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Carolyn Guinzio, Quarry

In Quarry, her second ull-length collection o poems, CarolynGuinzio redenes and expands the idea o place elaborated inher prize-winning debut West Pullman to include the planetas a whole and our species place within the cosmos. Quarryboth an object o pursuit and a place rom which rock is minedtranscends its terrestrial nature when its man-made cratercomes to mimic the impact o the meteorites that arrive romthe vast unknowableness o the galaxy with no message, that aresmall lights allling /in ar black vastness.

Jennie Neighbors, Between the Twilight and the SkyIn three cantos, Between the Twilight and the Sky produces and

enters that place where things, the inbetweens, appear in theiractuality and passage, at the outside edge o experience. Tepoem is a language o silences, lost threads in the labyrinth, andaphoristic play,. With language as its light, it seeks and movesinto a darkness that it at once creates and is deed by. Betweenthe Twilight and the Sky draws on an array o poets and thinkersincluding Whitman, Adonis, Rilke, Celan, and Deleuze.

Boyer Rickel, remanenceremanenceoers a sequence o 39 elegant prose poems. Obsessed

with synaptic gaps, each spare ve-sentence poem accruethrough association and indirection. By way o a sometimes loosesometimes terse, lyric parsing o concept and material, Ricketracks the ghost-ridden voices in matter, and the mattering thatis meaning. Te book ends with a coda o longer poems, onethat recollects all o the sentences o the opening sequence intonine improvisational runs that exhume and dey, re-envisioningthe possibilities o the poetic sequence.

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, What Stillness IlluminatedWhat Stillness Illuminated oers a kaleidoscope o mysterioustableaux vivants. Composed entirely o ve-line allusive poemsin English and Yiddish (and several in Hebrew), the book oers

glimpses o individuals in moments o fux or revelation. Movingrom the distant historical to the more immediate,What StillnessIlluminateddramatically expands the domain o the personal byentering into the inner lie o the orces shaping and altering it

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