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Blue Positive

martha silano

Martha Silano's poems are full of sex and birth and food, mind and body. Their richness of detail makes reading this book like entering a home: there is a bustle to her language as she tries to gather everything she loves. Silano writes, I'm surprised how the trees keep themselves/from falling, how mostly stable this sloping, unpredictable earth.' By the end of BLUE POSITIVE, I trust both her surprise and her wisdom.—Bob Hicok

 

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Conditions and Cures

ken waldman

Full of poems that stand alone as consummate accomplishments, Conditions and Cures nevertheless coheres as a book about life-and-death verities, strategies for survival or triumph or at least coping gracefully. The comic is one of those strategies, and Ken Waldman is often at his most hilarious when he’s addressing subjects another poet might murder with solemnity. —Philip Dacey

 

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Diary of a Cell

jennifer gresham

In Diary of a Cell Jennifer Gresham lays a sharply focused lens of language on the surface of experience to learn, as she says in 'Anatomy', 'the secrets out of the deep.' The depths here are not measured in fathoms or leagues but by the complicated and complex scale of human emotions. Gresham is a clear-headed and clear-eyed poet who understands 'why the memory of kindness/can find us in the dark' and her debut volume radiates with the light of this discovery.—Michael Collier

 

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