tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63024698399875593662024-02-07T18:48:38.062-08:00Des HymnagistesPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-40548847620148671622016-05-07T08:19:00.001-07:002016-05-07T08:20:30.350-07:00Matthew C. Nickel's latest volume out with Five Oaks PressMatthew C. Nickel's latest volume of poems, <i>The Route to Cacharel</i>, has been published by Five Oaks Press.<br />
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Praise for <i>The Route to Cacharel</i><br />
Throughout <i>The Route to Cacharel</i>, Nickel poses a central
question: “the dead speak if we listen, but how do we hear them in the
cackling of the modern world?” The answer is found in the particulars of
the natural world. Spiritual yet visceral, these powerful poems offer
comfort: “There is someone whispering over a candle perhaps for you
too.” If as Nickel observes, “in the end, we are measured by our
generosity,” this magnificent collection lights not just one but a
multitude of candles to guide us in the dark.<br />
~Vivian Shipley, author of <i>The Poet</i> and <i>Perennial</i><br />
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Like one of its characters, <i>The Route to Cacharel</i> balances
“the knowing with the longing.” Here is history and yearning amid the
vividly rendered but insufficient pleasures of the present. “We are
unable to resign ourselves to the end / Of what we love”—yes. These
ambitious poems offer things to savor, things to grieve, and much, much
to ponder.<br />
~Ron Smith, Poet Laureate of Virginia and author of <i>Its Ghostly Workshop</i>, <i>Moon Road</i>, </div>
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More on recent books by H. R. Stoneback<br /><br />
About <i>Homage: A Letter to Robert Penn Warren</i><br />“The poem is a delight, a great read, a rumble of energy all the way through…the rhythmic<br />roll and strut. and the details of the lives braided together.”<br />
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“I was blown away by the art and power of the thing…what an intertextual tour de force<br />it is!”<br /> —William Bedford Clark, poet, Editor of 6-volume Warren Correspondence Project<br /><br />
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About <i>Why Athletes Prefer Cheerleaders</i><br /><br />
“H. R. Stoneback’s recent collection, <i>Why Athletes Prefer Cheerleaders</i>, is a singular<br />experience. Every one of these poems epitomizes Pound’s old modernist maxim—that<br />poetry should be at least as well written as prose. Drawn together from over fifty years of<br />writing, the book is not only a great gathering of poems about sport; it’s a deep sampling<br />of Stoneback’s voice. Basketball, baseball, zellball, swimming, diving, walking, fishing,<br />boules—sure, you will find all these sports (and more) invoked. But there’s something<br />else going on here too:<br />Down the great winds at work over the roofs of the land<br />Down the singing maze of the horror of living<br />Down the wringing wrists of the honor of living<br />Down the winding abyss... (“Fast Break”)<br />These are poems rapt by the mysteries of courtside chants and yellowing scorecards,<br />the glories of place and travel. From “In Those Same Sad Old Churches in Camden” and<br />“Marrowbone Creek: Sunday Noon” (written in the early 1960s) to the strange twentyfirst-<br />century country of Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti, you will hear one man’s voice<br />telling the holy and broken story of what it has meant to live in the body, in place, in<br />time. There is nothing like it.”<br />
—Alex Shakespeare, poet and scholar, Skidmore College<br /><br />
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About <i>Amazing-Grace-Wheelchair-Jumpshot-Jesus-Love-Poems</i><br /><br />
“What I love about Stoneback’s poetry is that it makes you love poetry…He’s a bard,<br />celebratory and rhythmical, with an unmistakable voice and he gets and begets the numinous<br />nature of poiesis.” <br />
—Allen Josephs, writer, University of West Florida<br /><br />
“[Stoneback is a] Postmodern modernist extraordinaire!”<br /> —John R. O. Gery, poet, Director Ezra Pound Center for LiteraturePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-81871275226554481512015-03-08T14:40:00.004-07:002015-12-22T18:24:57.599-08:00Matthew Nickel: THE LEEK SOUP SONGBOOK<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Leek Soup Songbook</i> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>by Matthew Nickel</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Matthew Nickel </span><br />
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Praise for <i>The Leek Soup Songbook</i><br />
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The true poet, like the good gardener, must, as Matthew Nickel writes, “know the names of things.” These poems are alive with them, especially what grows in gardens: garlic, tomatoes, cantaloupes, and of course life-giving, death-defying leeks. And every name has a story, told with wit, intelligence, and often—oh so rare, welcome, and difficult!—humor. Nickel, a careful, reverent, joyful gardener of words, shows us how to “stay attentive to the way things grow.” <br />
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—Jane Eblen Keller, writer, author of <i>Adirondack Wilderness: A Story of Man and Nature</i> & numerous other works<br />
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The Leek Soup Songbook teaches us how to cherish and celebrate moments of communion. An abundance of sensual particulars create poems that glow, shift and blaze with a passion for being. With a sense of connection to all who have come before, to the land they have tilled, Nickel tries to “relive the death of every living thing.” Each poem of memory is underpinned with tenderness and seeks a grace that approaches the sacramental. The Leek Soup Songbook not only nourishes the body with leeks and garlic, but also feeds the soul by showing how to stay centered, how to rise. Like the taste of a savory soup, music and wisdom in this shimmering collection of poems linger first in the ear but finally find their home in the heart.<br />
