Tim Hunt
Voice to Voice in the Dark
Broadstone Books, 2022
$18.50
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We often talk about the need to construct a usable past, but even more we need to discover a usable present, and that’s partly a matter of reimagining the past to understand how we lived it and how it lives in us. The poems in Voice to Voice in the Dark try to explore this dialogue.
Poems read:
“Song of the Open Road”
“A Grammar of Things”
“A Photo You Meant to Take”
“The Story”
Jessica Murray
Breakfast in Fur
Galileo Press, 2022
$16.42
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“Aristotle claimed learning gives the human animal the liveliest pleasure. Breakfast in Fur celebrates this strange gift. The pleasures of this book surprise and delight as they defy conventions of self-searching and introspection. Jessica Murray plumbs discordant sources in our strange world, from pornography to ceramic art, from marriage to childbirth to friendship to fleeting glance. A spiritual autobiography of great daring that celebrates the well-made mistake rather than protecting the untaken chance, at its best moments, it is coldly wild, and full of vivid experiment.”
–Katie Peterson
Poems read:
“The State With the Prettiest Name" “After Reading Sally Mann's Memoir"
Adam Scheffler
Heartworm
Moon City Press, 2023
$14.95
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“Adam Scheffler's addictively re-readable poems take us into the daily jumble of Walmarts, dogparks, and the alluring, dubious friendliness of the internet. The "heartworm" of this book's title solicits attention and, even, prescription for all that gnaws at you. These are poems to read when you can't tell excitement from agitation. You are not alone.”
–Elisa New, Director and Host of PBS’s Poetry in America
Poems read:
“I Want to be Jeff Goldblum”
“Dear Florida”
“Florence, Kentucky”