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"A Word in Your Fear introduces me to a new voice, epiphanies striking, stun and collide, in sparks, language, thick. But without clutter. Doyle's poetry is funny, philosophical, sometimes satirical. It professes an awareness on manifold levels: surreal in some places, grounded in others. It's a magical book, a demanding book: a decision to filter experience and somehow embrace. The challenge? To pull from the wreckage & desperation of a struggling world an "who gives a damn" construct, the engagement a child has kicking a ball amidst graffiti stained walls and rubble. Echoing ancestors of Celtic voice, fresh, I hearmuch of what poetry needs to continue amongst what still reverberates, not the undead zombie, but the awake and alive. A word in our fear. How to dance and in dancing outrage the world as it stares, amazed."-C. Leigh Srygley, Author of Parking Lot Poems (Luchador Press)"A Word in Your Fear by John Doyle is a stunning collection of poetry by one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets. These poems, reflect the poet's experience of life and society in America and Ireland. They are sublime observations in real time that look back and still "stiff" us today. Like Kerouac, Doyle narrates his own road of adventure and discovery. His poetic prose draws the reader into each poem on his epic journey. This brilliant collection highlights a unique style, vision and sophisticated technique. The serious undertones are truths made more memorable by hilarious humour and scathing satire in beautiful prose that brings to mind Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut."-Strider Marcus Jones, Author of "Inside Out"¿"John Doyle remakes the world we see with its parameters, received wisdom, and brutal expectations into a world of ancient, shared archetypes, and not so ancient archetypes like Dennis Wilson surfing around Roger Christian poetry like the new Odysseus. The muse sings out from Irish freight trains going by, and the Jim Rockford coastline where California meets the Irish Sea." -John Harold Olson, Author of "FDR and The Flying Saucers"

"As a social worker I have a deep interest in Matt Borczon's work. I hope it helped him, and know that it assists others who don't possess his writing skills. From Saved Rounds which allowed me to know that social workers and those in the field of psychology have been far too slow to grasp the concept Matt spills out right from the start. In "Afghanistan 2010" we get a glimpse of the stoic mindset of those who serve our country. For, "The Last Poem" Matt rips the curtains back and allows those blinds to snap up to the ceiling, to show everyone how war has affected his beloved wife and family. It was in "Riding An Imaginary Horse", that I received the gut punch or a pretty pink nightmare, compared to the memories and dreams that still sit on that saddle. No one can tell these stories so necessary for understanding our veterans, better than Matt. His gift is the ability to knock us down and drag us through the ravages of war. The poem "The War" made me tear up and then lose my battle on the last stanza. I moved on to "Veterans Day" and had to seriously stop and make myself breathe. This book couldn't stick to the speed limit and never gave you a break as it raced right on through." -Thasia Ann, author of Pam's Jacket, Guerilla Genisis Press"In Saved Rounds Matt Borczon leads us through the night-mare of what is PTSD. This book is full of power packedpoems that lets the reader feel the pain and the determinationof countless amputees, the screams and cries of the Afghanchildren and a Navy nurse and his family trying to heal. Donot thank him for his service or for being a hero but insteadthank him for these poems, the blood he left on these pagesand for being a voice for those who can't." -Scot Young, author of Brautigan Meets Bukowski, All Around Cowboy and publisher at the Rusty Truck and Deuce Coupe."I've long been envious of the heartbreaking devastationof Matt Borczon's poetry, though perhaps not of theexperiences that led him to write it. Matt has complainedthat many editors don't care for his spare vertical style, butin the case of poems about war, let us remember what outlawpoet Todd Moore said about poems that "hang down thepage like long black fuses..." These are poems waiting foryou to light them." -Brian Rihlmann"This book is a punch to the gut. It hits you where you live.Borczon wastes no words in describing the visible and theunseen scars that war inflicts upon its survivors. The poemsare tight, intense snapshots of the poet's experience whileserving in Afghanistan. Brutal but not sensationalistic, thepower of these poems is undeniable. Once you begin reading,you won't be able to stop. This should be required readingin our turbulent times." -Kevin M. Hibshman, editor, FEARLESS poetry zine

