Amy Barone
Defying Extinction
Broadstone Books, 2022
$18.50
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Defying Extinction is a collection of 61 poems that pay homage to survivors of all genres—animal, object, spirit, place, the arts, the human heart. Witty and colorful, the poems shine with hope and resignation, underscoring the essence of remembering and then moving on.
“The title of Amy Barone’s new collection of poems, Defying Extinction, is absolutely perfect! … This is a vital book in these harsh times. Please check it out.”
—Ron Kolm
Poems read:
“Survivors”
“Sanctum”
“Bearly”
“Island Exiles”
“Handkerchief”
“Defying Extinction”
Ronda Piszk Broatch
Chaos Theory for Beginners
MoonPath Press, 2023
$16.99
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As a kid I used to lie in bed at night and wonder what held the bag that contained all the stars, planets, and us? Now my nighttime reading is often focused on planets and Planck lengths, though my understanding of the math behind them lacks. I adore the scientists who do. Some of their beautiful equations are featured, over a backdrop of fractals, on the cover I created for this book, Chaos Theory for Beginners.
Poems read:
“The Photographer Who Made Sense of the Universe”
“Sonnet with General Relativity”
“It was the year of time travel”
Current and former DMQ Review contributor.
Molly Tenenbaum
The Arborists
MoonPath Press, 2023
$16.99
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The Arborists studies ephemera—notes, letters, and artwork that particular lives leave behind; and also sensory ephemera of a life—the taste of pie, the depths of flowers. The book visits with family and friends, some passed on, and wants to know what “map we would make / if you attached a flame to us and filmed us in the dark” (“Equation”). In The Arborists, hornets eat the wood of the house while the people in the house continue making themselves as best they can into mattering.
Poems read:
“There Will Be Beauty"
“A Cat Is Always in the Room"
Former DMQ Review contributor.