{"title":"Cider Press Review","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"inheritance-with-a-high-error-rate","title":"Inheritance with a High Error Rate","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for \u003cem\u003eInheritance with a High Error Rate:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much these days is abstracted by the meaningless language of politics, 24-hour news reels, social media, and disinformation. What the best poets do at their best is to counter that by ascribing authentic experiences and bearing witness to add new dimensions to discourse. This is exactly what Jen Karetnick accomplishes on the matter of climate change, with an authentic pounding of the heart, with a clear mind that explores terror as well as wonder, and with a soul that sees how the natural world connects concretely to womanhood, motherhood, and relationships of every kind. All this through the dexterity of her language that is as evocative and complex as nature itself in all its lushness, grit, grace, power, and vulnerability.  —\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Blanco\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHomeland of My Body\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eInheritance with a High Error Rate\u003c\/em\u003e carry environmental angst and individual, quotidian worries, and also manage to bound with wit and rhythm. From the edge of the Atlantic, in a landscape rife with moist heat, Jen Karetnick sees the ‛too-early bounty' of fruit. Here too is the body with its sharp struggles and markings of age. In form and in free verse, this resonant collection circles alarm, granting a hard-won, clear-eyed survival. ‛This is enough wealth to grip.'\"  —\u003cstrong\u003eLauren Camp\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eTook House\u003c\/em\u003e (Tupelo Press), and judge of the 2022 \u003cem\u003eCider Press Review\u003c\/em\u003e Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs much about catastrophe as it is about endurance, about decay as much as it is about beauty and life, Karetnick's haunting \u003cem\u003eInheritance with a High Error Rate \u003c\/em\u003eis an oceanic swell of poems tidally rising out of the Miami's landscape, continuously changed by eco-damage. Her lush, sensory images let us taste the mangos and coconuts, hear the swaying palms, and feel the rushing surf, reminding us how fleeting this splendor is. Deftly self-aware of the human cause of climate change, as well as its effect on us and the earth, these poems build a world in which our interconnectedness with nature is inescapable. In her opening poem, ‛I Commiserate with the Pygmy Octopus Found in the Miami Beach Parking Garage,' Karetnick shows us, ‛Bottom dwellers, holders \/ of the smallest hopes, we have so much in common.' This book reaches for hope, yes hope, in spite of everything going against us, ‛We nourish hope like a habit,' these poems sing. There is also an undercurrent of dark humor, an embrace of play, a music that keeps us turning the page and returning to it again. ‛And the whole sea \/ shuddered with this shred of saturated joy,' Karetnick writes, and reading, we too get to feel this joy, to hold it within our bodies and sense our connection to water and sand. This book is a breath of salty air—you don't just read, you inhale deep.  —\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e40 WEEKS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJen Karetnick is a poet who homes and listens and knows a place ‛as if the land itself is both mind and body.' In her glorious fifth poetry collection, Inheritance with a High Error Rate, she writes with formal invention into the shifting foundations of the subtropics and its precarious balance of flora and fauna, soil and sea. Of the pygmy octopus found in a parking garage, she says, ‛All three of your hearts were born to know what dying is.' Amidst displacement and upheaval, she continually reaches for the bounty of mangoes, the faith of ants, the language of gumbo limbo, oolite, bananaquit, and fetterbush. In her empathetic rendering of what builds and breaks a landscape, Karetnick has written a masterful paean to ‛the preservation of all that we have been given.'  —\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer K. Sweeney\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eFoxlogic, Fireweed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJen Karetnick\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of 11 poetry collections including \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Where Breath Used to Be\u003c\/em\u003e (David Robert Books, 2020), a CIPA Evvy Gold Medal winner and an Eric Hoffer Poetry Finalist. Her work has won the Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Wildacres Retreat, Mother's Milk Artist Residency, Centrum, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, and elsewhere. Karetnick is the co-founder and managing editor of \u003cem\u003eSWWIM Every Day\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48667720384829,"sku":"9781930781641","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781930781641ita.jpg?v=1715201256"},{"product_id":"the-acrobatic-company-of-the-invisible","title":"The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Acrobatic Company of the Invisible:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If George Looney's \u003ci\u003eThe Acrobatic Company of the Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully offers for our consideration a series of meetings, of light and grass, of figures in a photograph, of instants of space and time, it is above all a study of missed connections, of one awake and one asleep, of distances between word and meaning, the present and the absent, a face and a memory. And yet finally, throughout these poems there is music, there are sparrows, a moon that comes and goes, and the grace to counterbalance loss and departure.