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The Barbie Diaries by Dale Champlin Just a Lark Books (November 17, 2019), 65 pp $14 ISBN #: 978-1708450267 Available at: [email protected] Is it possible to say anything new about Barbie? Since her introduction in 1959, the PVC fashionista has been reviled and revered, loved and loathed. Her literary footprint includes adoring preteen blogs, scathing
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The Leaf by Nancy Christopherson Nancy Christopherson (July 13, 2015), 66 pp $8 ISBN #: 978-0-692-42433-9 Available at: http://www.nancychristophersonpoetry.com/ In her 2015 book, The Leaf, Oregon poet Nancy Christopherson showcases uncommon poems about one of the most common human sufferings—the loss of a parent. In poems deployed throughout her self-published collection, Christopherson builds a loose
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Bee Dance by Cathy Cain The Poetry Box (June 15, 2019), 87 pp, $16 ISBN #: 978-1948461221 Available at: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/bee-dance In Bee Dance, Portland poet Cathy Cain brings a fresh take to one of the most venerable themes in modern poetry: the troubled relationship between the natural world and human society.In 51 tightly crafted
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Mortality with Pronoun Shifts by Don Colburn Winner of the 2018 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2019, 40 pages, $12 ISBN: 978-1-59948-732-8 Available at https://mainstreetragbookstore.com Mortality. It’s a mighty word that has the potential to haunt each of us on our walk through life, forcing us to face the inevitable.
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In These Voices by Sherri Levine The Poetry Box (August 29, 2018), 42 pp $12 ISBN #: 978-1948461115 Available at: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/in-these-voices True to its title, Sherri Levine’s In These Voices deftly explores personae ranging from a squirrel to an English teacher to ruminating lovers and parents. Throughout this collection of 22 short poems, Levine employs
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The Rhythm of It, Poetry’s Hidden Dance by Anita Sullivan Shanti Arts Publishing, 2019, 118 pages, $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-951651-03-9 (softcover) Available at http://shantiarts.com Author web site: https://www.anitasullivan.org The Rhythm of It, Poetry’s Hidden Dance by Anita Sullivan is a collection of essays brimming with ideas that accompany the author’s mindful and body-movement exploration of poetry.
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Improbable Press, 2019, 110 pages $20 ISBN 9781088457542 Available at – www.amazon.com Fluidity is the word that came to mind as I read Charles Castle’s latest collection of poems. Divided into seven sections, Chasing Down the Storm does indeed chase a panorama of personal pathos and characters that utilize a bridge between nature and the
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Uttered Chaos, Laura LeHew ISBN# 978-0-9889366-6-9 2016, 35 pp., $10.00 www.utteredchaos.org In And if the Dead Do Dream, Anita Sullivan draws the reader into her personal realm: her house, her walks in the woods, her family. She answers “Where Did You Grow Up?” and signs her “Dear Baobab” letter “Love, Anita.” Fully two-thirds of the
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Uttered Chaos Press, 2018, 80 pages, $19 ISBN 978-0-9998334-1-4 https://www.utteredchaos.org As I often do when I start a book of poetry, I opened Judith Montgomery’s Litany for Wound and Bloom at random and dove in. The poems are startling and beautiful, standing on their own even without the arc of the arrangement, though that had
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Self-published book, 2018, 53 pages, $12.00 ISBN 978-1724418180 Available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble To write 21st century poems in the manner of 20th century English translations of Chinese poems by Ezra Pound or Gary Snyder may seem an affectation – I use this word knowing that I, too, write this way. In Doug
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