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Since The Song of the Rhinoceros (1973) till his recent collections of poems entitled Wounds of the Old Trees (2011), the Iraqi poet Sadiq Assaieg proves to be a poet of vision, passion and sensation. For him, poetry is no more an act of inspiration, but it is a complex craft to be mastered and thought of. His poetry, since the sixties of the last century represents a sharp departure from classical and romantic traditions in Arabic poetry and shows a real affinity to modernity. His poetic language is rich with imagery, masks and mythology. He always shocks his reader and contradicts their horizon of expectation and urges them to share the poetic experience actively to negotiate the innate meaning of his poetic vision. His poetry is motivated by the pulse of time and inner insight of life. Experimentation, suspicions, rebellion and rejecting poetic and social conventions are but some of the targets and motifs of his poetry. ? Fadhil Thamir, Iraqi critic The most prominent characteristic of the poetic text, written by the poet Sadiq Assaieg is the Collage, as plastic art, optical image, the internal rhythm and drama play a role in building the overall structure of the poem. Hence comes his dissimilarity with the most prominent symbols of the sixtieth generation. He declares without hesitation that he entered the field of poetry through the (white screen), but he remained alone, introverted on his poetry and happy in his solitude, engrossed in the search for his lost paradise and immersed in solving the mysterious equation of being human. The poet Sadiq Assaieg is an ascetic human being, does not want more than spiritual needs secure in this life, and confirms his presence as a poet and a man in spite of the continuous rotation between anxiety and stress. ? Adnan Hussein Ahmed, extracts of the interview published in Azzaman Iraqi newspaper

Nancy Fisher's images in Flame Dancer flicker, like the flame in which her personas dance, in a mirror that reflects a montage of past present and future in three dimensions. The darkness against which the characters struggle to fend off death makes experience of her artifice an experience of the dreams in the poets mind. The "hard gemlike flame" burns with the brilliance of artifice as the means to life and the conflict is always with the loss of the spirit that produces the bodiless head of the poet's nightmare. Her poems are an unforgettable and delightful experience. Robert Reid, author of Stories of the Sky-God Nancy Fisher finds the magical within the ordinary, the boundless within the constraints of traditional forms. Again and again, she moves gracefully from quotidian to timeless realms in ways that illuminate each. The range of her subjects, interests, and life experiences is rich and vast: family life, world travel; great composers, artists, poets, and saints. This is a book that deserves our attention. William Ruleman, author of Profane and Sacred Loves In her newest volume of poetry, Nancy Fisher widens her gaze from Family to Community to The World and finally to God. The poems are carefully crafted, many of them sonnets that put the lie to the rumor that English is a difficult language to rhyme. Whether expressing love through "Cleaning the Gutters" or traveling to Canterbury and thinking of Chaucer ("Pilgrimage"), Fisher creates a world a reader may enter to see, smell, feel, and taste the poet's own experience. A collection of poetry to be savored again and again. Connie Green, author of The War at Home, Emmy, and Slow, Children Playing

"The personal, the poetic, the political, the historic, the mythic-they braid together in this saga of the growth of a woman''s mind. Pat Falk''s story is unique, and at the same time she is Everywoman. It Happens As We Speak is a book of birth, and life, and change, and wisdom." -Alicia Ostriker"Pat Falk''s rare pastiche of memory and lively literary analysis gathers a momentum so persuasive that we catapult from page to page with the shifts and turns of her life as they affect her twin lives of scholar and poet. A riveting mix of candor and musing." -Molly Peacock"An intriguing account from the trenches of decades of coming to consciousness as a feminist reader, writer, and member of the literary community. A moving read for those who were there and those who want to know what it was like, and a lively resource for those aiming to understand feminist poetics."-Annie Finch"What''s particularly important about Falk''s book is that it is an ode to the art of writing and the art of reading from which it is born. It affirms the value of literary art to one''s inner life, of poetry as a means of spiritual enlightenment."-Daniela Gioseffi

