 The Chaos of Desire
Marin Bodakov
This collection of poems by late Bulgarian poet Marin Bodakov, selected and translated by Katerina Stoykova, brings to English language readers Bodakov's minimalistic style—a few sparse words, each integral to building the structure of the poem. Nothing excessive or gratuitous. Yet somehow, the atomic cage of the poem unlocks something inside the reader—releases the trapped energy of unsaid truths. "Bodakov's poems rank alongside those of his contemporary surrealist masters—Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Octavio Paz, Nicanor Parra. Deftly translated by Katerina Stoykova, each work is spare, sinewy, full of small but powerful surprises that induce you to blink, pause, begin again. These are poems to linger over. Each reading brings new rewards."—Andrew Merton
ISBN: 978-1-961127-11-1
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 Woe & Awe
Lisa M. Miller
The poems in Lisa M. Miller's debut poetry collection, Woe & Awe, draw us in with their timeless perspective and contemporary language and hold us with their fearless depth and beauty. "Throughout Woe & Awe, Lisa M. Miller invokes the voices of female ancestors, physical and spiritual, who dare to suggest, "What if adversity has always been/essential?" Sustained by their spirit, Miller wrestles intergenerational and personal trauma in poems of vision, wit, and fierce clarity. Woe & Awe spans a lifetime, addressing personal crises, cultural history, and the Jewish diaspora. By the end of the volume we've seen the poet rendered whole, daughter and mother, deep in the joy of her own daughters, carrying her darkness and bearing the care of others who've been damaged."—Leatha Kendrick
ISBN: 978-1-961127-08-1
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 Blast Radius
Douglas E. Self
Blast Radius is the first published volume of poetry by Iraq veteran Douglas E. Self. This book is a powerful examination of the devastating effects of PTSD on every aspect of a veteran's life. "Doug Self's inaugural chapbook of poetry, Blast Radius, indeed creates wildly imaginative collateral waves of unforgettable language that continue to thunder and reverberate long after you close the volume. Self employs a deft matter-of-fact, often tongue-in-cheek, documentary delivery that makes its subject matter percussive and absolutely inimitable."—Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012–14)
ISBN: 978-1-961127-06-7
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 A Field of First Things
Greg Pape
In A Field of First Things, you can read some of Greg Pape's best work, featuring narrative poems of beauty and compassion, poems addressing the complex interdependence between humans and the natural world. "From Captiva Island's dock to a shared deep dive into Moby Dick, to the crashing waves in the South Bay, to a pool of mountain water, Greg Pape transports the reader across liquid time. Imbued with the trust of a loyal dog, we ride along like Lulu, marveling at Sandhill cranes and bucks in the Bitterroots, stare out at wide open mysterious desert nights and back into the still wet lives of people who have earned their venerable places in a constellation of shimmering memories. A Field of First Things allows the reader to experience the full power of a master poet who carries us willingly along on a journey where we are at once the ocean and the whale. And we all rise to the surface better for it."—Frank X Walker
ISBN: 978-1-961127-01-2
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 Fathers
Richard Taylor
"True to his title, there are many fathers (along with a few prominent women) celebrated here, foremost his own father Joe Howard "Buzz" Taylor, as well as ancestors like Reuben Taylor, first of his Kentucky line, surrogate fathers including his Uncle Louis and best friend David Orr, and his son, now a father himself, continuing the generational saga. But recalling that the child is father of the man, the chief reason to welcome this book is for the insights it affords into Taylor's early life story, including nostalgic accounts of his childhood in and around Louisville, Kentucky. Taylor says this may be as close to an autobiography as he is apt to write, which is all the more reason to cherish these sketches from the life of a true Kentucky literary treasure."—Larry W. Moore
ISBN: 978-1-961127-02-9
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 Boney-Fingered Reach for God
Mark Russell Brown
" Boney-Fingered Reach for God is a remarkable debut, a testament to Mark Brown's striking imagination, energetic vocabulary, and devotion to intense love relationships. This three-part work is fueled as well by the poet's appreciation for the bizarre in historical situations, culminating in poems that literally radiate around the life of Marie Curie. Brown's vulnerable investigations of love and his wacky narratives are made all the more vibrant by the poet's metaphorical skill. It is bittersweet that the gracefully sequenced Boney-Fingered Reach for God is also Mark Brown's posthumous signature, the life of a poet cut short."—Molly Peacock, author of A Friend Sails in on a Poem
ISBN: 978-1-936628-99-5
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 The Invisible Arm of Peace
Khairi Hamdan
Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you an English language collection by Jordanian-Bulgarian poet Khairi Hamdan, selected and translated by Katerina Stoykova. In these poems you will find the sand of the Sahara Desert, the Bedouin, the Dervish, and unmediated conversations with God. You will encounter destroyed temples, refugee camps, border patrol, children with nontraditional names. You will also find lyrical poetry of intimate tenderness and the unrelenting drive to be a better human being.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-93-3
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 Girl
Wendy Jett
Wendy Jett's debut book, Girl is a mixed-genre family story, told through the innocent perspective of a young daughter, granddaughter, sister, friend. Stories and poems propel the narrative both in action and in emotion. Triumphs, tragedies, mysteries and cooking recipes work together to add their flavor into this full-bodied world. "In honest and captivating language, Jett weaves a mixture of story, poem, song, and recipe. The result is a compelling and heartfelt story where the underlying tension builds beautifully to an unexpected end. Wendy Jett is a born writer, poet, and all around marvelous storyteller. Exhale and read again."—Allison Thorpe, author of Reckless Pilgrims
ISBN: 978-1-936628-96-4
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 Strictly From Hunger
Jennifer Litt
Strictly From Hunger by Jennifer Litt is a powerful debut collection by a poet who has spent decades mastering a diverse set of literary skills, including writing fiction, poetry, teaching and consulting. The voice is playful, yet fearless, and walks us through events personal yet relatable. " Strictly from Hunger is a poetry collection that remembers a life well spent. These poems reach into early memories and reflect on dreams dared, mistakes made, and desires pursued through the years. Snapshots of first jobs and first loves mature into snapshots of a marriage ended and a marriage begun, before shifting to last moments with loved ones. Jennifer Litt deftly weaves nostalgia together with exuberance for the small ecstasies of being alive, illuminating the wisdom of embracing the present with an eye to both the past and the future."—Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
ISBN: 978-1-936628-94-0
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 Bardo of Becoming
Pat Williams Owen
" Bardo of Becoming is full of tender, questioning memories of a beloved father, a departed dog, a cherished partner—all of them gone now, leaving the writer with the small sensual details that make up a life; taste of cheese and crackers dissolving in the mouth, delicate scent of amaryllis, an ancient address book stuffed with post-it notes, all evidence of a life vibrantly lived, and living still in present time. In Owen's world the dead and the living rub shoulders, and the bardo of becoming is fresh as spring grass under a young girl's fingers, and always happening now."—Alison Luterman
ISBN: 978-1-936628-91-9
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 I Am Woman
Yvonne M. Johnson
