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Tag: Full-Length Collection

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Raising the Sky

August 30, 2016 Jacar Press

Howard Craft

Available on Kindle.

“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 …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2016 Publications, Black Poets, Full-Length Collection, Howard Craft, New Voices
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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 and …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Renee Emerson, Women Poets
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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 intimate, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Margaret Rabb, Women Poets
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Creeks of the Upper South

March 3, 2016 Jacar Press

Amy & William Wright

“The poems in Creeks of the Upper South rely on call and response-both within individual poems and from poem to poem-which seems fitting, given the collaborative nature of the collection. At times, the  voices and personal …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Amy Wright, Full-Length Collection, William Wright, Women Poets
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After the Three Moon Era

January 18, 2016 Jacar Press

Gary Fincke

Winner of the 2015 Jacar Press Poetry Book Prize

“In After the Three Moon Era, Gary Fincke keeps returning to the missing, the vanished, the disappeared. The speaker of his sharply-etched poems is a man in late middle …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Gary Fincke
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How Small, Confronting Morning

November 9, 2015 Jacar Press

Lola Haskins

OUT OF STOCK.Available on Kindle.

“W.S. Merwin believes ‘Haskins writes with the startling freedom and grace of a kite flying, and with the variety and assurance of invention that reveal, in image after image, the dream behind the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Lola Haskins, Women Poets
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Astonished to Wake

Jacar Press

Julie Suk

“The poetry of Julie Suk is at once deceptively spare and metaphorically rich, and the sensual mystery of her perfectly pitched and etched lines is haunting, elemental, and wild.”

R. T. Smith

In her sixth collection, Suk continues …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Julie Suk, Women Poets
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The Road to Ballyvaughan

September 2, 2015 Jacar Press

Gibbons Ruark

“There’s a clean, lively language at work here, full of fine words clearly relished, while those poems lodged in Irish landscapes, both physical and literary, shine with the virtue of authenticity: they see, feel and communicate what’s actually …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Gibbons Ruark
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Astir

April 29, 2015 Jacar Press

Kevin Boyle

“Rich in detail and attentive in focus, Kevin Boyle’s poems rock back and forth between tenderness and irony. In language both fluent and metrical, they explore what it’s like to be alive and awake in today’s shifting cultural …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Kevin Boyle
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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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