Shells, ears, damaged mirrors... the images in Karolyn Redoute's powerful new book, Whispers from the Aural World, conjure a mysterious emotional landscape that is as real as the lost city of Detroit where she grew up, and as heartbreaking as the silence between parents and children or, later on, between lovers. At times reading these poems I felt as if the Lady of Shallot had returned in the twenty-first century to speak to us again of the shadow world of personal isolation. Redoute makes us feel that there's hope, that through the discipline of poetry we can force the shards of broken glass into focus and find our whole reflections again. - Maura Stanton, author of Immortal Sofa The poems in Karolyn Redoute's new collection, Whispers from the Aural World, are powerful and evocative. They deal honestly with family, with the people and places of childhood, with the weight of memory. They ask the reader to confront all the things said, and left unsaid, to look into mirrors and through windows, within and without, in hope of movement towards healing. - Robert Pfeiffer, author of Bend, Break and The Inexhaustible Before Prophecy and memory exist on the same plane in Whispers from the Aural World by Karolyn Redoute. Children pause in the space between hours, a father drives a house like a car, and a staircase patiently anticipates turning into a story. With homegrown mysticism, Redoute discovers magic in the corners of rooms and in the corners of the mind, building a delicate bridge across childhood loss and wonder to an adult understanding of identity. - James Cihlar, author of The Shadowgraph

What a remarkable, sweeping collection from writer Ute Carson! This inspired arrangement of poetry, conveys the richness and poignancy of every life stage. Drawing from remarkable experience and striking particulars, she ultimately conveys the light of gratitude-"the clearing you spy / beyond a forest thicket." The poems are love songs to family and life itself, cyclical loss answered always by powerful renewal. -Judith Austin Mills, author of Accidental Joy, a Streak of Poetry and the Texas Revolution TrilogyUte Carson's poems are gifts she "lift[s] out one by one / and gingerly hold[s]them up / to the silver light of sunset." These poems are infused with the joys of grandparenting and the consolations that nature and memory offer while clear-eyed in their contemplation of aging and death. Standing in the tension between cherishing and letting go, her voice rings true in these poems as she says: "I know this is the life. / I would want no other." -Carol Denson, poet

Geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor, Mitzi Weaver finds her world turned upside down when three exceptional teens in her care abruptly vanish. She waits in the Bath County Sheriff's Office for Lieutenant Phil Jenkins, a hard-nosed veteran cop at the Virginia Bureau of Criminal Investigation and up-and-coming FBI Special Agent Clifton Cox. During intense questioning, they try to determine her involvement in the disappearance. Weaver recounts the lives of Ethan, Sara and Chetana, from their remarkable conceptions during a cosmic eruption that blankets the Earth with subatomic particles, to their unexplained disappearance fifteen years later. Are Jenkins and Cox capable of understanding the unique nature of these teens? What facts should she reveal? Will they believe the incredible truth? Under interrogation, Mitzi relates the gifted children's struggle to apply themselves and avoid opportunists seeking to exploit their unique abilities. The probing plot peers into the fields of genetics, physics and child development. Events move across continents and exotic locations—from the mountains of Colorado, to the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, to a tiger sanctuary in India, climaxing in the mysterious disappearance at a lake in rural Virginia. Where are they now?———A stunning and unexpected flash lights the sky… Vic Rizzo pens the tale of a cosmic collision that impacts earth, causing a genetic increase in the intelligence of three children born at that instance. Aware of the effect of the intense energy in the explosion of the hypernova, a genetics professor tracks these gifted individuals, until they suddenly disappear and she finds herself accused of complicity. In a fast moving plot, relationships develop between well-drawn characters interacting on three continents in a struggle to understand the edge of metaphysics and science, where matter and energy meet.—Albert Noyer, Author of Alberix the Celt series and the Fr. Jake Mystery series. www.novels.albertnoyer.com