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—Vivian Shipley, poet, Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, author of <i>All of Your Messages Have Been Erased</i>, <i>Hardboot</i>, & numerous other works<br />
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Matthew Nickel’s Leek Soup Songbook is a splendid first volume of poems from an already much published poet and editor. The best songbooks are composed of songs and stories, cantos and canticles, and Nickel’s superbly crafted collection of cantos and tales of seed-time and harvest, love and loss, tragedy and joy, has something for every reader—autochthon or anachthon, gardener or foodie, lovers of earth or well-made poetry. Leeks have been fabled for millennia as aids to the singing voice and here the poet sings wisely and well of place and displacement, of dépaysement and renewal through relocation. With wit and humor, formal equipoise and reinvested echoes of many writers, the poet gives us authentic songs and recipes, hymns and prayers to reclaim the radical innocence of the soul. Nickel’s suffused sense of place and, more importantly, the way he encounters the Deus Loci, the sublime Spirit of Place, invites us all to sing along with him.<br />
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—H. R. Stoneback, poet, scholar, singer-songwriter, Distinguished Professor The State University of New York, author of <i>Voices of Women Singing</i>, <i>The Stoney & Sparrow Songbook</i> & numerous other works<br />
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From <b>Matthew Nickel</b>, <i>The Leek Soup Songbook</i><br />
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<b>Exile: False River</b><br />
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<i> We must live with our own conscience.</i><br />
Ernest Gaines<br />
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The lake, bending like God’s fingernail, pretends<br />
to be a river and the live oaks imagine you are<br />
one of them waiting in the limp air for rain fall<br />
and down-thrust vomit of thunder clouds.<br />
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I pass an old man under an oak tree, legs extended<br />
his head ridged steady as if time had forgotten to drop<br />
off a package and the world kept waiting, his eyes <br />
followed my truck, waved, then back to his contemplations.<br />
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Around the old plantation home and down the dirt lane<br />
I followed the topography of history, observed<br />
thin columns around the mansion, the roof heavy<br />
imposing, and imagined ahead a little boy running<br />
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to catch his ball in the lane, his sister stopping<br />
as I approach; no words, just a stare out of some<br />
hollow place in the pit of landscape, a reminder<br />
that we cannot name ourselves until we name the<br />
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little girl who stops in the road before us. But I drove<br />
by and paused in front of the last shack of the quarters<br />
the dilapidated memorial for nostalgic scrap book,<br />
the folklorists orgasm, a reminder of the condition<br />
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we may call being human; the shack, swallowed <br />
now by earth, like all things in Louisiana, a warning<br />
that we are owned by the land, free to wander<br />
only so far; I drift onward slowly down the road<br />
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cut into cane fields on a mud track, then ahead the<br />
grove of pecan and oak; they have already started,<br />
I am late, arrive, shovel in hand, ready to work. Greet<br />
familiar faces, I have been here before, he waves;<br />
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“Good to see you again,” and Diane smiles bright;<br />
“When you cut the cane for the kids, Mr. Gaines,<br />
please let me know.” Today I help dig the ditches,<br />
last year washed the stones and painted white,<br />
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unearthed the half-submerged slabs under weeds<br />
rescued nameless graves of their ancestors, slaves<br />
who worked this land, lived here, loved, and died,<br />
tried to hear their voices hidden in the dust, then<br />
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planted chrysanthemums; today, we divert the <br />
water flooding the cemetery, find ancient nails buried<br />
under the roadway, a tool shaped like a hawk <br />
that I am unable to figure about, but am told<br />
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“is just what they used then.” After sweat<br />
and long hot work, one of the guys laughs<br />
“that Ernie, he wrote about me once in a story,<br />
you read him, yeah.” I smiled back, and we<br />
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shored up the coulée with large stones,<br />
standing in sun, we laughed at our craftsmanship,<br />
“they done this better then, but is OK now.”<br />
We walked back to Mr. Gaines’ home afterward<br />
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followed his golf cart through cane fields,<br />
girls riding along beside him, and soon<br />
the smell of gumbo and red beans and voices<br />
made even the distant river seem true.<br />
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“Tell us a story, Ernie” said one of the young<br />
men. Gaines hesitated, drew on his Bud Light,<br />
then looked at me and said, “There was this couple<br />
been married 50 years, sitting on their porch before<br />
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cane fields, and the old man says, ‘woman,<br />
you know you going to die before I do, and when you<br />
die, I’m going to write on your tombstone, cold<br />
as always.’ Then the woman, she held still a moment<br />
