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A Breviary for the Lost
What is prayer but acknowledging one’s relationship to the Divine—and what is poetry but prayer in image and metaphor? This collection offers intimate poems as testimony to the author’s spiritual life, from entering religious vocation in 1965 through the pandemic pause of the 2020s. These are prayers for times of transition, vivid metaphors of lived experience, and reflections on what it means to be human.
He is at the top of his game
—Bill McCarthy, author of Past Sins and Fall Risk -
Granite Facts
These poems by Minnesota writer June Skjervold celebrate nature, music, love, and loss—plus a charming short story—creating a mid–twentieth-century snapshot. Dedicated to “everyday poets,” the collection reveals how the seemingly mundane is wrapped in natural and supernatural beauty. Drawn from close observation and rendered with surprising craft and stylistic range, the work invites readers to hear the music in the lines—best read aloud—and discover magic at the edge of daily life.
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Greetings from Bullhead Country
Greetings From Bullhead Country is a collection of narrative poems set in a Minnesota small town in the 1960s and 70s, capturing family, neighborhood, and memory as the world shifts. Scott Vetch follows a curious boy learning from farming grandparents shaped by hard seasons and suburban parents navigating cultural change. With humor and insight, the poems offer vivid portraits, family lore, and quiet turning points—an honest, tender look at how love, hardship, and everyday rituals form who we become.
Always just this side of lawless.
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Humming the Blues / Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada)
English
A usurper has attacked the temples of Ur and Uruk and the priestly poet Enheduanna prays for help from Inanna, the god who has disappeared into the Land of No Return. “If you were here, Inanna, you’d surround that big man in the sky,” Enheduanna cries. This collection of poems is a jazz poetry rendition of ancient Iraqi pictographs pressed into clay thousands of years ago by Enheduanna, the first person in history—female or male—to sign her own text.
Spanish
Un usurpador ha atacado los templos de Ur y Uruk, y la poeta sacerdotal Enheduanna ora por la ayuda de Inanna, la deidad que ha desaparecido en la Tierra sin Retorno. Enheduana suplica: “Si estuvieras aquí Inanna, rodearías a ese hombre grande en el cielo”. Esta colección de poemas es una versión poética al estilo del jazz de pictografías iraquíes antiguas estampadas en arcilla por Enheduana hace miles de años. Históricamente, fue la primera persona—hombre o mujer—que firmó su propio texto escrito.
Crucial to be read in our times.
—Diane Wolkstein, Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer -
Inter/views
These poems boldly appropriate lines from interviews with famous and infamous artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and architects, and with these found lines construct small literary objects with something new to say. The pattern of intense repetition creates an incantation in which shifts in meaning occur as the repeated lines are slightly revised and given a new context. The sampled lines reverberate between stanzas, creating echoes that slow us down, providing startling sonic views.
The reader is likely to be fairly well impressed at first.
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Phoenixbirds
In Phoenixbirds, her second poetry collection, Jane Dickerson explores how to live with the world’s heartache. She mourns climate loss—Lake Langton’s shore “drying” below the cattails—while celebrating the mysteries of birds. Shaped by years in Deaf communities and by caring for her autistic Deaf daughter, her poems honor chosen family, adoption, and deep West Virginia roots. Attentive and wise, Dickerson writes with clear-eyed tenderness toward all she sees.
closely observed, thoughtfully orchestrated
—James Silas Rogers, author of The Collector of Shadows -
The Fire Thief
The poems presented here were written over years. They represent fragments of the author’s past…family and children, friends, richness and loss. These are the elements of testimony: our loves, our friends and our memories. Our lives, wound into words, make poems. We can thank the Fire Thief who stole from the gods.
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The Sun Rises as Does the Moon
With disarming honesty, these quiet poems observe the natural world and our place within it, exploring presence, wonder, and grief with clarity and kindness. In three sections—“The World,” “Grief,” and “Spirit”—the collection traces spiritual growth and celebrates everyday beauty and the interconnectedness of all life.
writes with a probing eye and open heart
—Rose Ann Findlen, verified review on Amazon
