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In the Little House "There are books that leave us, once we have turned the last page, with a
soft, clear tone that overrides ideas or emotional impressions. It is the music
of grief and desire, when grief and desire have become indistinguishably joined.
Jenn Habel's In the Little House is such a collection. 'No one told me it
would be so impersonal . . .' says its speaker, 'my charge/ to be her globe,
then station, / then something in a warm wind. . .' How beautiful a book that so
embodies its subject matter, an emptiness from which children are born and poems
imagined. How difficult a resolution to release a child in small increments, a
world whose loveliness can only move continuously away. Habel's poems are the
little houses of that world: in which first memories and first words are right
now being made."
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Back of the Envelope Finalist for the 2009 DeNovo First Book Award "From Okinawa to Vietnam to the marital bed, these poems pack a punch—and a caress. Military and domestic battlegrounds are viewed close up, through the unsparing eye of a photographer. And yet these poems fairly bristle with restrained emotion. These are decent, honorable poems, and under them all is a fine music that makes the grief more bearable." —Barbara Goldberg
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By Michael Lund and Robert Hamblin Dr. Michael Lund and his brother Carl donated the original poem "About a little girl" by William Carlos Williams to Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University. As part of the celebration of such a unique acquisition, the University Press produced a small artbook that includes the poem, a facsimile of the original artifact, photos, and essays by families of both William Carlos Williams and Marian Macy Lund. The essays include an introduction by Dr. Robert Hamblin that charts the voyage of the poem into Kent Library's safekeeping, an essay by Michael Lund tracing the place and importance of literature in his family, a short explication of the poem, and afterwords by Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Daphne Williams Fox about their illustrious family member. |
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"With 'dark swollen words and shifting air,' Matthew Nienow builds poems as if building boats, 'each strip like a tree's growth,' and 'asking the question rivers are always asking: why?' From Nienow I am grateful to have learned that poetry 'is movement with one desire: to pull at whatever it touches.' There is much talk these days of the importance of a poet's voice. But here we have proof that a poet's ear…for music, for complexity, for 'the prodigal aria returning home'…is just as important." —Todd Boss
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Hurricane Blues is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts—written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath. |
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An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem "Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July": Now
I've lowered a mask over my face |
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The poets featured in this collection are young writers from Southeast Missouri, and they represent some of the exciting talent popping up in the area. They are involved in local writing collectives, work with various literary magazines, and have been published in various literary magazines. |
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"Inquisitive and insightful, the poems of Michael Meyerhofer aren't afraid to go to those weird places other poets fear or dismiss. There's equal parts humor and pathos in this poet, and he brings us poems that regard the world with a certain lyric skepticism that, nonetheless, wants to believe in all those old-fashioned ancient truths—beauty, harmony, peace. Meyerhofer's poems are much more durable than the ‘Cardboard Urn' of this collection's title poem—they are resilent, incisive, and ultimately, redemptive." —Allison Joseph, poet |
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"Mind the Gap is a
compendium of free-verse poetry that evokes imagination and wonder from
observing the longstanding grandeur of London and the activities of both
the ordinary and the eccentric people who live there. Mind the Gap
is a verbal feast of impressions for the imagination." |
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