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Serious Red
Amy Bracken Sparks
Born and raised in Cleveland, Amy Sparks received a bachelor’s degree from Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, and an M.A. in creative writing from Ohio University. In 1988 and 1992 she received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. Her chapbook Queen of Cups was published in 1993 by Burning Press.
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The Household Gods
Daniel Bourne
Daniel Bourne was born in Wynoose, IL, near the Little Walbash River, and grew up on a farm. In 1979 he received a B.A. from Indiana University, followed by an M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana. He spent 1982-1983 in Poland on a graduate exchange program, and returned there in 1985-1987 on a Fulbright fellowship to work on translations; since 1987 he has returned several times to work with Polish writers. His translations have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. He now teaches at the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH, where he lives with his wife Margaret.
“In this powerful and arresting collection, Daniel Bourne explores, among other things, the dailiness of violence—the sow who eats her own young, the cousin whose hands are severed in a farm accident, the neighbor blinded by wood alcohol, a pond’s demise, a father’s cancer, the small and large deaths. And he finds in these meditations on morality cause to embrace the consolations of memory and the transforming power of the imagination. With compassionate intelligence, wit and whimsy, Bourne celebrates the ‘dark festivities’ in his richly textured and memorable first book.” –Ron Wallace
“Dan Bourne’s poems begin in place—southern Illinois farmland, to be precise—and with discoveries made there they branch out into ways of human vulnerability found anywhere. They are alert to the fragile borders between the rational and the irrational, between the order of an open mind and the disorder of a closed one. They pick up ‘the splinter of metaphor’ with exactness. The ‘cost of the image’ is sometimes high, but then so are the stakes. These are generous, unflinching poems.” –Roger Mitchell
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Fugitive Colors
Chrystos
Born off-reservation in San Francisco on Nov 7, 1946, of Menominee Nation and euroimmigrant parents, Chrystos is self-educated. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Not Vanishing (1988), Dream On (1991), and Fire Power (1995). Chrystos’ work has been featured in the anthologies This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldua) and Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology(1988, edited by Will Roscoe). With Tristan Taormino, she coedited the anthology Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 (1999). Chrystos won the Audre Lorde International Poetry Competition and has received the Sappho Award of Distinction from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Since 1980, she has lived on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
“These poems take us into the intensely intimate realms of desire, politics and survival. Chrystos’ words are made sharp by the living traditions of her people and the edgy rhythms of urban life. Both draw us in to hear her stories of passion and injustice. This is poetry to live by.” –Jewelle Gomez
“Like the surging waves of her beloved sea, Chrystos’ words and images crash around our feet and tug us into the heart of matters.” –Gloria Anzaldua
“These poems burn incandescently hot, in the flames of desire and anger. Read Fugitive Colors; the intense poet-voice of Chrystos will summon you to stand with her and know this place of fire.” –Minnie Bruce Pratt
“Chrystos’ poems in Fugitive Colors are made with the deep breath of passionate attention and friction. This book contains the avalanche of chaos and intensity, shadow’s side and stark light. Appearances of strange grace, belief and pain ‘name the edges’ then cut to the interior to find the ‘calm silence of blood.’ Breathe in. . . . Endure.” –Elizabeth Woody
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Flatlands
Jeff Gundy
Jeff Gundy grew up in the flatlands of central Illinois and has since lived in Indiana, Kansas, and Ohio. Since 1984 he has taught at Bluffton University in northwest Ohio. He has published three chapbooks, a book of poems, and a book of creative nonfiction.
“Reading Flatlands, you feel the author’s honesty palpably, his lack of side; these are genuine, searching poems, with no airs about them, full of wry wonder and warmth.” –Jean Valentine
“What a delight it is to encounter the rich and compelling world of Jeff Gundy’s Flatlands. These are poems of real vision and power, often darkly playful yet always resonant with both life’s pleasures and its regrets.” –David St. John
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Improvising Rivers
David Jauss
Born in 1951, David Jauss grew up in Montevideo, Minnesota, and received a B.A. from Southwest State University, an M.A. from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Since 1980 he has taught creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Improvising Rivers is his first volume of poetry.
