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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...

"There is a profusion of sublime recognitions in this, the latest of Greg Pape's numerous collections that is perhaps the capstone to his fine career as a poet. His book is a furling face of the...

A Hollow, Muscular OrganAuthor: Meg FilesPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: Jan 15, 2022Number of Pages: 122 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1936628880ISBN-13:...

"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...

And LuckierAuthor: Leatha KendrickPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: Mar 30, 2020Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1936628562ISBN-13: 9781936628568

Bardo Of BecomingAuthor: Pat W OwenPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: Feb 15, 2022Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1936628910ISBN-13: 9781936628919

"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...

Bird on a Window Sill (Accents Publishing, 2018) is a book of quotes by poet Katerina Stoykova. She has collected these quotes, thought after thought over the last seven years. In the introduction...

There's a fine, rumbling power to Crisler's poetry, a daredevil blend of humor and anger that pays homage to the everyday glories and frustrations of the human condition, with all its icy highways,...

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...

"You're now here in Dean Crawford's world. 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...

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...

Earth Is My ChurchAuthor: Eric Scott SutherlandPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: January 10, 2020Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1936628546ISBN-13:...

The novel describes the myth of the person who travels through various wombs and embraces, undergoes multiple transformations due to the culture of times, yet never stops expressing the deep faith...

What is the national anthem of the country Andrew Merton inhabits? I think I hear ukuleles, and "the off-key bleats of a cracked bone kazoo" riffing out its tune. The music reminds us of the taste of...

The Angel of Imagination gave everything to Andrew Merton. His poems are inventive and spry and unpredictable. And despite the sobriety implied by the book's title, Final Exam, Merton's third...

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...

"Jett's unique storytelling seamlessly blends monologue, poetry, and even recipes to create a strong voice that speaks straight to the hearts of readers. Each entry in Girl stands alone, but together...

"Elegy, in making grief a living thing, brings the dead back to life. But elegy is also how we ask ourselves to accept, a touching of the wound to accustom ourselves to pain. This stunning book both...

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...

Homegoing - PaperbackAuthor: Toni Ann JohnsonPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: June 01, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 193662866XISBN-13:...

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...

I Am Woman - 9781936628872Author: Yvonne JohnsonPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: Nov 24, 2021Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1936628872ISBN-13:...

In With the Old, Out With the NewAuthor: Jude LallyPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: January 15, 2021Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

It'S Not Easy Being A MothAuthor: Mark WebbPublisher: Accents PublishingPublication Date: June 15, 2021Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1936628732ISBN-13:...

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,...

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...

In this exciting new collection of poems, Lynnell Edwards illuminates the "molten potential, scourging fire" of glassblowing at Flame Run Hot Shop in Louisville, Kentucky. "Through empathy and...

"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...