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Hello and welcome to the Spring issue of BlazeVOX 15. Presenting fine works of poetry, fiction, text art, visual poetry and arresting works of creative non-fiction written by authors from around world. Also presented are previews of our newly released books of poetry and fiction. Do have a look through the links below or browse through the whole issue in our Scribd embedded PDF, which you can download for free and take it with you anywhere on any device. Hurray!
Happy Fifteenth Anniversary
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Rockets! Geoffrey Gatza, editor
BlazeVOX15 – A Journal of Poetry and Voice | Spring 15
New Releases from BlazeVOX Books
This is the work of a highly-engaged intelligence, and Gorrick has made her own system by moving through the world with the given that this, too, is poetry. —Carolyn Guinzio
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Against Misanthropy, A Life in Poetry (2015-1995) by Eileen R. Tabios
2015 marks the 20th year anniversary of Eileen R. Tabios’ “career switch” from banking to poetry. AGAINST MISANTHROPY presents her life as a self-educated poet—from, as a newbie poet, reading through all of the poetry books of her local Barnes and Noble as she scratched her head over what poetry is supposed to be … to more recently creating a poetry generator capable of making poems without additional authorial intervention.
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An Argument of Roots by Cornelia Veenendaal
His This extra-ordinary poet is at once companionable with the natural world and wonderfully awake to the daily surprises of the city; a poet who is almost painfully attuned to the beauty that sustains us and mindful of the terrors that threaten to fell us. —Marie Harris; NH Poet Laureate, 1999-2004
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DRINK By Laura Madeline Wiseman
Witty, sad, tragic, and magical, the poems in Drink both rewrite myths of the sea and present a harrowing vision of a childhood fraught with abuse, alcoholism, and poverty. —Nin Andrews
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Going With The Flow by Peter Siedlecki
With wry honesty and impressive skill, Peter Siedlecki contemplates aging and what will follow it. —Joan Murray
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K- A 21st Century Canzoniere by I Goldfarb
Goldfarb makes Dante’s platonic love sensible—his use of the Muse indispensable. If “Muse” is in both “amuse” and “museum,” the work passes muster with both.—Andrei Codrescu
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Metamericana by Seth Abramson
“America has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation.” —Barn Owl Review
“A major American voice.” —Colorado Review
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Minnows Small as Sixteenth Notes- The Collected Poems of Norma Kassirer
Your belief in transcendent linguistic delight may have faded long ago but Norma Kassirer’s inexhaustible poetic universe will never fail to change you. … Read her and live. ––Janet Kaplan
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Scorched Altar- Selected Poems & Stories By Kristina Marie Darling
It is in the very restlessness of her metaphors that Kristina Darling documents a tangible faith. Such restlessness is trustworthy and always, throughout Scorched Altar, both vital and in plain view. Here are truthful experiments. Here is a new tradition, alive in bright air. —Donald Revell
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Showgirls— The Movie in Sestinas by Jeffery Conway
Calling to the stage the gold-glittered divas of Showgirls, Conway uses the sestina’s circular dance to celebrate each frame of cinema’s campiest of stripper films. —Daniel Nester
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Starlight- 150 Poems by John Tranter
This is one poetry book you will want to keep reading! —Rae Armantrout
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The Arctic Circle by Kristina Marie Darling
Two brides crystalize into one entity then split, climatic conditions echo and advance deeply lodged psycho-somatic realities—The Arctic Circle is a cautionary tale about flawed repetition and imprisoned categories of sex. —Brenda Iijima
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Those Godawful Streets of Man by Stephen Bett
“This is an edgy, raw, harsh, gritty book about the contemporary cityscape—its block buildings; its loose, naked, spitting live wires; its plugged-in populace. A place where Borderliners, leeches, zombies, and drains fight it out over a man and a woman locked in a death grip.”
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Three Plays by Deborah Meadows
Are these Three Plays really one play along a topological fold?
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Two Books on the Gas—Above the Shale and Achieved by Kissing By Jared Schickling
In these Two Books on The Gas, Schickling engages us with a scintillating exploration of how the affective waste need not be merely contained and managed, but how it can be projected out—away towards a new Human Chronos of Possibility. —Rodrigo Toscano
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