saffron splash by Ann Huang
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Announcing The Publication of “saffron splash” by Ann Huang.
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Announcing The Publication of “MAIDEN ROCK” by Peter Mladinic.
Peter Mladinic is my patron saint of strays — stray dogs, stray people, stray memories which gain profound meaning in combination with things which would not be obvious to another, but allow Mladinic quiet epiphanies which stop inches before false resolution might be added. While there is happiness here, a profound melancholy also washes through many of these poems. There are old dogs finally out of options, nuns with their tender humanity masked by their habits, lovers finally lost to one another, but who might pick up the pieces with unconsidered possibilities of the past. There is also the guilt of the hero who can’t, finally, save anyone, not even himself, but who still persists. Read these poems with an open heart and allow yourself the wonders Mladinic offers. He understands that any war is every war, and invites the reader to the uneasy peace that sometimes comes as we stumble our way through the broken minefields of our own long walk into night.
—Jeff Weddle, author of Driving the Lost Highway and winner of the Eudora Welty Prize.
MAIDEN ROCK by Peter Mladinic
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Announcing The Publication of “Running Past The Red” by award-winning Poet Sophia Falco.
“Compelling, clear-eyed, brave, and wise, Sophia Falco’s poems move us and teach us how to go forward: “Stuck in a windowless building / writing with a fucked up pen and red eyes. / I was leaking potential through my pores.” Falco’s voice is honest and relentless: “I need to know, can astronauts / cry in space? If so, what would / happen to their tears? / On earth do trees cry? / The unidentified tree didn’t respond back to my hit. / Yet the metal locker did. / Well, man-made echoes of destruction.” Running Past The Red is brilliant—a testament to becoming and struggle, to the breathtaking strength of poetry and learning and soul-making. This is a necessary book.”
—Joseph Lease, author of Fire Season
“Sophia Falco uses the pyrotechnic precision of poetry to illuminate her own journey through a shadowy psychiatric system. “I’m doing this for poetry” she stated in a note scrawled amongst countless journal pages from deep inside the ward. Because only the power of poetry to witness and transform could grant her the strength to survive and thrive beyond those walls. And to condense the best of those in-the-moment observations into the crystalline facets of these short, sharp, clairvoyant poems. Like snapshots of a hidden world smuggled out to us in secret, her images are often shocking, always ironic, deeply painful, and consistently courageous to the core. The result is a detailed map of an epic journey toward healing.”
—Scott Lankford, author of the national-award-winning book: Tahoe Beneath the Surface
“Running Past The Red offers a raw, intimate account of bipolar episodes. Moving through forms and abrupt shifts, the poems trace a mind in motion. Poetry becomes a lifeline, an act of making sense of fracture and keeping hold of the self as it begins to slip.”
—La Piccioletta Barca (Literary Journal)
Announcing The Publication of “GONE THE SUN” by Joel Peckham
If a book can be a song, the pages of Gone the Sun sing. They sing remembering and forgetting. Grief and Endurance. Present and past. In the present time of this memoir-in-fragments, Joel Peckham spends a last summer as music director at Manitou, the boys camp that has been part of his life since he was a child. Manitou summons Peckham’s past—his father, his lost wife, his lost son. But there are songs of redemption those weeks too. This is a book that sings both back and forward with love, urging us all home.
Karen Salyer McElmurray, author of Voice Lessons and I Could Name God in Twelve Ways
In Gone the Sun, Peckham writes about his loving, sometimes fraught history with Manitou, a summer camp he and his father worked at for many years. As his father declines into dementia the middle-aged Peckham—still working summers at the camp between semesters as a college professor—muses upon time, upon loss, and the various selves we inhabit as we age. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking book, but heartbreaking in the most resonant, emotionally intelligent, and illuminating way possible.
Sue William Silverman, author, Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul
GONE THE SUN by Joel Peckham
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