“David Jauss writes poems as intense as prayers. His focus on memento mori, however, leads him not to some afterlife but more deeply into this one, including imaginative engagement with the lives of others—Flaubert, Kafka, jazz musicians, a Vietnam vet. That the poet’s love for the world and its sensory pleasures behooves him to perfect his art, whose delights of form and language shine from every page, is the ultimate joy of Improvising Rivers. David Jauss can’t get over the gift of his existence, and readers won’t be able to get over the gift of his book.” –Philip Dacey
“The unobtrusive technical mastery and almost classical precision of his style would alone be enough to make David Jauss’s collection a notable one. But there is a unique depth and resonance in Jauss’s work which is the real source of his accomplishment. Like Flaubert, Chekhov, and the jazz musicians who figure as tutelary spirits in his collection, Jauss sees the exercise of style as a form of pilgrimage to the human heart. And he knows the heart in all of its intricacies, misery, and splendor. It is hardly the fashion anymore to label a book as noble—but no other word will suffice.” –David Wojahn
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Order, or Disorder
Amy Newman
Amy Newman has published over 200 poems in North America, England, Italy, and Romania. Poems have been anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry, and Sentence’s An Introduction to the Prose Poem. A recipient of three Individual Artists Fellowships and a MacDowell Colony Fellow, she is editor of Ancora Imparo, the journal of arts, process, and remnant. An assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Northern Illinois University, she has also taught at McNeese State University, Hocking College, Ohio University and Denison University.
“In an efflorescence of emblem and element, these poems locate the mercurial female principle again. In ocean, rain, rock, in primordial color, here is an amplitude of words to relieve us just as the century closes. Here, again, a poet has found bedrock among the stars. Amy Newman has written mutable figures into consciousness; here is a place of metaphor where, as she puts it, ‘language crawls the country on its belly.’” –Jane Miller
“If it is possible for poetry to increase the amount of the meaning of human freedom, then Amy Newman’s Order, or Disorder does so, powerfully. By establishing then responding to its own sense of duty, even the title becomes an invitation and an opening, a gesture of inclusion. And the sometimes astringent intelligence of this poet, added to the delicate nuance of her imagery, produce glistening, smart, sometimes funny, always fascinating poems.” –Bin Ramke
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Refinery
Claudia Keelan
Claudia Keelan is the author of six books of poetry, including Refinery (Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize), Utopic (Alice James Books, 2001), and Missing Her (2009) from New Issues Press. A book of translations, Truth of My Songs: The Poems of the Trobairitz, is forthcoming from Omnidawn Press in 2015. Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books, the Jerome Shestack Award from the American Poetry Review and a creative achievement award from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is currently finishing a book of essays entitled “Ecstatic Émigré,” which originally appeared in various issues of the American Poetry Review. She teaches at the University of Nevada where she is Professor of English and Creative Writing, as well as editor of Interim.
“The poems in Refinery, her first major collection, everywhere attest to Keelan’s search for the true buried under the often deceptive surfaces of the real. These are poems of generosity, clarity, and moral subtlety. A luminous debut.” –Ann Lauterbach
“Refinery is a wonderful book, the first book of a first-rate poet who deserves to be read and reread. Claudia Keelan shows us ‘the passed over / version of what is there.’ And it is the genius of her to reveal that which is usually passed over unseen—it is the bravery of her to see it, to share it. Hers is a harsh, demanding music. I recommend these poems for their (to quote Mallarme re Baudelaire) ‘Tutelary poison, always to be breathed even if we die from it.’” –Bill Knott
“Claudia Keelan’s poetry witnesses history through refinery smoke, capturing the brokenness of contemporary experience. Yet in marvelous poems like ‘The Sunflower,’ ‘Where the Train Meets the River,’ and ‘Refinery,’ the ‘evangelical sunflower’ of imagination thrives in the midst of disaster. There is terror in these poems; therein lies their beauty, to acknowledge the broken believers who must pray, inconsolably, to the ‘lord god brick wall’ or, threatened with madness, turn their faces to rain.” –Paul Hoover
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Dangerous Neighborhoods
Marnie Prange
Born in Virginia and raised in North California, Marnie Prange has degrees from the University of North Carolina—Greensboro, Hollins College, and the University of Alabama. She has taught at the University of Montana, Florida International University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Louisville.