Accents Publishing's first poetry collection by Affrilachian poet Yvonne Johnson, I Am Woman, is an exploration of how patriarchal societies define womanhood. Many women find themselves in a world where rape culture and purity culture dominate how they view their body and what it means to be a woman. This chapbook confronts many topics from the sexualization of the female body and a lack of sexual education to experiences of sexual abuse and the complexities of gender. "Yvonne M. Johnson's poetry possesses an unflinching honesty and lyrical beauty even in the midst of painful subjects. The poems of I am Woman are strongly womanist and Affrilachian. Johnson explores the nuances of gender and sexuality with lyrical compassion and gives female bodies voice."—Kelly Norman Ellis
ISBN: 978-1-936628-87-2
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 Selected Short Stories
Ludmil Todorov
Accents Publishing is thrilled to bring to you the selected short stories of Ludmil Todorov. This is the first opportunity for the English-speaking reader to experience the unique storytelling voice of this accomplished Bulgarian author, screen writer and filmmaker. "With his eloquent, new story collection Ludmil Todorov offers readers an array of delightfully flawed Bulgarian characters that find unique, interesting, and often marvelously amusing ways of coping with life. It reads like a fun guide for how people should and should not behave in the world."—Toni Ann Johnson, author of Homegoing
ISBN: 978-1-936628-82-7
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 Homegoing
Toni Ann Johnson
Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson follows a middle-aged African-American woman facing loss as she returns to her conservative white hometown. This fearless book tackles issues such as race, isolation, childhood trauma, abandonment and ultimately healing. Homegoing won the Accents Publishing Inaugural Novella Contest. "Toni Ann Johnson has in Homegoing harnessed the unique power and grace of the novella. There's not a wasted word in this cinematically told, immediately engaging story, and yet the form affords her the length to develop characters whose deeply felt humanity makes them memorable."—Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellow and author of The Coast of Chicago, a New York Times Notable Book
ISBN: 978-1-936628-66-7
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 In With the Old, Out With the New
Jude Lally
Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you Jude Lally's third volume of poetry. In With the Old, Out With the New arrives eight years after I'm Fine But Thanks for Asking and eleven years after The View From Down Here—the very first book to come out of Accents Publishing. "In this year of COVID, we bump up against imposed boundaries that close in our lives. But now we have Jude Lally's third volume of poetry to help us put some perspective on what it means to live a confined life. With sharp wit, understated humor and an ear for language, he invites us into a constrained world that he has made expansive."—Jim Lally
ISBN: 978-1-936628-63-6
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 Open Burning (Paperback)
Christopher McCurry
Please note that this is the paperback version of the book. For the hardcover version, see below, or click here.
At times elliptical and surreal, the emotional and psychological landscape of these poems is punctuated by flashes of the real risks and rewards of navigating difficult times with grace and compassion. Through the magic of these well-crafted poems, we become invested in the seemingly inconsequential as well as the life-changing.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-61-2
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 Masked Man, Black
Frank X Walker
"Professor Frank X Walker has yet again used his superpowers to insert a conscience into the tumultuous cacophony that is social media. His latest series of poems debuted in our news feeds, week after week, speaking truth to the tangled web of perspectives splattered across our digital landscape. By spreading light in our darkest times, our Professor X speaks to a class of students, who have been mutated by the pandemic, by political doublespeak and visions of violence and brutality from around the world. With each new line of prose, our Professor X reads our minds and speaks to our hearts. Catharsis and metamorphosis are experienced simultaneously for the reader."—Willard C. Watson III
ISBN: 978-1-936628-59-9
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 The Junkie Who Loved Horses
Sonja de Vries
This book contains beautifully authentic poems by formerly incarcerated men. These poems do not leave the reader indifferent. They teach, surprise, delight, break your heart. We're thankful for the hard work Sonja has put into editing this collection and we're honored to carry it out into the world.
"These poems are raw and unflinching. They are filled with regret and possibility. They pay tribute to those loved and lost and confess their humanity on each and every page. If you need to escape, inside this cake is a saw."—Frank X Walker
ISBN: 978-1-936628-57-5
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 Open Burning
Christopher McCurry
At times elliptical and surreal, the emotional and psychological landscape of these poems is punctuated by flashes of the real risks and rewards of navigating difficult times with grace and compassion. Through the magic of these well-crafted poems, we become invested in the seemingly inconsequential as well as the life-changing.
"The poems in this rich collection are both spare and candid, chronicling the demise of a marriage, even as it nearly coincides with a father's blooming love for his young daughter. One love is lost, but a wholly different love arrives. At times the contrast is inexplicable and the speaking voice in these poems doesn't quite know to whom the poems should be addressed. That is a perspective I find so arresting in this book, a crossroads of grief that has no bottom and love that has no end, weighted with the plain responsibility of somehow going forward.
—Maurice Manning
ISBN: 978-1-936628-55-1
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 Literary Accents, vol. 1 issue 2
Accents Publishing
If you're not already a subscriber, you can now order Volume 1, Issue 2 of Literary Accents. This issue focuses on funny poems, in the broadest sense of the word.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-53-7
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 Literary Accents, vol. 1 issue 1
Accents Publishing
If you're not already a subscriber, you can now order Volume 1, Issue 1 of Literary Accents. This magazine features 56 poems of up to 50 words by 35 masters of the short poem. Please also consider buying a print or digital-only subscription to the magazine.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-51-3
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 Second Skin
Katerina Stoykova
" Second Skin by Katerina Stoykova is a brief, but more than sufficient book. It is more than sufficient to expose the issue of domestic violence, and along with one child's fear—the fear of every child forced to love an abusive parent. The second skin you wear to hide what happens at home; second skin that cannot contain you. A book about the guilt due to the inability to forgive, about hatred towards the one who has moved on and forgotten. A book about the children cowering in the corners of their own powerlessness, who thirty years later continue hearing the screams from the other room. Difficult, true, and exceptionally important."—Natalia Deleva
ISBN: 978-619-7153-43-9
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 Orion's Belt at the End of the Drive
Pat Williams Owen
"What words to describe the poems in Pat Owen's new collection, Orion's Belt at the End of the Drive? I find them meditative, prayerful, haiku-like in their brevity and subtle wisdom. They move fluidly from natural to urban, solitary to communal, river to ocean, young to old, dark to light, observation to appreciation. They're built of questioning, of living, and of a deep desire to understand the self, others, and to find peace in a chaotic world and within the context of mortality."—Maureen Morehead
ISBN: 978-1-936628-47-6
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 Fountains for orpheus
Audrey Rooney
"In Fountains for Orpheus, Audrey Rooney invites us to bring our artist eyes to the beauty-filled and bewildering scenes of her well-lived life. 'Come, Gardener,' she writes, and we are introduced to a world of violet skies, river deaths, and small talk. She's a keen writer, wise and intelligent. Emotionally, she never strays far from her music or her man. Congratulations to Audrey for this delightful debut collection!"—Neil Chethik
ISBN: 978-1-936628-45-2
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 Circe's Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry
Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Eds.
