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iARTistas #10

Arts & Photography

Campbell, Pris

Howard, JP

Nudelman, Edward

Androla, Ron

Brewer, Tammy Foster

McEwen, Michelle

Lawrence, Larry

Themes

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

We never see things in themselves, only things as they appear to our own particular sensibilities, moods, and associations.  Nowhere is that clearer than in poetry, and nowhere in poetry is that clearer than in Pris Campbell's new book, Sea Trails.  Part travelogue and part poetic narrative, the book brilliantly counter-poses poetic revelations of the speaker as she moves from "in love" to "out of love" and prose descriptions of a journey down the American Intracoastal Waterway, including details of the physical workings of the journey and of the landscapes which sustain her.  An emotional, sensual, and visceral joy to read.     Scott Owens

Sea Trails: Poems and 1977 Passage Notes

Literature & Fiction

Yeseta, Chris

Poetry

Lummox Press

A chapbook series of little books with distinctive red covers, each one the size of a quarter sheet of paper, this series began in mid 1998 with the publication of "Fool's Paradise" and "El Pagano" by RD Armstrong. By the end of 2008, 59 titles had been published, with more planned for 2009. Some of the small press' most notable poets have taken part in this series, published by the Lummox Press.

The Long Way Home: The Best Of The Little Red Book Series 1998 -2008

Locklin, Gerald

Lifshin, Lyn

Moore, Todd

Armstrong, R. D.

Cherin, Patricia

Cirino, Leonard

Fox, Hugh

Lecrivain, Marie

Long, Philomene

These fierce poems bleed love and loss, knotted with a personal reckoning of a "Vietnam of the soul" shared with a vanished husband whom neither divorce nor death can finally erase. Pris Campbell cuts herself to the quick and keeps going. Her wounds become a blessing in art, a gift to us all. 
- Jeff Weddle, winner of the Eudora Welty Prize\nIn this poignant collection, Pris Campbell tells us the story of how she fell in love, waited for him while he trained as a naval officer at OCS, got married in the romantically magical land of Hawaii, and then divorced all the while the Vietnam War was ripping the soul of America in two. Campbell masterfully casts a spell over us as she relives their past and how the present is haunted by the hopes and dreams of her first marriage. History, particularly the events on the fringes and margins of a horrific war, walks side by side with their fated romance, told by an exemplary humane narrator."- Michael Parker, author of Divining the Spirits in the House of the Hush and Hush.\nGrief takes on many faces, shifts hot and cold, changes through the omnivorous jaws of time. In Pris Campbell's most recent book, Truth and Other Lies, we learn how a war can consume not only its soldiers, but also those who loved them. Her vivid and honest poems put architecture to the thinning walls of angst and PTSD. In full color, set in the trauma of the 1960's anti-war movement, we find a collection of poems that draws us toward empathy and compassion, finding in "Fourteen Months," an uncommon truth: "He's dead two years and a half now... poems spill out like the turning tide he rode on then and ride again now, touching me occasionally within our shared Vietnam of the soul." This is narrative poetry at a visceral level, provocative, naked, and essential. 
- Edward Nudelman, author of Thin Places.

Truth and Other Lies

Nixes Mate Books

Sequen to Their Shadows Trail Them Home

All In: A Novel of Love in Poetry

Owens, Scott

Redhawk Publications

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