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and stared at that cane a long time before she answered,<br />
‘no, you got that wrong, no me, no you going to die<br />
before I do, and when you do, I’m going to write<br />
on your tombstone, stiff, for the first time.’”<br />
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Laughter out of bellies under the port cochere<br />
and I think he might have winked at me, or at least<br />
that’s the way I want to remember it, and the feeling<br />
of never wanting to leave Louisiana, to stay and <br />
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come back for La Toussaint to Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
to find answers in the smoke of November, to stay<br />
through the jasmine bloom and spring burst—to lose <br />
myself in the dream of the past; just as bad, perhaps<br />
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as the photo of the slave quarters. I have wandered far <br />
from False River down false paths, woven betrayals,<br />
I have met myself in empty gloom of sunset beyond<br />
the gulf’s widening yawn and have wished I could <br />
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turn back. Wouldn’t you turn back if you could?<br />
No, my feet have kept wandering. I do not know <br />
where the road goes from here. I do not know if<br />
there is a home somewhere along this road.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"H. R. Stoneback's
newest collection, <i>Why Athletes Prefer Cheerleaders</i>, is a singular
experience. Every one of these poems epitomizes Pound's old modernist
maxim--that poetry should be at least as well written as prose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Drawn together from
over fifty years of writing, the book is not only a great gathering of poems
about sport; it's a deep sampling of Stoneback's voice. Basketball,
baseball, zellball, swimming, diving, walking, fishing, <i>boules</i>--sure,
you will find all these sports (and more) invoked. But there's something else
going on here too:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Down the great winds at work over
the roofs of the land</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Down the singing maze of the horror
of living</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Down the wringing wrists of the
honor of living</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Down the winding abyss...
("Fast Break")</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">These are poems rapt by the mysteries of courtside
chants and yellowing scorecards, the glories of place and travel.
From "In Those Same Sad Old Churches in Camden" and
"Marrowbone Creek: Sunday Noon" (written in the early 1960s) to the
strange twenty-first-century country of Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti, you
will hear one man's voice telling the holy and broken story of what it has
meant to live in the body, in place, in time. There is nothing like it."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-small;">--Alex Shakespeare, poet and scholar, Skidmore College</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-small;">"Stoneback’s sport poems are earth poems, land art, tracing the way flesh moves in the world, the way the soul makes a fast break down court, across the map and over the abyss into moments of grace and glory."<br /> --Matthew Nickel, poet and scholar, author of <i>Hemingway’s Dark Night</i>, Misericordia University </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-small;">If you are interested in ordering a copy a <i>Why Athletes Prefer Cheerleaders</i>, please contact deshymnagistes@gmail.com. </span><br />
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<b>Voices from Venice</b></h3>
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<b>H. R. Stoneback </b></h3>
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New from Des Hymnagistes Press:</h4>
Signed limited edition of poems by H. R. Stoneback, bilingual edition, with facing page translations by six Italian writers and translators (Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, A. DeMarchi, Elisabetta Mezzani, Virginia Pignagnoli, Sofia Ricotilli, and C. Tinnelli). To inquire regarding limited availability, please email Des Hymnagistes Press at deshymnagistes@gmail.com.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A National Crusade to save
the Post Office through poetry. As everyone knows from recent headlines in the
news, the Post Office is in serious trouble, and many Post Offices are
threatened with closure or radical cutbacks in hours and service. The Post
Office has long been a center of the sense of place and community in American
towns and villages. One of the primary factors in the current Post Office
crisis is identified as the drastic decline in the use of First Class Mail due
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What you can do to help save the P.O.—1) send at least ten
people a copy of a poem through the real mail, using actual stamps purchased at
an actual Post Office; 2) ask at least ten people to snail-mail a poem to at
least ten other people. Act now to save the P.O.—do the math: if you send 10
copies of your favorite poem (or maybe one you’ve written to help save the
P.O.) and all the people you send the poem to also do the same, the numbers
spiral, and soon through many individual purchases of less than $5 worth of
stamps, millions of dollars will pour into the P.O. treasury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Poetry
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We encourage teachers at all levels to invite the
participation of their students in this campaign. Post this announcement in
libraries. Visit a Post Office, buy some stamps, and mail a poem and a copy of
this information sheet to 10 (or 50!) people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This nationwide crusade to save the Post Office through
mailing poems is based in New Paltz, New York. The campaign will receive
national attention at the American Literature Association Conference in New
