Annis Cassells
What the Country Wrought
Purple Door Press, 2023
$15.00
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“In her beautiful and bracing second collection of poems, Annis Cassells traverses time, geography, and generations to bring us poems that are at once personal and political, both historical and immediate. In fact, almost alchemically, they manage to be all those things at once." –Catherine Abbey Hodges
Poems read:
“Five & Dime Memories"
“Thank You for Your Service" “Sorority"
“Mayday in May 2020"
“Resilience"
Brittney Corrigan
Solastalgia
JackLeg Press, 2023
$18
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The word solastalgia is a neologism that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change. The poems in this collection explore issues of climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene age.
“These poems are a requiem for what is lost and what we’re losing. They are also a rallying cry, refusing to erase the efforts of the many cries for climate justice ringing around the world.” —Camille Dungy
Poems read:
“The Strip Mall Changes Its Mind” “Elegy for One Billion Animals” “Anthropocene Blessing: California Condor”
“Miraculous”
Linda Nemec Foster
Bone Country
Cornerstone Press, 2023
$21.95
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Linda Nemec Foster's acclaimed new book, Bone Country, is a stunning collection of prose poems that reflects the world before COVID: a world on the brink of an unforeseen catastrophe–the world as we used to know it.
Poems read:
“Conjuring Her Face"
“Arriving at the Train Station, the Last Place I Saw Lara Alive"
“Painted Toenails in Ukraine"
“On the Other Side of the World" (four short vignettes)
“After the Funeral in Seville"
“Statue of a Woman with Broken Serpents Embracing Her"
“The Train Station, Vienna"
“The Horseradish Dish"
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