First Water is the culmination of five years of superlative poetry from Pirene's Fountain. This anthology represents a diverse selection of compelling voices and talents, one that will be cherished by readers everywhere.

First Water: Best of Pirene's Fountain

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Glass Lyre Press

Floodwater

Post, Connie

Raymond Gibson's sparse, intense, lovely, and ghostly chapbook, Speak, Shade, is born of light and sight.  Each poem within is a candle-orange rays of illumination, flickering brief and breathless.  Gibson reveals tapers of timeless beauty, yet cautions us not to fly too close to the sun.  Beginning with "The Cataracts" and ending with "Blink" and "Blind Timescapes," the poet dares us to see what we ordinarily try to shield our eyes from, while offering us salve and salvation for all of the "red absences."  Using every color of the spectrum, especially the spectral ones, Gibson always returns to light and the perception of light, casting white-hot beams on our fragility and futility. In this book you will find little wounds, tiny licks of flame, alternately burning and melting over the glowing (and majestic) fires of our lives. -Cin Hochman, Editor-in-Chief, First Literary Review-East

Speak, Shade

Gibson, Raymond

Idyll for a Vanishing River

Alfier, Jeffrey

"As a title, Moon Over Zabriskie immediately invokes the theme of place, of landscape. And perhaps also a kind of mirroring, because Zabriskie is itself a kind of moonscape. This deeply sensitive, beautifully written book locates us in the grandeur of the American landscape, which functions as a kind of mirror, because this is not a book about the outside, but about the inside. Landscape is not a sole subject, or a limitation; we have Caravaggio and Chekhov, and the book's relentless focus is the self: the writer's self, the reader's self. What we have is life: family and flowers, rivers and deserts, paintings and songs. Everyone wants solace for their marrow-deep grief, and here we'll find it." Edward Smallfield, author of Equinox and co-founder of Apogee Press.

Moon Over Zabriskie

Wickes, Helen

Femme Eterna

Lifshin, Lyn

Developing a Photograph of God by Robert S. King is a wonderfully cohesive and morally serious examination of the topic he evokes in the poem When the Road Curves Back "to find out why I'm here." This collection engages the 'dark night of the soul' and the presumptions of optimism; that life has meaning as King says in the last poem "that my small telescope can pull both past/and future back to show me how far/the curious soul has traveled." With a maturity of vision and a language drenched in lyric, King leaves us with remarkable images such as "Serpents of rain/ puzzle of noise and clumsy dance." "the places/where regret nags, dreams freeze and hope crackles down in fire" and "Smell the feathers of the angels burning." These poems, intimate and agonized, swinging between the horns of hope and despair, shed illumination on the grave and haunting philosophical questions. Joan Colby, author of Joan Colby: Selected Poems and other collections"

Developing a Photograph of God

King, Robert S.

Respiration, breath, touch, breeze, influx, infusion, nearness, the closeness of words-these, and much more, form poet Yoko Danno's native language. What you hear is right here beside you, where you are watching and catching waves to shores both strange and familiar, floating in waters on a current of togetherness, buoyant and shared in an atmosphere overflowing with beginnings, with words that, heated by imagination's mirrors, spread and flourish into shapes of desire.  --Alan Botsford, Poet and Editor of Poetry Kanto

Aquamarine

DANNO, Yoko

Dowser's Apprentice takes us directly yet deeply into daily life with news of canyon and desert, crop dust, and snow. "Hurry up and break / into life" the poems say. They steady themselves in the sky ("It's a night of fat, bright planets"), look up to the sun and stars ("The Milky Way above us - / that's our shadow river"), and move across the land, from rural California to the "undulant, green Pyrenees," to make a cosmology that we can all share. - Joyce Jenkins, editor of Poetry Flash

Dowser's Apprentice

Pirene's Fountain's tradition of excellence in writing and thought continues in this special double-feature edition. Features, interviews, reviews, and brilliant works of poetry are brought together to inspire and nurture the creative spirit. The voices in Pirene's Fountain create a meaningful and lasting dialogue for all lovers of exceptional poetry and writing.

Pirene's Fountain, Volume 7 Issue 15

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