Orleans in October 2012 and at the SAMLA Convention in Durham, NC in November
2012. </span></div>
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P.O.etry Crusade, you may e-mail us at: <a href="mailto:deshymnagistes@gmail.com">deshymnagistes@gmail.com</a> or visit us
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Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-61037564545182549122012-04-29T13:05:00.003-07:002012-04-29T13:05:38.478-07:00Stoneback (and other hymnagistes) in Paris<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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165 boulevard du Montparnasse<br />
Paris 6e<br />
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H. R. Stoneback, author (or editor) of 30 books, will read from his recent
volumes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>VOICES OF WOMEN SINGING and
HEMINGWAY'S PARIS: OUR PARIS? at the Swan Bar on Thursday June 7, 2012 @ 9:30
pm. The event begins with readings by the opening poets Jessica Conti and
Matthew Nickel before the featured performance—Stoneback will read from
10:00-11:00.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</span>Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-18807476862134983522012-04-18T22:16:00.001-07:002012-08-14T18:53:05.759-07:00Kentucky: Poets of Place<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJU9EHZDz8yOyuEPE1pn-7aISiJrmltOihaNH0LokNA2aFb1-TI-_o0LWuz436uZAGvZcEMZk4wG8qkMpDHg7UEpilw6ySP1iFa-Pf9VnSH6N07OCnP8xUAQgqenFH3IMSf8l5p9T7RrF/s1600/Display+Cover+Version_Kentucky+Poets+of+Place.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732976824542353746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJU9EHZDz8yOyuEPE1pn-7aISiJrmltOihaNH0LokNA2aFb1-TI-_o0LWuz436uZAGvZcEMZk4wG8qkMpDHg7UEpilw6ySP1iFa-Pf9VnSH6N07OCnP8xUAQgqenFH3IMSf8l5p9T7RrF/s400/Display+Cover+Version_Kentucky+Poets+of+Place.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 272px;" /></a><br />
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Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-73428062009942651442011-09-29T12:03:00.000-07:002011-09-29T12:09:57.686-07:00From Codhill Press, H. R. Stoneback's VOICES OF WOMEN SINGINGDes Hymnagistes poet H. R. Stoneback has recently published VOICES OF WOMEN SINGING (Codhill Press). Please visit their <a href="http://www.codhill.com/stoneback-vws.html">website</a> for more information or to order, please visit <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Women-Singing-H-R/dp/1930337639/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317323315&sr=8-1">Amazon.com</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Praise for VOICES OF WOMEN SINGING</span>:<br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">--"VOICES OF WOMEN SINGING is a funny, tragic, wonderful book . . . Stoneback writes always with good humor and great passion--about Paris, about love, about grief and joy, about the gains and losses of more than half a century gone."<br />Alex Andriesse Shakespeare, writer, Boston College</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-Arial Unicode MS"font-family:";" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"A virtuosic synthesis of disparate forms and haunting formulations, VOICES OF WOMEN SINGING is 'life-writing' of a wholly new and overwhelming kind, 'written' in the fullest sense and born of a life lived with passionate intensity."<br />William Bedford Clark, poet-critic, Texas A&M University</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"H. R. Stoneback's VOICES OF WOMEN SINGING . . . [is] an epic account of roots and sources, and it's close to the bone, intimate beyond words, stirring. Love is at the center of this book: romantic love, love of music, and love as a driving (and saving) force."<br />William Boyle, writer, University of Mississippi</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"There are only a few voices I can listen to and feel the way I ought to feel in church. H. R. Stoneback's VOICES OF WOMEN SINGING captures some of those voices . . . These are sacred songs; these are eternal poems. Listen slowly with infinite love and compassion."<br />Matthew Nickel, poet-editor, University of Louisiana</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">And, from the back cover of VOICES, among a host of laudatory comments from leading writers about Stoneback's recent volumes of poetry, a few excerpts</span>:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"[Stoneback's CAFE MILLENNIUM] performs an act of verbal hypnosis on its reader."<br /> Billy Collins, Poet Laureate</p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"These poems [SINGING THE SPRINGS] spring and sing right out of the earth . . .I hug these songs to my heart."<br /> Catherine Aldington, French poet-translator, Imagist </p><p class="MsoNormal">--"The poem [HOMAGE: A LETTER TO ROBERT PENN WARREN] is a delight, a great read, a rumble of energy all the way through . . . the rhythmic roll and strut."</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dave Smith, poet, editor THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, Coleman Professor of Poetry, Johns Hopkins</p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"What I love about Stoneback's poetry is that it makes you love poetry . . . He's a bard, celebratory and rhythmical, with an unmistakable voice and he gets and begets the numinous nature of poiesis."<br />Allen Josephs, writer, University of West Florida</p> <p class="MsoNormal">--[Stoneback is a] Postmodern modernist extraordinaire!"<br /> John R. O. Gery, poet, Director Ezra Pound Center for Literature</p> <p class="MsoNormal">[On HEMINGWAY"S PARIS: OUR PARIS?]</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"Stoneback's lyrical prose takes the reader inside the soul of Hemingway's Paris to reveal tantalizing secrets."<br />A.E. Hotchner, writer, Hemingway colleague, author of the classic PAPA HEMINGWAY</p> <p class="MsoNormal">--"Stoneback's evocation of Hemingway's Paris is as close as I have come to reliving those Paris days in the company of Ernest Hemingway."