Bücher veröffentlicht von Is a Rose Press

This chapbook by Michael Dickel, chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English, collects poems written during and in response to the Israel-Gaza war in the summer of 2014. The poems evoke a resistance to the violence, and are acute observations of the effects on family and daily life - from the provocations before, through the devastating loss of human life during attacks on Gaza, and past the line of failed cease fires. The incongruence of daily life continuing as war rages is closely observed as the poet witnesses his young son's own response and considers the question of the future we want versus the one that seems to be coming."Michael Dickel's new book is an explosive tour de force. From Breaking News to all that shivers beneath the surface, it takes us on a visceral ride as the rockets are falling through screaming surfaces, tunnels cease fires and death tolls; rocketing all night through missiles, mortars, sensors, sirens, shadows and eclipses, shelters and hope. As night slopes through shivers of light, War Surrounds Us will rocket your world with an escalation of unprecedented gravity." - Adeena Karasick

In her debut short collection of poems, Skull-Filled Sun, Haitian-American poet Valérie Déus evinces a strong voice full of "…jazz riffed, watercolor vignettes that create a gorgeous melange of Kreyol garnished musings…The voice is at once experiencer and witness, revealing multiple perspectives on the roads that all children of the African diaspora must travel" (Keisha-Gaye Anderson). Down the streets of Brooklyn where she grew up or from her current home of Minneapolis, Déus shares honest emotion, strong imagery, and musical language in her poetry, "… with a new and glowing syntax, weaving worlds together, making what seems foreign downright native…" (Danielle Legros Georges). Déus poems embody the life of a second-second-generation Haitian immigrant living in today's America-less the dream of her parents and more a place of overlapping boundaries, identity performance, and cultural expectations. Readers walk with her on the streets, play with her and her friends, love and hurt alongside this woman making her way, following her own path. "In Skull Filled Sun, innovation and energy bubble up through the language of the night, the language of Haitian mothers and of Brooklyn streets. Brown girls run the city, they run the world, and in this stunning collection, Valerie Deus generously lets us ride along" (Brenda Coultas). From "Bar Hopping," the first section, to "Bridges," the second, these thirty-five pages provide poetic pleasure and invaluable insight on every line of every poem.