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Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through a \"history hurtling into the future.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKaan and Her Sisters\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecenters character of the Arabic teacher, Miss Sahar, whose progressive displacements from Palestine and across Arab cities unfold in epistles, refashioned songs, and glimpses into the interiors of her lost home. 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That suspenseful place can be painful and grievous, but also joyous; these poems both resist those tensions and find rest in them. In the elegies of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLive in Suspense\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Groff contends with his late mother, whose legacy she would have her son revise and resolve; a minister-father who wrestled with his own destiny and would have his son save him; and friends and lovers lost to HIV and other tribulations, \"with their catcalls and canticles.\" As he did in his previous books, Groff writes again of his husband Clay and living with the vagaries of the virus. 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Her poetry is intimate, tender, and full of potency, navigating \"truth...difficult as history,\" revealing the \"Hate hidden everywhere,\" and asking readers to question what it means to be white in \"a country not built to love [her] son.\" Manthey's power lies in her ability to speak to her readers' hearts while challenging their understanding of ongoing racial inequity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Fight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e captures the wealth of collective guilt and discomfort many white Americans are currently wrestling with, the impact that adoption has on the family as a whole, and the ongoing effects of \"white saviorism\" in American society.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46649128452400,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Mantheyfrontcover.jpg?v=1694565858"},{"product_id":"states-of-arousal-by-sunshine-odonnell","title":"States of Arousal by Sunshine O'Donnell","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2022 Louise Bogan Award, Sunshine O'Donnell's States of Arousal offers a gripping and relevant poetry collection outlining the modern human experience. 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Madison's work, its re-making of history, its daring, convincing belief in the spell of language that transforms, that enchants us into just beings. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI love the myth-making, and the imaginative sweeps of this work.\" --Ilya Kaminsky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThreed, This Road Not Damascus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which takes its name from The Three-Breasted Woman and serves as muse for the poet, Tamara J. Madison, functions through multiplicity of voice, drawing on the innate strength Black women have long had to exhibit\/endure, often in silence within patriarchal structures. Madison commits to the dangerous but beautiful task of poeting, which is often an insurrection against the dominate narrative for the sake of a more inclusive narrative.\" --Randall Horton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Tamara J. Madison gives us a story 'between mantra, mojo, conjure' of women, women primordial. The retelling is lush and pure. 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In the words of the Swedish poet Malina Mörling, the \"profound and affecting poems\" in SONGBOX \"speak to us in an effortless and immediate syntax.\" In charged language, the poems dance with time and commune with love, memory, family, and loss. They bear acute witness to the pandemic, the long overdue reckoning with racial injustice, the threat of nascent fascism, the climate crisis. As the beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye has written, \"these are poems to return to again and again.\"\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710009168176,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Songbox_Wilson.jpg?v=1695058531"},{"product_id":"my-afmerica-by-artress-bethany-white","title":"My Afmerica by Artress Bethany White","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Afmerica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a restless book, wandering through an America that cannot be separated from its African American people, where to be black is to be considered a body potent with the crimes of treason, with the crime of not being pure\/white, traceable longer back 'than Whitman's leaves of grass.' \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e신\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e선\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e영\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSun Yung Shin, author of Rough, and Savage and 2018\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrio House Press Contest Judge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“My Afmerica\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eforces us to consider the cost of history, brutality, racism, accompanied by documented facts. In doing so, her work makes our bodies react with a nod, a jaw clench, a curse, a sigh, a held breath. White’s art is as evident as her keen use of form translates what the textbooks often miss. There is no overstating that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Afmerica\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis one of those books that should be studied as history, poetry, theory, and art. Artress Bethany White’s second collection of poetry should be committed to memory and passed down as a living, poetic, historical document.”