New Free Verse Editions Selections . . .
January 23, 2009
Parlor Press is pleased to
announce the 2008 selections for
its Free Verse Editions series, to
be published in Fall, 2009
Parlor Press’s poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is also
pleased to announce The New Measure Poetry Prize,
which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication
of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Cole
Swensen will select the winning manuscript. Other
manuscripts not selected for the New Measure Poetry
Prize may still be eligible for publication by Free Verse
Editions. Submissions for the prize must be postmarked
in April or May of 2009. The nonrefundable entry fee
is $25.00. Please see www.parlorpress.com for full
submission requirements at
Contacts
Jon Thompson, Free Verse Editions Series Editor
freeverse_editor@chass.ncsu.edu
David Blakesley, Publisher, Parlor Press
editor@parlorpress.com; 765.409.2649
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Free Verse Editions 2008
Molly Bendall, Under the Quick
In Molly Bendall’s fourth book of poems, the verbal underworld of
doing and undoing--oath, love charm, prayer, curse—becomes a refuge
of tenderness and malediction. One of her generation’s most subtly
imaginative poets, Bendall overhears—and whispers to the reader—a
lost language which is by turns brainy and promiscuous, clueless and
inscrutable, bewitching and bereft: a voice skirting a strange silence,
a “goblin market” of snares, cures, trifles, and métiers inconnus. Under
the spell of these poems, worlds once imagined break into growls and
fingersnaps undoing the rough magic of impersonation.
Ger Killeen, Blood Orbits
In a richly musical, startlingly surreal language, Ger Killeen’s third
collection, Blood Orbits, takes up narratives that encode oppression,
violence, and dishonesty, both the grand narratives that structure our
place in history as well as the stories that we tell ourselves to make sense
of our lives in their ordinary, lived reality. Blood Orbits enlivens what
Stevens called “the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind,” exploring
ideas as ideas but also evolving a poetic language that squarely
confronts the consequences of those ideas in real human lives.
F. Daniel Rzicznek, Divination Machine
Re-examining the ancient intersection between human imagination
and nature, F. Daniel Rzicznek’s Divination Machine takes us to the
anonymous lawns of suburbia, the forests and marshes of the Midwest,
a small island in the Gulf of Mexico, and the surreal terrain of the
afterlife. Combining sequences of lyric narrative with meditations on
humanity’s relationship to the planet at large, these poems find the
dreamer confronted with thickets of images where the world stares
back from the faces of birds, beasts, and creatures unknown.
Ashur Etwebi, Poem from above the Hill & Selected Work
Translated by Brenda Hillman and Diallah Haidar
Free Verse Editions is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication
of Ashur Etwebi, one of Libya’s leading poets, in a translation by Brenda
Hillman, one of the U.S.’s leading poets. Ashur Etwebi (poet, translator,
novelist; b. 1952) is a physician and senior lecturer at Zawia Teaching
Hospital in Libya. Since 1993, he has published four collections of
poems, most recently A Box of the Old Laughs (2005).  His work is
widely anthologized in the Arab-speaking world and Europe, including
the Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry (France).  In 2001, he ventured
into prose with his first novel, Dardaneen.
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