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Tom Lombardo Poetry Selections
"Welcome to Tom Lombardo Poetry Selections, where you will find poetry collections by poets who have either been referred to me or whom I have discovered by way of reading print and online journals or attending readings. Since joining Press 53 in 2009, it has been my goal to discover excellent poets nationwide to expand Press 53's reach and influence in the world of poetry."
Tom Lombardo
Poetry Series Editor
The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle
Poet Laureaute of South Carolina
8.5 x 5.5 paperback, 92 pages
$12.00
The Onion's Dark Core: A Little Book of Poetry Talk
by David Bottoms,
Poet Laureate of Georgia
8 x 5.25 paperback, 194 pages
$15.95
Like Shining From Shook Foil, Selected Poems by Cathy Smith Bowers
Poet Laureate of North Carolina
8.5 x 5.5 paperback, 142 pages
$14.95
"There are no nicks in these poems. They slice into the very heart of life."
— Gloria Vando, author of Shadows and Supposes
“Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s poems .... grieve, rage, console, sass back, praise, and, though they keep a wary eye on the passage of time, triumph. Here is an honest pain, a real world, and the sustaining beauty of poetry.” — Kelly Cherry, author of The Retreats of Thought: Poems
This is an extraordinary first book, fresh and energetic, but also wise and mature.” — David Bottoms, Poet Laureate of Georgia and author of The Onion's Dark Core
I cannot imagine American poetry without her original voice nor her extraordinary imagination. How fortunate we are to have her life’s work in this singular volume."
— Major Jackson, author of Holding Company
Each poem in this collection is a clear, honest yet intensely transformed communication, dripping with a honey-like sweetness of literary gifts.
— Annie Finch, author of Calendars
Bottoms writes something more like meditation than criticism and his book will pleasure long and well the most discriminating as well as the amateur reader.” — Dave Smith, author of Little Boats, Unsalvaged: Poems 1992-2004
This book is the voice of thousands who cannot tell their own stories. Kirsten is a brave poet, seeking to restore to us that world that was lost, a world she has seen not only in her dreams. These powerful poems are urgently relevant.”
— Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of Where the Road Turns
“Marjory Heath Wentworth reminds us, once again, of why we return to poetry for solace and courage and ballast when our hearts are at their fullest, or most broken moments." — Lisa Starr, Poet Laureate of Rhode Island
"As she wryly puts it, she is 'dying to write / a decent poem.' Linda Annas Ferguson has done more than that. She has given us a book of tender, clear-eyed, complex meditations, a lovely book by a poet whose vision we can trust. — Chris Forhan, author of Black Leapt In
After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events
edited by Tom Lombardo
9 x 6 paperback, 387 pages
$19.95
115 poets from 15 nations share their poems of recovery.
"In this collection of poetry, recovery… speaks to transformation and hope…"
—Nicholas Mazza, Ph.D., Editor of Journal of Poetry Therapy