--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWillie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“In verse both free and deftly formal, Artress Bethany White unflinchingly mines the notion of family: biological, blended, constructed and decidedly American. She takes no prisoners, or perhaps takes us all prisoners, kicking into the necessary and discomfiting discourse of who we truly are—and how we are tied together in awful, and also surprisingly beautiful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eways.”--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDanielle Legros Georges, Poet Laureate, City of Boston\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710063563056,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/White-Front-Cover.jpg?v=1695058668"},{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-wreck-to-burn-by-michelle-battiste","title":"Waiting for the Wreck to Burn by Michelle Battiste","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo towns--one unnamed, one called Ruination--share an uneasy relationship with the river that separates them. 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Instead, the poems embrace the dislocation of grief and the absurdity of starting over.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710110159152,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/9781949487015-BattisteUpdatedCover12-21-19.jpg?v=1695058816"},{"product_id":"break-the-habit-by-tara-betts","title":"Break the Habit by Tara Betts","description":"Tara Betts' \u003cem\u003eBreak the Habit\u003c\/em\u003e is haunted by jazz, the sound and echo of it, the engagement with grief and loss, the movement of language that captures loneliness and love and relationships severed by death or divorce. 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This 'scarred' yet 'flowering' collection is lit from within by the poet's fierce resilience and faith in the redemptive potential of love. Barnes is a poet who attends to the breaking and broken body while never losing sight of the 'body's impossible blessings.' 'Change is your flint\/use it to renew, ' she writes, 'Say it: \/you want to live.' I am grateful for Barnes's powerful voice singing clear light into the darkness we inhabit. Hers is a searing, necessary debut.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Deborah Landau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Madeleine Barnes generously reaches toward painful places that many poets are afraid to touch. Organizing her book around a sequence of absolving principles, she enacts a forgiveness journey, without false consolation; instead, she speaks in praise of tenacious embroidery, steadfast retrieval, destinationless self-assemblage, and a pleasing neutrality, as if she were looking at disaster, or at daily life, through a scrim that gave some of the sad information but kept the viewer safely unseen. The book, an artfully composed act of ambiguous witness, addresses a 'you'-a compassionate reader who will feel, as I do, grateful to Barnes for her high level of craft, wisdom, and emotional resourcefulness.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Wayne Koestenbaum, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCamp Marmalade\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A wonderfully idiosyncratic logic animates Madeleine Barnes's debut collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou Do Not Have To Be Good:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehalf spirit, half inner speech. The poems take shape in the space between the dystopia of a real world and the utopia of a world the speaker longs for and valiantly will\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003es\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e into being: 'I wish the sirens were remnants of churchbells, cymbals, second-hand static, ' she says. Caritas and death confront each other in 'the sting of how easily we are forgotten.' Through the poem 'Vulnerary, ' I learned that a 'vulnerary' is something used to heal a wound, a definition that also applies to this powerful new voice.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Catherine Barnett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943308120368,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/9781949487046.webp?v=1697115694"},{"product_id":"x-rays-and-other-landscapes-by-kyle-mccord","title":"X-Rays and Other Landscapes by Kyle McCord","description":"In Kyle McCord's X-Rays and Other Landscapes, the poems trangulate the relationship of a father and son through art, negotiating vulnerabilities through slippery syntax and McCord's gift for leaping. 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The eponymous brain scan also becomes the ciaroscuro portrait that both the father and speaker consider, constantly looking for \"metaphor for the shadow.\" Here, McCord asks us to look and look again at how the mind is an elusive and metapmorphosing thing, even as you hold the image of it in your hands -- Traci Brimhall, author of Saudade.","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943326142768,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/71rLgZ8uv2L._SY522.jpg?v=1697116293"},{"product_id":"cleave-by-pamela-johnson-parker","title":"Cleave by Pamela Johnson Parker","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943329812784,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/71pAtQwSCKL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697116426"},{"product_id":"two-towns-over-by-darren-demaree","title":"Two Towns Over by Darren Demaree","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2017 Louise Bogan Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"It is not hyperbole to call Darren Demaree's Two Towns Over a game-changer. 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It is home: 'All fire\/ \u0026amp; water,\/ these people\/ my people.'