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Able Muse, Number 17 - Summer 2014
 
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


Again and again, this collection makes us recalibrate our true north and forces us to reconsider the world for all of the unpredictable places where we can find beauty.
    —Adrian Matejka


All the Wasted Beauty of the World returns us to the real and, consequently, the new by putting on the brakes and asking us to look, if only briefly, beyond our rear-views.
    —Dorianne Laux

 
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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.

 

The honed music here thus reveals a deeper vulnerability.
    —Bruce Bond


In addition to her emotional maturity, part of what makes these poems memorable is Woodard’s obvious mastery of language, her flawless sentences, the surprising way those sentences function and “mean” within the lines, the lines within the forms.
    —Claudia Emerson (from the foreword)


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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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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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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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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