\" —Nancy Eimers, author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Figures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"George Looney has the uncanny ability to make readers smile while leading them through a valley littered with loss and a longing that 'haunts us more\/\/than the dead do.' Wryly observing that 'we keep [the dead] with us, still\/and outside time,' Looney offers music as a source of consolation to both the living and the ghosts living among us: 'An ibis calls out this morning,\/its song something\/both the dead and the living love.' Looney chooses not to succumb to sorrow, and the birds he summons in these achingly beautiful poems become metaphors for faith—'the faith\/that lets sparrows leap into air.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Nancy Naomi Carlson, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Infusion of Violets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this collection, Looney dances as if no one were watching as he turns longing, sorrow, and loss into prayer. He has a gift for light—'Everything\/bejeweled this morning, as if remembered,' 'this woman's bare shoulder\/illumined by a four-in-the-morning moon' —and an ear for birds—wrens, doves and starlings that sing baroque, and for the way, like them, a trapeze artist leaps into thin air. And if that weren't enough, he offers us such seemingly effortless phrases as 'the stink\/and nervous ruin of his cigarette,' and 'the rush and stuttering of wings.' Go see the acrobats. 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Lyric and sensual, feminist and vulnerable, Sara Moore Wagner makes the hero's journey her own, reveling in the transformations possible through deeper self-knowledge and the ensuing ability to express your desires.\" —Jessica Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48679972077885,"sku":"9781930781610","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781930781610ita.jpg?v=1780350202"},{"product_id":"scale-model-of-a-country-at-dawn","title":"Scale Model of a Country at Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an impressive mastery of sound matched only by his alchemical imagery, Williams guides readers along mythic highways, above oceans, and towards the reimagining of a bridge no one remembers. To conjure is a recurring theme in this impressive collection—as if language holds the power to reconfigure a past, a mother, a child. And perhaps it can. Williams' words are that convincing. Recasting home as conch shell, as ghost house, and as fire, we learn that we are held together by the tensile strength of our own narrative. I've circled and underlined lines on nearly every poem in\u003cem\u003e Scale Model of a Country at Dawn.\u003c\/em\u003e This is a book you'll want to read, and then turn to the first poem to enter again. Even if no one is safe from the wolves in our hearts, John Sibley Williams helps us live within these contradictions. —Susan Rich\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eScale Model of a Country at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e, John Sibley Williams illuminates a world that while filled with tragedy and ruin is likewise blooming with life and celebration. Here, we navigate the \"new constellations\" and \"vanquished sky\" after a friend's suicide; we contemplate the absence of earth and wonder if it can be \"filled with prayers\" again; and in between the oncology ward and the wildfires raging in Northern California, we see the quiet moments worth spending time with: a father witnessing his children coming into their own, a house in need of repair but still providing shelter, and the plethora of American landscapes where Williams' speakers have a chance to reflect and be themselves. Although in the course of this collection we may come to realize that there are \"far fewer gods\" than we thought before, Williams' poems are a gift that offer us something to believe in again and again.—Esteban Rodriguez\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ\u003cstrong\u003eohn Sibley Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eScale Model of a Country at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e (Cider Press Review Book Award, 2021),\u003cem\u003e The Drowning House\u003c\/em\u003e (Elixir Press Poetry Award, 2021), \u003cem\u003eAs One Fire Consumes Another\u003c\/em\u003e (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), \u003cem\u003eSkin Memory\u003c\/em\u003e (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019),\u003cem\u003e skycrape\u003c\/em\u003e (WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest), \u003cem\u003eSummon\u003c\/em\u003e (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and \u003cem\u003eControlled Hallucinations\u003c\/em\u003e. His book \u003cem\u003eSky Burial: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is forthcoming in translated form by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. He has also served as editor of two Northwest poetry anthologies, \u003cem\u003eAlive at the Center \u003c\/em\u003e(Ooligan Press, 2013) and \u003cem\u003eMotionless from the Iron Bridge \u003c\/em\u003e(barebones books, 2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA thirty-five-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Laux\/Millar Prize, Wabash Prize, Philip Booth Award, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, Confrontation Poetry Prize, and Vallum Award for Poetry. Previous publishing credits include: \u003cem\u003eBest American Poetry, Yale Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Review, \u003c\/em\u003eColorado Review\u003cem\u003e, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast\u003c\/em\u003e, and various anthologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier University and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University. He is the founder and head teacher of Caesura Poetry Workshop, a virtual workshop series, and serves as co-founder and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Inflectionist Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He also works as a poetry editor and book coach. