Rehearsing Absence by Rhina P. Espaillat, recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable collection of meticulously-crafted poems that take the seemingly everyday world and imbue it with startling resonance and profundity. John Frederick Nims, who chose one of the author's sonnets for The Howard Nemerov Award, accurately characterized all of the author's work when he wrote, "Her commonplace language hints at an incident of anything but common importance." This ability had not happened by accident. As Timothy Murphy explains in his comments on this "exquisite" new collection, "Rhina Espaillat writes with the measured assurance of one who has given a lifetime to the making of memorable verse." Rehearsing Absence is a truly unique and powerful collection in which Rhina P. Espaillat, with her maturity of vision, lyrical gifts, and an uncommon craftsmanship, presents poem after evocative poem that examines the world around us and helps us to see it new.

Rehearsing Absence: Poems (Richard Wilbur Award, 4)

Literature & Fiction

Espaillat, Rhina P.

Poetry

Univ of Evansville Pr

A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other. The language here is always clear, always controlled without sacrificing sincerity or honesty. Read this book again and again and be rewarded every time.

Where Horizons Go

Truman State Univ Pr

A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other. The language here is always clear, always controlled without sacrificing sincerity or honesty. Read this book again and again and be rewarded every time.

Where Horizons Go: Poems

Lapsing to Grace: Poems and Drawings

Bennett & Kitchel

The piercing meters and rhymes of Rhina P. Espaillat's The Field evoke the world in sharp, etched relief-its scenes and lives, its emotions and memories.

The Field

David Robert Books

And after All: Poems

Rhina P. Espaillat’s And after All meditates on the passage of time. The perspective sweeps from the panorama of foreign landmarks to the close view of a lover’s feet in failing health, held and cared for. And after All displays the wit, wisdom, subtle voice, and supple mastery of forms that have established Espaillat as a contemporary master. This long-awaited collection from Espaillat is a treat not to be missed.
PRAISE FOR AND AFTER ALL
Rhina P. Espaillat’s And After All combines the formal fluency of Richard Wilbur, the precision of Elizabeth Bishop, and the easy conversational tones of Frank O’Hara, and yet her poems speak in a voice that is distinctively her own. They address the loss of loved ones and loved things of the world, but their extraordinary empathy and gentle wit keep them from becoming depressing or sentimental. Savor this book and share it with people you love.   —A. M. Juster, author of Sleaze &amp; Slander: New and Selected Comic Verse, 1995–2015
Rhina P. Espaillat, more than any living poet in English, gives ordinary language the glow of the sacred. Workaday words, trite with custom like thin coins, accrue new resonance and weight; plain objects are haloed with aureoles like figures in gold mosaics. Saints with their visions used to do this: wave away the veils that separate our shallow perceptions from a deeper reality. But not everyone is granted visions. How much harder it is to use the same words we all use and misuse, the same objects we all touch and ignore, common experiences we dismiss, and, by using words with precision, using the serendipity of rhyme, and the convention of metrical patterns, to give the reader the experience of revelation. Craft is not the opposite of inspiration, Espaillat reminds us, it is the only way to it.   —A. E. Stallings, author of Olives
For most of its poems And After All is, as the title indicates, deeply elegiac in tone. There are many poignant evocations of the past in the book, rich with quotidian surface detail but always suffused with undemonstrative but palpably real emotion. A poem about the poet’s grandmother, a tough no-nonsense farmer’s wife who described how cows inarticulately but unmistakably grieved when they realized their calves were to be slaughtered, ends with the line, “She told it simply, but she faltered there.” In its quiet pathos the line seems to sum up much of the book; exactness, no fuss, unforced fidelity to the anecdote, but the tremor of poignant empathy always present. A very eloquent collection of beautifully crafted poems, and one that it is hard to read dry-eyed.   —Dick Davis, author of Love in Another Language
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rhina P. Espaillat has published ten full-length books and three chapbooks, comprising poetry, essays, and short stories, in both English and her native Spanish, and translations from and into both languages. Her national and international awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry, the Richard Wilbur Award, the Howard Nemerov Prize, the May Sarton Award, the Robert Frost “Tree at My Window” Prize for translation, several honors from the New England Poetry Club, the Poetry Society of America, the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College.  She is a frequent reader, speaker, and workshop leader, and is active with the Powow River Poets, a literary group she cofounded in 1992.

And After All: Poems

Religion & Spirituality

Able Muse Press

The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues the tradition of memorable poetry from the Powow River Poets. This group of uniquely talented, award-winning writers is centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but includes members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. Twenty-seven poets are represented in this volume of the anthology, including Rhina P. Espaillat, A.M. Juster, and Deborah Warren. Here, find masterful poems in form and free verse, on an eclectic range of subjects spanning the domestic to the global, celebrations to mourning, the whimsical to the heartbreaking. It is especially a showcase of the formal prowess of these accomplished poets. The dazzling array of given and nonce forms, including blank verse, triolet, abecedarian, sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and more will inspire with many examples of craftsmanship heightening emotional engagement and insight. PRAISE FOR THE POWOW RIVER POETS ANTHOLOGY II Dedicated to the late Powow River Poet, David Berman, The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues in the splendid tradition of the group's previous tome, published in 2006. Twenty-seven poets touch on themes ranging from the simple joys of friendship, nature, and art, to the complex issues of faith and doubt, love and loss. Guffaw-inducing humor and biting wit abound, as well as solemn reflections on suicide, domestic violence, social injustice, betrayal, illness, aging, and death. In Rhina P. Espaillat's beautiful villanelle, "Guidelines," included in this collection, the poet wisely urges us to find something to love, perhaps "a line of verse . . . that feels like the world's heart since time began." Beyond question, the poems in The Powow River Poets Anthology II echo the world's heart. -Catherine Chandler, author of Pointing Home It might be far-fetched to suggest that the Muses have sprinkled a generous share of their gifts into the waters of the Powow River . . . near] the historic town of Newburyport . . . where the Powow River Poets established their home base three decades ago-but how else to explain the lyric fluency, robust talent, and refreshing wit that consistently distinguish this group? -Leslie Monsour (from the introduction), author of The House Sitter The Powow River Poets are a group known for their concern with the craftsmanship of verse, and for the formal dexterity and precision of their poems-qualities profusely exemplified in this new collection. As might be expected, there are tricky forms in abundance here-sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina-but what is so memorable about so many of the poems is their continual precision of observation and depth of nuanced feeling. To paraphrase Pope, come for the flow of reason, stay for the feast of soul. This is a really delightfully various and moving collection, one to browse happily in and return to often. -Dick Davis, author of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The Powow River Poets are a gathering of widely published, award-winning New England poets, centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but including members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. More about the Powow River Poets can be found at powowriverpoets.com.

