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“Reader, a question” by Eric Scott Sutherland

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pendulum_working_3-01Ever been so hungry
as to trade your
driver’s license,
your dignity
for a day-old muffin,

something worse?

–Eric Scott Sutherland,
Pendulum
Accents Publishing (2014)

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Eric Scott SutherlandEric Scott Sutherland is a hawk watcher, Kentucky creek walker, tree loving Lorax, community and event organizer, the author of two chapbooks and the full-length collection incommunicado (2007). pendulum is his fourth book of poems. He is the creator and host of Holler Poets Series, a monthly celebration of literature and music since 2008. Eric makes his nest in Lexington. Follow Eric and Holler at www.ericscottsutherland.com.

Pendulum ships today!

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PendulumThose of you lucky enough to have made it to this past weekend’s Book Fair at the Carnegie Center already had the chance to pick up our newest book, Pendulum by Eric Scott Sutherland.

In an interview by Christopher McCurry, Sutherland said that the book’s characters were inspired by those he saw as he worked at a small coffee shop at the Lexington Public Library’s Central branch. Those familiar with the library also know about the five-story high Foucault pendulum hanging since 2001.

plague

is always a dirty
paw away.

a hand not washed
in who knows how long.

a hand stained by soil
and cigarette resin, the filth
permanent under fingernails.

a hand sprouting long claws
the color of skin, camouflaged,
each one a hook, a tool to dig.

a hand counting out
eighty pennies for a soda.

-Eric Scott Sutherland,
Pendulum (2014 Accents Publishing
Eric Scott SutherlandEric Scott Sutherland is a hawk watcher, Kentucky creek walker, tree loving Lorax, community and event organizer, the author of two chapbooks and the full-length collection incommunicado (2007). pendulum is his fourth book of poems. He is the creator and host of Holler Poets Series, a monthly celebration of literature and music since 2008. Eric makes his nest in Lexington. Follow Eric and Holler at www.ericscottsutherland.com. 

“And the Pendulum Swings”: An Interview with Eric Scott Sutherland

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Eric SutherlandTell us about yourself and your full-length book Pendulum (Accents Publishing 2014).

My name is Eric Scott Sutherland. I am a lifelong Kentuckian and advocate for its beauty.  My fourth collection of poems, pendulum, is a tale of light and dark set in Lexington’s Central Library where I spent eight years managing a small cafe. The scene is overlooked by the Gatekeeper, yours truly, who watches the daily carousel of humanity coalesce and collide before his eyes. There is despair everywhere but the light of hope remains lit amid the struggle.

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