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Si quiere ser arte, sea un ladrillo.Permita usted ser llevado por inciertas manos: Las posibilidades de poetizar son infinitas o como dijo el poeta peruano Alberto Hidalgo: El poemar repuebla el tiempo/acrecienta el espacio de perspectivas y de alrecedores/y en tanto que se espacia poemando/se tiempa para siempre quien poema y quien poema hoy, es Jassin Antuna desde este su libro iniciático. De cielos raros, del cual puede percibirse que fue concebido con la plasticidad de un fotógrafo o de un pintor, se captan realidades que son llevadas a las palabras desde la evocación y la nostalgia: padre, madre, familia, gorriones, escenas de parque, patria, transitan por este mundo tangible o ilusorio. Hay una serie de tonos y de maneras de poemar: desde el verso libre y el verso clásico (sonetos), lo cual le da una versatilidad en su propuesta: Parece que en sí ya eras una forma/estás en todas las formas. Machado dijo que se hace camino al andar y el camino de la poesía es arduo y duro. Aun le espera mucho a este joven creador que empieza. Él asume el reto y reconoce el arte de otros y lo reconoce en si, dejándose llevar ya sea por ciertas e inciertas manos y culmina en uno de sus poemas diciendo: el verdadero arte es la permanencia. Buen mar y buen viento para la vela. JAVIER ALVARADO

La poesía de Yrene Santos se inscribe dentro de la tradición humana arraigada en el "malestar femenino" histórico, latinoamericano y personal. Su lírica plasma un testimonio resistente a una exacerbada carga de una angustia, amargura y "Desolación" del eco de la voz vibrante de la figura femenina de madre y/o amante. En este espacio no faltan la sensibilidad, la esperanza y el optimismo Limpio mi círculo para seguir adelante, anhelando una ruta borrosa de la justicia humana que suena más bien por su ausencia. En su poemario Después de la lluvia, El Yo poético se asoma incrustado en un flujo narrativo donde se alterna la lírica con la narración elaborando una trenza semi-autobiográfica de ficción.Sus versos repercuten una ola de dolor suspicaz en el cual el agotamiento y la serenidad se abrazan en el flujo de una música interior, capaz de evocar en nuestras almas la melodía mística de la eterna Scheherazade. The poetry of Yrene Santos is part of the human tradition rooted in historical, Latin-American and personal "female discomfort." Her lyric expresses a testimony resistant to an exacerbated burden of anguish, bitterness and "Desolation" of the echo of the vibrant voice of the female figures of mother and / or lover. In this space, there is no lack of sensitivity, hope or optimism. I clean my circle to move forward, longing for a blurred route of human justice that sounds rather because of its absence. In her work, After the Rain, the poetic "I" appears embedded in a narrative flow where the lyric alternates with the narration, creating a semi-autobiographical braid of fiction.Her verses impact a wave of suspicious pain in which exhaustion and serenity embrace in the flow of an inner tune, capable of evoking in our souls the mystical melody of the eternal Scheherazade. Abeer Abdel HafezProfessor at Faculty of Arts, Spanish DepartmentCairo University

"The poems in this book reframe the daily and habitual to reveal the strange, rich interiors of ordinary moments: sitting in a traffic jam, tilted back in a dentist's chair, thinking of an old joke while looking at a famous painting. Christopher Blackman is alert to the ironies that link the comedy and tragedy of existence, yet his poems are never arch or brittle. They start, as so many unforgettable poems do, by welcoming us with lucidity and candor into the particulars of someone else's life; they end by handing us back our own lives, transformed." -Nan Cohen"The poems of Christopher Blackman's poignant Three-Day Weekend search for authenticity beneath the fluorescent glow of late capitalism. Who might we be free of our jobs and shorn of limiting social norms? What might we turn our attention to before it's too late? Blackman's candid-and often funny-poems reach out from a "stretch of time that precedes the pageant's end" to grab the reader by the shoulders and shake them awake."-Keith Leonard"I really like these Chaplinesque lyrics, the prat-fall wisdom of their lines, the stumbling beauty of their turns, the charm of the speaker's ill-timed realizations.... The book is more than a snack-pak of pop pleasure; it is secretly a solemn buffet. These passages begin in the intoxications of bars and radios and movie theaters, but lead into the enduring, sober territories of interior history, the fantods and grace of love and death, and they end questioningly, wisely befuddled, standing beside the reader, saying "I'm the last one left in the poem, and I'm a little afraid/ to be here without anything else to distract me.."-Ed Skoog

The prose poem is the literary sphinx, the literary chimera, minotaur, gryphon-part one thing, part another and at their best, they're magical, mythical. Fantastic Imaginary Creatures collects the best contemporary prose poems that demonstrate the potentiality and plasticity the form allows. Some of these poems have been previously published, and some are brand spanking new.

