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Biogeography
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Publication Date:
Fall, 2008
$16.95 pb
ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-70-2
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Winner of the coveted Dorset prize, this two-time Georgia Author of the Year gives us a user’s guide to the animal and mineral world, taking us on a poetic odyssey from the American West to the rainforests of Suriname, and many riveting destinations of spirit and place in between. These are powerful, life-changing poems in which we learn new ways to connect with the natural world around us. Here we find epiphany after epiphany about our environment, our spirituality, and the bridges that link life (bio) with place (geography).
As we have devastated the land, so also we have devastated each other. In these poems, the eroding of a love affair is linked with “a crumbling sandstone wing/studded with iron-stained crystals/beneath the city”; the hubris of a still-at-large former dictator and the grief of a victim’s sister intertwine in the startling red blooms of flambouyants shadowing a bullet-pocked wall. What abides is transience, that of “spiderweb baskets/glistening in grass, early morning,” and of a sky “a patina/of volcanic ash.”
Most of all, what these poems leave us with is that most hopeful of human possibilities: the chance and choice to begin again, to rediscover a “flamboyant faith,” a lost “nomenclature of wonder” that may save us yet.
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Sandra Meek
Twice Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, and a 4-time Pushcart nominee, Sandra Meek is a native of El Paso, TX. She was raised in Ft Collins, CO, and received her BA and MFA from Colorado State University, and her PhD from the University of Denver.
For two years she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana. In 2003, she received the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry for her first book Nomadic Foundations. Her second book Burn appeared in 2005.
Widely published in literary journals, Sandra Meek is currently an associate professor at Berry College in Mt. Berry, GA.
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Ardor
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Publication Date:
Fall, 2008
$16.95 pb
ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-69-9
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Ardor is a book-length poem comprised of lucid dreams, letters, and prayers with the sensual feminine awareness of C.D. Wright, the radiant spirituality of Fanny Howe, the playful erudition of Anne Carson, and the linguistic play of Myung Mi Kim. Ardor employs ecstatic utterances, linguistic migrations, silences, and women’s voices in a feminine consciousness lingering on the mystery of love and glossolalia, speaking tongues in the context of a lyric postmodern aesthetic.
Ardor is the first of three books by Karen An-hwei Lee that Tupelo has committed to publishing.
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Karen An-Hwei Lee
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises, received the Swan Scythe Press Prize. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she lives and teaches on the West Coast.
Photo: Tracy Estelle Tipton
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Cloisters
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Publication Date:
Fall, 2008
$16.95 pb
ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-55-2
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2006 Snowbound Winner
“Kristin Bock’s marvelous debut collection enacts an aesthetic of discrete moments, offering her reader an intelligence that works simultaneously upon the heart and at the margins of experience. The perspective here is edgy, nervous, compelling, and wise. In the pared
delicacy of these poems, we discover both exceptional nuance and resonance—these are poems that trust their readers, poems that don’t oversell their emotions or perceptions. Kristin Bock’s poems are like the shards of a mirror that magically reflect a whole person, a whole woman, a whole mind and sensibility at work in the world. As in all of the best volumes of poetry, we come to admire the person in these poems, her vision and her character.”
—David St. John
“Poetry comes unbidden and it comes by design, with desire. Bock’s book catches poetry as it holds our attention so that we remember why we go looking for what poetry offers in the first place. I love this book’s adamant attentions and unashamed ardors. When she writes, ‘And who records such things?’ we know it is, for one, the poet who’s written Cloisters.”
—Dara Wier
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Kristin Bock
Born in 1969, Kristin Bock grew up in the small farm town of Woodbury, CT. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Southern Connecticut State University, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she teaches. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including Columbia, The Seattle Review, Prairie Schooner, The Black Warrior Review, and FENCE. She lives with her husband, artist Geoffrey Kostecki, in Montague, MA, where they refurbish religious murals and sculptural iconography in churches throughout New England. Bock is a contributing editor to the literary magazine Bateau, and a 2006 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow.
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Keep This Forever
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Publication Date:
Fall, 2008
$16.95 pb
ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-72-9
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In this, his fifth book of poems, written in the aftermath of his father’s death, Mark Halliday proves to be one of America’s most intimate poets. Like Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch, Halliday’s poems chat with the reader in earnest yet humorous ways and in wholly believable voices. Whether exploring grief or other dire circumstances, these poems are about everyday things.
Praise for Mark Halliday's Previous Books:
“He is prolix and quotidian, a Whitman in a supermarket, a confessional poet who does not take himself very seriously… His cool patter skewers pomposity…”
—The New Yorker
“Mark Halliday veers skillfully between autobiographical reminiscence and bleakly comic free-associations…”
—Publisher’s Weekly
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Mark Halliday
Mark Halliday was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1949, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and then in Westport, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. at Brown University, an M.A. in creative writing at Brown, and a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University. He has taught at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Wilmington Friends School, Indiana University, and Western Michigan University.
Halliday’s previous books of poems are: Little Star (William Morrow, 1987, a National Poetry Series selection); Tasker Street (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992, a Juniper Prize winner); Selfwolf (University of Chicago Press, 1999); and Jab (University of Chicago Press, 2002). His critical study Stevens and the Interpersonal was published by Princeton University
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Modern History
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Publication Date:
Fall, 2008
$16.95 pb
ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-68-2
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“These ruminations on time, morality and the meaning of life showcase Christopher Buckley’s enthusiasms and verbal gusto. They are prose poems like no others. Part contemplation, part nostalgia, part play (but always deadly serious), they balance on the edge of essay and memoir and are propelled by a linguistic sleight of hand that at times leaves the reader breathless. As a whole, the book adds up to spending time with a witty, knowledgeable, wise companion whose mind and exclamations never fail to intrigue.”
—Morton Marcus
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Christopher Buckley
A child of California, Christopher Buckley grew up in the edenic hills, beaches and woods around Santa Barbara/Montecito in the 1950s and 60s. He received his BA from St. Mary’s College of California, an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Diego State University, and an MFA in poetry at UC Irvine. For the last eleven years he has taught in the creative writing department at the University of CA Riverside.
Modern History is his 16th book of poems.
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