“The two things that are connected in the poetry of Marnie Prange are a certain wisdom (or cunning) (or rage), and a certain precision of language (that is moving), that reflects that wisdom. She knows something. And she has something to say. I recommend we read her.” –Gerald Stern
“Marnie Prange’s poetry owns a fierce humility. Her Dangerous Neighborhoods chronicles a woman’s travels through time, landscapes, ghosts, dreams, through worlds of men from which the ‘underground daughter’, ‘the woman caught in the headlights’ emerges charged with authority. Prange suspends the urgency of journeys with the advent of thresholds. Poem after poem, she proves to be not only a worthy but the inevitable interpreter of what the blind have to say, of what Connie Barnett selling at the fair her champion steer must be feeling, of why the mysterious ghost of the ‘the woman sleeping in our bed’ needs to please the speaker and her lover, needs now to be named and embraced. Readers will come to trust this poet’s cranky spirit, her humanity, and most of all, her refusal to compromise what greets us, full faced, in these poems—Prange’s mythic, wholly feminine vision.” –Deborah Digges
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Nothing in Nature is Private
Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric; Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; Plot; The End of the Alphabet; and Nothing in Nature is Private. In 2014 she was a National Book Award Finalist and also received Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition. Rankine co-edited the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, and her work is included in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry.
“Claudia Rankine is a fiercely gifted young poet. Intelligence, a curiosity and hunger for understanding like some worrying, interior, physical pain, a gift for being alert in the world. She knows when to bless and to curse, to wonder and to judge, and she doesn’t flinch. Nothing in Nature is Private is an arrival. It’s the kind of book that makes you hopeful for American poetry.” –Robert Hass
“I am excited by Claudia Rankine’s poems, their elegance, their emotional force, their scrupulous intimation of multiple identities. Representing brilliantly the prismatic vision of a Jamaican, middle class, intellectual black woman living in America, they address the widest constituency of readers. This is a richly rewarding collection.” –Mervyn Morris
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After the Rain
Jared Carter
Jared Carter has published three books of poetry with the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, most recently Les Barricades Mystérieuses (1999).
“Carter’s is a poetry of resolute middle distance, firmly of this world: between the dust under the earth and the dust of space there exists the place the poem can illumine.” –Helen Vendler
“These are loving poems, delivered in a quiet, authoritative voice; the reader slips into their flow and partakes of a communion. . . [This] is a remarkable achievement.” –Bruce Bennett
“From beginning to end, this volume has the quiet passion of conviction, the voice of a poet who knows exactly what he wants to say and how to say it. . . Behind the range of styles and approaches, one recognizes a single honest and contemporary voice.” –Dana Gioia
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Lives of the Saints & Everything
Susan Firer
Susan Firer’s most recent book is Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1979–2007. Her previous books have been awarded the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, the Posner Award, and the Backwaters Prize. She is a recipient of a Milwaukee County Artist Fellowship, a Wisconsin Board Fellowship, the Lorine Niedecker Award, and in 2009 she was given the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Distinguished Alumnus Award. Susan has poems in over 35 anthologies, including Best American Poetry; Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams (University of Iowa Press); The Cento: A collection of Collage Poems(Red Hen Press); and The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present(University of Notre Dame Press). Her poems have appeared in over 100 journals, such as Chicago Review, jubilat, Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, and others.
“I think it is no wonder that this book was awarded the prestigious CSU prize. It belongs in the company, perhaps near the head of the company, of the best books of poetry of recent years.” –Ted Kooser
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Hyena
Jan Freeman
Jan Freeman was born and raised in Pennsylvania. After graduating from Vassar College in 1979, she moved to New York City where she worked in the publishing industry for several years. In 1986, she earned an M.A. from New York University. Since then, Freeman has worked as a freelance writer and editor and a contributing editor for The American Poetry Review.
“Hyena is a wild, lush original. Jan Freeman’ s extraordinary first collection aims straight at the body and unmasks its hungers, anger, and separateness. Her poems breathe almost unbreathable air of passion, insist on the truth of denied and forbidden feelings, and rejoice in the feast.” –Joan Larkin
“This is the real stuff. . . Erotic, beautiful, terrible, taboo, terrifying, violent images used to split the skin, these poems are whole dances, magic chants, bloodroot erotic prayers incredible to hear, of the wild troubled powerful spirit caught in the body, loving and hating the body, painting the dead, the earth, the universe. . . ‘I am out I am out I am out: I swear I am out.’ You’ll swear it too.” –Sharon Doubiago
“. . .Blow torch talk takes courage, and these shameless poems about shame have the accurate power. . .Spinoza’s marvelous insight that we do not comprehend what the body may be is here underlined by a new and ferocious sense of vital sexuality. And Freeman reminds us that we do not yet know what poetry can be, always newly born.” –David Shapiro
“This book is a revolution. It is to poetry what the concept of the Klein bottle is to the three-dimensional world—the simultaneous connection, inside and outside of physical and emotional experience. Every poem in Hyena is unique. You see, taste, feel, and remember every sensual detail. With daring and powerful language, Jan Freeman breaks the barriers of learning responses, opening walls of consciousness. These are poems of great tenderness, violence, and sensual beauty. They are lyrical, hypnotic. You don’ t forget them. Hyena is a ground-breaking work. This poetry of genius.” –Ruth Stone
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Before I Go Out on the Road
Grace Butcher
Poet, writer, horsewoman, motorcyclist, actor, runner. Readings and workshops around the country. Author of The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002 (Ivan R. Dee, 2002), Greatest Hits 1965-2000 (Pudding House Publications, 2001), Child, House, World (Hiram Poetry Review, 1991), Rumors of Ecstasy (Barnwood Press, 1981), and Before I Go Out on the Road (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1979).