\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943333515568,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/6154rDNk60L._SL1360.jpg?v=1697116565"},{"product_id":"dark-tussock-moth-by-mary-cisper","title":"Dark Tussock Moth by Mary Cisper","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943346721072,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/71ZJtLK4NZL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697116766"},{"product_id":"the-short-drive-home-by-joe-osterhaus","title":"The Short Drive Home by Joe Osterhaus","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943353438512,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/71FNQdLsNhL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697116872"},{"product_id":"bird-brain-by-matt-mauch","title":"Bird Brain by Matt Mauch","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943357665584,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/71uKBbysf8L._SL1360.jpg?v=1697116982"},{"product_id":"magpies-in-the-valley-of-oleaders-by-kyle-mccord","title":"Magpies in the Valley of Oleaders by Kyle McCord","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943368282416,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/718k6u1IQ3L._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117112"},{"product_id":"rigging-a-chevy-into-a-time-machine-and-other-ways-to-escape-a-plague-by-carolyn-hembree","title":"Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague by Carolyn Hembree","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarolyn Hembree's second poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eselected by Neil Shepard for the 2015 Trio Award and by Stephanie Strickland for the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. The book is a sequence of poems arranged like a truck owner's manual. Set in rural Appalachia, \"a truck up on concrete blocks\" functions as time machine for V. Cleb, an accursed wanderer trapped and liberated by the limits of his world. When spiritual and material realms commingle, visions of cosmic significance are revealed. Biblical cadences, elliptical phrasing, and a deep-rooted vernacular distinguish the voice of these poems. \"Through wormhole after wormhole,\" the book inscribes a landscape visceral, haunted, afflicted, afflicting.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943378047280,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/810yEsa7wpL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117256"},{"product_id":"your-immaculate-heart-by-annmarie-oconnell","title":"Your Immaculate Heart by Annmarie O'Connell","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943388631344,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/61l0F5rGb0L._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117376"},{"product_id":"bone-music-by-stephen-cramer","title":"Bone Music by Stephen Cramer","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943396364592,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/61_5j4WMNAL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117489"},{"product_id":"what-the-night-numbered-by-bradford-tice","title":"What the Night Numbered by Bradford Tice","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2014 Trio Award: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat the Night Numbered\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e by Bradford Tice unfolds the experience of queer individuals in search of liberation. Cloaked in Greek mythology, the tale of Cupid and Psyche is transformed into a distinct focus on the queer experience. Tice's language dares the reader to dive into the reality of queer lives, \"we have bitten our tongues like raw mothers, we have birthed ourselves, hemmed by everything we have borne.\" He captures the complexity of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement, with a coming-of-age sequence that focuses on individuals merging into their true selves. Channeling a multitude of voices, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat the Night Numbered\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eprovokes the reader's empathy, as the speakers vividly and openly express the innerworkings of their personal worlds.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943408161072,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/61LMaK73mfL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117600"},{"product_id":"the-alchemy-of-my-mortal-form-by-sandy-longhorn","title":"The Alchemy of My Mortal Form by Sandy Longhorn","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943417139504,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/61MvcVEU07L._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117705"},{"product_id":"the-consolations-by-john-w-evans","title":"The Consolations by John W. 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Two months, eight months, four months, eighteen months--the scansion of grief uses temporal signposts to mark the trails, record the journey...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Consolations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e gives us the memory of broken hymn and the broken hymn itself--reverent and haunting.\" - Mihaela Moscaliuc, Trio Award Judge, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFather Dirt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Consolations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, John W. Evans comes to terms with the tragic death of his first wife, Katie. This is a moving record of Evans's struggle with 'a grief that never entirely wells up or washes away.' Because his account of grief is faithful and unflinching, we can also trust that the consolations he finds (in faith, in art, in family) are very real. Evans affirms that true solace accommodates sorrow, and therefore lets love continue.\" - Katy Didden, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Glacier's Wake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"This elegiac collection is dirge and ode, heroic and everyday, gorgeous and unsentimental. Evans has crafted transcending poetic forms in which he holds his beloveds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Consolations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e makes you realize that some things can only truly be uttered in poetry.\" - Denise Duhamel, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlowout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"These powerful poems carve out a unique space between elegy and celebration; describing loss but never yielding to it. They draw the reader into a natural and social world seen and spoken in a vernacular of grief which makes a fresh perspective at every turn. This is a compelling new collection.