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner and boisterous young twins, Kaiya and Addy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In Williams' poems there is also something larger and more fundamental afoot—namely a sense of betrayal of the American dream. In poem after poem the very foundations of life in America are eroding. Taken as a whole, \u003cem\u003eScale Model\u003c\/em\u003e is less an elegy or jeremiad, than a fulsome cri de coeur, a passionate, secular prayer for honesty and communal redemption.The book's eponymous poem begins with an epigraph defining a Hobson's choice, the decision to accept or refuse the one thing offered. Time offers the quintessential Hobson's choice: move forward or not at all. The only possible way to return to the past is through memory, a model of dubious verisimilitude by virtue of limited perspective and emotional refraction. It is important to note the time chosen for regarding this model of the past, since dawn implies the rebirth of hope, perhaps even joy, as the world of light, color, and clarity returns following a period of darkness.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eLinda Scheller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading the poems in John Sibley Williams' prophetic new book, \u003cem\u003eScale Model of a Country at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e, I kept envisioning Goya's famously austere painting, 'El Perro Semihundido,' which hangs in the Prado. That painting shows the head of a lone submerged dog with eyes looking upward, overwhelmed, almost subsumed by an ominous umbral mass below (perhaps a torrent of murky floodwater or the dismal edge of a ravine or dune). The distant grimy sky offers neither comfort nor answer to the dog's desperate plight. Nature itself seems set against him. Yet still the beast refuses to succumb, continuing to struggle and, perhaps, to hope for salvation. Williams' poems recount ecological disaster, persistent conflagrations, physical and mental decline, addiction, death, familial dissolution and loss, and relentless communal decay in the Pacific Northwest, as well as fatherly adoration, protection, and resilience. Although the settings are different, Goya's painting and Williams' poems share a sense of existential abandonment and powerlessness, but also courage and dogged persistence in the face of tumult. Though dire, neither is delirious or melodramatic. Instead, both dare to distill the stark dilemma of living in their times. They are truth-tellers, spurning delusion and distraction in favor of stern, lyrical disclosure. \" - \u003cstrong\u003eRalph Hamilton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eScale Model of a Country at Dawn \u003c\/em\u003eis the winner of the 2020 Cider Press Book Award and the sixth collection by John Sibley Williams, a decorated poet whose work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American. And no wonder. These are beautifully crafted poems, stunning in their use of imagery and devastating in their truths. Page by page, Sibley's newest poems are as carefully strung together as prayer beads, and it is possible to read them the same way one fingers, say, one's rosary. Grounded by running our hands along the familiar, we are left to concentrate on what we are praying to or for. We are immersed in the transcendent power of poetry. Stanley Kunitz once said, 'The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.' Williams, too, reports 'that dialogue' throughout this collection that explores both profound loss and the equally inescapable beauty of the world.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCarla Panciera\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Winner of the 2020 Cider Press Review Book Award, John Sibley Williams' \u003cem\u003eScale Model of a Country at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Cider Press in January this year. It is a collection of poems that sing and roil in their transformations. They plunge us into immediate tensions, an anticipation of movement as say in the first line of a poem like 'Winter Bazaar,' which begins, 'Not-yet broken crockery.' Or the poem 'Larynx' begins 'All this hum must come from somewhere.' It's the poetic equivalent of beginning in medias res. And such movement and tension are carried unbroken through poem after poem by a beautiful osculation of musical nuance and verb choice. The collection explores the difficult and likely impossible effort of establishing heaven on earth. What more would a parent want for their child than a world that is safe and beautiful to live in? But all those enumerated flaws: the symptoms and silences and rages also infect our children. Every effort at a better world leaves a trail of discarded utopias or, as the poem 'We Carry Wildfires in Our Guts' says, 'one of many discarded \/ rough drafts of heaven.' Although, this does not imply the stance is fatalistic. The struggle is perpetual and itself the worthy pursuit.