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Body Betrayer
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Beckian Fritz Goldberg was born in Hartford, Wisconsin, in 1954 and raised in Arizona. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Arizona State University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Vermont College. Her poetry has appeared in many magazines and journals, including American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, and Ploughshares; her poems published in Poetry Northwest won that magazine’s 1989 Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize.
“Few volumes of poetry, let alone first collections, achieve the splendid fusion of intelligence and passion that characterizes Body Betrayer. Beckian Fritz Goldberg has an amazing command of technique, but more importantly an ability to look unflinchingly at the ironies and cruelties of our mysterious existence. Her poems are visionary in a rare and hard-won sense, for she seems to see more than the rest of us— because of our timidity or some lack of character— are willing to permit ourselves. Yet Goldberg’ s broodings invariably transform themselves to a stance that is redemptive rather than despairing. Body Betrayer is a remarkable first book.” –David Wojahn.
“The eucalyptus is rowing in the light of the streetlamp, the lake-water writes letters to St. Paul, and all the new gods are ambushing at an old saltlick. . . if Goldberg’s brilliantly anthropomorphized and frightening badlands of desire and the tragic life of our suburbs, then here’s a version of our extinction you’d better accept as published by fire on the pages of lament.” –Norman Dubie
“In the Badlands of Desire is full of intense, surprising, highly original turns of phrase, and these poems from Beckian Fritz Goldberg’s private world fulfill the strong promises of her first book. Definitely a poet to watch and remember.” –David Wagoner
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Alive All Day
Richard Jackson
Author of 13 books of poems including Resonanicia (Barcelona, 2014), Out of Place (Ashland 2014), Maxine Kumin Award Winner Retrievals (C&R Press, 20124), Resonance (Ashland, 2010), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004), Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems(Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), Heartwall (UMass, 2000 Juniper Prize), and Svetovi Narazen (Slovenia, 2001). He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry: The Fire Under the Moon and Double Vision: Four Slovenian Poets (Aleph, 1993) and is also the author of a book of criticism, Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award). In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans by the President of Slovenia and has received Guggenheim, NEA, NEH, two Witter-Bynner and Fulbright Fellowships, and five Pushcart Prizes.
“The rhythmic flow in Richard Jackson’s poems—happy, dreamy, passionate and even cruel for the way it raises our hopes only to thwart them with the truth, and which opens the kernel of memory—immense bontee and responsibility in it all, immense lust—is at the same time possessive and healing. The reader feels as one of the Chinese soldiers buried alive, turned into terra cotta with its emperor, sewed into the radiant remembrance of the author’s youth and life and dramatically loving it. Why? I guess compassion and generosity is so inclusive. Everything touched here becomes carved and firm, thus relieving. Alive All Day reminds me of the best of America. And of a gothic cathedral.” –Tomaz Salamun
“The poems in Alive All Day take on a nearly impossible job: to consider what it means to belong to modern history and not to put down that dismal, monolithic weight. The wonderful amplitude of the poems, their teeming grace, testifies that we can live with such chaos and not lie about it or ignore it; indeed the poems are a demonstration of how we might do such a thing. This is a heartening and full-hearted book.” –William Matthews
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A Wandering City
Robert Kendall
Robert Kendall has been writing electronic poetry since 1990. He is the author of the book-length hypertext poem A Life Set for Two (Eastgate Systems) and other electronic works published at BBC Online, Iowa Review Web, Cortland Review, Eastgate Hypertext Reading Room, ELO Electronic Literature Collection, Cauldron & Net, and other websites. His electronic poetry has been exhibited at many venues in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia, and he has given interactive readings of his work in many cities. His printed book of poetry, A Wandering City, was awarded the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, and he has received a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, a New Forms Regional Grant, and other awards.
