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Dementia Blog by Susan M. Schultz $15.00 "Susan M. Schultz's Dementia Blog is as astonishing as it is tragic. Following the odd form of the blog, which is written forward in time but read backwards, it charts the fragmented disorienting progression (if this is the word) of her mother's dementia. Well schooled in the unpersonism of post-modern innovative poetry, ('dementia destroys the self, but that destruction is oddly, ... more info |
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Encryptions by Ted Pearson $15.00 The elegy, the ode—these are among the great modes of poetry, and one can readily situate the work published here in relation to them. Certainly Ted Pearson’s magnificent Encryptions is affectively elegiac and formally comparable to an ode. But if there were a mode of poetry properly called the commitment, this book would be its masterwork. As the fourth and final ... more info |
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)joule TIDES(( by Mary Rising Higgins $15.00 In these visually and aurally challenging poems, Mary Rising Higgins uses language to generate its own Joule effect in which the energy of words actively resists the reduction of meaning to a single source or intent. As words and phrases swirl, slide, and collide on the plane of the page, they place and displace each other according to the new and ancient laws of what might be called either the ... more info |
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The Veil by Andrew Mossin $15.00 "If, as George Oppen writes, 'clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world,' then poetry's motive to achieve it is both noble and essential. In The Veil, Andrew Mossin works with language from multiple spheres--private and political--to achieve the melopoeia that drives poetry into clarity. Given the political context that gave rise to these poems--manipulated facts to justify war and ... more info |
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