These poems are intuitive trails to an understanding beyond understanding. Mystery is a bottomless lake of fresh water. We stop for a little while and take a drink. We do not want to leave.—Joy Harjo, poet and musician; ten poetry books including Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings and She Had Some Horses; Guggenheim Fellowship, Josephine Miles Poetry Award, William Carlos Williams Award, and American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Kim Zabel's vision is spare and clean, looking through North Country eyes. These are ancient yet post-apocalyptic songs from a deep place, sung in a compelling new voice. Shadowprints is a testament, spoken in the mature, confident and prophetic voice of an old soul giving instructions to another about to set foot into the uncharted terrain of the spirit. Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson and even Jack London come to mind, with a dash of Galway Kinnell.—Ken McCullough, Minnesota poet, eight poetry books including Broken Gates, Academy of American Poets Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship  The poems mediate the relationship between human desire and the natural world with probing intellect and quiet, lyric force.—Julia Goldberg, award-winning journalist and author of Inside Story: Everyone’s Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction, faculty in the Creative Writing and Literature Department of Santa Fe University of Art and Design  There is serenity within these poems, between earth and sky, between faith and despair. Readers can find sanctuary here.—Linda Back McKay, Minnesota author of The Next Best Thing (poetry) and Out of the Shadows: Stories of Adoption and Reunion (nonfiction)   Kim Zabel's first book of poetry was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.  

How Therapists Dance follows the numinous thread described by Novalis: The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap. As in the first poem, in which snails scrawl the names of Buddhas with their silvery trails and ends with the poet kissing his wife's hands, taking out the garbage, and being confronted with an overwhelming moon. These poems stitch together psychiatric ward encounters with the musings of security guards in an art gallery; an urban dance floor provoking a breakthrough for a stranded therapist; his father's empty shotgun shells, his aunt's accordion finding its way inside the body, ribs expanding and contracting as though you are an instrument life is still learning how to play. ? How Therapists Dance is the meeting ground for the spiritual seeker, the therapist and the observant poet who negotiates this tricky terrain and writes poems for them all. There is humor and longing, tenderness and beauty. Each of these voices has its say. From them I learn how enlightenment is spoiled by wanting it too much. How the dance of therapists is into and out of the skin of others. How Superman's true heroism is revealed. These are poems worthy of a long-term friendship. -Len Anderson, author of Invented by the Night ? Dane Cervine explores with a keen poet's eye the borderlands where the doctor meets the mystic, the adult meets the child he once was, the beauty and pain of life become indistinguishable. Deliciously full of joy, insight, and awe, Cervine's poetry certainly shows you how therapists dance. - Ellen Bass, author of The Human Line ? Dane Cervine often lets a wry humor open the door to a deeper place. His light stroke sets the reader at ease, invites us into "the mischief in the young boy's fiddle," the "almost tangible, humming in the air between us" where, even through sadness and hardship "a blue dragonfly whirs" and we come to know we are "wide enough, finally, for every jagged thing." His finely-wrought poems are a comfort and a compass. -Patrice Vecchione, author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and a poetry collection, The Knot Untied ? While Dane Cervine's first book, The Jeweled Net of Indra, was woven with themes related to social justice and our larger connection with each other, this new book is flavored with the act of "attention" shared by the triune influences of his work: therapy, meditation, and poetry. Dane Cervine's poems are at once disciplined, sturdy, compassionate and wise. And there's an inspired playfulness, as in these lines from his poem "Enlightenment Is a Bitch": ...even fire hydrants with their red stubby arms become mandalas, and worse, the police siren revving its wail behind/my slow-moving car sounds like a mantra... -Robert Sward, author of New & Selected Poems, 1957-2012 ? Regarding the poem "Accordions & Shotguns," a finalist for the Wabash: The sheer volume of information in this poem is impressive-which is to say that all that story is fluently delivered to the reader-but it is really the passion and precision of the final stanza that earns my full attention. --Tony Hoagland