Bücher veröffentlicht von Finishing Line Press

Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time opens with title long poem featuring snapshots of a new parent with a daughter and son, as seen through the lens of someone who attempts to parse honesty from the distorting processes of memory. The book closes with nine children's poems about the moon, stars, and dawn. Mosson is the author of three prior books of poetry, and has won literary fellowships from Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the Puffin Foundation. He is a four-time Pushcart Prize Nominee. This relatable work should bridge readers of poetry with new parents looking to read, share, and enjoy. Family Snapshot balances domestic themes with experimental form to delight fans of poetry and newcomers alike.

The Scars, Aligned (A Cancer Narrative), Brad Buchanan's new book of poems, follows his amazing yet terrifying journey through the many phases of a cancer patient's experience: uncertainty, paranoia, diagnosis, acceptance, expectancy, crisis, treatment, and finally recovery. The narrative working through these poems is a powerful and universal one, but Buchanan's unique relationship to language (whether it be medical terms, the work of classic poets, or the details of an intensely lived physical and emotional ordeal) make this book far more than a mere succession of unfortunate events. These poems will drag you headlong into heaven and hell, then put you back down gently, with a new gratitude for everyday things. If surviving cancer is worthwhile, then this book is worth reading. And re-reading.

Lin Marshall Brummels mines family-of-origin stories in "Cottonwood Strong, Bent but Not Broken," to separate her understanding of past events from the sanitized version presented by her family. Her poems chronical growing up with cousins, fending off a brother, and believing she understands evil. However, she still falls for men who hurt her. Birth of her children, their adventures and transitions to adulthood, finally usher in some wisdom. From the vantage point of age, she seeks peace, while at the same time half-fearing she needs to blow up the process and start over.

The poems of The Things We Did, All the Things that We Do are based on and inspired by news articles and documentary materials detailing war and genocide on the African continent.

Laurie Lambert's first full length book of poetry is a deeply personal collection of memories and stories. In "What We Are Made Of" this poet describes in intimate detail the moments of quiet joy, deep love, and heartfelt grief that make up a life. Lambert's poems reveal a genuine connection to nature, and describe unique aspects of her relationships to trees, birds, and her river. These friendships, as well as her ardent bonds with family, enrich her writings with a private, earnest spirituality that brings the reader in close. Speaking in both whispers and shouts, she shares her struggles with life's challenges and her relationships to beloved companions. Lambert reveals the secrets of her life, inking her heart onto the page.

In "The Mapmaker and His Woman," the mapmaker narrator travels, in a few short hours, to Budapest, Salamanca, Punta Cana and Dusseldorf, but always returns home to the woman he loves. In another poem, Harry Houdini's critics attempt to suppress his opinions and negate his magical powers. In "The Groundskeeper's Teenage Daughters," young girls speak out against their domineering, controlling father. A prize-winning poem features the haunting voice of the ghost of Marilyn Monroe, who talks about her image appearing in her favorite mirror and how it effects the men who see it. The poems take you to variety of unique places: to a small Mexican village in the Yucatan, to the treacherous Gulf waters between Cuba and Florida, to a traveling carnival, to Bob Dylan's north country back roads, to outer space, a million miles from earth, then back to the isolated county roads in the rural heartland. Many poems focus on personal experiences, including childhood incidents and relationships with mothers, fathers and lovers. One section of the book, entitled "Borders: In Some Other Country," throws a spotlight on political and social issues, with wry and poignant poems about the repression of free speech, the use of nuclear weapons, gender roles, and the prevalence of gun violence. Another section in the collection features characterizations of famous American icons such as Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, James Dean, and the 19th century classic poet, Walt Whitman. These poems reverberate beyond the celebrities to make unique comments about American life and culture. Sometimes comic, sometimes poignant, the poems in The Mapmaker's Dream take you on journeys to places you never expected to go, and to characters you never dreamed you'd meet.

Hearing the Underwater is a poetry collection that explores reproductive rights, mental illness, motherhood, poverty, and sexuality through a feminist lens. These poems weave quick flashes of imagery and sound through a raw expedition toward self-love. This collection is, ultimately, about survival and acquainting oneself with autonomy.