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Hurdy-Gurdy
Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles is the author of Buffalo Head Solos (Cleveland State University Press, 2004), Hammerlock(Cleveland State University Press, 1999), Ten Miles an Hour (Mille Grazie Press, 1998), Kerosene(Ampersand Press, 1995), Hurdy-Gurdy (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1992), and Body Moves (Corona Press, 1988). He is a former NEA fellow and has led workshops for Cave Canem and the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard Wright Foundation. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, where he teaches courses for Old Dominion University’s English Department and M.F.A. in Writing Program.
“From the ‘sweet scat’ and ‘jump rope hymns’ of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, Hurdy-Gurdy earnestly explores the differences between what we want, what we get, and what we must be willing to pursue at any cost. This is an exciting book—at once fluid, shapely, and steady as stone—whose tensions lead us to an authentic meditative wholeness.” –Mark Cox
“This is not a poetry of the highfalutin violin nor the somber cello, but a melody you heard somewhere that followed you home. Elegant and silly, irreverent, fun and funny, Tim Seibles’ poetry celebrates the spirit’s little moments of holy joy.” –Sandra Cisneros
“Tim Seibles will get you in his hammerlock and won’t let you go till he has taken you into the center of American politics and pop culture, the minds of birds, the Tao te Ching, your body, your so-called color, your so-called race. He lights up everything he touches like the candle at the heart of the lantern. A houseful of voices speaks through him in language so tenable, you’ll at times feel bruised, at times made love to. I read a lot of poetry. I’ve never read poetry like this.” –Reginald McKnight
“Tim Seibles’ version of our changing and growing American speech range widely, from anguish to comedy, from transcendence to earthly bewilderment. The joy of reading these poems is like overhearing a very smart, crazy neighbor’s thoughts as they move between philosophical inquiry and praise for the everyday.” –Li-Young Lee
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Sioux Dog Dance: shunk ah weh
Red Hawk
Redhawk was the Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. His books are Journey of the Medicine Man(August House); The Sioux Dog Dance (Cleveland State University), nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; and The Way of Power (Hohm Press), nominated for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize and the 1997 National Book Award. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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Rules of Engagement
P. H. Liotta
P. H. Liotta was Professor of Humanities and Executive Director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. He was the author of the memoir Learning to Fly: A Season With the Peregrine Falcon; Rules of Engagement, a collection of poems; Diamond’s Compass, a novel of Iran; and The Ruins of Athens: A Balkan Memoir. He was a former Fulbright Artist-in-Residence (Slobodan umjetnik) in Yugoslavia and NEA Fellow in Poetry. His recent travels took him back to former Yugoslavia and throughout the Balkans, the Middle East, Central and Southwest Asia, and the nations of the former Soviet Union. He received the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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Rapture of Matter
Frank Paino
Frankie Paino was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1960. He holds a B.A. in English from Baldwin-Wallace College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Vermont College. His first book of poetry,The Rapture of Matter, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1991. His work has appeared in many magazines and journals including The American Voice, Antioch Review,Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and Quarterly West. He has won a number of awards including the Missouri Review’s Tom McAfee Discovery Feature, a Pushcart Prize, and the 1992 Cleveland Arts Prize for poetry.
“The rapture in this superb first book is initially in the engagement with and attention to detail, a sense of care for the art that then allows Paino’s elegiac vision to achieve an elevating rapture that overcomes the deaths, the losses, the betrayals he faces. It is a vision based on a wondrous music, a mature voice that struggles passionately for dignity in the here and now. ‘Some things are worth risking everything for,’ he says in one poem, and the whole book itself is the proof of that statement. Finishing it, I think of the great Rilke, how he wrote to the young poet: ‘no experience has been too slight, and the least incident unfolds like a destiny . . . guided by an infinitely tender hand.’” –Richard Jackson
“It’s almost impossible, reading these poems, to believe they are the ingredients of a first book. So wise, so full of experience and concrete details, they hook us, as few early poems do, into sitting up half the night, rereading. There’s no doubt in my mind that Paino is already one of America’s best poets.” –Paula Rankin
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Mary Stuart, A Queen Betrayed
Leonard Trawick and Bain Murray
Eric Trethewey was a professor of English at Hollins University. He wrote five collections of poems:Dreaming of Rivers, Evening Knowledge, The Long Road Home, Songs and Lamentations, and Heart’s Hornbook. Evening Knowledge was a winner in the 1990 Virginia Prize for Poetry. His literary scholarship included articles on various writers, including Matthew Arnold and Joseph Conrad. His poems, stories, essays, and reviews appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The New Republic, The Southern Review, and Canadian Literature. The Home Waltz, a screenplay, won the Virginia Governor’s Screenplay Competition.
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