Through a welcome bundle of poetic correspondence with an international community of artists and poets, a seasoned North Carolina poet and spouse of a U.S. Marine (author of previous collections Uniform, Permanent Change of Station, and FORCES) shares intimate insights and observations on creating history, family, community, and art. "In her engagements with poets from Ireland to India, as well as U.S. military veterans and families, Lisa Stice is an ideal correspondent with art and history," says the publisher. "Stice introduces us to old words and new friends. With the flow and scrawl of her metaphorical pen, she delivers every poet's dream: accessible, illuminating conversations with our world-at-large-including our pasts, presents, and unfolding possibilities." Includes a special 3-prompt mini-section on how to write your own epistolary poems!

"i was born from the body of a woman i have never met." DESOLATION is a look into the soul of someone who has never felt at home in their body. someone whose adoption shaped them in the worst ways. what it feels like to be misaligned with your own existence. and alienated from the concept of family. this book is for anyone who was adopted. for anyone with an ED. for anyone with body trauma. for those who don't feel like they belong anywhere, in this lifetime or in the next. for those who ache.

Offering brief snapshots into the author's experience growing up half black and half white, In Between My Bodies presents through screenplays, short answer questions, blog posts, and more. Uncomfortably relatable to some, an overreaction to others, In Between My Bodies interactively invites readers to examine the depth that just a few careless words, a symbol, or an expectation can hold.

"Laura Isabela Amsel's Brief Campaign of Sting and Sweet explores the personal sting of a difficult father, breast cancer, and an unexpected divorce, as well as the more general sting of habitat loss and climate change, yet the sweet remains-horses and birds and flowers survive the squeeze of suburban development, and the poet's own travels and memories of travel begin to open the present up to new possibilities. Amsel distinguishes herself by her linguistic exuberance and craft, her risk-taking and her ear for nuance, for cadence and resonance. The poems in Brief Campaign achieve a complex and formal-if grief-shadowed-beauty."-Jon Davis, founder of the Institute of American Indian Arts' MFA Program and author of fourteen poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City and Fearless Now and Nameless"Laura Isabela Amsel's beautiful poems tap emotion like spiles in maple trunks. She knows the natural world like few do, shares her loot with us wing flutter by quiet slither before the inevitable bite. Her imagery transports the reader to a place one might only have in muscle memory. Amsel reminds us that we are all part of something larger and more layered than our self-made human boxes. An extraordinary collection worthy of rereading time and again." -Amanda Boyden, author of the international bestselling novels Pretty Little Dirty, Babylon Rolling, and the memoir I Got the Dog "In A Brief Campaign of Sting and Sweet, 'seeing sharpens / into sudden spectacle.' Laura Isabela Amsel's intrepid debut collection forages the open country of the heart, plucking out, in Auden's phrase, 'the images...that hurt and connect.' Here are poems that, 'hum in [the] mouth's hive'; that pulse with ecological attention; that search, sear, sting, supply the balm, and stitch open wounds into song. With this compelling book, Amsel claims her place as a poet in full possession of her gift." -Michael Pickard, Ph.D., Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Literature, Millsaps College

Miriam Kramer's Built By Storms explores the intricate interplay between grief and trauma, hope and recovery.From confronting the painful specter of past experiences to finding solace in unexpected places, Kramer's words resonate with raw emotion and poignant reflection. In her verses, she navigates the journey of overcoming challenges with heartfelt odes while also unleashing critiques on life's injustices. Through lyrical insights, she honors the memory of lost friends and grapples with the urge to express frustration.Kramer's poetry offers glimpses of alternate realities and what-ifs, where she explores the roads not taken and the impact of chance. From imagining a world where loved ones remain unscathed by illness or tragedy to confronting unsettling changes, her words invite readers to contemplate the complexities of existence.Built By Storms reminds us that our past shapes us and that countless paths are left to explore. Through her evocative verses, Kramer captures the essence of survival, inviting readers to ponder the complexities of what was and to honor what endures.