" Circe's Lament collects work by some of the best poets writing today—from Ellen Bass to Frank X Walker—in celebration of the wild feminine: the fierce, the furious, the bruised and battered, the hilarious, the mythical, the stereotypical, the fairytale turned inside out. Here you'll find Miss America and Janis Joplin, Barbie and Medusa, along with—in Nickole Brown's stunning and tender homage—a grandmother who can cuss up a storm and uses 'fucker' as a term of endearment. The women in these poems behave in the most unladylike ways—swearing, sexing, drinking, dancing, hitting back, running away, bleeding, broke and broken. But just when you might start to think this celebration of 'the bad girl' is veering toward romanticizing her, comes a poem like 'The Girl,' by Linda Casebeer—as heart-breaking and frank and true a poem about being young and female and vulnerable and tough as I've ever read anywhere. Read it and weep. And be grateful for the work these editors have done to bring these voices to us."—Cecilia Woloch
ISBN: 978-1-936628-41-4
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 Wash the Dust from My Eyes
Nana Lampton
In this first-of-its-kind collection of nonfiction, poetry, art and photography 100 years in the making, Nana Lampton combines the journal entries of her grandfather—a World War I cavalryman uncertain about the future the war holds, yet ready to play his part—with her own poetry inspired by his writing. As she reaches back through a century to see the world from his perspective, Lampton invites the words of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius to illustrate the timelessness of feelings that we can all appreciate—apprehension, ambition, camraderie, and love—in the face of war and in the hope for what comes after.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-38-4
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 About Flight
Frank X Walker
"Up until this point in American history, no poet has written an honest and believable lament about the crippling effects from the tornado swirl of a crack pipe, how a little rock being melted between thin mesh screen creates pallid smoke: a monster, a slave to the white lady that is cocaine. In About Flight, Frank X Walker gives us the beautiful ugly narrative of a brother who is wrestling with chemical dependency, and losing. The high, in all of its beautiful contradictions takes on the metaphor of flight, and so we soar through the terrible highs and lows of a protagonist who carries his family with him into the den of iniquity."—Randall Horton, author of Pitch Dark Anarchy & Hook: A Memoir
ISBN: 978-1-936628-36-0
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 This Wretched Vessel
Christopher McCurry, Hap Houlihan and Robin LaMer Rahija, Eds.
This Wretched Vessel is a 162-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. Our favorite poems were selected from those submitted, and the result is an emotional, courageous, and sometimes funny poetry collection featuring the work of 114 authors.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-35-3
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 Deflection
Roberta Beary
"I feel astonished, happy, and lucky to have discovered Deflection. Roberta Beary's poetry is animated with principles of Haiku, illustrative of the form but reliant on other traditions. Her work shows that a gifted poet can assert all manner of styles within a poem, sharing interests of each to give us a new breed. It's a bright sunshiny day when we get surprising, evocative, powerful poetry coined from the gold standard of ancients. These poems are vibrant with lived experience and shockingly beautiful with new expression. The lines and poetic forms are prisms from the classical, and lyrical, to distilled Asian thought. This book is essential in furthering the art of poetry."—Grace Cavalieri
ISBN: 978-1-936628-33-9
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 Kingdom of Speculation
Barbara Goldberg
In this book you will be under the spell of imagination that is truly impressive. But, more than that: you will fall in love with Barbara Goldberg's syntax. The way her sentence works against her line-breaks, creating fireworks, is a fairy tale in and of itself. Her poems are magical, not because they contain princesses and ravens and thieves of eggs. They are magical because their music grabs us and won't let us be. The secret to true music cannot be understood. It can only be applauded. —Ilya Kaminsky, Author of Dancing in Odessa
ISBN: 978-1-936628-31-5
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 Your Life as It Is
A. Molotkov
Your Life as It Is is the winner of the Editor's Choice award for the 2014 Poetry Chapbook competition. "Although each of A. Molotkov's daybook prose poems begins with 'You wake up in the morning …,' everything else—including the speaker's gender—is in flux. This is the multiverse wherein 'changes replace changes,' wherein the speaker must continually create and re-create perception and personal history. These poems create a cumulative effect both moving and unsettling."—Paulann Petersen
ISBN: 978-1-936628-29-2
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 Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop
Lynnell Edwards
"Through empathy and penetrating observation, Edwards goes deep inside the art of glassmaking. What she brings back in the form of poems is fascinating—she has absorbed and passes on to us the jargon of the guild, as well as the cautions and the glories the 'kings of the hot shop' encounter on the way to finished creations. It is a small, self enclosed universe, and Edwards its sympathetic cosmologist."—Jeffrey Skinner
ISBN: 978-1-936628-26-1
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 Her Limestone Bones
Hap Houlihan and Christopher McCurry, Eds.
Her Limestone Bones is a 122-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2013 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. The result is an exciting, thought-provoking five-section poetry anthology featuring 75 authors.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-24-7
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 The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
" The Season of Delicate Hunger brings us more than thirty Bulgarian poets whom the translators and editor successfully make us feel we need to listen to. The anthology is a valuable introduction to a wide variety of voices most of us have never heard before. The book comes as a gift both to international understanding and to American literature."—J. Kates, Editor of In The Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era
ISBN: 978-1-936628-44-5
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 Scotch Tape World
Tom C. Hunley
"Tom C. Hunley, on the evidence of these poems, is as in love with, as he is bewildered by, the world. And although that might seem a common way of being in the world, Hunley's ability to render his love and bewilderment precisely in his poems is unique and necessary. These poems manage to be funny without being cynical, and they manage to be honest without being cynical, and they manage to seem utterly contemporary without being cynical, and each of these achievements is a small miracle and almost an act of defiance. At one point, Hunley tells God, "I want you to fill my mouth / with water and prayer and maybe a jagged little song." I don't know how Hunley is set for water, and I don't know about his spiritual practices, but these poems read like answered prayers." - Shane McCrae
ISBN: 978-1-936628-20-9
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 In Nonestica
Morgan Adams
"Morgan Adams' poems, honed from a marvelous and scrupulous attention to the world and word, simultaneously delight and terrify. In these remarkable poems, the imaginary becomes real and the real, imaginary. Every time I read her poems I am reminded of how enchanted the world is—how strange, how full of wonder." - Catherine Bowman, Author of The Plath Cabinet
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-16-2
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 ransom notes
Tina Andry
"Exhale! In ransom notes Tina Andry fills the void in between heartbeats. This collection, like the time in between the left and right ventricles, takes you for a gasping ride that may seem brief, yet each poem stays with you, as they float around in your lungs collecting the air that you inhale." - Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Author of Of Jibaros and Hillbillies
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-17-9
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 A Brief Natural History of an American Girl
Sarah Freligh
Winner of the Editor's Choice award in the Accents 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest. "In A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, Sarah Freligh pulls you into the car of a 1950's girlhood and you stay, compelled by the journey through sexual awakening and into womanhood. It's a difficult story. The narrator loses a lot—she gives kisses to the boss at Donut Delite, her virginity to a boy in a cornfield, her body to men she knows, or doesn't. She gives away a baby. She buries her mother. And hope, how 'easy to give her away.' And yet not quite. Through the accumulation of experience, through the ability to look clearly and name what she sees, Freligh insists on possibility. The poems draw our attention, then elicit a shiver of recognition. This is what one girlhood looks like; this is what human experience looks like. The journey is not over, she reminds us. You 'are not there yet.' - Wendy Mnookin, Author of The Moon Makes Its Own Plea.
