Able Muse Press

Slingshots and Love Plums, Wendy Videlock's third full-length collection, sometimes evokes the lightheartedness of The Dark Gnu and Other Poems previous to it, sometimes enchants with the frolics...

Author: Ben BermanPublisher: Able Muse PressPublication Date: January 31, 2013Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1927409055ISBN-13: 9781927409053

An eclectic mix of shapes and subjects populate Taking Shape--Jan D. Hodge's full-length collection of carmina figurata (sometimes called shaped poems, pattern poetry, or figure poems). Hodge's many...

Author: Richard WakefieldPublisher: Able Muse PressPublication Date: Apr 22, 2022Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1773490680ISBN-13: 9781773490687

Author: Emily LeithauserPublisher: Able Muse PressPublication Date: Jul 04, 2016Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1927409675ISBN-13: 9781927409671

Author: Deirdre O'ConnorPublisher: Able Muse PressPublication Date: December 13, 2019Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1773490354ISBN-13: 9781773490359

Eclectic characters in everyday scenarios populate Jacob M. Appel's The Cynic in Extremis. These poems present-often unapologetically-uncomfortable truths gleaned from close examination of social...

Wendy Videlock's The Dark Gnu and Other Poems plays, jokes, teaches, admonishes, yields to the ecstatic, and strays into the shadowy where "If not for the dark, / no / spark." All of this is...

This Deluxe Edition of The Dark Gnu and Other Poems by Wendy Videlock, in addition to the hardcover and dustjacket, uses premium glossy stock and special ink, resulting in vibrant color images and...

Author: Rebecca StarksPublisher: Able Muse PressPublication Date: November 01, 2019Number of Pages: 116 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1773490419ISBN-13: 9781773490410

In William Baer's Times Square and Other Stories, there are everyday characters walking extraordinary paths for love; there are smart, skillful characters struggling to reconcile their viewpoints and...

Author: Will CordeiroPublisher: Able Muse PressPublication Date: 27-Aug-21Number of Pages: 130 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1773490575ISBN-13: 9781773490571

Twisted Pairs was a finalist for the 2022 Able Muse Book Award. To read TWISTED PAIRS is to savor both the Gabriel Spera's personal experience and his technical confidence, disparate qualities which...

Uncontested Grounds, William Conelly's first full-length collection of poetry, is eclectic in people and places, deftly moving from vineyard to beach, to a Hollywood filmmaking set, and even to the...

In Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic, Anna M. Evans juxtaposes the recent loss of her mother with comparable elements and incidents from the 1912 disaster. Evans traces an intricate trajectory...

Chelsea Woodard's Vellum, a finalist for the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, propels the reader along new paths of discovery in the quotidian as in the mythical. Its scope is far-ranging: a flower press...

Virtue, Big as Sin is impressively wide-ranging in theme and style. It illuminates everyday vignettes with solicitous spotlights such as the bereaved son sorting the contents of his father's medicine...

In Melissa Balmain's Walking in on People, the serious is lightened with a generous serving of wit and humor, and the lighthearted is enriched with abundant wisdom. She shows us how poetry can be...

In Wise to the West, Wendy Videlock harnesses proverbs, myths, paeans, execrations, riddles, and pithy odes to the natural world and the people around her to deliver an inspired collection, with all...

The forestry term wolf tree for a large specimen with spreading branches-"prominent and self-isolating," just as "[b]eing a good diabetic is lonely work"-is a central conceit in Katie Hartsock's...