New England without winter is a blessing and a curse. ¡Gracias, El Niño!Here at Nixes Mate headquarters, graveyard for pirates, mutineers, and booze cruises, we're excited about our new books, and this issue which features fifteen new authors to Nixes Mate Review. Every year or so, we change the size of the Review and our books. Of course, we've always shunned the standard size of books and journals. This year is no exception. Who needs 6 x 9 when you can have 5.83 x 8.27! The Review is 6 5/8 x 10 1/4. Go figure.You must be asking yourself, why does that matter. It doesn't. Afterall, New England with or without winter heralds a new Spring. ¡Gracias, El Niño!

In a descent toward what might make our epoch sing in its most falsetto pitch, Vincenz troubles our ears by running a narrative script thru it to plumb its bottom. In a word, the theft of his own ear has felt its echo disguise upon disguise to make these poems carom off one another thence to settle into their proper end. Thieves' Canto is a return from any meta-beyond back into our world, or, "Present Patience." - t thilleman

In a wide range of lyrically rich poems, award-winning poet Jonathan Fink interrogates the perpetual mysteries and resonances at the convergence of national identity, historical influence, and personal experience.In Don’t Do It—We Love You, My Heart, Jonathan Fink interweaves a welcome range of poetic styles including expansive, narrative poems, shorter, lyrical poems, and intricate one-sentence poems that are sustained over multiple pages to deliver his most intimate collection to date. Charting changing national and personal landscapes, Fink’s writing explores such diverse subjects as growing up in West Texas at the conclusion of the Cold War; ekphrastic poems about the paintings of Goya, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft; the intuitive language he shares with his infant daughter on a quiet evening before she falls asleep; and the famous story of a suicide prevented on the George Washington Bridge—the jumper stayed by the man who tells him, “Don’t do it–we love you, my heart.” The imperative, urgent compassion conveyed in the stranger’s command thrums through all the poems in this collection, compelling the reader outward to deeper connections and lived empathy.

"Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce." Jennifer Weiner Amidst the tumult of divorce, a haven unexpectedly emerges through the tapestry of poignant poems that weave through the threads of unraveling knots. Initiated in the initial optimism of a fourteen-year marriage, the journey navigates challenges of relocation, cultural adaptation, parenting, and home-building. However, the latter seven years unveil a bleaker narrative, prompting a crucial reassessment. These verses delve into profound contemplation on the essence of love, from the exuberance of beginnings to the heartbreak of divorce, particularly when children are involved. As the decision to part ways is made, societal expectations are challenged, advocating for a nuanced understanding of separation without assigning blame. The poems encapsulate a fifteen-year odyssey, from the intoxicating allure of another's being to a profound respect for the essence of love-a commitment to an ideal rather than an inflexible reality. In the process of divorce, the author discovers solace in his poems while embarking on a journey to rediscover inner light and remain open to future relationships. This collection dismantles the fairy tale notion of happily ever after, offering a raw and honest exploration of the complexities woven into the fabric of love and marriage.

David Calogero Centorbi is from Detroit, Michigan. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and is the author of Landscapes of You and Me (Alien Buddha Press, 2021) and After Falling into Disarray (Daily Drunk Press, 2021). This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2023.

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a publisher, critic, eco-activist, impresario, puppeteer, and artist living in N.Y.C. He is author of nineteen books of verse, including Blue Lyre from Dos Madres Press, Party Everywhere from Xanadu, and Doppelgängster from MadHat Press. He is a recipient of the Kathy Acker Award for both writing and publishing. His work is included in Best American Poetry for 2023. The former publisher of Cover Magazine, The Underground National, he now publishes Live Mag! This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2023.

Anne Caldwell is a freelance writer, lecturer and editor. She currently works for the Open University and as an Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund. Her latest collection of prose poetry, "Alice and the North", was published by Valley Press in 2020. Her three previous collections are "Slug Language" (Happenstance, 2008), "Talking with the Dead" (Cinnamon Press, 2011), and "Painting the Spiral Staircase" (Cinnamon Press, 2016). In 2022, she edited a book of essays on prose poetry (with Oz Hardwick) entitled "Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice" (Routledge, 2022). She also edited the "Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry" (Valley Press) with Oz Hardwick. Poems appear in Spelt Magazine, Poetry Wales, Ink Sweat and Tears, And Other Poems, The Rialto, Axon (Australia), and in international anthologies. This chapbook won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2023.

