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Able Muse, Print Edition, is Here

Dear Eratosphereans:

Ho! Ho! Ho! & Just in time for the Holidays! . . . I’m pleased to announce that the Inaugural Print Edition of Able Muse (Number 10, Winter 2010) is now available in print (through Able Muse Press, here, and from Amazon and elsewhere – ISBN: 978-0-9865338-2-2), and in digital format (at Able Muse, for subscribers), with details and excerpts available at:

http://www.ablemuse.com

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The inaugural print edition of Able Muse Review has been much anticipated. It's an issue filled with the usual masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse. Thus, after more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse begins a bold new chapter with this print edition, highlighting works of the same superlative standard as presented all these years in the online edition, and, the recently released Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010).
". . . [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry."
– Dana Gioia.

CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL — Alexander Pepple.

FEATURED ARTIST— Massimo Sbreni.

FEATURED POET— Richard Percival Lister;
(Interviewed by Steve Bucknell).

MEMOIR (on R.P. Lister) — Steve Bucknell.

FICTION — Nancy Lou Canyon, Emily Cutler, Marge Lurie.

ESSAYS — Peter Filkins, Stephen Collington, Marilyn L. Taylor.

BOOK REVIEWS — Julie Stoner, John Whitworth.

POETRY — Catharine Savage Brosman, Catherine Tufariello, David Alpaugh, Ned Balbo, Steven Winn, Leslie Monsour, Rebecca Foust, Ted Mc Carthy, Gail White, J. Patrick Lewis, Kim Bridgford, Wendy Videlock, Peter Austin, Catherine Chandler, Diane Seuss, Susan McLean, Jamie Iredell, Maryann Corbett, John Slater, John Beaton, Gilbert Wesley Purdy, Frank Osen, Trina L. Drotar, Heather Hallberg Yanda, Richard Meyer, Kevin Corbett.

ALSO ANNOUNCING, FROM THE ABLE MUSE PRESS:

- The Able Muse Anthology’s released and available (Summer, 2010)
- Able Muse Review: Print Edition orders and subscription
- The Able Muse Write Prize for Poetry & Fiction (Entry deadline: February 15, 2011)
- The Able Muse Book Award for Poetry (Entry deadline: March 31, 2011)
( Details available at http://www.ablemusepress.com )

COMING SOON FROM ABLE MUSE PRESS (Spring/Summer 2011):

- Lines of Flight – Poems by Catherine Chandler
- Nevertheless – Poems by Wendy Videlock
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With special thanks for an outstanding new print issue to--
Gregory Dowling: Nonfiction Editor
Tim Murphy: Associate Poetry Editor,
Nina Schuyler: Fiction Editor,
Tim Love, John Riley, Janice D. Soderling: Assistant Fiction Editors
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Happy Holidays!

Alex Pepple, Editor
Able Muse
www.AbleMuse.com

Alex,

I'm glad to see R.P. Lister getting so much play here: it's well-deserved, plus it's a marischino cherry on top of the Sundae of Steve's quest, and quite a coup for Able Muse. I think I've already subscribed, but if not, I will. I hope this sparks a wider interest in Lister's work, and possibly a new book soon. 'Everything has not happened to him yet.'

Best,

Ed

Thanks Alex and thanks Ed. I planned to see Richard in November but we were sabotaged by the weather, however we hope to get together in January . Richard sends his thanks and best wishes to all and has given me permission to include this unpublished poem:

Mysteries of the night

The diminution of light,
The difficulties of sight,
Are the mysteries of the night.

The chief inspector comes
With a rattle of drums:
Mark my words Holmes,
There has been an invasion of gnomes:
See the blood upon the window panes!
The williwaws whirling the weather-vanes!

Bring back the light, Mrs Harkness,
As a defence against the darkness.
Bring back the matins and the prime,
And we shall have peace in our time.

R.P.Lister

I just want to say that this is a magnificent journal. It is more than a journal, it is a source that one will want to return to often.

I have read (twice) and enjoyed a wonderful article by Marilyn L. Taylor titled "Semi-Formal Verse and Its Prosody". It includes references to a new trend in poetry and an alternative way of scanning. Semiformal prosody is something I have been concentrating on for a while now and I was personally delighted to find this article which I recommend to all and sundry.

Another essay by most erudite Stephen Collington titled "Anyone-Can-Do-It Method for Writing Chinese Poetry (in Japanese): Thoughts on Language, Authenticity and Form" is also proof that the bar is set high in this journal.

Steve B's fine interview with nonagenarian R.P. Lister, (and a quest many of us have followed here at Eratosphere), together with RP's own poetry, is counterbalanced by an impressively crafted story by a young high school student, Emily Cutler.

It is hard not to make a long list of the authors of book reviews, poetry and other fiction, but I'll simply say that no one here who is interested in improving their craft should neglect to order this inaugural issue, which is sure in time to be a collector's item.