Just a Few Feathers, a Poetry Book

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TD Recommended Iconby Ute Carson

I love poetry that provokes images of moment, nods of empathy, and that reads and sounds, not like ditty rhymes, but as prose. Ute Carson’s work evokes for me–it evokes a ken…of life, of living, of memory, of laughter and all those things which make us conscious of ourselves and our existence within the living world of experience that imbues us. Do take a moment to go to Ute’s website and listen to her readings from Just a Few Feathers. You’ll see what I mean.–D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books

AVAILABLE FROM PLAIN VEIW PRESS & FROM AMAZON.COM

ABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

book cover for Just a Few Feathers, Poetry by Ute CarsonUte Carson manages to find universal truths in ordinary things, and clothes them in language that is at once beautiful and profoundly universal. The result is a music that sings in our very core. Leticia Austria, Poet The author employs a number of poetic tools to convey her thoughts, including wonderful imagery and simple yet effective phrasing. Harmony McGlothlin, Publisher & Editor Grace Notes Books and Editor-in Chief of Notes Magazine A gladness for life and family is countered by occasional poem lines of survived horror. Such lines render the poet steeled in mind and intensely honed to mankind’s fallacies. Ute Carson’s Just a Few Feathers is a collection one wants to keep close by and refer to often. Kaye Voight Abikahled, The Poetry Society of Texas, Counselor for the Austin Area

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Plain View Press (April 1, 2011)
  • Language: English

ABOUT UTE CARSON, POET & AUTHOR

Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast in Köslin, Pomerania, shortly after the beginning of World War II. As Russian forces swept toward central Europe, she fled westward with her mother and grandmother, settling in what was to become West Germany. There she went to school and attended the Universities of Hamburg and Mainz. Immigrating to America in 1962, she completed her masters at the University of Rochester, becoming a college instructor of German Language and Literature, and Women’s Studies. You can find Ute on the web at http://www.utecarson.com/ and on Facebook.

Ruins, a Book of Poetry

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TD Recommended Iconby Margaret Randall

This book of poetry caught my eye when II was over on the University of New Mexico website. Finding some samples, I thought it worthy of a look.  You can see for yourself using the “Look Inside” feature over at Amazon.com. –D. L. Keur, The Deepening

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Ruins, poetry book coverABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time’s movement–through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people who have experienced time’s transformations and traumas.

Writer and social activist Margaret Randall is the author of more than eighty published books, including To Change the World: My Years in Cuba (2009) and, most recently, As If the Empty Chair / Cómo si la silla vacía(a bilingual book of poetry) and First Laugh (essays). She lives in Albuquerque.

Civil Twilight, a Poetry Book

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Carnegie Mellon Poetry
by Margot Schilpp

The poetry is described in reviews as “beautiful, quietly powerful” and “of supreme lyrical delicacy”. These are high accolades, indeed, bespeaking a powerful book that one reviewer described as “a splendid lamination of paradoxes.” –D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books

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Civil Twilight, new poetry bookABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

The poems in Civil Twilight animate the present with a resonant sense of the past as character and as compass. The poems in the collection reveal a fascination with the possibilities that exist at every moment and the human urge to resist the inevitable and keep those possibilities open. The language of these poems is personal and precise, attuned to the mind and the ear, and, with each line, readers are reminded of the perilous nature of our existence here on earth and of the joys our lives hold.

  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press; 01 edition (January 11, 2012)
  • Language: English

ABOUT THE POET

Margot Schilpp was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1962. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: The World’s Last Night (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001), Laws of My Nature (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005), and Civil Twilight (forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in January, 2012). Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines, and she has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, and an M.F.A. at the University of Utah. She teaches at Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, and at the Educational Center for the Arts. Schilpp lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, the poet Jeff Mock, and their two daughters, Paula and Leah.