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-14-8
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 Frog Mantra
Suchoon Mo
"Perhaps the rarest gift is to encounter a voice that sings from an unexpected condition. In this lucid collection, poet Suchoon Mo offers this kind of voice. Both worldly and electric, Frog Mantra is a book filled with singing. The poems approach modern life with wit, grace, and keen insight.The reader is presented with scenes that reconfigure our greater concerns about life and death. Mo presents us with a complicated world made clearer by his devotion to observation. The music of Frog Mantra resides in secretive moments, meant to be savored through each page." - Matthew Haughton, author of Stand in the Stillness of Woods
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-12-4
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 The Sounding Machine
Patty Paine
With intelligence and an awareness of the limits and possibility of metaphor, Patty Paine explores the fierce unclasping and clasping of memory as she writes of family, history, and our bonds to the world. In The Sounding Machine, she works into the complicated, messy, hearts of situations, not shying away from multiple perspectives; in one poem the devoured prey says of the predator: "It was my blood ... muscle and sinew / warming his gut." One believes these strong forays. - Talvikki Ansel
ISBN: 978-1-936628-11-7
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 I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking
Jude Lally
In I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking, Jude Lally is "still mad as hell" and "ready for the hurt." Illuminating the mundane things in life like going to the bathroom, hopping boulders while hiking, or simply being able to jump out of bed, we are reminded of what is often taken for granted. These poems confess the dreams and demons as well as the daily joys and struggles of a writer facing a rare disease and an uncertain fate. In them, we find him living for today, fully and honestly, with a refreshing sense of humor that offers light and hope amid the darkness. He stares his condition in the face, laughs and escapes into his imagination, determined "not to dry up/and blow away." This collection signals Jude Lally is here to stay, a hardy perennial, a poet that continues to bloom.—Eric Scott Sutherland
ISBN: 978-1-936628-08-7
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 The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues
Frederick Smock
"Like Virgil's before him, Frederick Smock's eclogues give us the sense of an earned peace
in the clear voice of a man at home in the world. These poems are richly allusive, elemental
moments of experience and insight. The Deer at Gethsemani is a well-made house of poetry,
and it is a true pleasure to spend time in its rooms."
- Greg Pape, Author of American Flamingo
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-06-3
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 Animal Time
Greg Pape
"I used to believe that Greg Pape's intimate knowledge of everything that lives and breathes
or gives light was earned sleeping beneath the stars at night, but these poems prove that he
is everywhere all at once just like the wind. And we know the wind never sleeps... Brilliant
beautiful cinematic gems. I still love Coleman and the deer, but I think the rooster poems
have become my new favorites."
- Frank X Walker, Author of Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride
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 Numbered Bones
Bobby Steve Baker
"Bobby Steve Baker pulls out the scalpel and cuts away the superficial and unsecured, slicing through the flesh of lust and musculature of ego until he reaches his own Numbered Bones. Choices are scars chiseled into the body. The bedrock of self is uncovered through the struggle and search for love. The wounds are perfect in their shape." - Eric Sutherland, Author of Incommunicado
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 Bloom on a Split Board
Nana Lampton
"'Come along, come along,' Nana Lampton sings in these lovely nature poems. Here she gives us ice, the edge of the sea, the half moon, and the dawn. We consort with dogs, salmon, the ravens, the owl, the warbler, deer, thoroughbreds and Audubon's pet turkey. We breathe the fragrance and sight of Daphne, roses, white catalpa and hydrangeas, wild iris. The spirit hovers and explores, unbounded." - Sena Jeter Naslund, Author of Ahab's Wife and Adam & Eve
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 Bee-coursing Box
Matthew Haughton
"Matthew Haughton's debut collection honors and extends Kentucky's great literary heritage, which stretches from Greenup to Bowling Green, the 18th century to now. In poems that dare 'pray there's a heaven for snakes,' and dare see a man 'growing like a sycamore out of the untamed earth,' he adds his worthy voice to the chorus."
- Frederick Smock, Author of Guest House
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 Plein Jeu
E.C. Belli
This English language chapbook is the winner of the Editor's Choice Award for the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
"The poetry collection is representative of my esthetics and obsessions over the last year or so," says Belli. "My husband was away for military training this entire winter and I found myself alone in this house full of empty rooms, moths, echoes, and my piano. The collection explores that sense of being new to a place while tugging along memories from previous lives."
"The title Plein Jeu, actually refers to a type of organ registration which is composed of principals, flutes, fournitures and cymbals," explains Belli. "When the plein jeu stop is pulled, it activates all of these other stops as well. It is one of the richest tones that can be achieved. Plein jeu is what the collection feels like to me: all of the voices within me were activated."
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 Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku
The haiku in this book blend a distinctly urban content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. "What I admire about Barry George's poetry is the possibility for human utterance within a contemporary scene - not unlike the lyric poem in modern English - explored in Japanese short forms. In three lines he paints a scene as contemporary as Edward Hopper, strikes notes as American as Aaron Copland. George focuses our attention visually and aurally, and thus each haiku is a cinematic moment casting an afterimage long after the poem closes. Even those who are not familiar with the ever-evolving Japanese short form will find Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku universal in compression and resonance." - Jeanie Thompson, author of The Seasons Bear Us and Executive Director, The Alabama Writers' Forum
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 Stick Tight Man
This is Jim Lally's first poetry collection.
