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ALL THE WASTED BEAUTY OF THE WORLD |
Poems by Richard Newman
ISBN 978-1-927409-31-2 • Oct 15, 2014 release • 102 pp.
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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
ISBN 978-1-927409-35-0 • Nov 17, 2014 release • 106 pp.
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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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Recently Released by Able Muse Press |
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WALKING IN ON PEOPLE
(2013 Winner:
Able Muse Book Award) |
Poems by Melissa Balmain
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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
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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 |
Guest-Edited by Charles Martin
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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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