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael T. 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By turns lamentation and consolation, it confronts grief and gain, always trying, as the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski wrote, \"to praise the mutilated world.\" \"Immensity \/ will only dare to come to you,\" one poem tells us, \"when surrender is ready in your hands.\" Here are poems that know that to have a self is to be both a witness to history and responsible for it. \"History \/ is only the body trying to become \/ a story that will outlast it,\" Fasano writes, and yet these poems also seek the dignity of the individual, a meaningful communion with others in what's common: \"As long as love \/ runs,\" we read, \"it is earthsong; it is wild \/ to be ridden in its irons \/ to another world. Another world. This one.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDorothea Lasky writes, \"This is the poet I trust to see the world as it is, quietly writhing around us, like Kafka and Rilke before him.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Fasano\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and educator. He studied mathematics and astrophysics at Harvard University before changing his course of study and earning a degree in philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of language after Wittgenstein. He did his graduate study in poetry at Columbia University, working with Mark Strand, Lucie Brock-Broido, Richard Howard, and others. Beyond his Professorships, Fasano is passionate about developing inclusive learning communities outside the walls of academic institutions. As an educator, his mission is to help each student synthesize diverse fields of study to develop a unique and informed voice, a depth of attention, and a capacity to break free of reductive mindsets. His \"Poetry Prompts,\" originally designed to help children create, have spread around the world, helping millions of people of all ages find their voices through the craft and magic of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFasano is the author of two novels: \u003cem\u003eThe Swallows of Lunetto\u003c\/em\u003e (Maudlin House, 2022) and \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing\u003c\/em\u003e (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the \"20 Best Small Press Books of 2020.\" His books of poetry are \u003cem\u003eThe Last Song of the World\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming from BOA Editions, 2024); \u003cem\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/em\u003e (Cider Press Review, 2018), praised by Ilya Kaminsky for its 'lush drive to live, even in the darkest moments'; \u003cem\u003eVincent \u003c\/em\u003e(Cider Press Review, 2015), which \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi Review\u003c\/em\u003e hailed as a 'major literary achievement'; \u003cem\u003eInheritance\u003c\/em\u003e (Cider Press Review, 2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee; \u003cem\u003eFugue for Other Hands\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) , which won the Cider Press Review Book Award and was nominated for the Poets' Prize, 'awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA winner of the \u003cem\u003eRATTLE Poetry Prize,\u003c\/em\u003e he serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books, and he is the Founder of the Poem for You Series. His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, American Poets, Measure, Tin House, American Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, Verse Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, the Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Late in Joseph Fasano's new book, \u003cem\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/em\u003e, are the lines: 'he knows \/ you cannot live in two worlds \/ forever.' In some sense, that is the challenge explored throughout: How does one continue in the face of great loss without denial, or despair, or consoling heavens? Yet, how still to acknowledge a palpable sense of the sacred, the beautiful, and the numinous in a world such as ours? Further, how to accept, if not reconcile, the pull of those two spheres? The first and longest poem, '\u003cem\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/em\u003e,' poem weaves together images and stories of a marionette's daughter, an alchemist, the narrator's ailing wife, an injured doe, a pianist, a Vietnam War veteran, a roan horse, nightingales, Job, and more.... The poet's narrative wends in and out—braiding, knotting, fraying—each story with its own music, each adding to the overall polyphony. Among repeated avowals of 'I don't know,' the poet concedes: 'What we have is music and its fading. \/ What we have is the hymn in us, and no player.' Offering neither bromides nor answers, it is as if the narrator is trying to ground himself, slow down his mind, clear his thoughts, in order to accept and perhaps witness to the mysterious, plangent complexity of life as he has found it. Again and again, the poet calls on us simply to 'Listen.'\" - \u003cstrong\u003eRalph Hamilton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is the poet I trust to see the world as it is, quietly writhing around us, like Kafka and Rilke before him.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDorothea Lasky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like Wagner and Mahler, preternaturally rich.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eRichard Howard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As wild and unpredictable as the best of Lorca.