Poesía

UNDER THE UNWED MOON

The poetry of Peggy Aylsworth happens in the everyday, in which “rent has been paid, breakfast dishes washed,” and shall she take a bath or “read the sorry news” or sit down with Wittgenstein—or is this the day a daughter dies? Is this the day she herself may “die with questions/ slipping, slipping from my hands”? Her poems are quietly, precisely amazed at an everyday in which, really, anything may happen. I’m reading along through these poems, a poetry etched in what seems a comparatively quiet life, and I hit a verse that begins, “Because the inevitable makes mistakes”—and that stops me cold. I sit thinking, “Of course it does!” And say the line over to myself several times, liking that it begins rather than ends a movement of thought. So quiet, these poems—but urgent, too. Their time is right now, their place is right here, their past is everywhere, their future is as certain as it is uncertain. Aylsworth’s lyric sense does not fear letting in the world that we don’t like, the world we read about and see on TV and that we hope won’t explode too near. She takes on being a poet of that world, too. The poetry of Peggy Aylsworth calmly recognizes, without the need of sweeping gestures, that to be a fully-realized hu- man being means to reclaim one’s humanity every day in the face of whatever. “What goes unnoticed/cheats the soul.” And there’s this: A poem like “Time And Its Relatives” makes cowards of most of us.

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The latest collection of poems by award-winning author and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher. “Lust, longing, urban noir, and the emotional ravages and physical heat that colliding souls can’t help making, are all artfully packed into these lyrical narratives by a poet who refuses to hold back” (Michelle Bitting, poet and author of The Couple Who Fell to Earth). “Mixing heartbreak and hilarity, these poems deliver an emotional wallop with the ease of a woman rolling down her nylons” (Pam Ward, author of Want Some Get Some and Bad Girls Burn Slow). “Alexis Rhone Fancher is not merely a detailed chronicler of our socio-physical interactions—she is by far the most exciting, articulate, and convincing storyteller in contemporary verse” (Gerald Locklin, poet and fiction author of 100+ books). “Any self-styled critic who characterizes Alexis Rhone Fancher’s written work as only sexy stanzas would be making an egregious mistake. Far more accurate to portray her poetry as grainy, gritty, noir images by a female version of Henry Miller’s bitter observation of the dirty word ‘relationships,’ or Georges Bataille’s eccentric business of the creative woman at times catering to the psycho-sado fantasies of her lover, or Stephen Schneck’s nightmare world of sensual dreams, but with an added dose of infectious humor” (Michael C. Ford, music journalist, playwright, Grammy-nominated spoken-word artist, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet). “I write about women like me, women who own their sexuality and take responsibility for their choices. It may seem I’m writing about sex, but really, I’m writing about power. Who has it. How to get it. How to wield it. How to keep it” (from “Featured Fem” Alexis Rhone Fancher, interviewed by The Fem literary magazine, 17 June 2016). 

WAY PAST TIME FOR REFLECTING

Donna Lisle Burton's most recent collection of poems, written as she deals with an adult daughter's life changes, a grandson's coming of age, the gradual onset of her husband's Alzheimer's disease, her own minor stroke, and important, memorable passages of life. Burton celebrates the world and life's vicissitudes by immersing herself them, producing works that reflect and echo her own intellectual, emotional, and psychological reflections. Reading her poetry is like listening to the conversation of a profoundly insightful person completely at ease with herself, without barriers, but with every sentence, every word, carefully thought out.

ANAGAMI

ANAGAMI, de José Kozer, es una sucinta colección de veinte poemas escogidos por el mismo José Kozer para Élitro Editorial del Proyecto Zompopos, y es a la vez una muestra de una obra gigantesca, una obra que se acerca a los cien títulos (publicados alrededor del mundo y en varios idiomas).  Kozer es un grafómano en el buen sentido de la palabra, aunque también vale denotarlo como lector incansable (lectorófago) y escritor constante; más bien un voraz de la letra: letra escrita ya, ya letra por escribir y que escribe.En esta muestra poética, según apunta Michel Mendoza en el prólogo, “La escritura de Kozer es, sobre todo la de sus diarios y poemas, borrón y preparación dramática de una muerte que no es limpia, sino somática, espacio donde se confunden, superponen y suceden, humor y mística, escepticismo y fervor. En ella la asunción de cierta imperfección formal es uno de sus elementos más importantes, aquel donde se hace más evidente que el poeta pareciera aspirar a la unidad con lo primigenio más allá de los entornos difusos de la vida y el poema. Y esa unidad a la que ese gran escritor que es Kozer aspira con humildad y humor, no quiere excluir nada, no debería excluir nada. Solo así la renuncia, el deshacimiento ulterior, será completo”.

FLAME IN CHALICE

Nicholas Roerich is master of the singing word no less than of the singing form and color. His poetry is direct, simple, arrow-like. It has the same vibrant touch of the master, the same sense of mysticism and cosmic unfoldment found in his paintings. The depth and intensity, the rhythmic sweep and exaltation that mark his work as artist is no less present here. His lyric words, like so many singing arrows, fly straight to their invisible goal. Light rays out powerfully from the lines. It is evident that they have been "made in flame as nature makes." In the poetry of Roerich, finally, there is a fullness and expansion of consciousness, a vibration of light and color, a sense of prophecy and ongoing, of search, discovery and fulfilment that is as much part of his singing word as of the colors and contours of his brush. These poems are true children of the Flame in Chalice.

NIGHT CYCLES

Night Cycles is the story of spiritual loss and rebirth, drawn from author Beth Morey's experience of that desert place Saint John of the Cross called"the dark night of the soul." Morey beckons us along as she descends into the deep yet vividly beautiful realms of mystery and unknowing, shedding layers and stale beliefs before returning to the light with vital new life and knowledge. In the tradition of mystic poets including Mark Nepo, Mary Oliver, and Rainer Maria Rilke, these textured poems from a fresh voice nourish the seeker within us all.

JUST US

Sally Heilbut was born in St John’s Wood, and started life as a secretary in London. Her career took her to Rome and Vienna, where she continued to write poems. This selection is from her poetry written between 1960 and 2014. Her poems are quietly assertive, and have an attractive directness, displaying humour, courage, charm and honesty. Sally Heilbut lives near Maidenhead.

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ

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JUST A FEW FEATHERS

Ute Carson manages to find universal truths in ordinary things, and clothes them in language that is at once beautiful and profoundly universal. The result is a music that sings in our very core. Leticia Austria, Poet The author employs a number of poetic tools to convey her thoughts, including wonderful imagery and simple yet effective phrasing. Harmony McGlothlin, Publisher & Editor Grace Notes Books and Editor-in Chief of Notes Magazine A gladness for life and family is countered by occasional poem lines of survived horror. Such lines render the poet steeled in mind and intensely honed to mankind's fallacies. Ute Carson's Just a Few Feathers is a collection one wants to keep close by and refer to often. Kaye Voight Abikahled, The Poetry Society of Texas, Counselor for the Austin Area

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