\" - Eavan Boland, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Journey With Two Maps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Consolations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, John W. Evans guides the reader through a fiercely intimate journey of grief and love...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Consolations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a beautiful and exciting collection. Evans harnesses a great power of poetry: in the face of the unspeakable, he finds the words.\"--Chloe Honum, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn the Seawall\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943431721264,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/71co3x0VytL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117844"},{"product_id":"flight-of-august-by-lawrence-eby","title":"Flight of August by Lawrence Eby","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943438831920,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/51CAUUtc6-L.jpg?v=1697117944"},{"product_id":"fellow-odd-fellow-by-steven-riel","title":"Fellow Odd Fellow by Steven Riel","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn these artful poems, Steven Riel conjures a gay boy's coming-of-age as well as the cultural referents that anchor one gay man's identity.  Riel imagines Tennyson's grief at the death of his friend Arthur Hallam and Ishmael's thoughts after sharing a bed with Queequeg in persona pieces of astonishing compassion.  Riel's scope includes \"drag queens, who glue themselves together\/ follicle by mannerism by phrase\" and an ailing friend--\"the raw\/ toothpick you've become.\"  I admire Riel's pacing, precise language and unflinching gaze.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                            ---\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobin Becker, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDomain of Perfect Affection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe witty, poignant, exuberant poems in Steven Riel's first collection celebrate the life and observations of \"a man \/ with a strapless imagination \/ whose armoires are endless \/ \u0026amp; hold all that he might need.\"  The reveling in gay experience calls up all sorts of poetic \"fellow odd fellows,\" from Walt Whitman to Frank O'Hara, whose rapturous voices are echoed here.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                               ---John Drury, author of The Refugee Camp\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFellow Odd Fellow is a book Melville's Ishmael might have written if he'd lived in our times. What I particularly love about the poet Steven Riel is what I love about Ishmael; he is able to be sociable with the horrors of this world--the politics of prejudice, the persistence of injustice, the ruthlessness of disease. This book's unflinching honesty and quiet elegance invite us to sail as far as our imagination will let us.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                          ---Christopher Bursk, author of The First Inhabitants of Arcadia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSteven Riel's Fellow Odd Fellow delineates the outsider--the odd man out--and transforms that role into a great odyssey of the mind. These poems aren't just fabulous, however: they overflow with sympathy and humor. With the outsider's keen perception Riel plays, mourns, and rejoices.  These poems offer all that we might need with the ultimate reassurance that, here and now, we've \"aligned \/ Where with What\" we want to be.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                                 ---Elizabeth Robinson, author of Blue Heron\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943451283760,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/91diRyc4wwL._SL1500.jpg?v=1697118057"},{"product_id":"if-youre-lucky-is-a-theory-of-mine-by-matt-mauch","title":"If You're Lucky is a Theory of Mine by Matt Mauch","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943454953776,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/81BCBX3dmmL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697118164"},{"product_id":"clay-by-david-groff","title":"Clay by David Groff","description":"","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943457509680,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/71NgSwG_m0L._SL1360.jpg?v=1697118272"},{"product_id":"gold-passage-by-iris-jamahl-dunkle","title":"Gold Passage by Iris Jamahl Dunkle","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \"In the moment at the beginning of language words were more than magical, naming things into existence.  A world in duress needs new poetry whose structures and intentions allow a humanizing.  I found the poems in Iris Dunkle's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGold Passage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto be as necessary as those original pronouncements.  Musical and delicate, this work comforts me with its flashes of knowledge that feel the same time ancient and utterly new.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Kazim Ali\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"One of the ancient symbols of poetry is Adam naming the animals of Eden--first connecting words with the world.  Iris Jamahl Dunkle's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGold Passage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epursues this Edenic mission.  The vibrant gesture of her poetry is to give names to the shifting images of existence - things as concrete as a bird or a bobcat or as mysterious as the weight of memory and the invisible energy of love.\" \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--Dana Gioia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"...I envy the east with which Dunkle mixes mythology and modernity, and love best how in her short meditative nature poems she weaves traces of the domestic life. 