<br /> Valerie Hemingway, writer</p>Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-77899750588353118392011-03-10T17:31:00.001-08:002013-02-28T19:41:09.803-08:00From Penn's Store to the World<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji3WTvW0Qq_G_2q8se4PtQ13JgWA3dPPOnFTORpGl9T2Dk-RfqBRTSR17updO_sJWIFaJjR8msAhKOKn6RkVQxlBpMMzcADg2qPyWmxrOc9PIJpsAAg-mGQpmUk3YsKKFoD5yOx6pYnlZu/s1600/Penn%2527s+Store+Final+Cover_as+jpg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583037611834820706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji3WTvW0Qq_G_2q8se4PtQ13JgWA3dPPOnFTORpGl9T2Dk-RfqBRTSR17updO_sJWIFaJjR8msAhKOKn6RkVQxlBpMMzcADg2qPyWmxrOc9PIJpsAAg-mGQpmUk3YsKKFoD5yOx6pYnlZu/s400/Penn%2527s+Store+Final+Cover_as+jpg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 295px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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98 pp.<br />
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In the spring of 2010 a great flood inundated Penn’s Store, which is located near Gravel Switch, Kentucky. The old country store is situated at the edge of the tobacco and corn bottomlands, and to the uninformed eye of the casual passerby the store might appear to be just another ramshackle structure in a dying agrarian community. But this store is a historic landmark, said to be America’s oldest country store run by the same family—since at least the 1840s. The Penn family that still runs the store is related to the great Kentucky writer, Robert Penn Warren. It has since become a place for poetry and song gatherings, and for over a decade the location of the annual Kentucky Writers Day celebration every April. This is an important landmark of Song and Story, Ballad and Poetry, in a numinous place redolent with a sense of the past.<br />
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Because of the flood, H. R. Stoneback organized a Benefit in November 2010 to raise money to help the damaged store. A direct result of the Benefit was the publication of a substantial volume entitled From Penn’s Store to the World: An Anthology of Poems. All funds raised by the benefit went directly to Penn’s Store as a gift. (And any profits made by the book will also go to benefit the Store.) This book contains 50 poems—some written by well-known poets of national reputation, some by previously unknown poets who wanted to help the cause. And the poets are not just from Kentucky, but from numerous states and countries. It is the hope of all poets who participated that Penn’s Store will survive.<br />
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W. H. Auden was not the first or the last to say that poetry makes nothing happen. We beg to differ: poetry can make things happen, especially when words are anchored in the spirit of human community and deeds of concrete compassion. In this crusade to save Penn’s Store words were deeds, poems were cash.<br />
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If you would like to purchase a copy of <span style="font-style: italic;">From Penn’s Store to the World: An Anthology of Poems </span>and help Penn’s Store, please write to Des Hymnagistes at deshymnagistes@gmail.com for ordering information.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-4677794752532848962010-09-19T22:01:00.000-07:002010-09-19T22:05:41.875-07:00Review of McDuffie's bookA very favorable review of Brad McDuffie's <span style="font-style:italic;">And The West Was Not So Far Away</span> has been published by fellow hymnagistes Alex Andriesse Shakespeare at Rattle. Please read the review <a href="http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/and-the-west-was-not-so-far-away-by-brad-mcduffie/">here</a><br /><br />Anyone interested in purchasing McDuffie's book of poems (or any other book by Des Hymnagistes Press) should contact deshymnagistes@gmail.com.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-64220813371284970152010-05-24T01:27:00.000-07:002013-02-28T19:42:31.022-08:00New Books Available from Des Hymnagistes PressSee Press Release below re: release of new volume of poetry Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology. This book had its American debut at the Kentucky Writers Day celebration in late April; the world premiere will take place at Brunnenburg Castle in Italy in June, with readings by many of the poets included in the volume (e.g., descendants of the original Imagists; the new book, of course, resonates with the landmark 1914 volume of Imagist poetry--Des Imagistes: An Anthology.)<br />
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1) Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology<br />
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<br />2) Matthew Nickel, ed. Knowledge Carried to the Heart: A Festschrift for H. R. Stoneback (softbound 60 pages)--$15 (plus $2 shipping)<br />
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If you would like to order Knowledge Carried to the Heart, please mail Matthew Nickel at deshymnagistes@gmail.com<br />
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3) H. R. Stoneback, Fitzgerald Variations (poems; softbound 41 pages)--$12 (plus $2 shipping). To purchase Fitzgerald Variations please make check payable to H. R. Stoneback, indicate how many you would like, and send to: <br />
