Bücher veröffentlicht von Hidden Brook Press

There is a power emanating from This Grace of Light, and a belief there is something out there that canprovide us comfort, if we let it. This collection is a kiss on the eyes, a debut collection rich with auralmemory. David Clink (author of Eating Fruit Out of Season)

Say this of me, reader, after the voice-vanish of this life. I felt the joy of foolishness and in the muddy shoes of morning saw love.--John B. Lee. 105 pp.

Suffused with light and air, the poems have the clarity of great photography, the feel of wind in the hair, the hushed compassion for everything and everyone seen and heard.There is a rich exuberance underlying all impressions, but not exploited at the expense of deep feelings.There is a subtle basic bass line supporting the sparkling right hand figures of Lee's style--an unerring ear matched to an intensity of vision, and both in the service of heart, mind and soul.More and more, I'm impressed by Lee's wish to communicate in artistic language without compromise--by his steely discipline as he balances the richest of language with spiritual insight, avoiding the cheap plays of irony, frippery vulgarity that tarnishes so much of "People's Poetry".This is subtly conveyed by his kind shading of metaphor with "like'' since similes are less dazzling and therefore more sympathetic to the nerves of the common reader as he sublimely manipulates emotions with all the artistry of the poet aligned with the gravitas of the image.John B. Lee is "the" People's Poet with the hidden agenda of a spiritual adviser, a magician of language whose poems often conclude with an amazing transcendence of intellect confronted by the inexpressible and surrendering to it in a skyrocket of wild imagery and pure poetry.I admire the unselfconscious pride with which Lee propagates his love of literature--its power and its glory--around his town and around the world--an evangelist of truth and beauty. To read Lee's work is to believe in them for the first time all over again. God bless him. by George Whipple

Tara Kainer is a writer who pulls no punches - deeply self-examining, she takes on the natural world, love, war, and poverty, and insists on a human response, a recognition of meaning. From the beauty of the "spun-butter moon" to the rages of the welfare office, from the wide prairie landscape to the many storms of mind and heart, these poems ask essential questions of identity, judgement, and the weight of past experience - "all those versions/of yourself imposed on you by others." Interpreting crows' caws or the cacophony of war coverage, her attempts to "know what things are" are bracing and beautiful. She invokes David Suzuki, Ezra Pound, and "the poets/whose truth seeps through/the cage of the printed word." Kainer's poems articulate a singular, uncompromising voice "measuring the light of my mind/by the light of those stars," a reminder of human decency and the importance of the place of the poet: both "to get at the truth, if it's possible" and "to be such a fool/for beauty."

Hearthbeat: Poems of Family and Hometown is an anthology of poetry with authors: Lee Beavington, Sharon Berg, Ariane Blackman, William Bonnell, Ronnie R. Brown, April Bulmer, Lidia Chiarelli, Robert Currie, Chip Dameron, James Deahl, Bernadette Gabay Dyer, Daniela Elza, Lesley-Anne Evans, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Roy Geiger, Katherine L. Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Andreas Gripp, Richard M. Grove, Richard Harrison, Farideh Hassanzadeh, Rhoda Hassmann, Laurence Hutchman, Keith Inman, Debbie Okun Hill, Keith Inman, Ellen S. Jaffe, Betsy Joseph, Paul Kelley, Glenn Kletke, Ruth Latta, Donna Langevin, John B. Lee, John Di Leonardo, Lisa Makarchuk, David Malone, Blaine Marchand, Callista Markotich, Elizabeth McCallister, Susan McMaster, Roger Nash, Chris Pannell, David Pratt, Sally Quon, Kathy Robertson, Peggy Roffey, Linda Rogers, Basudhara Roy, Guy Simser, K.V. Skene, Nathalie Sorensen, Glen Sorestad, Dawn Steiner, Max Vandersteen, Wendy Visser, Brian T. W. Way, Elana Wolff, Ed Woods, Anna Yin.Edited by Canadian poet, Don Gutteridge.

Poems by 4 Canadian Poets:4 Authors: John B. Lee - Canadian - November 24th, 1951 Antony Di Nardo - Canadian - October 2, 1949 Laurence Hutchman - Canadian - July 4, 1948 Richard Marvin Grove - Canadian - October 07, 1953