. . . Seamon off ers enough thematic and narrative variation to keep each story in this collection fresh.
— Publishers Weekly

Hollis Seamon’s Corporeality is a wonderful collection of stories, dazzling and unsentimental, full of everyday tragedies, fairy-tale motifs, and rambunctious, life-affirming characters who stand up to bullies and to fate, whether in a hospice, a flophouse, or a university classroom. It’s a feast of language that you won’t soon forget.
— Alan Davis

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** NEW** (Recently Announced):
Ben Berman's Strange Borderlands (Able Muse Press, 2013) is a 2014 Finalist in the Massachusetts Book Awards. [22]

[28]Strange Borderlands - Poems by Ben Berman [22] (with a Foreword by Fred Marchant)

Ben Berman’s debut poetry collection is a compelling examination of the author’s experiences in Zimbabwe as a Peace Corps volunteer. . . . This is a must-have book for readers of poetry.”
— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Ben Berman’s lyric poems set in Zimbabwe dig deep into the casual and the casualty of daily life . . . I believe every word in this collection. This is an unforgettable debut by a powerful and humble voice.”
— Dzvinia Orlowsky

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House Music - Poems by Ellen Kaufman [22] (with a Foreword by Jennifer Barber)

House Music  by Ellen Kaufman is a finalist in the 2012 Able Muse Book Award.
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[Ellen Kaufman’s] language is taut and her aim unerring: her poems fl y straight and true.
             – Jennifer Barber (from the Foreword)

The intelligence behind Ellen Kaufman’s wonderfully realized House Music is poised and observant, its refl ections unfolding in sinuous sentences that are effortlessly elegant and deceptively plainspoken.
             – John Koethe

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Heaven from Steam - Poems by Carol Light [22] (with a Foreword by Brad Leithauser)

Heaven from Steam  by Carol Light is a finalist in the 2012 Able Muse Book Award.
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The book is marked by a lightness of touch. The overall effect is playful.
             – Brad Leithauser (from the Foreword)

Carol Light, in Heaven from Steam, performs arias again and again; her songs are equal parts rapturous . . . and disquieting
             – Cody Walker

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Pumpkin Chucking - Poems by Stephen Scaer [22] (with a Foreword by A.M. Juster)

Pumpkin Chucking  by Stephen Scaer is a finalist in the 2012 Able Muse Book Award.
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Stephen Scaer’s Pumpkin Chucking celebrates the New England landscape while still being universal . . . and it surprises us with wit in the winking way of Frost.
             – A.M. Juster (from the Foreword)

. . . the prevailing voice in this collection belongs to a hugely entertaining, middle-aged, middle-class Everyman writing about the everyday.
             – Deborah Warren

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Compositions of the Dead Playing Flutes - Poems by Barbara Ellen Sorensen [22] (with a Foreword by Veronica Patterson)

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These poems are attentive, scrupulous, and transforming, as they range from the sensuous to the spiritual.
             – Veronica Patterson (from the Foreword)

Barbara Ellen Sorensen is . . . a modern Ovid offering metamorphoses of the triumphs and ashes of human existence in a voice at once deeply personal and entirely of us all.”
             – Suzanne Paola

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Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter - Poems by Maryann Corbett [22](with a Foreword by Peter Campion)

Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter  by Maryann Corbett is a finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award.
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"What makes Maryann Corbett such a rare, excellent writer must be her talent for weaving together various artistic impulses, so that her poems often sound both traditional and brand new, both humorous and serious, both worldly-wise and, as John Keats once put it, “capable of being in uncertainties.” [She] remains a poet of the first order, and her poems are cause for gratitude, and deep enjoyment." 
             – Peter Campion (from the Foreword)

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Virtue, Big as Sin - Poems by Frank Osen [22](with an afterword by Timothy Steele)

* WINNER * 2012 Able Muse Book Award
* Included in the First Books Panel at West Chester University Poetry Conference this summer
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"Frank Osen’s Virtue, Big as Sin offers one witty, elegant poem after another. The rhymes are especially clever, the meter sure, the stanzas well-shaped, but this poet’s sense of proportion is also reflected in wisdom (and what is wisdom but a sense of proportion?). An urbane maker of sparkling phrases like “that genuine Ur of the ersatz,” Osen can also write plainly, movingly, about a young girl’s funeral. And he reflects often on art itself, which he so rightly calls “the conjured awe.”
            – Mary Jo Salter (Judge, 2012 Able Muse Book Award)

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[22]* Recent Release * from ABLE MUSE PRESS:

Sailing to Babylon - Poems by James Pollock [22](with a Foreword by Jeffery Donaldson)

* Included in the First Books Panel at West Chester University Poetry Conference this summer
* Currently, a Shortlisted Book for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize
* Finalist 2012 Governor General Literary Awards for Poetry
* Honorable Mention for the 2012 Posner Poetry Book Award
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"The sentence, in James Pollock's remarkably assured debut volume, is a unit of music and of time, a carefully modulated choreography that moves the reader through an elegantly constructed set of meditations on place and history and the education of the self . . . . Quietly confident, formally adept, assured in their music, these artful lyrics are not only an accomplishment in themselves but promise to register, as the poet says, 'the breaking changes of a life to come'."
        – Mark Doty, Judge's Citation, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist

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