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Cloudbank Books
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The editors at Cloudbank Books are
happy to announce a new literary magazine, Cloudbank, which will be
published twice a year beginning in 2009. To help launch the magazine we
are offering a prize of $200 for one poem, which will be published in the
first issue of the magazine. For more information and how to submit to the
magazine, click the "Contest" button below.
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A former Stegner
Fellow at Stanford University and the winner of two Carolyn Kizer
Awards, Paulann Petersen has been on the faculty for the Creative
Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers
Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and Mountain Writers Series.
As a board member for Friends of William Stafford, she organizes the
annual January Stafford Birthday Events. $12.95
Praise for A Bride of Narrow Escape
After the erotic poems of The Wild
Awake and the exotic Turkish poems of Blood Silk, Paulann
Petersen gives us A Bride of Narrow Escape. The poems of
this “retrospective narrative” open with the final illness of the father,
then that of the mother. This section, in particular, contains stunning
poems, intimate and deeply tender. From there, we move to the story
of the author's growing up, as luck would have it, the only grandchild
of a furrier. This places her in an environment rich in occasions
and linguistic opportunities for poems. We follow the childhood and
the teen years with their drama of sexual awakening into the final
section where poems return to the late present and the ongoing romance
of married love.
—Madeline DeFrees
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Journeyman's Wages
Clemens Starck
"Some truly extraordinary poems here. Easily, gracefully, right up there
with the best work being done today."
—Jim Harrison
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In Out of Town, “memory and repetition drive Lex
Runciman’s moral investigations of a world —our world—which he
suspects may be an inappropriate place to investigate morally. But
what other world is there?”
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“This is how poetry should feel—a
community of warm, inviting voices,
a circle well-spoken, fierly-lit friends. ... Bravo to Cloudbank
Books for sharing these voices—and to Oregon, that sacred domain.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye
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“The intelligence, the imagination, the quick humor in
Solar Prominence all point in the same direction:
toward the poem as a made thing, a thing of light, crafted, the way
craft, through its various art, transforms the generalities into the
specifics of magic.”
—Stanley Plumly
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“Spiders, sow bugs, aphids, house flies, cabbage moths, stinging nettles—not
to mention beans, peach pits, and the pockets of warm air lingering under
willows—Goodrich's concern for all of nature, including us, is extraordinary,
and absolutely genuine.”
—Ginger Andrews
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Luge
Peter Sears
"Peter Sears is an heir to Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch. These breezy,
sometimes manic poems veer off in unexpected directions, a sensibility at
once comic and disarmingly revealing."
—Dorianne Laux
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“Is there any other poet who has sung so deeply and accurately
of the old? I don't think so. Given its range and depth and steadily
illuminating language, The Brink is a remarkable book.”
— Vern Rutsala
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“George Estreich is an engaging, alert, intelligent, playful,
and exhilarating poet, and his Textbook Illustrations of the
Human Body is a superb debut.”
—Michael McFee
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“Chris Anderson's My Problem with the Truth is
a book of largess and celebration. Its poems rise out of a quality
of attention—to feeling, thought, and, above all, language—that both
prompts and invites similar focus, similar absorption, from readers.”
—Lex Runciman
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“Peter Sears’ Tour is a delight—from the watercolor
blushes for loved ones, through the Monty Python self-conversations
in emergencies, up to Sears’ copping a feel off the ineffable.”
—Jack Myers
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China Basin
Clemens Starck
"I have been crazy about Clem Starck's poetry ever since I read it a few
years ago while picking him as the winner of the Oregon Book Award. I'm
not alone in particularly cherishing poems by people who work with their
hands. Carpenters, printers and factory workers are a fresh and vital antidote
to the myriad of academic poets. Cheers for Clem!"
—Carolyn Kizer
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