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  The Brave Never Write Poetry

  Daniel Jones

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  First published in 1985, when Daniel Jones was just 26, The Brave Never Write Poetry, the poet/critic/novelist's lone collection of poems, was a cult hit, turning 'poetry' on its head before its author (then known simply as 'Jones') swore off verse entirely. Written in a direct, plainspoken, autobiographical and at times confessional style in the tradition of Charles Bukowski and Al Purdy, these confrontational poems about sex and boredom, drugs and suicide, document Jones' depressive, alcoholic years as an enfant terrible.
    
     
  This long-overdue revised edition brings Jones' unforgettable voice to a new generation of readers and includes the complete text of the original collection (including Jones' own sardonic assessments of his own poetry), a new preface by poet/critic Kevin Connolly, and postscript commentary from many of Jones' closest friends and literary colleagues.

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  Frank’s Wing - Poems

  Jacob McArthur Mooney

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  “… my relationship with most art living or lost / is the same as yours: we will pass it by” bemoans the last poem in Jacob McArthur Mooney’s latest collection. Written as a sequence of “ghost ekphrastics” (poems inspired by works of art that neither the poet nor most living people have ever seen), Frank’s Wing constructs a whole world of lost or destroyed artifacts that have been rearticulated and resurrected, brought back to life by a fictional property baron as a dying gift to Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario.
  		 
  From “decadent” modern paintings torched by Nazis, to lost films, to never-performed performance art, the abiding premise of the book is that art invites mourning: not because it is mournful, but because it is vast. It taunts the plans of mortals while “a week / of kids’ videos and lip syncs / siphon through the internet each second.” Bordering ideas about FOMO and mortality are considerations of destruction itself, as the book recalls loss events predicted by both the considered works’ historical contexts and the frailties of their makers. Concerned with consuming art as much as with making it, Frank’s Wing examines the positions made available to the art-consumer: owner, overhearer, interrogator, and potentially, both destroyer and the thing that art destroys.

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  Maps You Can't Make

  Mariella Saavedra Carquin

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  Trauma takes up real space within us, and it can be so difficult to hold. How do we access that place of longing and loss, of fragmented memory and grief? How do we carry it as we walk in the world? There’s no map for this, no clear path through the internal landscape it reshapes, no easy way to make meaning of our lives in that disoriented state. Mariella Saavedra Carquin confronts hard truths in this powerful debut collection, pushing through layered complexities of immigration, race, and identity to find a way forward.

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  Reversing Entropy - Poems

  Luci Shaw

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  From the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.
  The poet's own words best describe the heart of this pinnacle collection of new work by beloved writer Luci Shaw:
  
  Entropy: A measure of the molecular disorder, or randomness, of a system, its lack of order or predictability, resulting in a gradual decline into disorder. 
  
  Our universe, and the systems within it, constantly shift from their created states of order towards disorder, or chaos. The second law of thermodynamics asserts that entropy, or disorder, always increases with time. Creative human activities such as art, architecture, music, story or film are human efforts to halt and reverse this loss of meaning. Thus, smaller systems, like individual poems, become highly ordered as they receive energy from outside themselves, from the poet. They reverse entropy because they are moving from a state of disorder (all the random ideas, words and phrases available to the writer) into an orderly form designed by the writer to create meaningful images and concepts in the reader's mind (which is where the word "imag-ination" comes from.) This transfer of images, concepts and ideas into the mind of a reader is the task of poetry and the calling of the poet. Just as a composer of music gathers rhythms, notes, melodies, or harmony, organizing them into fugues or sonatas or concertos, so poets work and write to discover ways of arranging their responses to the world in words that introduce meaning and beauty in the mind of the reader. 
  
  Which is what I've been trying to do for most of my life. 

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Summer - 12...

  William Shakespeare, Christina...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Summer - An Introduction 
  2 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  3 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  4 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  5 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  6 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  7 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  8 - A Summer Night by George William Russell 
  9 - Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  10 - Summer by Kahlil Gibran 
  11 - Summer by Christina Rossetti 
  12 - Sonnet 13 -  Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  13 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore

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  Life Is a Disappearing Act

  Ron Wallace

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  While the poetry you’ll read in Ron Wallace’s latest collection speaks of serious topics such as loss and the inescapable progression of time, you’ll also find plenty of humor in these pages. 
  His words bring to life his beloved Oklahoma prairies and skies, and his own family members. 
  Wallace’s reflections on childhood, his parents, and, of course, baseball, are heartwarming. 
  Ron Wallace is an award-winning poet and adjunct English professor from Durant, Oklahoma. His soothing voice will bring the plains of Oklahoma to life.

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