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No End In Strangeness, New and Selected Poems - Bruce Taylor (Cormorant Books)
Today's book of poetry:No End In Strangeness, New and Selected Poems. Bruce Taylor. Cormorant Books Inc., Toronto, Ontario. 2011You read some books of poetry and you still have little sense of who...
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Satisfying Clicking Sound - Jason Guriel (Signal Editions/Vehicule Press)
Today's book of poetry:Satisfying Clicking Sound. Jason Guriel. Signal Editions/Vehicule Press. Montreal, Quebec. 2014.Jason Guriel's Satisfying Clicking Sound is a Jekyll & Hyde compendium of...
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The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane - (Harbour Publishing)
Today's book of poetry:The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane. Patrick Lane. Harbour Publishing. Madeira Park, British Columbia. 2011.Today's book of poetry has seriously floundered in attempting to...
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Shouting Your Name Down The Well - David W. McFadden (A Stuart Ross...
Today's book of poetry:Shouting Your Name Down The Well - Tankas and Haiku. David W. McFadden. A Stuart Ross Book. Mansfield Press. Toronto. 2014.David W. McFadden's last book of poetry, What's...
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The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths - Sandy Longhorn (Jacar Press)
Today's book of poetry:The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths. Sandy Longhorn. Jacar Press. Durham, North Carolina. 2013."Once there was a girl" named Sandy Longhorn who traveled in time to discover...
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The Anatomy of Clay - Gillian Sze (ECW Press)
Today's book of poetry:The Anatomy of Clay. Gillian Sze. ECW Press. Toronto, Ontario. 2011.Here is a kicker for you!I might have found a perfect poem. It is on page 18 of Gillian Sze's The Anatomy...
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Alibi for Two - Augustus Merrill (Parallel Press)
Today's book of poetry:Alibi for Two. Augustus Merrill. Parallel Press. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Madison, Wisconsin. 2014.The poems in Augustus Merrill's Alibi for Two are...
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Mules of Love - Ellen Bass (BOA Editions)
Today's book of poetry:Mules of Love. Ellen Bass. BOA Editions. American Poets Continuum Series, No. 73. Rochester, New York. 2002.Today's book of poetry bought this book by Ellen Bass at the...
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The Year Of No Mistakes - Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody Publishing)
Today's book of poetry:The Year Of No Mistakes. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. Write Bloody Publishing. Austin, Texas. 2013.Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is so damned smart she must glow in the dark. And she...
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And I Alone Escaped To Tell You - Sylvia D. Hamilton (Gaspereau Press)
Today's book of poetry:And I Alone Escaped To Tell You. Sylvia D. Hamilton. Gaspereau Press. Kentville, Nova Scotia. 2014."The settlement of African peoples in Nova Scotia is a richly layered story...
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Protection - Gregg Shapiro (Gival Press)
Today's book of poetry:Protection. Gregg Shapiro. Gival Press. Arlington, Virginia. 2008.Although this book is eight years old it is brand new to me -- and as refreshing as a needed cold...
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All Movies Love the Moon - Prose Poems on Silent Film - Gregory Robinson...
Today's book of poetry:All Movies Love the Moon - Prose Poems on Silent Film. Gregory Robinson. Rose Metal Press. Brookline, MA. 2014.Reading All Movies Love the Moon is a bombastic pleasure....
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Waiting at the Dead End Diner - Rebecca Schumejda (Bottom Dog Press)
Today's book of poetry:Waiting at the Dead End Diner. Rebecca Schumejda. Working Lives Series. Bottom Dog Press. Huron, Ohio. 2014.I really don't know how to break this to Rebecca Schumejda,...
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The Seasons - Bruce Meyer (The Porcupine's Quill)
Today's book of poetry:The Seasons. Bruce Meyer. The Porcupine's Quill. Erin, Ontario. 2014.Respect.Deep, deep respect.The Seasons is a one hundred sonnet love song. Really, really not my cup of...
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Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary - Bobby Byrd (Cinco Puntos Press)
Today's book of poetry:Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary. Bobby Byrd. Cinco Puntos Press. El Paso, Texas. 2014.Bobby Byrd's Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary is a big book and it is packed. Byrd starts...
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Blind Items - Dina Del Bucchia (Insomniac Press)
Today's book of poetry:Blind Items. Dina Del Bucchia. Insomniac Press. London, Ontario. 2014These wildly funny poems will alter the way you look at celebrity for ever. Dina Del Bucchia is a...
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Hustle - David Tomas Martinez - (Sarabande Books)
Today's book of poetry:Hustle. David Tomas Martinez. Sarabande Books. Louisville, Kentucky. 2014."Calaveras" is a long poem in eleven parts and I've chosen the very first poem of the sequence. It...
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As if - E.D. Blodgett - University of Alberta Press
Today's book of poetry:As if. E.D. Blodgett. The University of Alberta Press. Robert Kroetsch Series. Edmonton, Alberta. 2014.E.D. Blodgett's As if is not the water I usually tread. I will call...
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Easy Fix - Blair Trewartha (Palimpsest Press)
Today's book of poetry:Easy Fix. Blair Trewartha. Palimpsest Press. Windsor, Ontario. 2014.Easy Fix reads like a video of a major league baseball batting champion at batting practice.Ka-Pow!...
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A Gathering - Nelson Ball (Book Thug)
Today's book of poetry:A Gathering. Nelson Ball. Book Thug. Toronto, Ontario. 2014.A Gathering is an elegy to the Canadian poet David W. Harris, better known as David UU.Want some illumination in...
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