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"The heart is a chamber of ghosts, some who linger sweet and
willing, some who are trapped and rattle sorrowful chains. In
'Cloverleaf, ' Geer Austin illuminates these specters of passion,
their transparent skin illuminated by scent, smile, dream, and
emotion. These are poems of beginnings and ends, almosts and not
enoughs. These are poems of butterflies and ravens, a celebration
of the joys and grievances of the golden thread that binds us
together: love." -- BRYAN BORLAND, author of LESS FORTUNATE
PIRATES: POEMS FROM THE FIRST YEAR WITHOUT MY FATHER "Austin's
poems manage the often impossible feat of being simultaneously
ironic and soulful, wry and heartfelt, clever and impassioned. With
simple playful beauty, Austin stealthily unpacks the various ways
gay men fall in love, forsake desire, grapple with passion, and
sometimes - albeit fleetingly - achieve grace." -- WILLIAM JOHNSON,
Managing Editor, LAMBDA LITERARY REVIEW
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Lapidary (Paperback)
Roxanne Hoffman; Richard Marx Weinraub
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R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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These poems, voiced by stones, speaking for the poet and for
humanity, are beautiful and peculiar. Weinraub cracks open craft to
reveal humane interiors. Fixed forms with meter and rhyme, tenderly
chiseled, deftly sculpted, pulse with regret, joy and a hundred
other sentiments. Bright diction and an impressive control of
syntax allows Weinraub to modulate tone and music. Wit and gorgeous
capitulations abound in this book. "Gentlemen prefer blonde
Crystals" gives way to "imperfections are a garden." These poems
"forge a new world out of stone," a landscape populated by jade,
garnet, and onyx with time-rich thoughts, blood-rich emotion. -
EDUARDO C. CORRAL, author of "Slow Lightning, " winner of the Yale
Younger Poets Prize, 2012;
"Lapidary" is an original and brilliant collection of poems that
offers insights into the various states of human nature through the
voices of different stones. This book is a must have, and it will
be avidly read for years to come. - EDWARD ODWITT, writer &
illustrator;
In "Lapidary" - stones, semi-precious, precious - stones talk to
you, skillfully, convincingly and you believe them, you believe
them - THOMAS LUX, acclaimed poet and teacher, the Bourne chair in
poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology
As you read through the pages, let it be a time of self examination
between you and God. Ask yourself these questions, am I just a
church goer bound in religion or do I have a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ and has He set me free? If you were to die today,
would you make heaven your home for all eternity or would you bust
hell wide open? I pray that you will be able to answer without any
doubt that you would make heaven your home. Remember, it's religion
verses relationship, Hell verses Heaven. It's your choice.
" 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
outre people who populate New York ... a fine chapbook, well worth
perusing." - CLIFTON SNIDER, Author of "The Alchemy of Opposites"
(Chiron Review Press, 2000)
"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,""
"Efrayim's poetry truly embodies the experience of a contemporary
Jew who has found a very deep inspiration in his ancient roots.
There is a certain freshness and bright sunny quality that comes
with his pure simplicity which cuts to the very core of his growing
relationship with G-d. Yet, there is the tension and frustration of
one who has seen what he, and those around him, could become if
only they would. He is both optimist and realist." - RABBI YOSSI
MENDELSON, Congregation Machane Chodesh; "This book is a blast of
Hasidic bebop ecstasy." - CRAIG FISHBANE, Brooklyn poet and
resident of Bensonhurst; "Thank you for the poem 'Mordechai's Day
at the Beach'] . . . beautiful . . . best wishes." - JOHN ZORN,
American composer and saxophone player; "His poems themselves are
heartfelt psalms." - "SMALL PRESS REVIEW"
"IN LOVING MEMORY is an elegant, elegiac poem by Roxanne Hoffman,
illustrated by Edward Odwitt in a style reminiscent of classic
Edward Gorey. This somber, tender and darkly ironic verse is about
the ceremonies of death and grieving...as well as their parallels
to the rituals of abiding love and remembrance. IN LOVING MEMORY
should be on everyone's shelves as it reflects on one of the
darkest human experiences with insight and humanity in a charmingly
gothic presentation." -Garth von Buchholz, Author, publisher and
member of the National Book Critics' Circle "Roxanne Hoffman has
been a whirlwind of poetics for some time now. IN LOVING MEMORY is
not only a worthy addition to her oeuvre but an original, deeply
human-and warmly humane-vision of the rites of final passage. Of
course there is trauma, that of irreconcilable loss, but here
Roxanne brings the full coin of her poetic mind to bear. In
sustained elegiacal rhyme she paints a methodically wrought
landscape that is beautifully subjective yet utterly universal. The
portraiture is further enriched by the stark, almost child-like
illustrations of Edward Odwitt. The sum effort is a melodic,
imaginative riposte to the reverberations of loss, a moment
heartbreakingly, heartwarmingly wrought into poetry." -Adam Henry
Carriere, Publisher of "Danse Macabre"
As you read through the pages, let it be a time of self examination
between you and God. Ask yourself these questions, am I just a
church goer bound in religion or do I have a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ and has He set me free? If you were to die today,
would you make heaven your home for all eternity or would you bust
hell wide open? I pray that you will be able to answer without any
doubt that you would make heaven your home. Remember, it's religion
verses relationship, Hell verses Heaven. It's your choice.
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Thrum - Poems (Paperback)
Roxanne Hoffman; Photographs by Jon Paul; Illustrated by Joel Allegretti
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R300
Discovery Miles 3 000
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"In THRUM Joel Allegretti, deftly and delightfully, strums his
magical musical instrument, which is poetry, as he forges fresh
forms of songs and stories that are inspired by strummers' strings.
'Context is everything, ' Allegretti reminds us, and we're planted
in the heart of a global ancient/modern orchestra. Prepare yourself
for the revelatory performance."-- Martine Bellen, Author of TALES
OF MURASAKI AND OTHER POEMS, 1997 National Poetry Series selection
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Two Naked Feet (Paperback)
Roxanne Hoffman; Photographs by Stillman Rogers; Maria Lisella
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In a quietly seductive voice Lisella takes the reader on journey
after journey, to exotic locales like Havana, Venice and Dubrovnik,
places steeped in myth and bloodshed. With crystalline descriptions
reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop, she mixes the haunted elegance of
the old world and the disturbed consumerism of the new. TWO NAKED
FEET is brilliantly wired with the tension of paradox. It is about
exile and the movement of peoples, the destruction and pastiche of
cultures, the chasm between the idealized world and the colloquial
one. Lisella writes with depth and simplicity. Her "I" rarely steps
outside of the observing eye to become autobiographical, and yet
the poems are remarkable for their passion.--STEPHANIE DICKINSON,
Award-winning author of HALF GIRL and ROAD OF FIVE CHURCHES
"We really enjoy your use of imagery, descriptive language and
insight."--Pat Swenson, Editor Emeritus, AVOCET, A JOURNAL OF
NATURE POEMS "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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