New Free Verse Editions Selections . . .
January 9, 2008
Parlor Press
Parlor Press is pleased to
announce the 2007 selections for
its Free Verse Editions series, to
be published in Fall, 2008
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competition. You can submit a manuscript of original
poetry or translation for the Free Verse Editions
series during the annual submission period, April 1 to
May 31. Please see our submission requirements at
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Free Verse Editions 2007
Free Verse Editions 2006
Free Verse Editions 2005
Carolyn Guinzio, Quarry
In Quarry, her second full-length collection of poems, Carolyn
Guinzio redefines and expands the idea of place elaborated in
her prize-winning debut West Pullman to include the planet
as a whole and our species’ place within the cosmos. Quarry,
both an object of pursuit and a place from which rock is mined,
transcends its terrestrial nature when its man-made “crater”
comes to mimic the impact of the meteorites that arrive from
the vast unknowableness of the galaxy with no message, that are
“small lights fallling /in far black vastness.”
Jennie Neighbors, Between the Twilight and the Sky
In three cantos, Between the Twilight and the Sky produces and
enters that place where things, the “inbetweens,” appear in “their
factuality and passage,” at the outside edge of experience. The
poem is a language of silences, lost threads in the labyrinth, and
aphoristic play,. With language as its light, it seeks and moves
into a darkness that it at once creates and is defied by. Between
the Twilight and the Sky draws on an array of poets and thinkers
including Whitman, Adonis, Rilke, Celan, and Deleuze.
Boyer Rickel, remanence
remanence offers a sequence of 39 elegant prose poems. Obsessed
with synaptic gaps, each spare five-sentence poem accrues
through association and indirection. By way of a sometimes loose,
sometimes terse, lyric parsing of concept and material, Rickel
tracks the ghost-ridden voices in matter, and the mattering that
is meaning. The book ends with a coda of longer poems, one
that recollects all of the sentences of the opening sequence into
nine improvisational runs that exhume and defy, re-envisioning
the possibilities of the poetic sequence.
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, What Stillness Illuminated
What Stillness Illuminated offers a kaleidoscope of mysterious
tableaux vivants. Composed entirely of five-line allusive poems
in English and Yiddish (and several in Hebrew), the book offers
glimpses of individuals in moments of flux or revelation. Moving
from the distant historical to the more immediate, What Stillness
Illuminated dramatically expands the domain of the personal by
entering into the inner life of the forces shaping and altering it.
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