 The Sounding Machine
Patty Paine
With intelligence and an awareness of the limits and possibility of metaphor, Patty Paine explores the fierce unclasping and clasping of memory as she writes of family, history, and our bonds to the world. In The Sounding Machine, she works into the complicated, messy, hearts of situations, not shying away from multiple perspectives; in one poem the devoured prey says of the predator: "It was my blood ... muscle and sinew / warming his gut." One believes these strong forays. - Talvikki Ansel
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-11-7
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 I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking
Jude Lally
In I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking, Jude Lally is "still mad as hell" and "ready for the hurt." Illuminating the mundane things in life like going to the bathroom, hopping boulders while hiking, or simply being able to jump out of bed, we are reminded of what is often taken for granted. These poems confess the dreams and demons as well as the daily joys and struggles of a writer facing a rare disease and an uncertain fate. In them, we find him living for today, fully and honestly, with a refreshing sense of humor that offers light and hope amid the darkness. He stares his condition in the face, laughs and escapes into his imagination, determined "not to dry up/and blow away." This collection signals Jude Lally is here to stay, a hardy perennial, a poet that continues to bloom. - Eric Scott Sutherland
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-08-7
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 The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues
Frederick Smock
"Like Virgil's before him, Frederick Smock's eclogues give us the sense of an earned peace
in the clear voice of a man at home in the world. These poems are richly allusive, elemental
moments of experience and insight. The Deer at Gethsemani is a well-made house of poetry,
and it is a true pleasure to spend time in its rooms."
- Greg Pape, Author of American Flamingo
ISBN: 978-1-936628-06-3
Softcover, 5½" x 8½"
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 Animal Time
Greg Pape
"I used to believe that Greg Pape's intimate knowledge of everything that lives and breathes
or gives light was earned sleeping beneath the stars at night, but these poems prove that he
is everywhere all at once just like the wind. And we know the wind never sleeps... Brilliant
beautiful cinematic gems. I still love Coleman and the deer, but I think the rooster poems
have become my new favorites."
- Frank X Walker, Author of Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride
ISBN: 978-1-936628-02-5
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 Numbered Bones
Bobby Steve Baker
"Bobby Steve Baker pulls out the scalpel and cuts away the superficial and unsecured, slicing through the flesh of lust and musculature of ego until he reaches his own Numbered Bones. Choices are scars chiseled into the body. The bedrock of self is uncovered through the struggle and search for love. The wounds are perfect in their shape." - Eric Sutherland, Author of Incommunicado
ISBN: 978-1-936628-00-1
Softcover, 5½" x 8½"
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 Bloom on a Split Board
Nana Lampton
"'Come along, come along,' Nana Lampton sings in these lovely nature poems. Here she gives us ice, the edge of the sea, the half moon, and the dawn. We consort with dogs, salmon, the ravens, the owl, the warbler, deer, thoroughbreds and Audubon's pet turkey. We breathe the fragrance and sight of Daphne, roses, white catalpa and hydrangeas, wild iris. The spirit hovers and explores, unbounded." - Sena Jeter Naslund, Author of Ahab's Wife and Adam & Eve
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-8-7
Softcover, 5½" x 8½"
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 Bee-coursing Box
Matthew Haughton
"Matthew Haughton's debut collection honors and extends Kentucky's great literary heritage, which stretches from Greenup to Bowling Green, the 18th century to now. In poems that dare 'pray there's a heaven for snakes,' and dare see a man 'growing like a sycamore out of the untamed earth,' he adds his worthy voice to the chorus."
- Frederick Smock, Author of Guest House
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-6-3
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 Plein Jeu
E.C. Belli
This English language chapbook is the winner of the Editor's Choice Award for the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
"The poetry collection is representative of my esthetics and obsessions over the last year or so," says Belli. "My husband was away for military training this entire winter and I found myself alone in this house full of empty rooms, moths, echoes, and my piano. The collection explores that sense of being new to a place while tugging along memories from previous lives."
"The title Plein Jeu, actually refers to a type of organ registration which is composed of principals, flutes, fournitures and cymbals," explains Belli. "When the plein jeu stop is pulled, it activates all of these other stops as well. It is one of the richest tones that can be achieved. Plein jeu is what the collection feels like to me: all of the voices within me were activated."
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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-4-9
Softcover, 5½" x 7"
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 Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku
Barry George
The haiku in this book blend a distinctly urban content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. "What I admire about Barry George's poetry is the possibility for human utterance within a contemporary scene - not unlike the lyric poem in modern English - explored in Japanese short forms. In three lines he paints a scene as contemporary as Edward Hopper, strikes notes as American as Aaron Copland. George focuses our attention visually and aurally, and thus each haiku is a cinematic moment casting an afterimage long after the poem closes. Even those who are not familiar with the ever-evolving Japanese short form will find Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku universal in compression and resonance." - Jeanie Thompson, author of The Seasons Bear Us and Executive Director, The Alabama Writers' Forum
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-2-5
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 Stick Tight Man
Jim Lally
This is Jim Lally's first poetry collection.
