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OFF THE GRID ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST THREE TITLES |
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| ADAM'S RIBS, by Terry Adams
Terry Adams's long-awaited debut book is a treasure trove of poems about family, motorcycles, Vietnam, the scrotum, Flash Gordon, jazz, the pink and yellow gills of a dead catfish—and just about everything under the Buckeye-and-Golden-State sun. This is one smackeroo of a book. For God's sake, beg, borrow, or steal it! Read it!
—James Reiss (Read more. . . .)
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| A DARKER, SWEETER STRING, by Lee Sharkey
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they’d wake us up to the urgency of our times, to the damage violence does to everyone—including those of us who observe from afar. The music played here is dark, but it is indeed sweet. It is what we need to hear. In Sharkey’s art solace and truth form a new alliance, and mourning becomes a gift.
—Betsy Sholl
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| LOYALTY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, by Henry Braun
2008 Maine Literary Awards Winner for Poetry
What did Thoreau say about the cost of any great work, that it cost a lifetime? It's an extraordinary lifetime that we feel in this book. What tremendous tact Braun's poems all show, never a word too much, nothing insisted on, a light touch that looks easy, but . . . takes tremendous art to achieve.
—Kate Barnes
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