Rebecca Foust
Only
Four Way Books, 2022
$17.95
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“Only relishes in the daily discoveries that make life endlessly mysterious. The author has a gift for rhythmic imagery in poems finely weaving contrasting subjects, sensually recollecting earlier life while casting a hard, penetrating look at identity, politics, family, and the climate crisis. In these beautifully crafted and ecstatic pages, Foust celebrates the strength of memory and the interconnectedness of all people.” –Starred review in Publisher’s Weekly
“Music made from the gifts and griefs of a life.” —David Baker
“Richly imagistic and achingly lyrical.” —Ellen Bass
“Foust is writing some of the most important poems of our day.”—Peter Campion
Current DMQ Review contributor
Dewitt henry
Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose
Gazebo Books, 2022,
$19.99 (plus S&H from Australia)
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“These are truly original and often ludic works that gesture honourably and sometimes insouciantly toward the literary traditions that Henry both refers to and shrewdly recasts. Even as Henry acknowledges that many of his words originated with others, he demonstrates the extraordinary alchemy that engaged and creative intertextual gestures allow—and the wonderful way in which fresh and beguiling contemporary poetry may emerge through inventive acts of homage.” —Cassandra Atherton
Poems read:
“Home Birth"
“Such A Thing"
“Hospice Visit"
Babo Kamel
What The Days Wanted
Broadstone Books, 2022
$18.50
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“This is an extraordinary collection of poetry: Kamel enters, without flinching, the myths and tales that govern women’s life patterns—and changes them, not by rewriting but by re-living, allowing the story to enter, then leave her, and us, changed. She goes further, takes us into contemporary America, sidewalks, streets, borders, encompasses the political while never leaving the poetry.” —E. Alex Pierce
“Babo Kamel’s new book sparkles with purity of feeling, ‘like pieces of a brilliant glass bird, falling from a whitening sky.’ Here are poems drawn from grief and dreams and the extraordinary daily.” —Deena Linett