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eLois P. 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The poems in \u003cem\u003eWork by Bloodlight\u003c\/em\u003e are earthy, meticulous, and essential.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Bouwsma \u003c\/strong\u003elives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she is a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, small-town librarian and Maine's sixth Poet Laureate (2021-2026). Bouwsma is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eMidden\u003c\/em\u003e (Fordham University Press, 2018) and \u003cem\u003eWork by Bloodlight\u003c\/em\u003e (Cider Press Review, 2017), both of which received the Maine Literary Award for Poetry Book. Other honors include the Poet's Out Loud Prize (2016-17), the Cider Press Review Book Award (2015), and residency fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Monson Arts (Monson, ME), and Annex Arts (Castine, ME). Bouwsma's poems and book reviews can be found in \u003cem\u003eCutthroat, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, River Styx\u003c\/em\u003e, and other journals. She currently serves as the Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield, ME and teaches in the Creative Writing department at the University of Maine at Farmington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The elegiac is a most tender and yet most rigorous accounting. Every detail of its fact and decorum must register upon flesh, upon the syllables of flesh. In \u003cem\u003eWork By Bloodlight\u003c\/em\u003e, Bouwsma unfailingly discovers the higher registers and the keenest syllables. They beautifully prove to be a \"wingspan against snow.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eDonald Revell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What an earthy song, these poems! They rise up from the dark earth, the images quirked and turned to serve a raw transformative vision in this twenty-first century book of seeing with your eyes open. This book will be useful for visionaries, taxidermists, and all those who look for the exact knowledge of the sacred in profane earthy humanness.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eJoy Harjo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865704870205,"sku":"9781930781238","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781930781238ita.jpg?v=1717189181"},{"product_id":"vincent","title":"Vincent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book-length poem, told through the mask of a murderer, demands to be read in one sitting. Indeed, the thing held me spellbound with its quiet mania, its seductive otherworldliness, from start to finish, so much so that I wondered, who would dare refuse the ride, the chance to be driven by a single unrelenting sentence to a lyricism bordering on derangement from which there is no return? Not only is this Joseph Fasano's finest book to date, it's also the best long contemporary poem that I've read since I can't remember when.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy Liu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What does it mean to enter into and imagine the darkest corners of the human psyche? In \u003cem\u003eVincent\u003c\/em\u003e, Joseph Fasano not only puts on the mask of depravity, he imagines the speech acts and interior monologues of a killer, as though that killer had the associative diligence and skill of a poet. The result is an unnerving book that challenges the reader's assumptions about the role of beauty in poetry. Vincent is a chilling, memorable accomplishment.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMark Wunderlich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Fasano\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and educator. He studied mathematics and astrophysics at Harvard University before changing his course of study and earning a degree in philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of language after Wittgenstein. He did his graduate study in poetry at Columbia University, working with Mark Strand, Lucie Brock-Broido, Richard Howard, and others. Beyond his Professorships, Fasano is passionate about developing inclusive learning communities outside the walls of academic institutions. As an educator, his mission is to help each student synthesize diverse fields of study to develop a unique and informed voice, a depth of attention, and a capacity to break free of reductive mindsets. His \"Poetry Prompts,\" originally designed to help children create, have spread around the world, helping millions of people of all ages find their voices through the craft and magic of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFasano is the author of two novels: \u003cem\u003eThe Swallows of Lunetto\u003c\/em\u003e (Maudlin House, 2022) and \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing\u003c\/em\u003e (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the \"20 Best Small Press Books of 2020.\" His books of poetry are \u003cem\u003eThe Last Song of the World\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming from BOA Editions, 2024); \u003cem\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/em\u003e (Cider Press Review, 2018), praised by Ilya Kaminsky for its 'lush drive to live, even in the darkest moments'; \u003cem\u003eVincent\u003c\/em\u003e (Cider Press Review, 2015), which Rain Taxi Review hailed as a 'major literary achievement'; \u003cem\u003eInheritance\u003c\/em\u003e (Cider Press Review, 2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee; \u003cem\u003eFugue for Other Hands\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) , which won the Cider Press Review Book Award and was nominated for the Poets' Prize, 'awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA winner of the R\u003cem\u003eATTLE Poetry Prize\u003c\/em\u003e, he serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books, and he is the Founder of the Poem for You Series. 