poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, MacArthur Foundation Genius grantee Thylias Moss, National Book Award finalist Alan Shapiro, Yale Series …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Anthology, Debra Kaufman, Richard Krawiec, Stephanie Levin, Women Poets
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…and love…

October 2, 2012 Jacar Press

Ed. Elrod, Kaufman, Krawiec

Poems by Marge Piercy, Sam Hamill, Dorianne Laux, Ron Rash, Lola Haskins, Stuart Dischell, doris davenport, Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alan Michael Parker, Michael Chitwood, Betty Adcock, Joe Millar, Nancy Simpson, David Huddle, Holly Iglesias, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Allison Elrod, Anthology, Debra Kaufman, Richard Krawiec, Women Poets
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The Next Moment

Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman

Available on Kindle.

“Kaufman’s poems trace a journey of passion, emotional turmoil, loss and reconfiguration, sometimes in natural settings of almost mystical beauty. She can be exact: ‘the heron hushed and studious…’ Or lyrical: ‘…leaves swoop and skirt/the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2011 Publications, Debra Kaufman, Full-Length Collection, Women Poets
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