poetry

Sheema Kalbasi | Seven Valleys of Love | Gazelle Books

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These peoms are written with a piercing clarity and a profound intensity of emotion. Kalbasi’s ability to preserve the integrity and poetical sensibility of the work is evident in her mastery of language, editing, and translation. “Seven Valleys of Love” is a vibrant celebration of extraordinary women’s voices. The colourful and lively verses in this dazzling collection emerge as small, quiet explosions out of the shadows of hopelessness and seek to inspire and restore peace, hope, and harmony in its people. This stunning anthology of love and loss bears witness to a passionate and sorrowful longing, a deep plaintiveness for the ageless plight of expression. Continue reading →

Brent MacLaine | Wind and Root | Gazelle Books

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The poems in “Wind and Root” emerge from two powerful and sometimes contradictory forces in the poet’s life: one, the rural traditions, landscapes and seascapes of his native province, and the other, a profound desire to move and see beyond those boundaries. Brent MacLaine’s work displays a range of poetical responses – lyrical, tragic, dramatic, realistic, ironic, humourous – from an imagination that swings between the experiences of there and away – of wind – and the experiences of here and home – of root. The power and craft of these poems belie that this is the author’s first book. Continue reading →

Norbert Krapf | The Country I Come From | Gazelle Books

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In this collection, which includes ‘Fire and Ice,’ winner of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Norbert Krapf returns to the settings and themes of his highly regarded Somewhere in Southern Indiana. A writer for whom place has been a major inspiration, Krapf continues his exploration of family history, relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds, nature, and the passage of time. He extends his meditations on the Holocaust that conclude Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany to the treatment of the Miami Indians of his native region and a racial incident from his college years. Continue reading →

Sharon Niederman & Miriam Sagan | New Mexico Poetry Renaissance | Gazelle Books

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This anthology incorporates biographies and work by forty-one of New Mexico’s finest poets representing diverse cultural backgrounds. Foreword by Robert Creeley; Introduction; Lucile Adler; Jimmy Santiago Baca; Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge; John Brandi; Alvaro Cardona-Hine; Ana Castillo; Denise Chavez; Judson Crews; Victor Di Suvero; Martin Edmunds; Gene Frumkin 6; Greg Glazner; Larry Goodell; Renee Gregorio; Joy Harjo; Gerald Hausman; Judyth Hill; Elizabeth Searle Lamb; Donald Levering; Harold Littlebird; Joan Logghe; Anne MacNaughton; E A Mares; Demetria Martinez; Mary McGinnis; Carol Moldaw; Linda Monacelli-Johnson; Nora Naranjo-Morse; Simon J Ortiz; V B Price; Leroy Quintana; Margaret Randall; Leo Romero; Mariam Sagan; Jim Sagel; Rebecca Seiferle; Joseph Somoza; Arthur Sze; Anne Valley-Fox; Keith Wilson; Roger Zelazny. Continue reading →