"Like the man covered with stick-tights that cling after a walk in a summer field, these reports from Jim Lally's world -- about falling barns, clothes-lines, spring peepers, ghost trees, poke berries, Quaker meetings, and Daniel Boone (even an homage to the letter W) -- stick with the reader long after the journey. What holds them to us is a discerning eye, an ear for language and for nature in its hummings, a readiness to explore the small ground which opens to the resonating world around us." - Richard Taylor,
Author of Rail Splitter
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 Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall
Cecilia Woloch
An extended poem in linked sections, in the voice of coal miner and activist Ted Gall, LABOR weaves one man's personal history into the history of work and justice in America. "In Labor, Woloch pulls a voice from the archives—that of Ted Gall, a miner and union organizer in Western Pennsylvania during the first half of the twentieth century. This poem, composed almost entirely in words written by Gall himself, gives a first-hand account of what it was like in the mines, in the unions, and in the spirits of the working poor, 'lifting their voices like trumpets' to sound what is somehow both historical and timely. This is an important contribution to Appalachian docupoetics and cross-racial labor solidarity. Woloch is a rescuer of language, a poet who knows where to dig up truths."—Joy Priest
ISBN: 978-1-961127-12-8
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 Tainted
Wendy Jett
From the author of Girl comes the next instalment of the multigenre story of a girl growing up in difficult circumstances. Friendships, family relationships, domestic violence, health challenges come into focus in this beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking, relatable book. "Tainted picks up where Wendy Jett's first book, Girl, left off, wrestling cosmic questions posed by the family, creatures, and spirits accompanying Girl's journey. Tragic and tender, magical as God and real as beans and cornbread, Tainted is a triumph and true to the bone. If you liked Girl, you'll absolutely love Tainted."—Mike Wilson, author of Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic, political poetry for a post-truth world
ISBN: 978-1-961127-07-4
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 Udder Uproar
Cathy Perkins
Udder Uproar is Cathy Perkins's debut collection of humorous poems. Courageous, bawdy at times, but always unapologetic, the poems in this book surprise and entertain the reader with their mixture of frankness and vulnerability. "These poems are big, and funny. They display a mind alert to the vibrance and wit of words, to our fascination with the untalked-about, and to the pathos as well as the humor in living. You will laugh ruefully, for sure, but you'll also relish this celebration of our human resilience and ways we move exuberantly through the world, owning our frailties bravely and even joyfully."—Libby Falk Jones
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 Love House
Frank X Walker
If you liked Frank X Walker's first poetry collection, Affrilachia, you will love Love House—a book highlighting family life with its joys and challenges, with special attention to social justice placed in historical context. "In Love House, Frank X Walker not only brings the collective past back to us in living color, but these poems delve into the sacred personal, the psychohistory of what it means to be father, son, husband, brother, Black. Up close and personal, he writes poems that are on a pendulum, bringing us through the intersection of what is deeply personal in the intimate glances of the depths of our insides; what we find in birdsong and the garden, the devastation of a flood and erosion, then back to the passing of his closest loved ones, what it means to age, violence and the abuse of power, what it means to be human."—Crystal Wilkinson
ISBN: 978-1-961127-03-6
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 Killer Poems
Andrew Merton
Killer Poems is the fourth poetry collection by New Hampshire poet Andrew Merton. His signature humor and wit, as well as his penchant for the absurd are brought to a new level in these irreverent poems of intrigue and depth. "In Andrew Merton's view of poetry, brevity is the soul of wisdom. His poems are compact. He likes plenty of white space around some image or pithy utterance … Merton is like some elderly neighbor, someone we pass on the street for years without a second look, someone who—when we finally exchange a few sentences—seems to be thinking and worrying about many of the same things we have, someone we would like to spend more time with from now on."—Charles Simic
ISBN: 978-1-961127-00-5
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 Black Girl at the Intersection
LeTonia Jones
Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you LeTonia Jones's brilliant debut. The poems in Black Girl at the Intersection speak from the intersection of social justice and personal heartbreak. Past, present and possible future interact and dare to hope for a better world. "LeTonia Jones's Black Girl at the Intersection is at once heartbreaking, haunting, and uplifting. The people in her elegantly wrought poems are wounded, lost, and some are gone, but Jones deftly makes us feel how they mattered, and still matter, how they were loved, and how the essence they shared shimmers on in the triumphs of those still here. It's remarkable, a deeply moving debut."—Toni Ann Johnson, Winner of the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award for Light Skin Gone to Waste
ISBN: 978-1-936628-98-8
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 Cheeseburgers
Dean Crawford
Packed with humor and memorable characters, Cheeseburgers, the fiction debut of Kentucky-based writer Dean Crawford, is a delightful love story set in the American Wild West. "Forget your troubles, settle back in your Tom Robbins La-Z-Boy for a delightful tramp through the little Kansas cowpoke town of 'You're Now Here.' I can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon than with Calvin Cheeseburgers, Katie McGhee, (the villain) Ike Drogue, and the other characters who inhabit the town, including two ghosts-on-call-when-needed."—Jim Lally, author of Stick Tight Man
ISBN: 978-1-936628-97-1
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 Snow Falling on Water
Richard Taylor
Accents Publishing is honored to bring to you the latest poetry book by beloved Kentucky poet, writer and teacher Richard Taylor. In this new and selected collection, we can read poems spanning nearly five decades and hear the strong and memorable voice of the author. " Snow Falling on Water is an excellent introduction to Richard Taylor's poems. He writes with deep acumen and great humility about the mysteries of the world, both outer and inner, past and present. A recurrent image in his poems is that of new fallen snow which is then tracked across, leaving us with footprints, an image which becomes a blank page the writer fills with words. Taylor's tracks, his words, are a great blessing and lead us to the possibility of a previously unimagined communion with the world."—Michael Moran
ISBN: 978-1-936628-95-7
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 Places of Permanent Shade
J. Kates
"In Places of Permanent Shade, J. Kates tackles the big themes along with some smaller ones, but whether he is writing about chopping wood or the end of the world, he brings to his poetry a restless intelligence, subtle humour and a keen sense of observation, both of the inner and the outer life. His tone and use of imagery are remarkable and varied, the voice both colloquial and elegant. And often, lurking just around the corner, is a sharp wit that will jump out and bite you on the arse before you know it."—Peter Robinson, author of Not Dark Yet
ISBN: 978-1-936628-92-6
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 A Hollow Muscular Organ
Meg Files
In this psychologically complex and linguistically sophisticated love story, A Hollow Muscular Organ by Meg Files immerses the reader in the process of dissolution of a long and loving marriage. " A Hollow Muscular Organ combines the intimacy of a two-person play with the insight of a wry all-seeing observer. The alchemy that results is magical. Meg Files's remarkable gifts—she has published both fiction and poetry in a long and distinguished career—are in full bloom here. She renders a lively, headlong story of marital infidelity and its aftermath so fully and deeply that we come to know her characters as we know our life-long friends."—Ann Harleman, author of Tell me, Signora, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award