"Like the man covered with stick-tights that cling after a walk in a summer field, these reports from Jim Lally's world -- about falling barns, clothes-lines, spring peepers, ghost trees, poke berries, Quaker meetings, and Daniel Boone (even an homage to the letter W) -- stick with the reader long after the journey. What holds them to us is a discerning eye, an ear for language and for nature in its hummings, a readiness to explore the small ground which opens to the resonating world around us." - Richard Taylor,
Author of Rail Splitter
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-0-1
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 Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs
Andrew Merton
"Andrew Merton's poems have many qualities that are both pleasurable and startling. He demonstrates the simplicity that is only gained by hard application, he brings a wry approach that flips the reader from an ambience of ironic nostalgia into the abyss of historical violence and personal grief, he mixes a playful surrealism with the knack of capturing both the hilarious and the deadly, and pulls off the visual psychologist's trick of making the familiar strange and puzzling. All of this is delivered in that most serious of all modes, a graceful sense of humour. This is one of those collections you will often re-read." - Rory Brennan
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-09-4
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 Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
"There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because the mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the gift of this gorgeous collection."
- Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Author of At The Breakers: A Novel
ISBN: 978-1-936628-07-0
Softcover 5" x 7"
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 Etcetera's Mistress
Thom Ward
Etcetera's Mistress is Accents Publishing's first full-length book of poetry, written by award-winning poet Thom Ward. "Reading Thom Ward is to enter a brilliant and restless imagination – sometimes poignant, sometimes crazy-with-a-purpose, but always with a deep lucidity in the logic of its illogic. His poems remind me how much we need language and how much the language needs us." - Thomas Lux, Author of God Particles
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ISBN: 978-1-936628-03-2
Softcover, 6" x 9"
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 Fading Into Bolivia
Richard Taylor
"Time is unrelenting, relationships fragile, loss certain, writes Richard Taylor in Fading Into Bolivia, his new collection of clear-eyed and graceful poems. But the reader is not left wanting, for what is broken, Taylor also tells us with characteristic good humor and optimism, will one day 're-incorporate with perfect wholeness.' Reality tempered by hope: what an inviting and useful collection of poems!"
- Maureen Morehead, Author of The Melancholy Teacher
ISBN: 978-1-936628-05-6
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 How Swallowtails Become Dragons
Bianca Spriggs
"In How Swallowtails become Dragons, Bianca Spriggs proves herself to be a poet of metamorphosis - a shape shifter, a medium for the dead and imagined. She speaks for those long silenced and for those who remind us to never make a pact with our own silence. In these pages we meet Sweet Evenin' Breeze; Orfeu Negro; the Boabab Girl; and even Eurydice Thomas, a lazarus slave sold dead for parts. But in these pages we also meet a poet who is willing to welcome the wild into her own house, and even into her sleep - a poet willing to reach deep into the dark depth and mine that bit of light last remaining."
- Rebecca Gayle Howell, Author of The Hatchet Buddha
ISBN: 978-1-936628-01-8
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 Of a Bed Frame
Dan Nowak
"From the coldness of the Nebraska winter to the heat of a lover's bed, Dan Nowak takes the reader on a compelling lyric journey. He shares intimate moments with his audience, crafting his words so that we feel the scratchiness of the seldom worn suit, the skinned knuckles from the loading bays, and the sweat of a lover's skin. There are poems here to savor and reread and then reread again." - P. Andrew Miller, Author of The Legend of The Turquoise Knight
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-9-4
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 Original Ruse
Barbara Sabol
"There is an attractive restlessness in Barbara Sabol's poems that draws the reader in. Original Ruse begins in the garden with a deft and playful take on Eve's role in getting things moving. Then, with sure craft and lush imagery, Sabol goes on to explore connections between art and survival, the ordinary and the mythic, people and animals, women and men. These are fresh, lively poems to read aloud and savor." - Greg Pape, Author of American Flamingo
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-7-0
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 Metes and Bounds
J. Kates
This chapbook was chosen by contest judge Dr. Richard Taylor as the winner of the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
"Kates's brief lyrics, in taut lines that employ rhyme, often slant, are full of chainsaws, mauls, and the finished product . These are quintessentially New England poems to savor." - Maxine Kumin, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-5-6
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 Meeting Dad
Brian Russell
"Meeting Dad is a suspense story that every father and son should read together. Brian Russell shows how a boy, abandoned by his father, can gradually work his way through longing and regret to understanding and forgiveness." - Neil Chethik, Author of FatherLoss: How Sons Deal With the Deaths of Their Dads
"...With flash, sass, poignancy and the incomprehension that those who are abandoned always retain, Brian Russell tells this story. It is a moving tale, a wicked saga in all ways, since it forces the boys [Brian and his brother] to glimpse what could have been, but was withheld. Meeting Dad recreates a shining hour, a tarnished hour." - Molly Peacock, Author of Paradise, Piece by Piece
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-3-2
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 The View from Down Here
Jude Lally
This is Jude Lally's first poetry collection.
"These unflinching poems let us walk in unfamiliar shoes of someone who sees the world from wheels, revealing our customary world with re-imagined perspectives that are powerful and empowering. They give us words and heart to re-discover the ligatures that bind us, world to world, human to human." - Richard Taylor, Author of Rail Splitter
ISBN: 978-0-9844118-1-8
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