The Powow River Poets Anthology II

Warren, Deborah

Juster, A. M.

Turco, Paulette Demers

The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues the tradition of memorable poetry from the Powow River Poets. This group of uniquely talented, award-winning writers is centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but includes members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. Twenty-seven poets are represented in this volume of the anthology, including Rhina P. Espaillat, A.M. Juster, and Deborah Warren. Here, find masterful poems in form and free verse, on an eclectic range of subjects spanning the domestic to the global, celebrations to mourning, the whimsical to the heartbreaking. It is especially a showcase of the formal prowess of these accomplished poets. The dazzling array of given and nonce forms, including blank verse, triolet, abecedarian, sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and more will inspire with many examples of craftsmanship heightening emotional engagement and insight. PRAISE FOR THE POWOW RIVER POETS ANTHOLOGY II: Dedicated to the late Powow River Poet, David Berman, The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues in the splendid tradition of the group's previous tome, published in 2006. Twenty-seven poets touch on themes ranging from the simple joys of friendship, nature, and art, to the complex issues of faith and doubt, love and loss. Guffaw-inducing humor and biting wit abound, as well as solemn reflections on suicide, domestic violence, social injustice, betrayal, illness, aging, and death. In Rhina P. Espaillat's beautiful villanelle, "Guidelines," included in this collection, the poet wisely urges us to find something to love, perhaps "a line of verse . . . that feels like the world's heart since time began." Beyond question, the poems in The Powow River Poets Anthology II echo the world's heart. -Catherine Chandler, author of Pointing Home It might be far-fetched to suggest that the Muses have sprinkled a generous share of their gifts into the waters of the Powow River . . . [near] the historic town of Newburyport . . . where the Powow River Poets established their home base three decades ago-but how else to explain the lyric fluency, robust talent, and refreshing wit that consistently distinguish this group? -Leslie Monsour (from the introduction), author of The House Sitter The Powow River Poets are a group known for their concern with the craftsmanship of verse, and for the formal dexterity and precision of their poems-qualities profusely exemplified in this new collection. As might be expected, there are tricky forms in abundance here-sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina-but what is so memorable about so many of the poems is their continual precision of observation and depth of nuanced feeling. To paraphrase Pope, come for the flow of reason, stay for the feast of soul. This is a really delightfully various and moving collection, one to browse happily in and return to often. -Dick Davis, author of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The Powow River Poets are a gathering of widely published, award-winning New England poets, centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but including members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. More about the Powow River Poets can be found at powowriverpoets.com.

United States

Product Description This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2020/2021 issue, Number 29. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010).Includes the winning stories and poems from the 2021 Able Muse contest (Able Muse Write Prize) winners and finalists.". . . [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry."-Dana Gioia."Able Muse is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form . . . a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life."-NewPages.CONTENTS:WITH THE 2021 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION – Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalistsEDITORIAL – Alexander PeppleFEATURED ART - A Distance Theme.FEATURED POET - Rhina P. Espaillat;(Interviewed by Deborah Warren).FICTION –Amina Lolita Gautier, Randy Nelson, Jonathan StarkeESSAYS – Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Chidiebube onye Okohia, Mark Pearce, Joachim Stanley, N.S. ThompsonBOOK REVIEWS – Travis Biddick, Brooke ClarkPOETRY – Liz Ahl, Leo Aylen, Lee Harlin Bahan, Bruce Bennett, Hilary Biehl, John J. Brugaletta, Dan Campion, Sarah Carleton, Ted Charnley, Gregory Emilio, Nicole Caruso Garcia, Stephen Gibson, D. R. Goodman, Susan McLean, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Francesco Petrarca, Estill Pollock, Erica Reid, Mary Romero, Kelly Rowe, Leona Sevick, Michael Spence, Ann M. Thompson, Will Toedtman, Toni Treadway, E. D. Watson, Gail White, Steven Withrow Review "Able Muse is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form . . . a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life." - NewPages." [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry." - Dana Gioia."Able Muse is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form . . . a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life." - NewPages.

Able Muse, Winter 2021/22 (No. 29 - print edition): a review of poetry, prose & art (Able Muse, Print Edition)

White, Gail

AYLEN, Leo

Pepple, Alexander

Essays & Correspondence

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Rehearsing Absence: Poems (Richard Wilbur Award, 4)

Where Horizons Go

Where Horizons Go: Poems

Lapsing to Grace: Poems and Drawings

The Field

And After All: Poems

The Powow River Poets Anthology II

And after All: Poems

The Powow River Poets Anthology II

Able Muse, Winter 2021/22 (No. 29 - print edition): a review of poetry, prose & art (Able Muse, Print Edition)