Able Muse/Eratosphere Newsletter: Fall 2014 - Latest Releases & More

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~NEW~ Pre-releases by Able Muse Press
Cup - Poems by Jeredith Merrin
 
CUP
(Special Honoree, 2013 Able Muse Book Award)

Poems by Jeredith Merrin  


ISBN 978-1-927409-34-3 • Dec 1, 2014 release
• 96 pp.


 

In Cup we meet a poet of rare power and unique originality.
    —X.J. Kennedy


In these forthright and moving poems written in restrained, disciplined stanzas, the stories are told of how we each, “trying to make it better,/ whatever . . . it is,” have to find our own cup, and find it acceptable.
    —David Ferry


Both witty and meditative, these poems brim with insight and affection.
    —Mark Doty


Jeredith Merrin’s exhilarating poems pulse with memory, with art, and the complex emotional richness that is the present.
    —Gail Mazur

 
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Vellum - Poems by Chelsea Woodard
 
GREED: A CONFESSION
Poems by D.R. Goodman

ISBN 978-1-927409-38-1 • Dec 2, 2014 release • 114 pp.

 

This poet is alive to everything. You want this book. It’s terrific.
    —Kelly Cherry


Goodman is greedy for things of this world—not in the rapacious, bottom-line manner of plutocrats, misers, and Wall Street brokers but for the enlightenment of the senses and the enrichment of her poetry. She’s sharing the wealth she accumulates.
    —John Drury (from the foreword)


At the core of Greed: A Confession are natural ironies, or disjunctures, or improbabilities replete with intrigue.
    —Clive Matson


Complex yet accessible, these formal and free-verse poems gift us with abundant insights to enjoy.
    —Beth Houston

 
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All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems by Richard Newman
 
ALL THE WASTED BEAUTY OF THE WORLD

Poems by Richard Newman  


ISBN 978-1-927409-31-2 • Oct 15, 2014 release
• 102 pp.


 

Newman’s poems, with their formal, lapidary precision, their indelible portraits of life in the cheap bars, back alleys, and rough hewn edges of the Midwest, surprise a hunger in us for a language larger, wilder, and unabashedly loftier than daily speech.
    —George Bilgere

 
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Vellum - Poems by Chelsea Woodard
 
VELLUM
Poems by Chelsea Woodard

ISBN 978-1-927409-35-0 • Nov 17, 2014 release • 106 pp.

 

Not the least of the attractions of this gifted young poet’s first book is the exquisite, searing precision of her language—the obsessively exact diction; the tropes that map with such stunning accuracy the emotional contours of her narratives.
    —B.H. Fairchild

 
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Recently Released by Able Muse Press
Walking in on People (2014 Able Muse Book Award) - Poems by Melissa Balmain
 
WALKING IN ON PEOPLE
(2013 Winner:
Able Muse Book Award)
Poems by Melissa Balmain  
 
An infectious, often hilarious blend of the sweet and the lethal, the charming and the acidic.
— Billy Collins
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House Music - Poems by Ellen Kaufman
 
HOUSE MUSIC
Poems by Ellen Kaufman    
 
The intelligence behind Ellen Kaufman’s wonderfully realized House Music is poised and observant, its reflections unfolding in sinuous sentences that are effortlessly elegant and deceptively plainspoken.
— John Koethe
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Able Muse Translation Anthology - Summer 2014 - Guest Edited by Charles Martin
 
ABLE MUSE
TRANSLATION ANTHOLOGY
Guest-Edited by Charles Martin     
 

Summer 2014 special translation issue of Able Muse with poetry translations by-  X.J. Kennedy, A.E. Stallings, Rachel Hadas, William Baer, Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone, Michael Palma, Dick Davis, Jay Hopler, and others

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Heaven from Steam - Poems by Carol Light
 
HEAVEN FROM STEAM
Poems by Carol Light  
 
Heaven from Steam marks the debut of a vivid poet already at ease with her art.
— Linda Bierds
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Pumpkin Chucking - Poems by Stephen Scaer
 
PUMPKIN CHUCKING
Poems by Stephen Scaer    
 
This is a wonderful and entertaining book of poetry. Stephen Scaer’s poems are full of wit, sarcasm and humor.
— Robert Crawford
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Compositions of the Dead Playing Flutes - Poems by Barbara Ellen Sorensen
 
COMPOSITIONS OF THE
DEAD PLAYING FLUTES
Poems by
Barbara Ellen Sorensen
    
 

Opened in body and spirit, the poet embraces her worlds, and she offers back this poetry, which shimmers in its urgent, delicate balance.
— Veronica Patterson

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Able Muse Anthology - the best of the poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography
 
ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Alexander Pepple, foreword by Timothy Steele
 
celebrates Able Muse's best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography through its first decade and beyond - including Turner Cassity, X.J. Kennedy, A.E. Stallings, Rachel Hadas, David Mason and several more.
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Virtue, Big as Sin (Able Muse Book Award) - Poems by Frank OsenVirtue, Big as Sin - Poems by Frank Osen (winner, 2012 Able Muse Book Award). Read More | ORDER
 
Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter - Poems by Maryann CorbettCredo for the Checkout Line in Winter - Poems by Maryann Corbett Osen. Read More | ORDER
 
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The Dark Gnu and Other Poems by Wendy VidelockStrange Borderlands - poems by Ben BermanSailing to Babylon - poems by James PollockGrasshopper - poetry by M.A. GriffithsNevertheless - Poems by Wendy Videlock (with a Foreword by A.E. Stallings)Life in the Second Circle - Poems by Michael Cantor (with a Foreword by Deborah Warren)Dirge for an Imaginary World - Poems by Matthew Buckley Smith (with a Foreword by Greg Williamson)Corporeality - stories by Hollis Seamon

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