How do you summarize poetry? How do you summarize a life? Ducker explores these questions in this moving ode to the human experience. Divided into five parts and themes, with each part exploring a different stage in life, this is a poetry collection with a distinctive voice. Ducker has a nostalgic and witty style that will resonate with readers from all walks of life.

"Luis Miguel Aguilar's work is a conversation, between the past and the present, between the educated and the lay person, between useless details and essentials, between erudite data and vital impulses. It is not a spur of the moment conversation, but one that arises from the serenity of an extended, long-term approach, tying up loose ends and giving rise to complete, complex and exalted theories." -Juan Manuel Gómez "Aguilar's poetry is unlike any other from Mexico in recent decades. Perhaps such a deliberately isolated position is even arrogant. It is a superior option in contemporary Mexican literature." -José Joaquín Blanco"There are poets who are born mature, broad-browed and clear of vision. Luis Miguel Aguilar is one of them. Each book is a gift full of surprises, riddles and enigmas that invite the reader to reread, piece by piece, to savour them: there is an erudite, cultured, referential voice; then there is a more melodic, simple voice that recites ballads and popular songs; and finally there is the intimate monologue, which deals with the familiar terroir and tries to decipher the meaning of life, with all its furies and its sorrows." -Arturo Dávila"His is a work and a voice that, as part of contemporary Mexican poetry, gives it weight and horizons that cannot be refuted. As a reader, I am grateful for this 'difficult minute' that Luis Miguel Aguilar has had to live through, which he says is between the vehement minute and the cowardly minute, adding: 'poetry is the difficult minute'." -José Javier Villarreal

With a new cover design, Haiku is an expert introduction and celebration of one of the most beautiful and accessible forms of poetry in the world. Haiku--seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity--have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become established as part of our common global heritage. This beautiful traditionally hand-bound volume presents new English translations of classic poems by the four great masters of Japanese haiku--Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Masaoka Shiki--accompanied by both the original Japanese and a phonetic transcription.

Presented in a pocket-size volume, Haiku is an expert introduction and celebration of one of the most beautiful and accessible forms of poetry in the world. Haiku--seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity--have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become established as part of our common global heritage. This handy pocket-size volume presents modern English translations of classic poems by the four great masters of Japanese haiku--Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Masaoka Shiki--accompanied by both the original Japanese and a phonetic transcription, and a photograph or artwork highlighting or echoing the poem's theme.

all things small is a book of poems that speak to marriage, divorce, dementia, grief and all the small treasures that mark a life. Divided into five parts, the collection takes its readers on an emotional journey that reverberates with honesty, depth and familiarity. Sticky with the juice of jealousy, fragrant with lust, tasting of sorrow, and aching with tenderness, these poems invite the reader into the speaker's home, gardens, and dinner table to rejoice in the beauty within.

Hildegarde Flanner - This Morning & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #17 Publicdomainpoets.com Containing the complete poems from 'Young Girl & Other Poems' (1920) and 'This Morning' (1921), & numerous other verses published in 'little magazines' at the time, with an introduction by Porter Garnett, and a generous amount of illustrations by Sydenham Edwards. New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte. I could drown In one deep petal. Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987) was born in Indianapolis to progressive parents, and had two sisters also involved in the arts, Janet as a journalist, and Marie as a composer and musician. In 1919 she moved to California to study poetry at the University of California with Witter Bynner, and met the artist Frederick Monhoff who would go on to illustrate a number of Flanner's books. Flanner worked on the school magazine, 'The Occident', and in 1920 won the Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize for poetry, published her first book of verse, 'Young Girl & Other Poems', and a one-act play, 'Mansions'. You must have more wisdom than any, For the sun tells you What God says, And the wild canaries tell you What it is To be a yellow motion In the air. The following year she published a 2nd book of verse, 'This Morning', with a cover designed by Monhoff. Flanner wrote rhymed and 'free' verse - both unrhymed & compressed - and continued to publish in 'little magazines' throughout the 1920s. In 1942 she was named 'Poet of the Month' by New Directions, but by this time had shifted her focus from poetry to environmental writing. She returned to poetry at the end of her life, publishing 4 more collections in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as various essays and reviews, and has since been recognised as a significant poet of the post-1913 'new verse' movements. I have pitched my soul Among a solitude Of other tents . . . O will none of you, Will none of you Draw back the flap Of painted canvas? Public Domain Press produces new editions of out-of-print poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free verse' from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in. These are not simply "reprints" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collections, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.