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In this second collection, Fason explores poetry in longer, more detailed forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Joseph Fasano's stunning second collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eInheritance,\u003c\/em\u003e offers us poem after poem of fierce beauty and visionary power, work whose subtext is always the vigilance of a restless dialectic, a kind of music that listens, that longs to transfigure suffering without violating its factual heartbreak. The counterpoint here would pitch testament against silence in a great bold fugue where loss connects, shame forgives, bitterness kneels—all as testament to the enormity of who we were, are, and are not yet. 'I've learned this much from music,' he writes, 'If you refuse \/ music, music will be given to you.' And what music indeed, what gifts. With just his second book, Joseph Fasano is one of the best poets I know.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eBruce Bond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Fasano\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and educator. He studied mathematics and astrophysics at Harvard University before changing his course of study and earning a degree in philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of language after Wittgenstein. He did his graduate study in poetry at Columbia University, working with Mark Strand, Lucie Brock-Broido, Richard Howard, and others. Beyond his Professorships, Fasano is passionate about developing inclusive learning communities outside the walls of academic institutions. As an educator, his mission is to help each student synthesize diverse fields of study to develop a unique and informed voice, a depth of attention, and a capacity to break free of reductive mindsets. 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His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, American Poets, Measure, Tin House, American Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, Verse Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, the Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In these moving, incandescent, and often mysterious poems, Joseph Fasano makes pain almost bearable with the beauty of his language, the wild leaps of his metaphors.  His is a strong and original voice!\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Linda Pastan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Almost everywhere you turn in \u003cem\u003eInheritance\u003c\/em\u003e, you find a poet brave enough to return poetry to its troubled and eternal origins…Fasano's otherworldly melancholy and grace turns out to also be a 'worldly clarity.' This is the poet I trust to see the world as it is, quietly writhing around us, like Kafka and Rilke before him. This is the poet who proves the world isn't what needs restoring so much as us.  With \u003cem\u003eInheritance\u003c\/em\u003e, the necessary gifts of one poet's visionary spirit are now not just his but thankfully ours.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDorothea Lasky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865766572349,"sku":"9781930781146","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781930781146ita.jpg?v=1717190701"},{"product_id":"fugue-for-other-hands","title":"Fugue for Other Hands","description":"\u003cp\u003eEloquent, haunting, and dangerously attuned to both the beauty and the suffering of almost everything alive, the poems in Joseph Fasano's exquisite \u003cem\u003eFugue for Other Hands\u003c\/em\u003e suggest the poetry Young Werther might have written if Goethe had transported him into 21st-century American adulthood instead of burying him under a linden tree in fictional Wahlheim. And yet there s no mistaking these poems so distinctive in their conception, and so bold in their execution for anyone else's. I can think of very few recent books of poetry that manage to create such a vivid, wild, psychologically resonant and quite possibly unforgettable atmosphere as that of Fasano's perpetual autumn--\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy Donnelly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhat indescribable, as original things often are, the poems of Joseph Fasano feel hunted, gathered, built like fires, brewed like storms. Elemental and feral, \u003cem\u003eFugue for Other Hands\u003c\/em\u003e is full of disturbing deeds and haunted rituals. At once mythic and specific, these poems are blood-stained, grief-scarred, providing their solace only from their commitment to art's depths. \"Say you were the wild gift,\" one poem states; Fasano has such a gift, and therefore with his bare hands and torn heart makes poems worth living in. --\u003cstrong\u003eJeanne Marie Beaumont\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Fasano\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and educator. He studied mathematics and astrophysics at Harvard University before changing his course of study and earning a degree in philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of language after Wittgenstein. He did his graduate study in poetry at Columbia University, working with Mark Strand, Lucie Brock-Broido, Richard Howard, and others. Beyond his Professorships, Fasano is passionate about developing inclusive learning communities outside the walls of academic institutions. As an educator, his mission is to help each student synthesize diverse fields of study to develop a unique and informed voice, a depth of attention, and a capacity to break free of reductive mindsets. 