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Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-17835183741012544192010-04-01T12:49:00.000-07:002013-02-28T19:43:49.673-08:00American Premiere of Des Hymnagistes: An AnthologyThe 2010 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kentucky Writers Day Celebration</span> at Historic Penn's Store will feature the <span style="font-weight: bold;">American Premiere</span> of the new poetry volume <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology</span> (Des Hymnagistes Press, 2010). The book will have its <span style="font-weight: bold;">World Premiere</span> and formal release celebration in June at Brunnenburg Castle in Italy, former home of Ezra Pound and now the residence of his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz. The Des Hymnagistes volume resonates with Pound's landmark <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Des Imagistes: An Anthology</span> (1914). Inspired by Imagism, filtered through a century of literary history and transformed by influences such as hymns and country songs, Hymnagism is a worldwide movement with deep Kentucky roots--over the past decade, for example, many Hymnagistes poets have read their works at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kentucky Writers Day Celebrations</span>. This new volume includes poems by descendants of the original Imagists (e.g. Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz and Richard Aldington's daughter Catherine Aldington),Valerie Hemingway, as well as the work of the well-known Kentucky poet <span style="font-weight: bold;">H. R. Stoneback</span> and other rising young Hymnagiste poets. Along with Stoneback, several other contributors to the volume--<span style="font-weight: bold;">A.B.</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">William Boyle</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brad McDuffie</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew Nickel</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alex Shakespeare</span>--will read at the 2010 Kentucky Writers Day, Sunday, April 25th at 2 PM, at Penn's Store. All of these Hymnagiste poets will be in Kentucky for their annual pilgrimage to the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference at St. Catharine College in Springfield (April 24-26). And they claim Roberts, Kentucky's great novelist, as an Imagiste, a proto-Hymnagiste.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The American Premiere and Hymnagiste Readings are scheduled for 2:00pm until 3:30pm, April 25 during the 2010 KENTUCKY WRITERS DAY CELEBRATIONS at Historic Penn's Store. Penn's Store is located at 257 Penn's Store Road, off KY HWY 243 3 miles SE of Gravel Switch, Kentucky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">From the Kentucky Literary Newsletter and Kentucky Writers Day Press release, April 1, 2010.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span></span>Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-44325714322919476622010-03-28T21:51:00.000-07:002010-03-28T21:55:29.528-07:00Coming Soon!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTAc0ShtKyNhKkrzlvPjlq0YLPMQXaa1H0ILZKKI8TgjX0UymcUKGG0Krc6D4GcGcDbk2t_GGSQAwrKtXUksRAYpKmqI5iej4sPYDuEW43rT9xXbZgziA54xDGwykw72vRJQIskLxG7Fy/s1600/Symbol+close-up_04.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTAc0ShtKyNhKkrzlvPjlq0YLPMQXaa1H0ILZKKI8TgjX0UymcUKGG0Krc6D4GcGcDbk2t_GGSQAwrKtXUksRAYpKmqI5iej4sPYDuEW43rT9xXbZgziA54xDGwykw72vRJQIskLxG7Fy/s400/Symbol+close-up_04.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453914046556190226" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Des Hymnagistes Press is hard at work on a new Anthology to be available soon. Please check back for updates in the coming weeks. We still have available copies for sale of Brad McDuffie's <span style="font-style: italic;">And the West Was Not So Far Away</span>, H. R. Stoneback's <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing-Grace-Wheel-Chair-Jumpshot-Jesus-Love-Poems</span>, and the anthology edited by Matthew Nickel, <span style="font-style: italic;">Illumination & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky</span>. Please contact Des Hymnagistes Press at deshymnagistes@gmail.com for questions and more information.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-50179401357761072222009-10-02T08:59:00.001-07:002009-10-16T15:49:26.014-07:00And The West Was Not So Far Away<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwmmd73PA9aGN0RgLOmoUL3rk2hnaL2w_4O5x78VLZgPV8V9dyh2Gg2lFTpw9w8wDN5B7azDF2lpxtq5C4Su7VD4KfPQsB9LCRYZky8FqcbGN21rvh7Vs-WC1h4QcQECG95xK-W-KyEv5/s1600-h/full+cover+FINAL.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwmmd73PA9aGN0RgLOmoUL3rk2hnaL2w_4O5x78VLZgPV8V9dyh2Gg2lFTpw9w8wDN5B7azDF2lpxtq5C4Su7VD4KfPQsB9LCRYZky8FqcbGN21rvh7Vs-WC1h4QcQECG95xK-W-KyEv5/s400/full+cover+FINAL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388033264963591058" border="0" /></a><br />Now Available From Des Hymnagistes Press<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And The West Was Not So Far Away<br /></span>Brad McDuffie<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Des Hymnagistes Press<br />ISBN 978-0-9822693-2-9<br />$12 (plus $2 S&H)<br /><br />To order please make check payable to "Brad McDuffie":<br />$12 (plus $2 S&H) and mail to:<br /><br />Brad McDuffie<br />Nyack College<br />1 South Blvd<br />Nyack, NY 10960<br /><br /><br />from McDuffie's "A Meditation on my First Tour de France"<br /><br />Our tour ends down the Rue Saint-Jacques.<br />We spend <span style="font-style: italic;">l’heure verte</span> at the Dome,<br />and watch <span style="font-style: italic;">feux d’artifice</span> over the Seine;<br />as the moon rises over Notre-Dame,<br />we raise our glasses to Lance.<br />On the last night we dine at <span style="font-style: italic;">L’Écurie</span><br />the owner brings us absinthe<br />he apologizes for the wait, welcomes<br />our platoon like the brothers he lost at Reims.<br />He raises his glass, looks you in the eye, salutes.<br /><br />You’ve carried me into high country,<br />and I’ve fixed my eyes on the road ahead,<br />where the light steadies beyond the Panthéon,<br />seeing the place where everything begins.