Poesía

The lion's share of the poems contained in this book was written under the influence of the wolf pack moon during the months of January and February of 2015. This is the name of the winter moon as given by the Algonquin Indians that hunted and gathered the Great Lakes State of Michigan where the author spent his youth. The hard northern winters are a battle between optimism and pessimism and these poems are a reflection of that struggle. These are verses of the lands within and the lands without as written beneath the glow of the wolf pack moon.

La obra de Scorza se agiganta al paso del tiempo. Sus relatos, que parten muchas veces de hechos reales, sin desdeñar el mito y la fantasía, no sólo muestran la calidad literaria de su autor, sino que permanecen como testimonios de una realidad latinoamericana.



La obra de Scorza se agiganta al paso del tiempo. Sus relatos, que parten muchas veces de hechos reales, sin desdeñar el mito y la fantasía, no sólo muestran la calidad literaria de su autor, sino que permanecen como testimonios de una realidad latinoamericana.

Out of Venus's "astonished torso," rises an unsparing consummation of loss - "the scent of cedar, /the map that answers long-asked questions..." Galloway blesses death's "dark horizon" not with a singular name, but with the blushed patina of "skin and story" fleshing out love's ubiquitous fragility. Maureen Alsop, author of Apparition Wren and The Diction of Moths Ekphrasis, myth, childhood, and the larger history of our times are all skillfully blended in these poems that combine a strong lyric gift with craft and narrative invention. Lucia Galloway's Venus and Other Losses would be a fine addition to any poetry collection. Richard Garcia, author of Rancho Notorious and The Persistence of Objects, BOA Editions In "Bending Water," Lucia Galloway, in the guise of a 9th century Japanese woman, writes "My pen...must sing/So that my poem will welcome/Floating bird, cup of sake." Galloway's pen sings clear as a bell throughout this collection, and the poems that issue forth are welcoming, indeed--they embrace every aspect of life, from seed to bare branch. They also embrace every

Like a Woman is exactly that, an expression of a woman's beautiful blend of wisdom, love, pain, desire, strength, resilience, compassion, and grace. Susan Elaine Wilson guides us into the private corners of life, sharing her gifts of poetry, storytelling, and healing through words and imagery that are at once raw, sweet, profound, humble, and divine. These poems are bold, unflinching and powerful as they draw you into experiences that people often don't want to talk about, while offering an ever-present layer of courage, love and compassion.

In Strange Conveyances, a real world is evoked. Within the re-enactment, the recollection, the facsimile, the poet goes about his mysterious business. In the manner of the last man cataloguing the universe for whatever might follow mankind, or an American Proust discovering himself in the lingering images of memory like a ghost on the edge of a photograph, Montgomery is both the wise, mundivagant sage and the baseball-capped friend at the bar, discussing the wonderful machinations of existence with the easy tones of a close friend shooting the breeze about the weekend ballgame. Like any gifted interlocutor's, his reports are personal, but universal; the inner logic of the poetry, with its philosophical clarity and ensuing verisimilitude, never fails to reveal emotional or psychological truths that are impossible to deny - thanks in the main to a charming and overarching benevolence. Chris Hobday, The Conversation Paperpress Every now and then, we chance upon a work of art that makes us aware of life in all of its complexities, splendor, and wonderment. M.V. Montgomery's Strange Conveyances

Visited by the hard weather of melancholy and harsh truth, the terrain of this collection fills with shadows and stone, sorrows and ash - its world broken by a daughter's violent death. But such seasons of pain are not relentless. In rich and memorable lines, Ron Talney gives us delight in vivid images, wisdom in striking tropes. Offering respite and solace, he creates from "...rocks and trees/the poems we need." Paulann Petersen, Author of Bride of Narrow Escape and Kindle, Poet Laureate of Oregon With great talent, command of craft, enormous courage and emotional honesty that is humbling, Ron Talney shows us a way to make the unbearable bearable. These are poems that must be written and few have the grit to write them. These poems will remain in heart and mind to encourage us all to keep going and somehow make us feel better. Verlena Orr, Author of Taking it to the Limit