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His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, American Poets, Measure, Tin House, American Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, Verse Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, the Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications. It has been widely anthologized and translated into many languages, including Spanish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eloquent, haunting, and dangerously attuned to both the beauty and the suffering of almost everything alive, the poems in Joseph Fasano's exquisite \u003cem\u003eFugue for Other Hands\u003c\/em\u003e suggest the poetry Young Werther might have written if Goethe had transported him into 21st-century American adulthood instead of burying him under a linden tree in fictional Wahlheim. And yet there's no mistaking these poems so distinctive in their conception, and so bold in their execution for anyone else's. I can think of very few recent books of poetry that manage to create such a vivid, wild, psychologically resonant and quite possibly unforgettable atmosphere as that of Fasano's perpetual autumn, where a 'Teutonic man- \/ child' has 'cuffed himself fast \/\/ to a balsam,' where the wind is like 'a scribe \/ in his blindness, pacing the stones of his chamber,' and where October itself stands 'hunched like a colt \/ in a suit of black leaves.' Audacious, moody, surreal but never silly, wise but never pithy or pontificating, Fugue for Other Hands is like a skull-sized mushroom that appears in the forest after a rainstorm it is a logical product of the forest, and of the storm, and of time itself, but we still gasp when we behold it, and we are humbled to have it entrusted to us.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTimothy Donnelly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I have seen these poems coming for some time, but it is only now, when they are ample within my grasp, dark to my eyes and dolorous to my hearing feast and leave not plenty is the poet's desperate gospel that I have learned their active nature, how they attend in the reading: it is country-living and country-perishing that is consecrated here, where Joe Fasano traverses each threshold 'the way a child touches everything, with the hand of his murderer.' These hinterland poems are singularly lovely, but it is in their multifold gathering that they score, that they gain their ultimate musical identity, 'a symphony of release' the poet calls it, like Wagner and Mahler, preternaturally rich.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Richard Howard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865808122173,"sku":"9781930781115","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781930781115ita.jpg?v=1717191415"},{"product_id":"resurrected-body","title":"Resurrected Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew poems by Elizabeth C. Garcia. Sandra Meek writes, \"Clear-eyed and insightful, these startlingly honest poems examine what it means to be mother, writer, self, a body's archive of memory, when even 'firmament' offers no safe ground, but 'any moment \/ could swallow you.' Still, through language, the natural world, and human connection, 'the wide tent of each other,' these poems seek a way 'to learn \/\/ what resurrection must look like, \/ how lightning's bright erasures \/ can bring you to the brink, and allow you, \/ again and again, to start over.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatie Manning, editor of Whale Road Review, notes, \"In \u003cem\u003eResurrected Body\u003c\/em\u003e, Elizabeth Garcia offers us one vivid version of what to expect from parenthood based on the experiences of both mother and child.... These poems weave together God, Mary Shelley, autobiography, and more, and the results are intriguing and surprising.\" Winner of the 2023 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Cranford Garcia\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eStunt Double \u003c\/em\u003e(Finishing Line Press, 2016) and recipient of the 2022 Banyan Poetry Prize. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has appeared in \u003cem\u003eSouthern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, RHINO, Portland Review, CALYX, Chautauqua, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, SoFloPoJo, Mom Egg Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePsaltery \u0026amp; Lyre\u003c\/em\u003e among others, as well as \u003cem\u003eFire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Georgia State and a mother of three. This is her first collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"How high motherhood ranks among the muses poets keep returning to matters little to the challenge poets face: how to make it new? Sing, as Elizabeth Garcia does, from the mouth of mothers who have become 'an archive, \/ evidence of all the bodies [they have] given \/ and received.' Believe, as these speakers do, that what restores the body beyond the hope of resurrection is language, making words 'a matter of sticks to gather up and burn.' This is astounding work: funny, fractured, patient, as close to life and time as any parent is, watching her child at play: 'one muscle of present tense, \/ her hair carrying \/ the light.'