ISBN: 978-1-936628-88-9
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 Under the Seal
Carol Mauriello
Under the Seal by Carol Mauriello is Accents Publishing's first literary murder mystery. "A mysterious murder in a small Kentucky river town sparks the unfolding of Carol Mauriello's Under the Seal. Mauriello crafts a series of small stories that magnify the whole: a police detective, searching for enough evidence to arrest and convict lonely Patsy Ann Singleton's killer. Patsy Ann's past associations with Mazewood men outside her marriage suggest notable entanglements. An evasive husband pleads innocent to deadly vindictiveness. A dedicated investigator strives for solid evidence to the contrary, suspense mounts, and the reader will feel compelled to follow the quest beyond a shadow of doubt."—Joe Sartor, Associate Professor Emeritus, Art
ISBN: 978-1-936628-85-8
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 It's Not Easy Being a Moth
Mark Lee Webb
Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you the first full-length poetry collection by Mark Lee Webb. It's Not Easy Being a Moth contains poems sometimes whimsical, sometimes abstract poignant or wise, but always masterfully written. "Mark Lee Webb's It's Not Easy Being a Moth is a vivid journey through memory and transformative times, and it is voiced with a steadiness and an honesty that allow the poems' earned discoveries to further reverberate. This collection examines the intersections between youth and grief, between consciousness and intimacy, between perspective and instinct, all the while taking the care required to find the language that can simultaneously delight and haunt."—Marcus Jackson
ISBN: 978-1-936628-73-5
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 Lock Her Up
Tina Parker
In Lock Her Up, Tina Parker gives voice to the women from the not too distant past who were not allowed to make decisions about their own bodies and mental health. In this thought-provoking collection, Parker brings to life three characters and highlights their stories through poems and research. We grow in care and concern about Mattie M. Roberts, Rachel Wells and Emma Darby and are able to relate to their struggles and circumstances. Lock Her Up is a deeply moving book and Accents Publishing is proud to bring it to you.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-65-0
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 Sirens and Rain
Barry George
Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you the latest collection by haiku master Barry George. More than 100 brilliant haiku, organized in five seasons, take us on a moment-by-moment journey through life in the big city. We feel lucky to be able to see through the eyes of such a sensitive poet. "Barry George's nuanced juxtapositions of events in the natural world with those of various human activities evoke a range of vivid sensations and emotions. This book confirms that George is among the best of haiku poets."—George Swede
ISBN: 978-1-936628-62-9
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 The Compost Reader
Karen Schubert
"In her first full-length collection, Karen Schubert works 'Elbows deep in compost,' sifting through that which accumulates with the passage of time, the fecund and dangerous accumulations of a life: memory, regret, joy, and loss. Schubert's fertile reflections by turns witness, correct, and renew the past, her patient gaze transforming both observer and observed. This collection runs through the events of a life like the Ohio River runs through Schubert's native terrain, and like that river 'it will arrive / with more than when it started.'"—Kimberly Johnson
ISBN: 978-1-936628-60-5
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 Literary Accents, vol. 1 issue 3
Accents Publishing
If you're not already a subscriber, you can now order Volume 1, Issue 2 of Literary Accents. This issue brings you poems about family and family relationships. Please also consider buying a print or digital-only subscription to the magazine.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-58-2
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 And Luckier
Leatha Kendrick
"Kendrick's powerful fifth collection springs from a mature poet's reckoning: with the family she was given and the family she has made, with the struggle to answer her calling as an artist, with the dangers and diminishments of age, and with her privileged place in a suffering world. And Luckier opens with a dispassionate question: "who might it serve that you / would grow downhearted?" The poems that follow take us through many voices, subjects, and perspectives, bringing us at last to this hard-won counsel: "So much suffering. We cannot uncause it / But we can set ourselves to mend, / ... I will pick up the rubble. / I will carry one stone at a time."—George Ella Lyon
ISBN: 978-1-936628-56-8
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 Earth Is My Church
Eric Scott Sutherland
Earth Is My Church is the second Eric Sutherland book published by Accents. While in Pendulum, he focused on people and their life stories, here the author immerses the reader in the natural world. These are poems of connection and significance, vision and enlightenment. " Earth Is My Church is a lament for 'the beauty / and balance … before / bulldozers came to scrape / the treasure chest clean' and hope that 'another generation will be able / to sit under old growth / and sing songs by fire light.'"—Joe Survant
ISBN: 978-1-936628-54-4
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 Available Light
Audrey Rooney
In her second collection of poetry, Audrey Rooney explores the joys of the present moment from the perspective and experiences of a well-lived life. We can all learn from the wisdom, generosity of spirit, as well as the language precision of these poems. "Audrey Rooney's Available Light is in love with the world of texture and light. It holds
up the ordinary miracles of brown eggs under cool running water. Enter her world and you'll come out the other side more observant and alive. You can almost feels the rain in the trees."—Pat Owen
ISBN: 978-1-936628-52-0
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 Painted Daydreams
B. Elizabeth Beck
Painted Daydreams is a multi-media experience: While evoking canonic images from artistic icons and iconoclasts alike, from Rothko to O'Keeffe to Basquiat, these ekphrastic poems also allow a reader to eavesdrop on intimate conversations between Beck and these artists who inspire her—the whispers in Van Gogh's one good, remaining ear backed by psychedelic riffs from Phish and the Grateful Dead. All the while, Beck's life in Kentucky—the collection's vivid underpainting—peers through, ensuring that though these poems may well have sprung from the staid environs of art museums, they breathe and sweat in the vivid, living world.
ISBN: 978-1-936628-50-6
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 Last Will, Last Testament
Frank X Walker
"In his latest collection, Last Will, Last Testament, Frank X Walker turns the same unflinching gaze he's committed to historic figures now towards his own lineage. As these poems bear witness in real time to his father's last breaths even as his new son takes his first, Walker
serves again as the linchpin between generations. Ever a master distiller of the heart, Walker presents us with, arguably, his most complex elixir to date, best imbibed with no chaser."—Bianca Lynne Spriggs
ISBN: 978-1-936628-49-0
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 Final Exam
Andrew Merton
"The poems in Andrew Merton's Final Exam stake out an imaginative territory that's equitably shared by God, Elmer Fudd, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, tubas, pianos and a menagerie of animals. Merton's work is as spare and lethal as grenades, blowing up easy assumptions in favor of something much more incendiary—a truth-telling that's located in the ambiguous, shape-shifting that is this moment's reality."—Sarah Freligh
"Something in the tone of this book reminds me of Szymborska and her gift for turning human delusion and bad behavior into a life that can be forgiven because it's simply human."—David Rivard;
ISBN: 978-1-936628-48-3
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 & Grace
Christopher McCurry, Ed.
