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My Life in Water is a collection of essays about the fluidity of life, its ebb and flow. Each essay tells the story of a time when one comes close to drowning, floats in joy and peace, watches others sink or swim. It’s about how liquid of some type, such as membranous croup, wild river rapids, floods, small islands, the rising ocean tides—can bring deep realizations to help connect the individual to the basic elements of life, to navigate its streams.

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Strap on a life jacket and dive into this often perilous, at times funny, always poignant collection bubbling with the language of water. Ever present is the danger of drowning from inattentive caregivers, from white-water rapids or a bridge collapse into a roiling river. From fluid-filled lungs gasping with croup or pneumonia. But water also brings healing and an understanding that navigating tricky waters, whether literal or metaphorical, has made Cat the surest captain of her own life.

~Marie Manilla, author of Patron Saint of Ugly

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Poetry by Chris Mason has hit the bookstores!

A refined work of Art available here and in bookstores….

Celebrate Buddha’s birthday with this sparkling jewel of a book.

unwordly

“Of Rare Earths “

Poetry by Chris Mason

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UnCollected Press followers, fellow artists, poets and readers. This really IS a RARE BOOK:

At UnCollected Press we have tried and continue to try to prioritize artistic projects that contribute to a movement towards living in a way that respects and loves our beautiful planet and all of its remarkable diversity of life.  “Of Rare Earths” is not the first book of environmentally sensitive and family focused artistic writing that we have published, but I am clear that it is one of the most thoughtful and accomplished and therefore probably most effective examples.  This is a moving and beautiful book = an intriguing and insightful, rare, compassionate and fundamentally satisfying read. “Of Rare Earths” is artistry at its most meaningful and impactful. Please read Chris’ book.

Of Rare Earths is a book of poetry which focuses on environmental and family themes.   It has 3 sections: “Clomp Clomp”, which explores these themes in narrative syllabic poems of everyday life;  “Rare Earth Regrets”, prose poems which explores these themes by combining descriptions of uses of rare earth metals with the poets’ regrets: and “Twig or Twine”,  an abecedary of visual poems portraying wonders of the natural and human world.

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The opening poem of this collection says “[t]his poem  . . . can’t bite” which is demonstrably not so—these poems do bite in enumerating the shortcomings of the world that gives rise to them– these are poems frequently in “survival mode” (to borrow a title from one of the poems) but simultaneously these supple and self-aware poems reach towards a hope that is nearly a faith that one day better options might present themselves.   Caroline Hayduk’s is a fresh and distinctive voice.

Christine Gelineau, author of Crave, Appetite for the Divine

Night Bones, “a sheath we wear when we’re too young to know  what it is to settle”, refuses to do exactly that: settle. Hayduk’s playful form and unique voice offer a tangible unrest. Bouncing between persona and narrative “I”, there is a speaker that wants, aches, burns, and disrupts the very core of the body and it’s journey in and out of the darkness of “night”, how shame can harden us but also release–and where we can land in all the chaos and joy on our way there. 

Henry G. Stanton, publisher/editor UnCollected Press

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Exquisitely linguistic, unwordly both flows like a Gregorian chant and snaps like a snare, teasing the mouthfeel with a variety as vast as the emotional significance of rediscovering voice and the impact of our sound on the world. 

Jaime Dill editor-in-chief of Full Mood Magazine, and book editor at Polish and Pitch, LLC.

In unwordly, Robert Guzikowski manages to do the impossible: to convert a language disorder into a ghostly music of the soul.  This remarkable book conjures up reminders of such beat poets as Paul Blackburn, Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, with an echo of Gertrude Stein as well, while at the same time remaining utterly original.  There are wonderful interludes of word play.  unwordly is a verbal kaleidoscope, a word press of (as one poem says) “subatomic hungers colliding.”  Its integrity is evident in every line, every poem.  Two poems mention Thelonious Monk.  Guzikowski’s book couldn’t have a better guardian spirit.  This is Monk himself in poetry.

 John Vernon, author of Peter Doyle, The Last Canyon and Lucky Billy

The poems in unwordly are magical in the way magic makes sense.  All the exceptionally artful parts are designed (divined) to come together in a form of integration that is rooted in an amalgam of beauty.  Sounds, sights, imagery, the music of language – the articulation of parts in unwordly is breathtaking and deeply satisfying.   

Henry Stanton, Publisher/Editor UnCollected Press,

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