Poetry, Paper, Perfect Bound, 38 pages, 2026, ISBN: 9781952781360 - - SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE $16.76 + S&H - With her implicit trust in the poem’s ability to create surprise, award-winning poet and educator Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk takes the plunge into prose poetry in "Doom & Beauty", her ninth collection, a chapbook from Mayapple Press. While informed by an awareness of war, cruelty, or lurking woe, Blackhawk ever harkens to Rilke’s epigraph as she creates her vibrant mix of memoir and travelogue, elegy and ekphrasis, loss and discovery in order to name what we cannot grasp.…
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.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 64 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-89-0 $16.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. In One Less River, Terry Blackhawk follows Hafiz’s injunction to ‘Greet yourself/In your thousand other forms/As you mount the hidden tide and travel/Home.’…
