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Doom & Beauty – Terry Blackhawk
Poetry, Paper, Perfect Bound, 38 pages, 2026, ISBN: 9781952781360 - - SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE $16.76 + S&H - In "Doom & Beauty", her tenth poetry collection, award-winning poet and educator Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk takes the plunge into prose poetry. A vibrant mix of travelogue, elegy, and ekphrasis, the collection roams from the woods of her Georgia childhood to the Isle of Elba, Toledo’s Maumee River, or New York’s Lower East Side and brings to life along the way characters as varied as poets Whitman and Lindsay, family members, lost friends, or a late life love. Readers will appreciate being pulled along by Blackhawk’s rich cadences as they ride back and forth through the journeys and vicissitudes of her life, loves, and flights of fancy.…
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small mammals – Cati Porter
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 74 pages - 2023, ISBN: 978-1-952781-15-5 $19.95 + S&H In Cati Porter’s fourth collection of poetry, small mammals, maternal love is extended to an assemblage of creatures big and small, with a focus on those most misunderstood of mammals, the human teenager. Everyday encounters become sublime: a conversation with a Rite Aid drugstore clerk, watching a documentary about ants with her son, a Sunday drive to look for wild burros. With equal parts curiosity and concern, small mammals takes an up close and personal look at the complexities of mothering teenage boys. It is the “What to Expect…” book you didn’t know you needed, bearing witness to what it means to be tender, vulnerable, and alive.…
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