\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMario Chard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'You will be spatchcocked \/ your sternum, your backbone scissored out,' Elizabeth Garcia's remarkable collection \u003cem\u003eResurrected Body\u003c\/em\u003e begins. Clear-eyed and insightful, these startlingly honest poems examine what it means to be mother, writer, self, a body's archive of memory, when even 'firmament' offers no safe ground, but 'any moment \/ could swallow you.' Still, through language, the natural world, and human connection, 'the wide tent of each other,' these poems seek a way 'to learn \/\/ what resurrection must look like, \/ how lightning's bright erasures \/ can bring you to the brink, and allow you, \/ again and again, to start over.'\" - \u003cstrong\u003eSandra Meek\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In Resurrected Body, Elizabeth Garcia offers us one vivid version of what to expect from parenthood based on the experiences of both mother and child. 'Here I bear every imaginable load,' she writes in 'Motherhood as Safety Coffin.' These poems weave together God, Mary Shelley, autobiography, and more, and the results are intriguing and surprising. I have no doubt that you will, like me, find yourself mesmerized by the stories and voices in this book.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Katie Manning\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49158102286653,"sku":"9781930781658","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781930781658ita.jpg?v=1721839287"},{"product_id":"prayers-to-a-small-stone","title":"Prayers to a Small Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003ePrayers to a Small Stone:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jo Brachman's collection, \u003ci\u003ePrayers to a Small Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, is wonderfully titled, and its poems (to borrow description from the book's own varied pages) know no boundaries, no maps, no roads, no signposts, and talk in a dream tongue that bears no translation. What stands out here is that Brachman is a poet who understands that familiar modes of navigation are useful but not necessarily enough. She also understands that the psyche bears no translation because it exists beneath and beyond our language, and the poet must use what language we do have to intimate the deepest feelings, the buried imperatives that live beyond our control. What is remarkable is that Jo Brachman takes us with her as she assays the elements of her active self, elements so much like our own: love, death, mother, brother, jubilation, despair, breath, wonder and beyond. And we see into the mysterious yet familiar other who will not back away from anything that has to do with life—her life and the lives around her. Prayers, indeed. To a small stone? Yes. And this reader would add, prayer to something far more, and perhaps, except for the art of poetry, unsayable.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Frank X. 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This book with its prayer-poems will linger, will leave you as Brachman writes in ‛Up Moons Grove Road,' ‛edging into dream.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Katie Chaple, author of \u003ci\u003ePretty Little Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49608871280957,"sku":"9781930781665","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/3dd00afdf0ce45d99c8509a20041119d.jpg?v=1732304201"},{"product_id":"a-pound-of-cure","title":"A Pound of Cure","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eA Pound of Cure:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003ci\u003eA Pound of Cure\u003c\/i\u003e have a clarity of vision, a wisdom earned in a life weighed and measured. 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In these poems, a father's abandonment creates both ache and aperture, and a matrilineal thread—woven through mothers, grandmothers, and women artists—offers confirmation that \"You can't\/ wipe a woman away.\" Layered with longing, love, and the fierce beauty of the natural world, \u003ci\u003eGirl Filling the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e sings with bruised truth and a deep-rooted wildness. —Cecily Parks, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Seeds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl Filling the Sky\u003c\/i\u003eis a terrific collection of poems to fill a reader's heart—so richly. I love the staggering precision of these poems. How does Melissa McEver Huckabay write without ever including a single extra word? In poems that feel somehow luscious and spare at once, the untwining of her own childhood in Texas pulls us in. Her growing up years...here are people who loved her, people she loved, her own tenderness around mothering. \"Maybe that's what a mother becomes:\/ a piercing.\" It's a passionately visual and heartfelt journey, a pleasure to absorb, a haunting meditation on time and care. —Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, essayist, and editor of \u003ci\u003eThis Same Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love this book for its near dislocation from wisdom, necessary because Melissa McEver Huckabay's attention is so deeply loyal to embodiment that the perfect clean weight of wisdom is beside the point; this is a poetry that is both drenched and flammable with memory, with entering, being entered, being born and giving birth. These poems will wake readers into a familiar wildness we've too often been told not to touch. These poems, startlingly alive, burn and char and split with all the forms of love one can almost eat. 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