& Grace is a 218-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2015 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. "The voices in & Grace are voices of seekers. Sometimes these seekers find answers, other times they stumble upon more questions. Unquestionably, though, these poets find poems—urgent, wise, alive with spirit. And grace. This is my favorite Lexington Poetry Anthology so far."—Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
ISBN: 978-1-936628-42-1
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 The Occupation
Jay McCoy
"These are brave and hard-won poems, full of poignant witness and startling affirmation in the face of life's most heartbreaking challenges. Jay McCoy is a keen craftsman, constructing lyrics that whisper and sting and celebrate at once. Here is a poet who truly understands the full expressive potential of his forms, and who mines those forms to maximum effect. But be warned: this is not the typical bland stuff of mild-mannered chapbooks. McCoy's delicately crafted but harrowing poems will make your hair stand on end."—Young Smith
ISBN: 978-1-936628-39-1
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 Lost and Found
Andrew Merton
"Andrew Merton has masterfully condensed his life into potent, brilliantly composed, minimalist snapshots. Chronologically arranged, delicately layered, and driven by savage honesty and subtle tenderness, Lost and Found is an intense injection of love, loss, loneliness, and above all, the unrelenting question of one's existence. I'll slot this on my shelf next to Raymond Carver."—Jessica Bell
"Almost every one of his poems has a surprise waiting for the reader, either some astonishing figure of speech or a witty observation we are not likely to forget anytime soon."—Charles Simic
ISBN: 978-1-936628-40-7
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 Grief & Other Animals
Patty Paine
"Patty Paine's superb new collection arises from the nearly unbearable—a mother's death, but most especially the senseless death of a husband. And, as the crucial elegiac poets know, grieving never truly arrives in 'stages,' and never ends in 'closure.' It is a process infinitely more intricate and nuanced than the platitudes suggest, and it ends, at best, in only a fraught and vexed consolation, what one of her poems calls, 'a sorrow deeper than solace.' Yet even a vexed consolation can be a form of quiet triumph, and these poems—spare, heartbroken, and always utterly precise—arrive repeatedly at such a triumph. Patty Paine has written a book of bravery and consummate artistry."—David Wojahn
ISBN: 978-1-936628-37-7
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 How I Became an Angry Woman
Bianca Bargo
"In How I Became an Angry Woman, Bianca Bargo autopsies a doomed love in razor-edged imagery 'boiling with lava and venom.' Here we have a man who has 'eaten girls' hearts like valentine candy' and a woman who has 'too many nightmares / of your old lover; / her Fingers, dirty / with knowing you first.' These are volcanic poems that ultimately understand how love—like the truth—is rarely pure and never simple."—Sarah Freligh
ISBN: 978-1-936628-34-6
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 Black Achilles
Curtis L. Crisler
"Such a small wound, such a huge nuisance, death. In Black Achilles, Curtis L. Crisler takes the very human suffering of a torn tendon and uses it to explore our love affair with convenience, our ever-growing cloak of invulnerability, our pining for youth, immortality—how we unhinge at its loss. It is b-ball and score, the opposite of frustration/fragility … weakness. It is crutches and numbness, swagger and 'what tender means.' All this with a deft rim shot, a language of swerves and dunks, rebounds and alley-oops."—Leslie Anne Mcilroy, Managing & Poetry Editor, HEArt (Human Equity through Art), and author of Slag
ISBN: 978-1-936628-32-2
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 Mother, Loose
Brandel France de Bravo
Mother, Loose was selected by Patty Paine for the Judge's Choice award in the 2014 Poetry Chapbook competition. "Full of ripe, aching music, Brandel France de Bravo's Mother, Loose captures the overlap between what we chant as comfort and what we choose as elegy. Nursery rhymes become impishly twisted: 'Social climber, / they called me,' Humpty Dumpty admits, while Mary and her lamb pick out 'Teat Peach' polish to get their nails done. Deft and heartbreaking, these poems ask us to step out from under the sheltering wing of Mama Goose, and into the arms of Morpheus. Let this collection cradle your heart in its hand."—Sandra Beasley
ISBN: 978-1-936628-28-5
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 Childhood
Emily R. Grosholz
"These eloquent, edgy poems write of youth and parenting in powerful ways. They also go well beyond that, in addressing childhood as revelation: not just the temporal state we all go through, but the crisis of wonder our own children produce in us. Any reader who picks up this book can draw closer to that wonder and share in it again through this lyrical, moving work."—Eavan Boland, Professor of English, Stanford University and Member, Irish Academy of Letters
ISBN: 978-1-936628-27-8
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 pendulum
Eric Scott Sutherland
"The poems in this humane collection are hard and beautiful. They are hard, because the locals here are marginalized and somewhat lost, yet beautiful because they live with hope, and because each poem in this heartfelt book is accompanied by singing. Behind this cast of characters is the poet himself, a living spirit, capturing the human voice, swinging back and forth like the symbol evoked by the title of this honest and necessary collection. This is at once a portrait and a vision rendered into lines, notation for a place and time and the saintly people there. It is a gift to be in such able hands, and a further gift to turn the pages of their labor. Three cheers for this delight!"—Maurice Manning
ISBN: 978-1-936628-25-4
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 Square Feet
Lori A. May
"Each of Lori A. May's vivid aphoristic poems in Square Feet raises a miniature window into a moment of marriage or domestic life. Unadorned and unafraid, May's lines recreate these scenes of love and angst in dioramas of plain words and short lines. Square Feet gives us sex and despair, yes, but also quizzical whimsy. The truths of wry surprises make these poems the work of a mature heart and a trenchant tongue."—Molly Peacock
ISBN: 978-1-936628-22-3
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 Biblia Pauperum
T. Crunk
"I've been a huge fan of T. Crunk's poetry since his marvelous, Yale-winning debut, Living in the Resurrection. The poems in that volume and from the nearly two decades since its appearance have always seemed to me essential, life-giving, full of delights all too rare these days, and wisdom, yes,
real wisdom. If the poems in this new volume are leaner, hungrier, more restless and questing, than any we've seen from him before, they've lost none of the vitality, the sense of having grappled with the ineffable and emerged from unknowable, echoing depths, that Crunk's work always possesses. There are poems here ('Crows,' 'Ants,' the long 'Purgatory (Studies)') that are as good as any I know of being written today. T. Crunk is one of my very favorite contemporary poets" —Davis McCombs
ISBN: 978-1-936628-21-6
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 Communion
Nettie Farris
"These poems tell the love story of s, a shy everyman who excels at tic-tac-toe and loves small, moist dumplings and n, a right-brained everywoman who reads Wittgenstein and Anaïs Nin and prefers large dumplings. Somehow they make it work. In these big-hearted, clear-eyed, short-lined gasps, Nettie Farris grasps that the key to dilly-dallying is to sigh into little poems, to amuse oneself with a pink balloon from time to time, and to pursue the Rosetta Stone to someone else's heart." - Tom C. Hunley
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-19-3
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 Broken Tulips
Jeremy Paden
"The poems in this fine collection view love as both a desire and a dilemma, the kind of passion found in other poets willing to confront the heart with such honesty, namely Neruda. If desire is ever perfect, it is only perfect once—and then what? That last flicker of a question is a sharp yet satisfying pang running through these poems. Meanwhile, behind the intensity shared by two, we have the wider world, which is either indifferent or falling apart. These poems are not simply wise or desperate—they are both at once." - Maurice Manning, Author of The Common Man
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-18-6
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 Reliquary
Matthew Minicucci
"Part flesh, part spirit, partaking of both breath and death like all reliquaries, these poems traverse the Stations of the Cross in order to become, themselves, stations of the human lost—and found. Compelling in their voice, vision, and craft, Matthew Minicucci's poems seek nothing less than a kind of transubstantiation: 'an incantation in the breath,' a 'simple song that waits and swells the tongue.' This is a remarkable and moving debut." - Angie Estes, Author of Tryst.
