Able Muse/Eratosphere Newsletter: Fall 2014 - Latest Releases & More

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~NEW~ Pre-releases by Able Muse Press

[5]   CUP (Special Honoree, 2013 Able Muse Book Award) Poems by Jeredith Merrin   ISBN 978-1-927409-34-3 • Dec 1, 2014 release • 96 pp.   In Cup we meet a poet of rare power and unique originality.     —X.J. Kennedy In these forthright and moving poems written in restrained, disciplined stanzas, the stories are told of how we each, “trying to make it better,/ whatever . . . it is,” have to find our own cup, and find it acceptable.     —David Ferry Both witty and meditative, these poems brim with insight and affection.     —Mark Doty Jeredith Merrin’s exhilarating poems pulse with memory, with art, and the complex emotional richness that is the present.     —Gail Mazur   Read More [5] Pre-Order [6] [7]   GREED: A CONFESSION Poems by D.R. Goodman ISBN 978-1-927409-38-1 • Dec 2, 2014 release • 114 pp.   This poet is alive to everything. You want this book. It’s terrific.     —Kelly Cherry Goodman is greedy for things of this world—not in the rapacious, bottom-line manner of plutocrats, misers, and Wall Street brokers but for the enlightenment of the senses and the enrichment of her poetry. She’s sharing the wealth she accumulates.     —John Drury (from the foreword) At the core of Greed: A Confession are natural ironies, or disjunctures, or improbabilities replete with intrigue.     —Clive Matson Complex yet accessible, these formal and free-verse poems gift us with abundant insights to enjoy.     —Beth Houston   Read More [8] Pre-Order [9]

~NEW~ More pre-releases by Able Muse Press

[10]   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   Read More [10] Pre-Order [11] [12]   VELLUM Poems by Chelsea Woodard ISBN 978-1-927409-35-0 • Nov 17, 2014 release • 106 pp.   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   Read More [12] Pre-Order [13]

Recently Released by Able Muse Press

[14]   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 . . . read more [14] Order [15] [16]   HOUSE MUSIC Poems by Ellen Kaufman       The intelligence behind Ellen Kaufman’s wonderfully realized House Music is poised and observant, its reflections unfolding in sinuous sentences that are effortlessly elegant and deceptively plainspoken. — John Koethe . . . read more [16] Order [17] [18]   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 . . . read more [18] Order [19]    [20]   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 . . . read more [20] Order [21] [22]   PUMPKIN CHUCKING Poems by Stephen Scaer       This is a wonderful and entertaining book of poetry. Stephen Scaer’s poems are full of wit, sarcasm and humor. — Robert Crawford . . . read more [22] Order [23] [24]   COMPOSITIONS OF THE DEAD PLAYING FLUTES Poems by Barbara Ellen Sorensen        Opened in body and spirit, the poet embraces her worlds, and she offers back this poetry, which shimmers in its urgent, delicate balance. — Veronica Patterson . . . read more [24] Order [25] [26]   ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY Edited by Alexander Pepple, foreword by Timothy Steele   celebrates Able Muse's best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography through its first decade and beyond - including Turner Cassity, X.J. Kennedy, A.E. Stallings, Rachel Hadas, David Mason and several more. . . . read more [26] Order [27]    [28]Virtue, Big as Sin [28] - Poems by Frank Osen (winner, 2012 Able Muse Book Award). Read More [28] | ORDER [29] [30]Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter [30] - Poems by Maryann Corbett Osen. Read More [30] | ORDER [31] [3]Subscribe to Able Muse - Print Edition [3]- a review of poetry, prose & art. Read More [3] | SUBSCRIBE [32]    [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] NOW AVAILABLE from Able Muse Press [1], Amazon and other online & offline bookstores: • The Dark Gnu and Other Poems by Wendy Videlock [33] • Strange Borderlands - poems by Ben Berman [34] (Finalist, 2014 Massachusetts Book Award) • Sailing to Babylon - poems by James Pollock [35] (Finalist, 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize) • Grasshopper - the poetry of M.A. Griffiths [36] • Nevertheless - poems by Wendy Videlock [37] (Finalist, 2011 Colorado Book Award) • Life in the Second Circle - poems by Michael Cantor [38] (Finalist, 2012 Massachusetts Book Award) • Dirge for an Imaginary World - poems by Matthew Buckley Smith [39] (Winner - 2011 Able Muse Book Award) • Corporeality - stories by Hollis Seamon [40] (Winner, Gold Medal for the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards) GO TO Able Muse Press [1] for these & more titles.