Poesía

EXILE ME (HAMIDZADEH, SEYED MORTEZA;SMART, MALLORY)

Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh was born, raised, and lives in a world completely different than the one we know. But he is no different than any of us. Yes, he must face death, insecurity, and disorder on a daily basis, but that doesn?t make him any less human or real than the rest of us. Hamidzadeh was born to be a soldier. Not a soldier of hate or war mind you, but a soldier of the heart. At the center of the so-called ?Axis Of Evil? lie stories of life and love more compelling than any western rhetoric that we have strained to swallow. ?Exile Me? is a collection of 34 poems presented in both English and Farsi. These poems act as a living conscience of the times with verse about ISIS, occupying soldiers, and the emotions of wartime.

GLAD WILDERNESS (CANNON, GERALDINE)

In Glad Wilderness Geraldine Cannon has woven an Appalachian tapestry of voices and images that are somehow at once clear as a swimming hole and as suggestive as an impressionist painting: "His skin develops Braille as he breathes me in." Her mode is not formal until the end of the series where she has written three triolets, of all things, that are three of the best triolets I have ever read. Completely unexpected, and perfectly delightful. Lewis Turco, Poet/Scholar, author of The Book of Forms, 3rd ed. (University Press of New England, 2000) Geraldine Cannon's many voices in this collection form a choir, each poem a soloist in turn, while the others hum and clap around it. In the virtuosic story-telling of her Southern personae, a world comes vibrantly into focus. In addition to her narrative gifts, Cannon gives us imagery that stuns with its originality and its rightness. Here is the marvelous close of the first poem in the book: "We are left / with so many wrinkles / if we could spread our skin out, / we could glide." Susan Ludvigson, Poet, author of Escaping the House of Certainty: Poems (

LETTERS, AND WHY THEY’RE ALL FOR YOU (FRAYNE, CHLO‰;BARROS, JESSICA)

A collection of poetry by Chlo? Frayne. ****** This book is for you, sweet stranger. You with the galaxy eyes and that feeling in the pit of your stomach that something is missing. You with the stars up your arm and a ceaseless chill down your spine. You with your face turned to the moon and the darkness snapping at your back. You in the bookstore with your fingers upon the pulse of the universe and your day filled with the infinite nature of possibility. You. I have felt you in my bones every day of my life and searched for your face though I do not know it. This book is for you. This book is my search for you.

BRILLIANT ODYSSEY DON’T YEARN (MENZIES, FINN)

Finn Menzies is a transmasculine writer and preschool teacher. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington. He holds his MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College.Finn Menzies debut collection ?brilliant odyssey don?t yearn? is the unspooling of a body noticing its multiplicity, a book like a scarf a magician might pull from their sleeve, astonishing at each new length drawn. Investigating the tangle of guilt and affirmation within the press of identity, Menzies? poem glide over and beneath the skin. A uncompromising offering, this book is a directive, an invitation committed to tenderly dismantling a social structure organ by organ, a gentleness felt even as Menzies undoubtedly pierces the status quo. Simultaneously crushing and consoling, ?brilliant odyssey don?t yearn? is a quiet and unfettered gift, poetry arising from need: humane, graceful, redemptive.? -Sophie Klahr, author of?Meet Me Here At Dawn??Finn Menzies begins the final poem of the Brilliant Odyssey Don?t Yearn by announcing, ?there is no passive way to end the world of me,? and we trust him because we see him try. Throughout the book, Menzies

SUCKING SUGAR CANE (GRIFFITH-BOURNE, BARBARA)

In this account, Poet and Author, Barbara Griffith-Bourne opens up the door to the cherished treasures of her childhood?s life experience in Barbados.? She also gives the Reader a peep through the window of her reflective moments when she re-visited the Island.

BROKEN FLOWERS (DRAKE, ROBERT M)

With the same heartwarming composition and genius Robert M. Drake brought to his international bestselling books Beautiful Chaos, Black Butterfly and A Brilliant Madness, Robert M. Drake now takes his readers to a deeper level of his consciousness with this collection of stories. A man encounters God in a bar; a family is saved by a time traveler in the middle of the night; a journey into the mind of a severely autistic man; a woman finds herself one night out in the city and more. Beautiful and Damned is as haunting and as captivating as the stories it tells, it is proof that Robert M. Drake is one of the most visionary writers working today.

BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (DRAKE, ROBERT M.)

Volume 3 of Robert M. Drakes entries. This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute to the common youth and society as a whole. In his writing, Robert M. Drake hauntingly describes the issues we are all facing today. We all are broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

EARTHWORK (RADMALL, PHILIP)

Philip Radmall?s poems have been published in many anthologies and literary magazines in Australia and the UK. The poems in this collection articulate our emotional incursions into the landscape around us; how we measure our experiences of change and growth, how we resist and endure, with the land as backdrop. Poems here have been praised as ?thrilling with a supple and graceful rhythm and movement that leads to a tentative knowledge of what it means to be human? (Jennifer Harrison and Kim Cheng Boey); for sometimes ?reaching deep into the historical past ? which is unusual in Australian poetry? (Dennis Haskell and Jean Kent), and for ?interrogating the depths of relationship with the lightest of touches? Deft, deep, subtle and fine work? (Mark Tredinnick and Anna Kerdijk-Nicholson). The poems lay out the ground we tread and connect to physically and philosophically, as they venture into our feelings about ourselves and others as we travel across.