Nailing Harry

Literature & Fiction

Blanchard, Jane

Contemporary

TIME WARNER BOOKS

Jane Blanchard's neatly-crafted verse focuses on daily life, marriage, family, travel, gardens and social conventions. But there is much wry wit, from raccoons to royals, and deft use of such forms as haiku, villanelles and sonnets to make for a pleasingly thoughtful and varied collection. -Jerome Betts, editor of Lighten Up Online Jane Blanchard writes of contemporary concerns in an easy voice that sometimes mutes, sometimes elevates the traditional forms of her verse. Teasing us with strains of T. S. Eliot, her poetry shifts to entice us with the cutting perspicuity and frustrations of a Georgian (as in "Georgia Peach") mother and housewife. Playful, ironic, sophisticated and down-home, this is a collection of metrical insights into the commonplace, with an often uncommon twist. A veritable (and delightful) Forrest Gump box of chocolates. -Paul Schreiber, poetry editor of Two Thirds North Jane Blanchard has a knack for the well-turned line and the perfectly apt detail. This book is a delight, full of poems that sparkle with wit and stick in the memory. -Brooke Clark, editor of The Asses of Parnassus

Never Enough Already

Poetry

Kelsay Books

Sooner or Later

Metes and Bounds

Tides &amp; Currents will carry you on a voyage that covers a lot of formal territory, propelled consistently by a subtle and playful ear. But these poems aren’t exercises; narrative, sensory perception and emotional heft are never sacrificed to big music, loftiness. Jane Blanchard never loses sight of an intensely human, domestic world, one that can conjure a childhood memory of camping or evoke a bustling restaurant as deftly as it deals with the trauma of a miscarriage or an affair. A strand of tinsel is rendered as poignantly and convincingly as a male grackle or a minnow trap. There are so many memorable images and conceits here. 
 —Ralph Sneeden, author of Evidence of the Journey 
 Like “one nautilus facing another,” Jane Blanchard’s collection of poems, Tides &amp; Currents, contains a wonderful symmetry of form as it draws the reader through the various vicissitudes, labors, and joys of a long life, filled as it is with Chiclets that “might quicken the dead” or “relics of an edgy, shingled world” that could send us off in a direction where “a wrong move means death or worse.” As Blanchard reminds us, “No person ever born escapes the rain.” But these poems also recognize the vibrant power for rain to strengthen faith and renew the world as “desire does itch anew,” and we discover a “little something extra so satisfies [our] appetite that [we] keep going back for more.” 
 —Tony Morris, author of Pulling at a Thread 
 Dear Reader, here are songs of experience, songs of joy, songs of irony and wisdom—many embodied within the same poem. Listen close, savor long! 
 —Nick Norwood, author of Gravel and Hawk, winner of the Hollis Summers Prize for Poetry

Tides & Currents

Dear Leader Tales

Humor & Entertainment

Brown, Warren

Avedissian, Eric

Bates, Paul L.

King, E.E.

Kalin, Dan M.

Adams, Cathy

Boegehold, Ben

Courter, Jim

Cutler, Devo

Humor

Feral Cat Publishers

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