Hilda Doolittle - Wind Sleepers & Other Verse Public Domain Poets #18 Publicdomainpoets.com Containing a generous selection of Hilda Doolittle's poems from 'Sea Garden' (1916), 'Hymen' (1921), 'Heliodora' (1924), and the various Imagist anthologies (1914-1917); with illustrations by Helen Saunders & Dorothy Shakespear. New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte. Whirl up, sea- Whirl your pointed pines, Splash your great pines On our rocks, Hurl your green over us, Cover us with your pools of fir. H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and her family moved to Upper Darby when she was a child, She became friends with Ezra Pound as a teenager, began writing poetry, and briefly attended Bryn Mawr College, where she first explored her bisexuality, and met fellow poets Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams. Pound moved to London in 1908, followed by Doolittle in 1911, and they became close with the poet, Richard Aldington. Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish. I cover you with my net. What are you-banded one? Together they began writing 'free verse' at a time when English-language poetry was almost exclusively metered and rhymed, calling their work 'Imagiste' (after the 'School of Images', active 1908-1909). Though Doolittle's first poems were published due to Pound's influence, his dictatorial approach to poetics led to a split in the group, with Amy Lowell leading the 'new' lmagists, now including Doolittle, Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, D.H. Lawrence, and F.S. Flint (a founding member of the earlier Imagist group). They would go on to oversee the publication of 3 Imagist anthologies between 1915-1917, highly influential on the post-1913 'new verse' and 'free verse' movements which blossomed in their wake. You crash over the trees, you crack like the live branch: the branch is white, the green crushed, each leaf is rent like split wood. Public Domain Press produces new editions of out-of-print poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free verse' from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in. These are not simply "reprints" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collections, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.

Fusing a Fragmented Soul is a transformational memoir about the return to wholeness after trauma. Honest, raw and inspirational, it's a poetic retelling of abuse spanning from childhood to early adulthood - and the liberating journey through recovery.Shayleen Muzi brings awareness to what happens behind closed doors - the things people often don't want to see. Through poetry, she openly shares the pain of abuse, self-loathing, anxiety, bullying and addiction. If you currently feel alone in your suffering, you will feel understood, hopeful and inspired to follow the path to self-healing. Fusing a Fragmented Soul is a beautiful and loving invitation to take back your power, self-love and self-worth.This poetry book for self-healing explores topics including: Getting over childhood traumaCultivating self-love for your inner childEmotional abuse self-helpLeaving abusive relationshipsShadow work self-carePersonal transformation

'When the Mask Slips...' by Emma Veilwood is a heartfelt dive into the silent battles against loneliness and self-doubt. It's a book of poems for anyone who's felt the weight of the world, offering a hand to hold on the road to healing. Here, we celebrate the brave moments of showing our true selves and finding strength. These pages whisper a simple, powerful message: you're not alone, your story matters, and your mental health is important.

Heshmat Tayeb, a poet deeply rooted in the rich cultural and natural landscape of Baghlan, Afghanistan, presents his latest poetic collection, "Nardbane Mozha" written in Persian. Born in 1950, Tayeb's poetry is a reflection of his intimate connection with the land, its people, and the diverse dialects and ideas that have shaped his artistic expression. Influenced by his father, Ibrahim Hairat, a renowned poet of the constitutional era, Tayeb's poetry is a testament to his lifelong dedication to the craft."Nardbane Mozha" is a journey through the imaginative and artistic realms of Tayeb's mind. The book is divided into two parts, with the first featuring a selection of "Ghazal" poems that showcase Tayeb's mastery in weaving together vivid imagery, proverbs, and unique linguistic elements. His use of uncommon words and phrases adds a fresh dimension to the poetic landscape, inviting readers to explore new terrains of expression.The second part of the book is dedicated to "Couplets," highlighting the condensed energy and creativity that characterize Tayeb's work. His precise and beautiful use of proverbs and similes in the semantic decoration of his compositions demonstrates his skill as a poet. The style of equation, an artistic combination of allegory is prominently featured, showcasing the elegance of Tayeb's poetic perceptions.Published by Barmakids Press, "Nardbane Mozha" is a must-read for anyone seeking to immerse themselves in the world of Afghan poetry and experience the lyrical beauty of Heshmat Tayeb's work.

