American Poetry | Poetry
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Dec.07.2012
A collection of 52 poems written from personal transformational experiences in all areas of life over a ten year period. Bold, personal and intriguing, the author encourages introspection and journaling on the part of the reader as a way to know and understand self and others at a...
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Dec.06.2012
Forfatteren benytter i denne samlingen det shakespearske blankverset og en rekke orientalske diktformer - i første rekke ghazal'en med sitt særegne mønster av rytme, rim og repetisjoner. En rekke dikt gjenspeiler forfatterens engasjement i internasjonale PEN og hennes personlige interesse og...
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Sep.12.2012
The Lighthouse Beckons is a book of broad-based, incisive, sometimes ethereal poems. The Lighthouse Beckons invites you to sample its various forms of light: the light that is apparent, the contrast of light and dark, or the luminescence of one's soul. I chose the the title The Lighthouse Beckons,...
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Sep.03.2012
"In his sixth book of poems, Lost Transmissions (Serving House Books, Sept. 2012), David Memmott speaks to the need we have to explore the depths of our own psyches, a need so insistent that many of us would sell our souls to unearth the answers to what motivates our lives--what motivates our...
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Aug.05.2012
Wee Three: A Child's World is poetry written from the point of view of a child. It covers seventy years of memories as seen through the eyes of a child. It is a charming look into the simplicity, joy, and innocent pleasure that a child sees when looking at the world. All of life is new and...
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May.25.2012
Folk Concert: Changing Times concerns the journey of becoming a woman during difficult times. Themes include feminism, love relationships, college teaching, nature, psychotherapy, travel, the anti-Vietnam War movement, family, the life of an artist/entertainer/writer, and music....
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Jan.06.2012
Paper Bird is my first full-length book of poetry, though I previously published a chapbook of poems, Other Rivers, Distant Songs (Spring Tree Press, 1997).
"Steele transforms the ordinary--cupping moments like sourcce of light in the palms of her hands. Here, she...
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Dec.10.2011
"Rarely have the nude and the cooked been so neatly joined” as in Amy King’s I Want to Make You Safe. If “us,” “herons,” and “dust” rhyme, then these poems rhyme. If that makes you feel safe, it shouldn’t. Amy King’s poems are exuberant, strange, and a bit grotesque. They’re spring-loaded...
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Aug.27.2011
Edited by Marvin Bell
"The poets in this volume--Valentine Freeman, Robert Peake and Jensea Storie-like those in the first four volumes, deserve to be better known, but public promotion of the poets was never my primary aim. That would be a bonus, but only a bonus. Rather, I hoped the chance to...
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May.14.2011
Wheels Turning Inward is a rich collection of over fifty poems, following a poet’s mythic and spiritual journey that begins and ends in Christ, but crosses easily onto the paths of many other contemplative traditions. Ultimately, this is a journey of discovering a keen sense of spiritual community...
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