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We Who Have Never Bled, Betty Frances Fisher
We Who Have Never Bled, Betty Frances Fisher
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The poetry in We Who Have Never Bled explores landscapes of the personal and the mythic, centering women in a position of both traveler on and witness to this journey that is both violent and hopeful, both personal and universal.
Happily Ever After And Other Lies My Childhood Told Me, Rachel Anna Neff
Happily Ever After And Other Lies My Childhood Told Me, Rachel Anna Neff
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A manuscript-length book of poetry with a critical preface centered on the idea of mythology, nursery rhymes, and foundational (Western) fictions and how the cultural norms and expectations that those texts create influence an individual, particularly with respect to gender and gender identity.
La Gente Entre Nosotros / The People Between Us, Gerard Stephen Robledo
La Gente Entre Nosotros / The People Between Us, Gerard Stephen Robledo
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This collection stems from the tradition of poetry of witness / anthro-poetry, and chronicles the lives of individuals within communities who are affected by racism, ignorance, and Americanization. The catalyst for this collection was the massive influx of immigrant children fleeing South and Central American, and Mexico to the United States in the summer of 2014. This event spurred a whirlwind of anger, confusion, and racism, which left children in the political crossfire. Thus, this collection is aptly titled La Gente Entre Nosotros / The People Between Us.
In this collection, I take the approach of the anthro-poet, to document …
Heat Seekers, Gavin Stephen Lambert
Heat Seekers, Gavin Stephen Lambert
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“Every land / carves a people, marks them heavy like an / accent,” writes Gavin Lambert in his poem, “In Summer We Move Slowly,” and Lambert’s collection explores the connective tissue of that very relationship—the one between a land and its people. On the dirt roads and highways that take us along the continuum from geography to identity (part drunken road trip, part afternoon stroll, part shambling hike, part not-so reliable history tour) he takes us on a journey through a strange and familiar landscape where “Every place is sacred / or near a sacred place.”