The Powow River Poets Anthology II
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Overview
The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues the tradition of memorable poetry from the Powow River Poets. This group of uniquely talented, award-winning writers is centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but includes members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. Twenty-seven poets are represented in this volume of the anthology, including Rhina P. Espaillat, A.M. Juster, and Deborah Warren. Here, find masterful poems in form and free verse, on an eclectic range of subjects spanning the domestic to the global, celebrations to mourning, the whimsical to the heartbreaking. It is especially a showcase of the formal prowess of these accomplished poets. The dazzling array of given and nonce forms, including blank verse, triolet, abecedarian, sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and more will inspire with many examples of craftsmanship heightening emotional engagement and insight.
PRAISE FOR THE POWOW RIVER POETS ANTHOLOGY II:
Dedicated to the late Powow River Poet, David Berman, The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues in the splendid tradition of the group's previous tome, published in 2006. Twenty-seven poets touch on themes ranging from the simple joys of friendship, nature, and art, to the complex issues of faith and doubt, love and loss. Guffaw-inducing humor and biting wit abound, as well as solemn reflections on suicide, domestic violence, social injustice, betrayal, illness, aging, and death. In Rhina P. Espaillat's beautiful villanelle, "Guidelines," included in this collection, the poet wisely urges us to find something to love, perhaps "a line of verse . . . that feels like the world's heart since time began." Beyond question, the poems in The Powow River Poets Anthology II echo the world's heart. -Catherine Chandler, author of Pointing Home
It might be far-fetched to suggest that the Muses have sprinkled a generous share of their gifts into the waters of the Powow River . . . [near] the historic town of Newburyport . . . where the Powow River Poets established their home base three decades ago-but how else to explain the lyric fluency, robust talent, and refreshing wit that consistently distinguish this group? -Leslie Monsour (from the introduction), author of The House Sitter
The Powow River Poets are a group known for their concern with the craftsmanship of verse, and for the formal dexterity and precision of their poems-qualities profusely exemplified in this new collection. As might be expected, there are tricky forms in abundance here-sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina-but what is so memorable about so many of the poems is their continual precision of observation and depth of nuanced feeling. To paraphrase Pope, come for the flow of reason, stay for the feast of soul. This is a really delightfully various and moving collection, one to browse happily in and return to often. -Dick Davis, author of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
The Powow River Poets are a gathering of widely published, award-winning New England poets, centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but including members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. More about the Powow River Poets can be found at powowriverpoets.com.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781773490755 |
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| Publisher: | Able Muse Press |
| Publication date: | 01/16/2021 |
| Pages: | 172 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Born in Hollywood, California, LESLIE MONSOUR grew up in Mexico City, Chicago, and Panama. She was educated at Scripps College in Claremont California, Canal Zone College in Panama, and received her BA in English literature at the University of Colorado in Boulder with a minor in Hispanic literature. Monsour has been a reference assistant at the Huntington in Pasadena, California, a news reporter for Pacifica radio, a book critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and a research consultant for documentary films. She has been a poetry instructor for the bilingual and gifted programs of the Los Angeles school system and the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension, and has taught master classes in poetry for the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Extension program of UC Berkeley, The English Departments of El Camino and East Los Angeles Colleges, the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices program, and the alumnae of Scripps College.
Table of Contents
vii INTRODUCTION
3 MEREDITH BERGMANN
The Bird in the Bathroom 3
That Fruit 4
From the New House 5
Period Furniture: The Royal Bedchamber 6
Lost Wax 7
8 WENDY CANNELLA
The Word Slut 8
Message from a Dead Pearl Diver 10
11 MICHAEL CANTOR
Tree Swallows in August 11
The Love of Sushi Sue 12
To an Old Friend Who Died Young 14
Lament 15
For Harry, Who Had Three Passports 16
17 BARBARA LYNDECKER CRANE
My Fault Lines 17
Conjuring a Son 18
Shards of Knowing 19
22 ROBERT W. CRAWFORD
The Empty Chair 22
Kitchen Remodeling 23
What Matters Here 24
A Passenger 25
Grappling Hook 26
Hawks in the Leaves 27
28 DAVID DAVIS
Sonnet with Horse 28
Larkspur 29
The Waterfall 30
The Juggler 32
Dawn 33
34 M. FROST DELANEY
What Joseph Might Have Said 34
When You’re Left Behind 35
Silence 36
37 RHINA P. ESPAILLAT
After 37
Just Stopping 38
On the Promenade 40
Bra 42
Guidelines 43
44 MIDGE GOLDBERG
Walking on Ice 44
Snowman’s Code 45
At the U-Pick 46
Breakfast Shift at the Inn 47
Paper Town 48
Telling 49
50 OWEN GREY
Hades Creek, Washington 50
Distances 52
53 A.M. JUSTER
Backup Plan 53
Proposed Clichés 54
Love Song 56
Houseguests 57
Fugitive Son 58
59 DON KIMBALL
William, 1949-1966 59
Journal of a Flatlander 60
Birch 61
Burial for a Stray 62
63 JOAN ALICE WOOD KIMBALL
On First Looking at Rembrandt’s
The Shipbuilder and His Wife 63
Hypatia, 415 CE 64
Chauvet Cave 66
Rhymes from a River 67
68 JEAN L. KREILING
Winter Boats 68
No Escape 69
Left Out 70
Ovillejo for the Librarian 71
Brahms on Interstate 95 72
Children Playing on the Beach 74
75 NANCY BAILEY MILLER
Suitcase 75
Revisiting “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” 76
Eden 1843 77
78 ANNE MULVEY
Talking Back 78
Teen Angels: High Hopes, Circa 1960 79
For Patricia, Whose Hair I Straightened in 1962 80
82 JAMES NAJARIAN
Genealogy 82
The Frat Boys 84
The Annunciation 86
87 ALFRED NICOL
One Day 87
Old Haunt 88
October 1962 90
At Dusk 91
Nuts 92
94 KYLE POTVIN
Diagnosis 94
The Hard Work of Dying 95
To My Children Reading My Poetry after I’m Gone 96
Fireball 97
Love Note 98
99 JOSÉ EDMUNDO OCAMPO REYES
Portrait of Chichikov as a Mortgage Trader 99
Instructions to Travelers from the Third World 100
Boondocks 102
103 MARYBETH RUA-LARSEN
Spiderwort 103
West Second Street, Oswego, 1986 104
106 ANDREW SZILVASY
Faculty Welcome 106
Beyond All Change 108
109 TORI TREADWAY
All the Weird Ones Come to Me 109
You in Socks 110
Overheard at the Grotto above Assisi 111
The Shawl 112
Late Harvest 113
114 PAULETTE DEMERS TURCO
Work or Play 114
Almost Overnight in Tuam 115
Singer 116
Hours Arrested 118
119 DEBORAH WARREN
Song of the Egg 119
Down-to-Earth 120
Mole 121
Swimmer 122
Haircut 123
Un bar aux Folies-Bergère 124
The Ballet of the Eight-Week Kittens 125
126 JAY WICKERSHAM
Blackout (1965) 126
Two Scenes after Edward Hopper 127
The Stain on the Ceiling 128
Night Crossing 130
131 ANTON YAKOVLEV
Peter’s Denial 131
The Informant 132
Ask Anyone 134
Hepburn to Tracy: A Dismantling 135
136 ABOUT THE EDITOR
137 CONTRIBUTORS
145 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS