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I'm pleased to announce that the new Able Muse, Summer 2018 (Print Edition, Number 25), has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com
Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 25): Summer 2018
Featured Poet: Aaron Poochigian
Featured Art: An "Flight" Theme
• editorial:Alexander Pepple • featured art: An "Flight" Theme • featured poet: Aaron Poochigian
(interviewed by Christopher Childers) • fiction: Michael Woodson, Vincent Yu • essays: Charles Martin, Barbara Haas • book reviews: Brooke Clark • poetry:Timothy Murphy, Dan Campion, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Catullus, George David Clark, Katy Rawdon, M. Ann Hull, Mark Blaeuer, Ranjani Neriya, Roy Bentley, Susan de Sola, Susan McLean, Ryan Wilson.
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to --Nicole Caruso Garcia, Susan de Sola, Scott M. Miller (Assistant Poetry Editors); N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editors); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Cheryl Diane Kidder, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).
Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com
Able Muse Press announces the release of
Green Hill - Poems
by Lorna Knowles Blake
WINNER, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by Charles Martin)
ISBN 978-1-77349-010-6 • July 30, 2018 release • 80 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
In the poems in Green Hill, Lorna Knowles Blake takes the intimacies of human life and the riots of nature and transmutes them into forms that both discipline and liberate their beauty.
— Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of 3 Sections
Whatever subject Lorna Knowles Blake turns her hand to, she displays a prosodic surefootedness and a continual freshness of perception.
— Charles Martin, 2017 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of Future Perfect
Lorna Knowles Blake gives us Green Hill, poems both dark and lightheartedly inventive, the craft casual, poised—and audacious..
— Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst
In poems about artwork and landscape, myth and love, Blake considers the ways we give shape and meaning to our lives. And her poems are themselves vital enactments of that same urge. American poetry is richer for this superb collection.
— Peter Campion, author of El Dorado
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Able Muse Press announces the release of
Naked for Tea - Poems
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
FINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-016-8 • July 9, 2018 release • 136 pp.
*NEW* Now available for order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
"Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s welcoming voice, receptive heart, artistic mastery, and empathic vision become an alchemy of being." —Jack Ridl, author of Practicing to Walk Like a Heron and Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
"Heart-thawingly honest, deliriously sexy, and compassionate down to the fingertips. A book of kindness and bewilderment and delight from one of our best poets." —Teddy Macker, author of This World
"It is a delight to find a poet who can tell a crackling story laced with gorgeous imagery and euphony that will appeal to the ancient seats of learning: the heart, belly, and brain." —David Lee, Utah State Poet Laureate emeritus, author of Last Call and A Legacy of Shadows
"The elegance of her simplicity will blind you to her mastery. Then, she will let you fall, head over heels, in Love. With everything." —Wayne Muller (from the foreword), author of Sabbath and Legacy of the Heart
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Able Muse Press announces the release of
Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic - Poems
by Anna M. Evans
Runner-Up, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-012-0 • May 28, 2018 release • 82 pp.
*NEW* Now available for order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
[Anna M. Evans] series on the Titanic is one of the most memorable I have ever read. The technical difficulty of the poem is noteworthy, but it is the construction of the book, based on that poem as a centerpiece, that is genius.
—Kim Bridgford, author of Undone
Anna M. Evans, [dives] into the wreck of the Titanic to illuminate both personal experience and the politics of social class ... The result is one of the best, most unforgettable books I have read in years. —Julie Kane, author of Paper Bullets
Despite the great accomplishment of [Evans’s] technical tours de force, it is not admiration for technique that is the main feeling that stays with a reader once the book is finished, rather it is the undeniably powerful emotional force of what is being said. —Dick Davis (from the foreword), author of Love in Another Language
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Able Muse Press announces the release of
The Cynic in Extremis - Poems
by Jacob M. Appel
FINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-014-4 • June 4, 2018 release • 78 pp.
*NEW* Now available for order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
[L]ike the cynics in their classical conception, the poet’s subtext here is hope, at least love, and living without illusion in the extremis of the quotidian.
—Dan O’Brien, author of War Reporter
Like his stories—approachable, insightful, and touched with a tinge of sadness for what was and, indeed, is—Appel’s poems speak in straightforward, plain language to raise the curtain on the intimacies of his world. —Alice Friman, author of The View from Saturn
Quirky characters, often full of longing and regret, pepper Appel’s work ... These characters seem to fail to leave a mark on the world, beyond the poet’s eye.
—Brigit Young (from the foreword), author of Worth a Thousand Words
Both beautifully written and lively, the poems in The Cynic in Extremis embrace the world with warmth and wit. —John Skoyles, author of Suddenly It’s Evening and poetry editor at Ploughshares
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Able Muse Press announces the release of
Manhattanite - Poems
by Aaron Poochigian
WINNER, 2016 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by A. E. Stallings)
ISBN 978-1-927409-90-9 • October 9, 2017 release • 102 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
Aaron Poochigian takes on the role of American flâneur for the twenty-first century, drifting through the frenetic
metropolis at a dreamer’s planetary pace.
— A. E. Stallings, 2016 Able Muse Book Award judge
Each poem is a tower growing out of our human filth and scraping the sky with sky-lines, and together they build a city
of words. Put New York in your pocket. It’s inside this book.
— Tony Barnstone
These poems travel at a fast clip, pulling you along through cityscapes, wastelands, and other vistas. Some of the poems tunnel downward, plumbing depths of mood and memory.