<br /><br /><br />Praise for McDuffie's <span style="font-style: italic;">And The West Was Not So Far Away</span>:<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Brad McDuffie's poems come from the source of all that is good. I haven't been moved by a book of poems in this way since Erin Rourke's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-style: none; font-style: italic;">Three Bullets and a Magic Bean</span>. Eat these poems. Drink them. Live off of them for years in the wilderness. They are about moments of grace, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_0" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_0">moments of doubt</span></span>, and--above all--moments of intense communion. Teach these poems to students! Bring them to courthouses! Pay parking tickets with these poems! Defy your elders, using only these poems as evidence of your right to do what you want! Write letters to your leaders and quote <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_1" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_1">McDuffie</span></span>! Believe me, children: poetry's gone to the shithouse. You want to help? You want to make a contribution? Buy McDuffie's book, and don't look back. <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;">--Francis Eamon Boyle, author of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-style: none; font-style: italic;">Raised Hearts Hailing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-style: none; font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-style: none; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-style: none; font-style: normal;">McDuffie's poems are beautiful, straight, and true. I read so much poetry where the emotion--the real emotion--has been wrung out, but McDuffie knows how to keep it in and use it to its full potential. His poems work the middle ground between <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_2" style="outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;">Townes Van Zandt</span> and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_3" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_2">Robert Lowell</span></span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_4" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_3">Jason Molina</span></span> and Donald Junkins, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_5" style="outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_4">Bob Dylan</span></span> and H. R. Stoneback. At the beginning of one section, McDuffie quotes <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_6" style="outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_5">John Darnielle</span></span> of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_7" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; font-style: italic;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_6">The Mountain Goats</span></span>: "But we are not as <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_8" style="outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;">far west</span> as you suppose we are," fully realizing the idea of the west that threads its way through these pages. Interestingly enough, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Mountain Goats</span> have a new album out simultaneously with McDuffie's book. In "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace," Darnielle sings: "When I emerge I find my car like a cathedral in a dream of the future." This line gets at the overall feeling of McDuffie's book: Reading it, you feel like you're inside of something big, a cathedral maybe, a place where prayer and miracles still matter.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-style: none; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="outline-style: none; font-style: normal;">--William Boyle, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255729686_9" style="cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255732821_7">University of Mississippi</span></span></span></span></div></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span>Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-58382259346514136912009-09-25T10:32:00.001-07:002009-09-25T10:32:54.851-07:00Happy BirthdaySparrow.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-52742544766648117362008-12-31T07:35:00.000-08:002013-02-28T19:43:08.484-08:00Amazing-Grace-Wheelchair-Jumpshot-Jesus-Love-Poems<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0F57I-vbEA2lWgN90CJQcuAErWjC3YJ4GlJtkr4ltMztChPdBpiY8rfLRtG2G4Kw11IMk7Xvy8xLC6Wk81uAkA7dqWUbjoiGbVzmuc73dokclwzE3nKl21DkxBuFF0Z77XZuheWSfcEpe/s1600-h/AGWJJLP+front+cover+image.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285989042509087762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0F57I-vbEA2lWgN90CJQcuAErWjC3YJ4GlJtkr4ltMztChPdBpiY8rfLRtG2G4Kw11IMk7Xvy8xLC6Wk81uAkA7dqWUbjoiGbVzmuc73dokclwzE3nKl21DkxBuFF0Z77XZuheWSfcEpe/s400/AGWJJLP+front+cover+image.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 274px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">Now available from Des Hymnagistes Press:<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amazing-Grace-Wheelchair-Jumpshot-Jesus-Love-Poems</span></span>H. R. Stoneback</span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">172 pp.<br />Des Hymnagistes Press<br />ISBN 978-0-9822693-0-5<br />$20 (plus $2 S&H)<br /><br />To order, please email deshymnagistes@gmail.com.<br /></span>"Postmodern modernist extraordinaire!"<br />
--John R. O. Gery, Director Ezra Pound Center for Literature (<span style="font-style: italic;">Davenport's Version, American Ghost/Americki Duh </span> and numerous other books)<br />
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What I love about Stoneback's poetry is that it makes you <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_0" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">love poetry</span>. It is often very accomplished poetry, but Stoney's double gift for narrative and clarity encourage you to read it with the relish and abandon you would bring to finely honed prose. At the same time he knows--as <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_1" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Alfred Kazin</span> said to me one afternoon, walking the miracle sands of Pensacola Beach--that all great poetry is atavistic. Stoney's atavisms--from the chthonic to the ludic, from the tellurian to the celestial--mourn for all that's missing in the vast <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_2">charnel house</span> of modern culture. He's a bard, celebratory and rhythmical, with an unmistakable voice and he gets and begets the numinous nature of <span style="font-style: italic;">poiesis</span>.<br />
