Daniel biegelson
of being neighbors
Ricochet Editions, 2021
$15.00
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“The sheer velocity of the collection of being neighbors made me feel like I was riding a kayak on a tsunami. These poems charge forward, asking big questions and taking enormous risks, bringing together the ecstatic and the intimate, while remaining grounded in erudition and ethics. The book wants to know how to live in human community, how to commune with neighbors, how to return to the commons that have been privatized out of existence. It continuously opens up onto inquiry, rather than arriving at answers, and yet it is precisely the guide I need now.” — Jason Schneiderman
Caroline Goodwin
Matanuska
Aquifer Press, 2022
$20
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John Goodby writes, “This is a delicious, disturbing, and deliciously disturbing poetic sequence, that takes its name from the Matanuska River in south-central Alaska where Caroline Goodwin spent her childhood. Matanuska eschews sentimentality even as it champions sentiment, its melee of different threads encouraging the reader to work for sense (and senses) while relishing its sonic and paratactical dance, a dance with is often mesmerizing. It is precisely in not pulling its punches and in refusing to wallow in doom or bien-pensant piety that Caroline Goodwin manages to create the space for poetic invention.”
Jan LaPerle
Maybe The Land Sings Back
Galileo Books, 2022
$16.42
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These poems, some written in east Tennessee before moving to Kentucky in 2018, document the joy and pain of marriage and motherhood, separation and reconciliation, cancer, work-life (most of which was on active duty for the U.S. Army) and the domestic.
Poems read:
“This Thing Like That”
“Shiloh”
“Little Weeping Day With Trees Inside”