A Pilgrim Into Silence
by Karen Swenson
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Karen Swenson's A Pilgrim Into Silence speaks a language that embraces the other, journeying into the interior of the Self as well as the outer limits of that which exists on the verge, or nearby. Everything here magnifies down to the real. These poems see into; they are also astute about the everydayness of things that refract into the extraordinary. A Pilgrim Into Silence arouses the mind, body and soul.
-- Yusek Komunyakaa
by Karen Swenson
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Karen Swenson's A Pilgrim Into Silence speaks a language that embraces the other, journeying into the interior of the Self as well as the outer limits of that which exists on the verge, or nearby. Everything here magnifies down to the real. These poems see into; they are also astute about the everydayness of things that refract into the extraordinary. A Pilgrim Into Silence arouses the mind, body and soul.
-- Yusek Komunyakaa
Born in New York City, Karen Swenson was raised in the suburb of Chappaqua and went to Barnard College. She received her MA from NYU. She has been published by The New Yorker and many small literary magazines, as well as Saturday Review. Her travel articles have appeared in The New York Times and The Wall St. Journal. Her previous collections of poems include A Daughter's Latitude and The Landlady in Bangkok, both from Copper Canyon Press. She has traveled for two months of each year in SE Asia for the last 27 years. She presently teaches at NYU and Barnard.
The Solvay Process
by Martin Walls
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In The Solvay Process, Martin Walls explores all manner of human and animal endeavor, fascinated equally by the industry of a city, a factory, or a garden. Revealing particular wonder in “discarded, common objects,” Walls reminds us that “even in the most ordinary life is a story God must write.” These poems, at once intensely focused and far-reaching, are acutely, beautifully observant and powerful in their lyric precision. The Solvay Process is a remarkable, memorable volume.
–Claudia Emerson
by Martin Walls
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In The Solvay Process, Martin Walls explores all manner of human and animal endeavor, fascinated equally by the industry of a city, a factory, or a garden. Revealing particular wonder in “discarded, common objects,” Walls reminds us that “even in the most ordinary life is a story God must write.” These poems, at once intensely focused and far-reaching, are acutely, beautifully observant and powerful in their lyric precision. The Solvay Process is a remarkable, memorable volume.
–Claudia Emerson
Born in Brighton, England, Martin Walls moved to Solvay, NY in 1999. His other books of poems include Small Human Detail in Care of National Trust (New Issues, 2000) and Commonwealth (March Street, 2005). A Witter Bynner Poetry Fellow of the US Library of Congress, Walls works as communications manager for the Syracuse Center for Excellence.
Transfiguration Begins at Home
by Estha Weiner
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"Estha Weiner's sensibility is beautifully unique--a blend of Beckett and Dorothy Parker, Maine and New York City, loss and evocation. That things don't work out is a form of them working out and that fact is crucial to the very adult and bittersweet ethos Estha Weiner deftly summons. The poems have a gnomic quality; their concision is the habit of someone who bravely shapes retorts to the breezy slanders of time."
by Estha Weiner
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"Estha Weiner's sensibility is beautifully unique--a blend of Beckett and Dorothy Parker, Maine and New York City, loss and evocation. That things don't work out is a form of them working out and that fact is crucial to the very adult and bittersweet ethos Estha Weiner deftly summons. The poems have a gnomic quality; their concision is the habit of someone who bravely shapes retorts to the breezy slanders of time."
-- Baron Wormser
Estha Weiner is co-editor and contributor to Blues For Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews (Akron Poetry Series, 2005 ), author of The Mistress Manuscript ( Book Works, 2009), and Transfiguration Begins at Home (Tiger Bark Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic, Barrow Street Sarah Lawrence College Hudson Valley Writers Center
River of Glass
by Ann McGovern
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Ann McGovern is a writer who keeps her eyes open in every direction, letting in equally the light of lived-through grief and lived-through joy.
-- Jane Hirshfield
by Ann McGovern
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Ann McGovern is a writer who keeps her eyes open in every direction, letting in equally the light of lived-through grief and lived-through joy.
-- Jane Hirshfield
Ann McGovern is the well-known author of 55 children's books, including STONE SOUP. Her first chapbook, Bribing the Fortune Teller, is illustrated by her collage art. Finishing Line Press publisher her second chapbook, Drawing Outside the Lines, in 2009. Her third chapbook, Falling Off the Map, was published by Pudding House Press. Ann's travels are the inspiration for many of her poems. She has been to all seven continents. She is also a scuba diver who has explored the underwater world in many exotic locales around the world.
Inside Such Darkness
by Virginia Slachman
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Whether praising the world, or peering into the darkness that is always on the verge of engulfing it, Virginia Slachman won't give up her relentless search for meaning, beauty, wholness. Anything might, at any moment, become a vehicle for this vision of the world as sacred and complete... She knows that there is "a blessing there, if I could see it."
-- Kurt Brown
by Virginia Slachman
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Whether praising the world, or peering into the darkness that is always on the verge of engulfing it, Virginia Slachman won't give up her relentless search for meaning, beauty, wholness. Anything might, at any moment, become a vehicle for this vision of the world as sacred and complete... She knows that there is "a blessing there, if I could see it."
-- Kurt Brown