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New Books by NER Authors
It’s been a busy publication month for
NER authors! Emily Pittinos, published in
NER40.1, released her debut book of poems, The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press), a compilation of tender reflections both elegiac and ecological rooted in the domestic and natural worlds.
Essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo recently published
The Book of Difficult Fruit (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a collection of twenty-six lyrical essays (with recipes) centered on fruit, giving “insights into relationships, self-care, land stewardship, medical and botanical history, and so much more.” Her essays have appeared in
Jehanne Dubrow’s
New & Noteworthy Poetry, From Sign Language to Robot Saints
April 20, 2021
Recent poetry books of note:
INDEX OF WOMEN, by Amy Gerstler. (Penguin Poets, paper, $20.) Gerstler’s witty collection channels various characters the tooth fairy, a lost doll to celebrate “shrewd, / ingenious, difficult women, prodigal daughters / and wisecracking wives.”
THE PERSEVERANCE, by Raymond Antrobus. (Tin House, paper, $16.95.) Intimate and searching, the poems in this lively debut probe the author’s identity as a deaf Jamaican British man; sign language illustrations appear sporadically, and one poem is a scornful riposte to Ted Hughes’s “Deaf School.”
CLEAVE: Poems, by Tiana Nobile. (Hub City, paper, $16.) Harry Harlow’s famous study, raising baby monkeys with wire or terrycloth “mothers,” runs as a motif through this collection about the poet’s experience as a Korean-American adoptee. “Call me Rhesus,” she writes, “monkey without a cloth.”
Cost: Pay-what-you-can, with free tickets available
Warren said in an email that the Avid Poetry Series is a part of the storeâs effort to make literature accessible to the Athens community. The Poetry Series is ongoing and occurs about once a month, so poets with recently published works can read and discuss their poems.
âAvid hosts poets from here in Athens and across America to open room for free-to-the-public conversations on the history and current state of poetics and why poetry is important to us as readers and/or writers,â Warren said.
Lanham, one of the poets speaking at Tuesdayâs event, is a birder, naturalist and professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University. In his poetry collection, âSparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts,â he describes his relationship with the outdoors while reflecting on his experiences as a Black birder.
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