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Poems by Carol Wierzbicki
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Wierzbicki's poems are like early Corso, before the Beats, when he got straight to the point quickly, with great beauty. Her words carry the necessary freight with terrific speed and economy--look how spare and yet terribly lovely "Dorothy's Poem" is--it breaks your heart with absolute efficiency. If poetry is to proceed into the future with any sort of relevancy, this is one way it might do so.
—Ron Kolm, co-author of Neo Phobe (with Jim Feast)





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EQUAL TO THE EARTH
Poems by Jee Leong Koh
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"Koh is a vigorous, physical poet very much captured by the expressive power of rhythm, rhetoric, and the lexicon. He is also, paradoxically, a poet in pursuit of the most elusive and delicate of human emotions. The contradiction is wonderful and compelling, and so are his poems."
—Vijay Seshadri, The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press)



"His poems are like the sexy nerd you meet at a bar, the one you really want to get to know better—with his glasses and tie on and nothing else."
—Christopher Hennessy, Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets (University of Michigan Press)





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Poems by Mary Orovan
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Besides being wonderful poems they have an undercurrent, sometimes a flood-tide of sensuality, Eros and Thanatos, which gives the book a life above and beyond the beautiful words.
     —George Spencer, Co-host of ABC No Rio.









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HEAVENLY BODIES
Poems by Richard Marx Weinraub
Illustrations by Roxanne Hoffman
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The poems in HEAVENLY BODIES deftly blend mythology, cosmology, and family romance (or are these all the same?) into a mix at once familiar and strange. Cool and precise, Weinraub's poems never miss a beat or waste a word.
     —Rachel Hadas, author of River of Forgetfulness and Halfway Down the Hall.









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Grandpa’s Wine is written where people make a life among the ruins of a shattered world. Feelings and memories take the place of an old coherence, now lost and never to be replaced. Gil Fagiani’s poems inhabit this world’s poignancy, searching its sorrows with unimpeachable candor and a spare language that perfectly suits its straightforward tastes and its undervalued satisfactions.
     —Bob Viscusi, author of Astoria: A Novel, and An Oration Upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus





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George Held's inexhaustible subject is the moon in all its phases, and he treats it with a quiet ear-pleasing lyricism and an impressive range. His moons shine on the world, and, bathed in their various lights, his imagination shines on the subjects it conjures and illuminates.
     —Michael Graves, author of Illegal Border Crosser (Cervená Barva Press) and Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard Press)





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In these clear forecasts of the recent past, Erik La Prade frees the reader to say an eternal Aloha to his phantom New York, a place everyone thinks they know and own, and its “remnants of an unenclosed frontier." All times happen at once here, which is why it takes so long to get across town, and which is also why nothing stays ripped up for long, and everything reverts to the “lived-in look.” A companionable observer inhabits these poems. Why not stay a while?
     — Jordan Davis





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John Trause is unique: a classicist who loves pop. His poems capture our desire to mock and at the same learn every juicy detail of pseudo-celebrity (Edie Sedgwick, Doris Duke, Gov. McGreevey) with all the classical style of Plato writing about Atlantis. He is our generation's undiscovered T.S. Eliot.
     —David Silverman, author of Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars (Soft Skull Press, 2007).

Don't trust the adverb in the title. You never can tell if John is serious or not. His deeply shallow poems are simultaneously extravagant and poker-faced.
     —Mark Swartz, author of Instant Karma (City Lights Books, 2002) and H2O (Soft Skull Press, 2006).

These poems are the ideal mixture of gravitas and fun. Trause is able to encompass doubt, and art, the Holy Land, celebrity and much more in these refined lyrics. The spirit of play moves through even the most serious of these poems.
     —Matthew Rohrer, author of Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007).





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Wow. You have a winner with Austin Alexis. What a wonderful poet, and what an elegant, simple, lovely book.
     —Mary Orovan, former Features Editor of US Camera Magazine, photographer, poet and writer.



...a clear-eyed, queer exploration of urban characters and dilemmas from the perspective of the talented African-American New York Poet, playwright, and fiction writer, Austin Alexis.
In free verse and prose poems, Alexis offers an enticing palette of ordinary and outré people who populate New York...a fine chapbook, well worth perusing.
      —Clifton Snider [Author of The Alchemy of Opposites (Chiron Review Press, 2000)], Small Press Review.

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In John on the Chrysler, boundary-defying poet LV has given us a powerful and modern elegy. Tenderly cataloguing her late husband's life with clear and thoughtful verse glittering with detail, LV allows us to join her as she attempts to make sense out of what is ultimately senseless -- the early death of a husband and father. Heart-breaking yet resilient, mournful yet hopeful, this collection may long for what might have been, but it also shows a profound and brave understanding of what is. It is testament to the power of LV as a writer that one leaves this book – a book so inextricably tied to death--with a grateful sense of awe, wonder and triumph.
     —Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Founder & Host of Urbana Slam at NYC’s Bowery Poetry Club




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For quite some years, Susan Maurer has had her incredible poems published across the United States and abroad. How great to have many of these poems collected in this one lovely volume.
     —Bill Kushner, Author of "He Dreams of Waters", "Night Fishing", "Head", and "Love Uncut".

Gifted and surprising.
     —Nelson Lyon, Writer for Saturday Night Live, Writer & Director of “The Telephone Book”, Co-Producer with Hal Willner of William S. Burroughs’ Spoken Word CD album “Dead City Radio”

The overall tone of the book is wry, jaunty, ironic, and stoic--a fresh and original voice.
     —Robert Kramer, Home Planet News





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Peter Chelnik continues his quest of the American Dream on his highway of language in a style evocative of that true American Art, Jazz He forges this highway concrete image by concrete image, and his voice is not only fiercely brave, but also one of powerful affirmation.
     —Laura Boss, editor of Lips, author of Arms: New and Selected Poems

His latest collection, Paradise Highway, takes the reader on a journey down the mythic roads of the contemporary American landscape. These poems will resonate with Chelnik’s most loyal fans, and provide newcomers the ideal introduction to this unique American voice.
     —Sara Liebling, Disney Publishing Worldwide





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Not unlike Emily Dickinson’s poetry, many of the poems in this collection also seem to be important for what they purposely do not say; the spaces between the lines demand thought, and then you think again while reading the line.
   —Dr. Alfred Dorn, director of The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets, former Vice President of the Poetry Society of America







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Smart, irreverent, often unnerving, these sonnets smirk, smile, argue and bless. Jee Leong Koh has taken a month of days and rendered a very contemporary version of the artist as a young man. Cash in your paycheck and buy this book.
   —Marie Howe







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