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-13-1
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 The Fifteenth Station
E. K. Mortenson
The Fifteenth Station is the winner of the Judge's Choice award in the Accents 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest. "George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan poses the question: "Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?" E. K. Mortenson has the imagination cried out for. The Fifteenth Station performs one mighty task of poetry: Gospel-truth. This sequence translates the Passion into compassion, from condemnation to resurrection, using subtle technique in the service of bold story-telling, and story-telling in the service of empathy, challenge and engagement" - J. Kates, Author of Metes and Bounds.
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-15-5
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 The Long View Just Keeps Treading Water
James Doyle
The Long View Just Keeps Treading Water, winner of the 2011 Accents Publishing International Poetry Book Contest Editor's Choice Award, is a work of poetic art from established author James Doyle. His poetry, like a time machine, takes the reader on a journey into history and offers an opportunity to discover the timeless thread of humanity that joins everyone throughout the ages. "Svelte, smart, amusing, serious and observant poems - many of which I would be proud to have written." - Tony Hoagland
ISBN: 978-1-936628-10-0
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 Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs
Andrew Merton
"Andrew Merton's poems have many qualities that are both pleasurable and startling. He demonstrates the simplicity that is only gained by hard application, he brings a wry approach that flips the reader from an ambience of ironic nostalgia into the abyss of historical violence and personal grief, he mixes a playful surrealism with the knack of capturing both the hilarious and the deadly, and pulls off the visual psychologist's trick of making the familiar strange and puzzling. All of this is delivered in that most serious of all modes, a graceful sense of humour. This is one of those collections you will often re-read." - Rory Brennan
ISBN: 978-1-936628-09-4
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 Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
"There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because the mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the gift of this gorgeous collection."
- Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Author of At The Breakers: A Novel
ISBN: 978-1-936628-07-0
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 Etcetera's Mistress
Thom Ward
Etcetera's Mistress is Accents Publishing's first full-length book of poetry, written by award-winning poet Thom Ward. "Reading Thom Ward is to enter a brilliant and restless imagination – sometimes poignant, sometimes crazy-with-a-purpose, but always with a deep lucidity in the logic of its illogic. His poems remind me how much we need language and how much the language needs us." - Thomas Lux, Author of God Particles
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-03-2
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 Fading Into Bolivia
Richard Taylor
"Time is unrelenting, relationships fragile, loss certain, writes Richard Taylor in Fading Into Bolivia, his new collection of clear-eyed and graceful poems. But the reader is not left wanting, for what is broken, Taylor also tells us with characteristic good humor and optimism, will one day 're-incorporate with perfect wholeness.' Reality tempered by hope: what an inviting and useful collection of poems!"
- Maureen Morehead, Author of The Melancholy Teacher
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-05-6
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 How Swallowtails Become Dragons
Bianca Spriggs
"In How Swallowtails become Dragons, Bianca Spriggs proves herself to be a poet of metamorphosis - a shape shifter, a medium for the dead and imagined. She speaks for those long silenced and for those who remind us to never make a pact with our own silence. In these pages we meet Sweet Evenin' Breeze; Orfeu Negro; the Boabab Girl; and even Eurydice Thomas, a lazarus slave sold dead for parts. But in these pages we also meet a poet who is willing to welcome the wild into her own house, and even into her sleep - a poet willing to reach deep into the dark depth and mine that bit of light last remaining."
- Rebecca Gayle Howell, Author of The Hatchet Buddha
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-01-8
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 Of a Bed Frame
Dan Nowak
"From the coldness of the Nebraska winter to the heat of a lover's bed, Dan Nowak takes the reader on a compelling lyric journey. He shares intimate moments with his audience, crafting his words so that we feel the scratchiness of the seldom worn suit, the skinned knuckles from the loading bays, and the sweat of a lover's skin. There are poems here to savor and reread and then reread again." - P. Andrew Miller, Author of The Legend of The Turquoise Knight
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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-9-4
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 Original Ruse
Barbara Sabol
"There is an attractive restlessness in Barbara Sabol's poems that draws the reader in. Original Ruse begins in the garden with a deft and playful take on Eve's role in getting things moving. Then, with sure craft and lush imagery, Sabol goes on to explore connections between art and survival, the ordinary and the mythic, people and animals, women and men. These are fresh, lively poems to read aloud and savor." - Greg Pape, Author of American Flamingo
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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-7-0
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 Metes and Bounds
J. Kates
This chapbook was chosen by contest judge Dr. Richard Taylor as the winner of the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
"Kates's brief lyrics, in taut lines that employ rhyme, often slant, are full of chainsaws, mauls, and the finished product . These are quintessentially New England poems to savor." - Maxine Kumin, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-5-6
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 Meeting Dad
Brian Russell
"Meeting Dad is a suspense story that every father and son should read together. Brian Russell shows how a boy, abandoned by his father, can gradually work his way through longing and regret to understanding and forgiveness." - Neil Chethik, Author of FatherLoss: How Sons Deal With the Deaths of Their Dads
"...With flash, sass, poignancy and the incomprehension that those who are abandoned always retain, Brian Russell tells this story. It is a moving tale, a wicked saga in all ways, since it forces the boys [Brian and his brother] to glimpse what could have been, but was withheld. Meeting Dad recreates a shining hour, a tarnished hour." - Molly Peacock, Author of Paradise, Piece by Piece
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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-3-2
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 The View from Down Here
This is Jude Lally's first poetry collection.
"These unflinching poems let us walk in unfamiliar shoes of someone who sees the world from wheels, revealing our customary world with re-imagined perspectives that are powerful and empowering. They give us words and heart to re-discover the ligatures that bind us, world to world, human to human." - Richard Taylor, Author of Rail Splitter
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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-1-8
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