Do Christmas and all the build-up to it affect you emotionally, whether you were brought up in a Christian background or not? As Sue writes,?Advent was at one time a dour season of prayer, fasting and penitence. For me a distinct melancholy hangs over our grey rainy islands during December?s darkening days. Some people just enjoy the telly and the partying, and others doubtless try to ignore the whole thing. But I think there are also those who, like me, spend the festive season running an emotional gamut. Underlying the commercial clamour there?s a nostalgic sense of loss; a wistfulness ? not for how it used to be in Christmases past, but for how it might have been and never really was.Adventus: the coming. These twenty-five poems reflect on Christmases past and current; on lives lived; on endings of years and of relationships; on beginnings, anxieties, hopes, and an uncertain future.?Though these poems are perennials, they also serve as daily Advent readings starting from the first day of December.

Charming and peculiar, poetry comes to life with enchanted photography that captures the imagination and tickles the soul. For the young and the not so young, these are sure to be classics that you'll want to know by heart. Inspired by Shel Silverstien and a life lived (so far) in Canada, New Zealand and the United States, Colleen shares her first collection of poems with us all.

Gerry Spence, that enduring, iconic figure in his fringed suede jacket, has been a successful, charismatic and passionate champion of justice in America?s legal system for decades. Now, he offers us the chance to take a walk through the nine decades of his extraordinary life in these collected poems.Those familiar with Gerry Spence?s fiery imprecations against corruption in law and politics will recognize another side to his voice as a writer in this collection of poems, A Small Pile of Feathers; a spiritual, loving, and sometimes humorous side, one devoted to family and to preserving the wild places he writes of as though they were inscribed on his own bones, in his own blood:My poems are as silent as firs, as towering and as still. But in tender grasses along clear creeks, in the sound of meandering water over patient rocks, in the sharp, sweet smell of the early morning you will hear my songs.A true highlight of this collection is Section two, filled with poems honoring the deep and abiding love of Gerry Spence and his wife, Imaging, as well as his children, family, and lifelong friends. Entirely and auth

Divided into four 'Main Courses', each course serves a unique flavor. Deals with a different pain. Satisfies a different hunger. Quiana Jeffries shares her deepest thoughts and conversations with readers in Nineteen Eighty Two. "Chef Q", has fed souls around the world. In her first published work she nourishes readers with honest bites of truth. Dive into this work with a empty stomach and you will leave soul fed.

?Practicing Hauntalogy? in a ?Cabinet of the solar plexus? American Poets Lynn Behrend (petals, emblems; editor of ?Annandale Dream Gazette) and John ?Bloomberg- Rissman (co-editor Poems for the Millennium 5: Barbaric, Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside?& Subterreanean Poetry?) collaboratively meet Mina Loy, Phillip Lamantia, ?Donna Haraway, Samuel Delaney, ?and Bruce Andrews amid the dust of Breton and Soupault's??Magnetic Fields as filmed by Charles Kaufman without any corporate controls in a cosmic, earthly co-creational web of interlaced language feeds and Behrendt's ?140 unforgettable, many worlds, mulithued, time- travelled?collage works. ?I am a catastrophe but I am a nimble catastrophe?? A Picture of Everyone I Love Passes Through Me ?announces and then proceeds to agitate through ?a flux, a continuous, compact and lucid flow: an intuition, a vacillating frisson of illumination as if caught in a flash of lightning."??Readerly Consciousness moves in and is moved by multiplying destructive and ubertoxic situations ?in the 21st century debris. ?These ponds currently hold enough toxic waste to fill 2.2

"In Adrift in a Sea of M&M's, Marcel Price often playfully engages difficult narratives revolving around race, mental health, and our place in the world. Topics that are normally difficult and burdensome become lights and far easier to navigate through Price's eyes, and through Price's language. If the mission of this type of work is to shine a light on anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or anyone who has felt like an "other," Marcel Price has succeeded in talking about shared struggles with nuance and patience. Every poem arcs upwards to an ending joy, or a brutal and needed honestly. Whether it is an assessment of America's issues with medication, or a complex look at bubbles, this collection has everything you need to come out clean, looking at the world in new and exciting ways." -?Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Author of "The Crown Ain't Worth Much". "Fable the Poet writes poetry that balances being both insightful and accessible. His ability to translate the lives we live into poetry raises awareness, understanding, and appreciation. The structure and rhythm of the poems help to effectively convey ea

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