The thing that gets me about Jason Baldinger''s work is this: despite being wildly prolific, it''s these poems. The poems get better, get tighter, get more honest. It''s not always going to be a pretty picture, but Baldinger - especially here in A Threadbare Universe - draws you in with each first line, creates a little world where we get to look through his eyes while he wields language like it''s music; syncopated rhythms, the skillful repetition of assonance and consonance, a sprinkling of slant and internal rhyme give these poems structures in which they dance. These poems have grit and they bite and they leave you speechless at the sheer miracle of being alive on a sunny day, barreling down the road, shaking the city dust and hustling for cash weariness in the winds of the Great Plains.Shawn PaveyAuthor of Survival Tips for the Pending ApocalypseIn Jason Baldinger''s latest book, "A Threadbare Universe" he takes you on a whirlwind ride to hell and back. The poems travel through forgotten towns where the unemployment check is a relic from another time. They take you on journeys from Pittsburgh to Evansville, Indiana, moving further along through Kentucky to the middle of Kansas. And within the desolation, little sparks of light throw out signals from this stellar poem: "The streets are empty" -we look for heroes to save this never democracy / Christianity and Hollywood led us astray. And the positive; a redemption of the new madness that haunts our each and every step hits us in this final line: we can stop this / we have to fill the streets. A powerful book that begs to be read.Richard D. HouffAuthor, journalist, and former editor of Heeltap MagazineJason Baldinger''s writing is an example of the best American poetry today. A Threadbare Universe takes America''s temperature and awakens us. It''s a poignant call from complacency, a brilliant rendition, breathtaking in its solace and lament.Jyl AnaisAuthor of Soft Out SpokenBeneath the blue collar of Baldinger''s poems lies dirt, nostalgia, a sweet solitude built of both victory and sadness. To read is to ride shotgun with road map an unfolded wreckage with America hungover in the backseat. Every stop to stretch legs and take a piss is colored by working blues and morning afters. There is coming-of-age, and there is coming to terms--this collection of work exquisitely calls forth the latter. Nikki AllenPoet

Kyle Laws is based out of Steel City Art Works in Pueblo,CO where she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance. Her collections include Ride the Pink Horse (Stubborn Mule Press), Faces of Fishing Creek (Middle Creek Publishing), This Town: Poems of Correspondence coauthoredwith Jared Smith (Liquid Light Press), So Bright to Blind(Five Oaks Press), and Wildwood (Lummox Press). Witheight nominations for a Pushcart Prize and one for Bestof the Net, her poems and essays have appeared inmagazines and anthologies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, andGermany. She is editor and publisher of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.

Somewhere between Dylan Thomas at his most surreal and Groucho Marx at his most dada-inspired, there is a glib gone world, an irrepressible slapstick zone to which only the fearless may go-dangerously frolicsome, recklessly free, a mosh pit of thought and word so fractiously giddy and infectiously inviting, so combative and alluring in tone and intent, it can fracture your bones (and elevate your soul). Playful? Yes. Profound? When you least expect it. But it''s a brouhaha you cannot resist. Behold!-- George Wallace, Writer in Residence, Walt Whitman BirthplaceSurrealism with the heart of a blessed, laughing madman. Deuchars plays with his words, creates language, and never tortures his fabric. A classic car of a volume and we never know if the brakes will work from one page to the next. As Jim would say: Om.-- Puma Perl, writer/poet, author of Birthdays Before and After and more.Mockingbirds Contemplating Semicolons is a delight. Deuchars'' poems are both surreal and eminently readable. The inventive and playful language pulls the reader along, and while you''re never sure where each poem will take you, it''s always a memorable ride; one you''ll look forward to repeating once you''ve reached the end.-- William Taylor Jr.