— Rachel Hadas
The concluding lines of “Song: Go and Do It” . . . claim, “I’ll still swear/ we could be happy anywhere.” One sure location of that “anywhere” exists between the covers of Manhattanite.
— R. S. Gwynn
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Able Muse Press announces the release of
New Jersey Noir - A Novel
by William Baer
The Jack Colt Murder Mystery Novels (Book 1)
ISBN 978-1-927409-82-4 • February 26, 2018 release • 266 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
New Jersey Noir is a loving tribute to the Garden State by a writer who appreciates its grime as much as its glory.
— Hollis Seamon (Jersey girl, born and raised), author of Somebody Up There Hates You
In prose as fast-moving as a bullet, Baer compels the reader to keep flipping pages more and more rapidly. Baer’s writing is taut and gut-wrenching. New Jersey Noir and Baer’s talent presage a brilliant career for this wonderfully gifted writer.
— Terri Brown-Davidson, author of Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight
Jack Colt, the private investigator in William Baer’s New Jersey Noir, romances the genre to the suspenseful effect that JJ “Jake” Gittes achieves in Roman Polanski’s acclaimed Chinatown. In place of technicolor LA, however, Baer evokes a cinematic chiaroscuro New Jersey, specifically Paterson, its history and politics limned over a baseline of Springsteen, doo-wop, and Whitney Houston.
— Dennis Must, author of Hush Now, Don’t Explain
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I'm pleased to announce that the new Able Muse, Winter 2017 (Print Edition, Number 24), has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com
Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 24): Winter 2017
Featured Poet: Jacqueline Osherow
Featured Art: An "Eat" Theme
With the 2017 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction —
Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
• editorial:Alexander Pepple • featured art: An "Eat" Theme • featured poet: Jacqueline Osherow
(interviewed by Malachi Black) • fiction: Tim Frank, Leslie Jill Patterson • essays: Rachel Hadas, Sam Aaron Morgan • book reviews: Brooke Clark • poetry: ailey Leithauser, Gail White, Scott Ruescher, Stephen Kampa, Catherine Chandler, Kathryn Locey, Jean L. Kreiling, Chris Fahrenthold, D. R. Goodman, Alexander Pushkin, Jay Rogoff, Terese Coe, Heinrich Heine, Timothy Murphy, Ann M. Thompson, Rob Wright.
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to --Nicole Caruso Garcia, Susan de Sola, Scott M. Miller (Assistant Poetry Editors); N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editors); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Cheryl Diane Kidder, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).
Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com
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Able Muse Press announces the release of
Manhattanite - Poems
by Aaron Poochigian
WINNER, 2016 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by A. E. Stallings) ISBN 978-1-927409-90-9 • October 9, 2017 release • 102 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
Aaron Poochigian takes on the role of American flâneur for the twenty-first century, drifting through the frenetic
metropolis at a dreamer’s planetary pace.
— A. E. Stallings, 2016 Able Muse Book Award judge
Each poem is a tower growing out of our human filth and scraping the sky with sky-lines, and together they build a city
of words. Put New York in your pocket. It’s inside this book.
— Tony Barnstone
These poems travel at a fast clip, pulling you along through cityscapes, wastelands, and other vistas. Some of the poems tunnel downward, plumbing depths of mood and memory.
— Rachel Hadas
The concluding lines of “Song: Go and Do It” . . . claim, “I’ll still swear/ we could be happy anywhere.” One sure location of that “anywhere” exists between the covers of Manhattanite.
— R. S. Gwynn
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** NEW RELEASES from Word Galaxy (an imprint of Able Muse Press) ***
Word Galaxy Press
(an imprint of Able Muse Press)
announces the release of
The Stars of Earth
New and Selected Poems
Poems by Emily Grosholz
ISBN 978-1-77349-001-4 (pbk.) / ISBN 978-1-77349-005-2 (hc.) •
October 16, 2017 release • 320 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
“There is no end to the kinds of poems that Grosholz can write, always with distinction of language and with a great gift for wedding the measures of verse to the rhythms of thought.”
— Richard Wilbur
“[Grosholz] has a lucid, lyrical voice, a pure, songlike quality. I think many aspire to this sort of effortless music, but few succeed as well as she.”
— Alice Fulton
“Emily Grosholz is a poet of radiant intelligence,patient lyricism, and meticulous craft.”
— Mark Jarman
“. . . fine poetry and fine theorems are first cousins. Or, more rarely, in poems like Emily Grosholz’s, twins.”
— Marjorie Senechal
“The heart, not as a hackneyed valentine but as a living muscle, is always present as pulse and passion.”
— Michael Schmidt
“. . . she achieves potent mixes of the daily and the deep.”
— Melissa Balmain
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Word Galaxy Press
(an imprint of Able Muse Press)
announces the release of
Reassurance in Negative Space
Poems by Elizabyth Hiscox
ISBN 978-1-927409-98-5 (paperback) • October 2, 2017 release • 106 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:
ABOUT THE BOOK
“Her poems are tightly, urgently made.”
— Nancy Eimers
“Reassurance in Negative Space, is haunting in the way that brilliance of mind and vision encounter an almost secret vocabulary.”
— Norman Dubie
“There is throughout this volume a deep and humane lyric wisdom, an almost fatalistically brilliant humor.”
— Cynthia Hogue
“Hiscox breaks a tender heart with this equivocal and necessary advice for her reader: ‘Fall already, beautiful.’ In this gorgeous and spiritually rugged ekphrastic book I do pant, I do part, and I do fall.”
— Sarah Vap
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