Poetry. "Norbert Krapf is blessed with the haunting beauty of his childhood and youth in rural Indiana. Family and friends crowd upon him, gentle men and women, hard working farmers straight out of gracious but impoverished Germany of the nineteenth century. They are his roots in being, and he pays them deep, discerning love and gratitude for who they were and are to him still, strengthened in himself as man and poet because of them."?David Ignatow

Indiana Hill Country Poems

Literature & Fiction

Krapf, Norbert

Poetry

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Poetry. "These short poems are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment&#65533;ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access and frequently profound, J.R. Solonche's poems induce in me a state of delighted surprise."&#65533;Chase Twichell

In a Public Place

Solonche, J.R.

Poetry. THE FACTS AT DOG TANK SPRING is Andrew Schelling's first book of poetry in seven years. Following his folkloric study Tracks Along the Left Coast, his new book speaks largely to an American West lying inland: the Indian Peaks, canyons and ranges of the Colorado Plateau, the Arkansas and Apishapa rivers, the Sangre de Cristo range. Schelling's immersion in the traditions of Europe and Asia are evident, with echoes of Shakespeare, women poets of old India, and classical Chinese verse. He salts poems of love and companionship with grieving words to deceased friends, fury at ecological damage, or mischief surrounding riddles and the origins of strange words. As in previous books he keeps to the oldest charges of poetry: to converse with the dead, to cock a skeptical eye on the overhead stars, to invoke the fertility of animals, to record the present era with a touch of humor as it passes. In the end, past the poems, it is the land that is "Tao te Ching / and Farmer's Almanac crunched by three / billion years into one granite treatise." THE FACTS AT DOG TANK SPRING holds the historical range and ecological conscience of all Schelling's poetry, essays, or translations.

The Facts at Dog Tank Spring

Schelling, Andrew

Constants of the Motion

Hoffmann, Roald

Poetry. "Manuel Iris reclaims the poetic space as a radical exploration and celebration of paternal love and tenderness. If language is a vector of truth and transformation, if 'the poem opens its wound' to the spaces in which we examine ourselves and love begets love, the poems in this bilingual collection offer the magnitude and direction to do exactly what poetry aims to do: say in words what can never be expressed in words. Iris' poems reveal the silences of our most vulnerable selves, and 'the silence/ toward which we migrate,/ from which we came.'"--Tara Skurtu

The Parting Present: Lo Que Seira (English and Spanish Edition)

Iris, Manuel

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. The wars at issue in SOME WORDS ON THOSE WARS are the two great World Wars. In 2020, John Matthias published a long selection of fiction and memoirs with Dos Madres called TALES TALL & SHORT. The present book is a kind of companion to that volume. In his preface, Matthias calls it a "hybrid" book because it contains both poetry and prose. One purpose is to contextualize as fully as possible a reprinting of both his long poem "Kedging in Time" (2007) and the essay engaging its history and allusions, "'Kedging in 'Kedging in Time.'" The poem was written in large measure as a tribute to his wife's family, both sides of which produced British navy men ranging from midshipmen to admirals. Diana, Matthias's wife who died in 2020, sailed her own small boat on the Suffolk River Alde. That, too, is treated in the poem, and the book itself concludes with an edited version, with commentary, of Pamela Adams's "The Iron Pier," in which she describes, as possibly the last living person to have witnessed it, the surrender of the German fleet at the end of World War I. Pamela was Diana's mother. Along with a group of shorter poems dealing directly or indirectly with the World Wars are four essays considering the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, David Jones's little-known work "The Book of Balaam's Ass," the description of the first German gas attack in Malraux's The Walnut Trees of Altenburg, W. H. Auden's work following his immigration to the United States just before World War II, and Katherine Anne Porter's haunting short novel Pale Horse, Pale Rider, dealing with the postwar Spanish influenza, suddenly so newly relevant to us as a generation forced to live through our own pandemic.

Some Words on Those Wars

Matthias, John

History & Criticism

About the Author\nMyrna Stone is the author of five previous full-length books of poetry: Luz Bones (Etruscan Press, 2017); In the Present Tense: Portraits of My Father (White Violet Press, 2013), a finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Casanova Chronicles (Etruscan Press, 2010), a finalist for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; How Else to Love the World (Browser Book Publishing, 2007); and The Art of Loss (Michigan State University Press, 2001), for which she was named 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year. She has received three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry, a Full Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, the 2017 New Letters Poetry Prize, and the 2002 Poetry Award from Weber, The Contemporary West. In 2015 she presented five morning lectures on Poetry as a member of the faculty of the Antioch Writers' Workshop.\nWithin these pages Myrna Stone explores both love and death and the matters of the heart to which they are inextricably tied. The lost brother, the mother taken too early, the grieving widower, and the other women, real and invented, who too often overshadowed by their fathers, lovers, husbands, or sons, are at last given their own historical and emotional due. Whether they speak from their own lives in dramatic monologues, through the narrator's voice, or through her own, Stone brings them each alive in these fleshed-out poems of breadth and breath.

The Resurrectionist's Diary

Stone, Myrna

United States

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