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With precision and clarity, Gullette's poems wander the desert landscape of California, reveling in its beauties and challenging its sacred myths. His speaker seamlessly transports us from a hospital room where his husband battles cancer to the Palm Springs oasis where the vacationing couple celebrates survival. But their days of mimosas and the \"spirit of unrestraint\" are haunted by tragedy-the death of a young brother, the danger of climate change. In this utterly original debut, Gullette casts \"a dream world that doesn't erode, doesn't mold,\" a story of pleasure against the odds, a story of endurance. Coachella Elegy is a lament for what is lost, and also an unforgettable song of hope and renewal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47416894259504,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Coachella.jpg?v=1705162232"},{"product_id":"pre-order-the-bamboo-wife-by-leona-sevick","title":"The Bamboo Wife by Leona Sevick","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLeona Sevick's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bamboo Wife\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of \"good\" wife and mother. Sevick is a master of metaphor and imagery, depicting, for example, a mother as a kraken. In the sea creature's words, \"It takes a hard-ass woman to raise her young.\" Every poem is wrought with precise description and emotion. We get nature as well as some location-based poems orienting us in Korea. There is anger and sadness, \"the animal need to run in all directions at once,\" and family trauma both past and present. This trauma is inflicted on the speaker as a child and to some degree perpetuated through her own parenting. The collection asks the reader to provide space in poetry for a woman trying to do her best for her own and others' sake, for one who has \"made bad decisions and lived.\" Every poem is necessary, and Sevick makes each word count. Honesty carries this collection through her speaker's good, bad, and ugly moments. 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Wegener's work conveys emotional depth through vivid imagery, transforming birds, insects, and flowers into symbols that represent the truths of life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFour Fields \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einvites readers into its winding pages, immersing them in the croft and leaving a lasting impact with each cedar waxwing's cry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47416906711344,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/61rOXZazIvL._SL1360.jpg?v=1705162603"},{"product_id":"pre-order-dressing-the-bear-by-susan-l-leary","title":"Dressing the Bear by Susan L Leary","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award, Susan L. 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Some are testy, others reverential. Some are humorous, others not so much. The reader can expect a guide, but the guides may not bother to be consistent. Graceful and intimate, Voice\/Poems plucks individual moments from the flow of time to show us how crazy remarkable our ordinary, day-in and day-out, lives are. We are a multitude and a solitude, \"a glory, tiny veins in our fingers,\/pulley of skin working index and thumb.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn these stunning, delicate poems, there is a fierce intelligence and a great tenderness. Susan Azar Porterfield is a master of restraint and deeply mines the domestic interior of her life in poem after poem. Through her speakers, she offers us meditations on family, loss, and presents us with the beauty of her lush mind. I am thoroughly moved by Susan's poems, and I highly recommend this new collection. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e—Zeeshan Pathan\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Minister of Disturbances\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoice\/Poems is Susan Azar Porterfield's fourth book of poetry. Susan Azar Porterfield was born in Chicago to a Lebanese father and a mother from rural Arkansas. She was the first in her family to attend college. She has a Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century British literature and an M.A. in art from the Courtauld Institute in London. She received an Illinois Arts Council Award for Poetry and was featured on the Chicago WTTW 11, Arts Across Illinois program. 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Navigating a disorienting experience of a chronic illness where thoughts \"get stopped up \/ like an autumn gutter,\" the speaker shape-shifts into a multitude of voices that reconcile and congeal a fragmented existence. \u003cem\u003eSplice \u003c\/em\u003eultimately explores our constant cycle of reinvention and imitation, an engine that both holds us back and moves us forward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Borruso\u003c\/strong\u003e is the winner of the Louise Bogan Excellence in Poetry Award for his first collection, Splice; He is a former editor of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSoutheast Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a 2023 Best New Poet and was selected as a finalist for \u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e's Adrienne Rich Award by Natasha Trethewey. 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The work invites the reader into a yard where \"whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America\" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we \"wander streets like cartographers of poverty\" and hold our \"promises to come home.\" Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. \u003cem\u003eThe Grace of Black Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartheaus Perkins\u003c\/strong\u003e was born to a single mother in Center, Texas. After a childhood in and out of homes in Houston, he graduated from Stephen F. 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