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Autumn in a Solitary Time, The Hudson Valley 2020, published by Audience Askew
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Autumn in a Solitary Time, The Hudson Valley 2020, published by Audience Askew

In the fall of 2020, when most of us were home-bound, isolated and fearful, photographer Michael Craig Palmer took pictures of the glorious fall shades of trees and leaves in a few of the parks, public gardens and preserves in and around the Hudson Valley. Later he asked poet Elizabeth J. Coleman to find words for his photographs. This resulted in a collaboration of words and images between two strangers that became Autumn in a Solitary Time, the Hudson Valley 2020. This book is a celebration of the astonishing and enduring beauty of nature, as well as a celebration of connection in a solitary time.

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Here: Poems for the Planet
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Here: Poems for the Planet

Here: Poems for the Planet is a lovesong to a planet in crisis, with foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and an activist guide by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Summoning a chorus of 128 diverse contemporary poetic voices, from prize-winning poets to young people, this anthology approaches our environmental crisis with a sense of urgency and hopefulness. 

ISBN-10: 1556595417

ISBN-13: 978-1556595417

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Proof

In these deeply human (therefore quirky and unique) poems, Elizabeth Coleman exhibits an engagement with the world and its inhabitants that is sometimes humorous and sometimes piercing and always fresh. A splendid collection. -Thomas Lux

ISBN-10: 1941550053

ISBN-13: 978-1941550052

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The Fifth Generation
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The Fifth Generation

The Fifth Generation, contends with what it means to truly belong, as the concentric rings of our commingled existence ripple outward. This is a book of the most tender intimacies, one in which the speaker reminds us that we are not only members of families but also the bound residents of cities, farms, cultures, histories, and nations, that each of us must finally see as home the whole peaceable kingdom. -Kathleen Graber

ISBN-10: 1941550983

ISBN-13: 978-1941550984

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Pythagore, amoureux | Pythagoras in Love
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Pythagore, amoureux | Pythagoras in Love

Rachel Hadas, author of THE GOLDEN ROAD (Northwestern University Press), says: "Lee Slonimsky's beautiful sonnets in PYTHAGORAS IN LOVE are chastened by the consistent austerity of their limits. Yet these restrictions of vocabulary and imagery are also enriching and generative. Elizabeth J. Coleman's elegant French translation, conveying the burnished spareness of the original, sometimes recalls the elemental lyricism of Yves Bonnefoy."

ISBN-10: 1610191080

ISBN-13: 978-1610191081

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