In Glass Shadows, B. A. Mazur invites readers on a journey through the tapestry of human emotion, exploring the themes of longing, loss, and the transformative power of hope. With a unique blend of eloquence and vulnerability, Mazur weaves together poetry that resonate deeply with the complexities of the human experience.This collection is a poignant exploration of the shadows that linger in the corridors of the heart. Through carefully crafted verses, Mazur delves into the intricate dance of emotions, capturing the essence of yearning, the ache of separation, and the inevitable fractures that time can impose.Glass Shadows is a testament to the enduring power of faith and the transformative nature of hope, reminding us that even in the midst of shattered dreams, there is the potential for a beautiful mosaic of new beginnings. This book will resonate with anyone who has grappled with the complexities of love, loss, and the unwavering hope that emerges from the shadows.

This is a delightful book, one as quirkily insightful as it is entertaining.- Kirkus Reviews Little Data turns like an Alfa Romeo racing Formula One. Here, says the title, take a nut of an idea then squeeze it until the juice comes out. Each bit of data here is extracted, transformed, crushed, then palpated back to life. Who knew so much love could be drawn from airports and backpacks, obstacle courses and salami? Schaberg and Yakich are excellent drivers and take the turns with mad skill - a high-speed Dickinson, an autobahn Basho, a freeway Rimbaud.- NICOLE WALKER, author of Processed Meats In this glossary of contemporary terms and concepts, deftly and delightfully defamiliarized, the authors reveal an uncanny ability to zoom in on the details of modernity and consider them in such a way that the everyday becomes once again miraculous.- MATTHEW VOLLMER, author of All of Us Together in the End Against certainty and smug quantification, Little Data resists the banal commodification of contemporary parenting manuals. By exploring the humility of being human, the sordid failures of our idealisms, and the insoluble paradox of choice, these mini-essays remind us that although test results and quizzes haven't made people more legible to one another, children still can.- ALINA STEFANESCU, author of Every Mask I Tried On CHRISTOPHER SCHABERG is the Director of Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. His most recent books are Adventure: An Argument for Limits (Bloomsbury, 2023), Fly-Fishing (Duke University Press, 2023), and Pedagogy of the Depressed (Bloomsbury, 2022). MARK YAKICH is the Gregory F. Curtin S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. His most recent books are Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2022), Football: An Object Lesson(Bloomsbury, 2022), and Spiritual Exercises (Penguin, 2019). Product Details: Copyright: Christopher Schaberg & Mark Yakich (Standard Copyright License)Publisher: Red Flag PressPublished: March 2024Language: EnglishPages: 108Binding: Perfect BoundInterior Ink: Black & white textDimensions (inches): 8.5x5.5ISBN: 978-1-73781-642-3

Poetry In Motion Vol.1 leaves the door ajar to enter into the creative of Neal Sellers. With poetry, rhyme, and song, the Author elicits the gamut of emotions and feelings with musings of love, desire, acrimony, hope, happiness, sadness, surprise, guilt, and pride.

Mitchell's verses guide you through the labyrinth of human emotions as you turn each page, painting vivid landscapes of introspection and self-discovery. You'll discover a delicate balance between vulnerability and strength within the lines of his poetry. Mitch navigates the complexities of existence with truth, rawness, and profound insight. He invites everyone to explore the interplay of light and shadow, love and loss, crafting verses that resonate with the flow of each life experience. This collection serves as a sanctuary where readers can find inspiration and the gentle reassurance that they are not alone in their journey. Mitch writes poems that are not just words on paper; they are windows into the depths of the human soul, inviting you to peer into the heart of shared emotions and collective experiences. Join Mitchell in this exploration of the poetic realm, where every stanza is an invitation to reflect, feel, and embrace the beauty of the written word.