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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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The Dark Safekeeping – Gloria Nixon-John
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 92 pages 2022, ISBN: 978-1-952781-11-7 /// Animals, horses, dogs, cats, and visiting wildlife are the gifts that bring me great joy, and so they appear in my poetry. Even rats and skunks are worthy of my poetry. As for humans, I focus on the downtrodden, and those living in slums and hollows---not to forget those living in our iron cities, our prisons. I mourn the deteriorating condition of the planet. I mock those who have elitism and greed at the center of their lives. I also poke fun at myself especially my struggles with aging. In terms of style, I try to balance the trend toward narrative with my love for the early imagists.…
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