--Allen Josephs, University of West Florida,<span style="font-style: italic;">White Wall of </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_3" style="font-style: italic;">Spain</span><span style="font-style: italic;">: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture, Ritual</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Sacrifice in the Corrida: The Saga of Cesar Rincon, </span>and numerous other books.<br />
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H.R. Stoneback's superb new <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_4">collection of poems</span> speaks to such vital fundamentals as love, hope, loss, redemption and renewal as these things are transfigured through Faith. In these eloquent and deeply personal pieces, Stoneback works with the precision of a virtuoso craftsman to devise new songs with which to speak ancient truths, fomenting a radical new rubric of vision and speech while at the same time retaining the best of oral and written tradition in the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_5">English language</span>. Stoneback's landscapes and rivers and people are sacred. So are his words about them.<br />
--Edward J. Renehan Jr., musician, writer (<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_6" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-style: italic;">John Burroughs</span><span style="font-style: italic;">: An </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_7" style="font-style: italic;">American Naturalist</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Kennedy's at War: 1937-1945, Dark Genius of Wallstreet: </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_8" style="font-style: italic;">The Misunderstood</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Life of Jay Gould, King of the </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_9" style="font-style: italic;">Robber Barons</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, Commodore: The Life of </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_10" style="font-style: italic;">Cornelius Vanderbilt</span>, and numerous other books)<br />
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H. R. Stoneback's new collection contributes another memorable chapter of story and verse to his earlier works, <span style="font-style: italic;">Cafe </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_11" style="font-style: italic;">Millennium</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> & Other Poems</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Singing the Springs</span>. These hymnagiste poems rollick between celebratory song and heartbreaking elegy, between the wild weirdness of the 1960s and the weirder wildness of this new century—and perhaps one of the rarest qualities in contemporary poetry, they are capable of communicating a sense of authentic joy.<br />
In Stoneback's hands, autobiography becomes something universal; the work of mourning is shared, and sweetness is confided. Perhaps the most striking piece in a striking collection is the "found poem" <span style="font-style: italic;">Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono</span>, which the poet wrote in Nashville, 1965 about:<br />
how we lived in Hawai'i when we<br />
were twenty-five how we got there what we<br />
did there and how we came the long road home<br />
never much money but always with song<br />
luck and hope and hunger when we were young<br />
After reading this poem, after reading all the poems of Amazing-Grace, we too have traveled with the poet on a long road home. And it is a marvelous ride.<br />
--Alex Andriesse <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_12">Shakespeare</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_13">Boston College</span><br />
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H.R. Stoneback's <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing-Grace-Wheelchair-Jumpshot-Jesus-Love-Poems</span> contains new (and old) poems that are about victory and precision, overcoming and redemption, love and lonesomeness, family and faith. These poems often draw from hymns, carrying the reader to the good places Stoneback has known. Above all, though, Stoneback instructs, teaching us how to live well and truly in the world.<br />
--William Boyle, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_14">University of Mississippi</span><br />
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These poems have an immediacy to them, what Fitzgerald called "romantic readiness," they defy the static <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_15">claustrophobia</span> of academic poems, they are alive, they breathe with place and history, and they impart these journeys to the reader, the pilgrim. These are lasting poems, they endure, they teach, they carry the reader along traces both common and transcendent, blurring the lines of demarcation because they live the values. As Stoneback writes in "Travel Rites and Writing":<br />
The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_16">spirit of place</span> does not drink with tourists . . .<br />
You have to live there,<br />
and once you have, you do not want to write about it,<br />
for all such writing is betrayal, unless it is poetry or fiction.<br />
And we all know how dangerous those countries are.<br />
--Brad McDuffie, Nyack College<br />
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Stoneback's new book of poems is a hymnagiste narrative tour de force, moving the reader into a tight complicity of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_17">darkness and light</span>, wheeling in amazing grace toward "the still point of the turning world." In "Hear That Train: <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_18">Elegy Written in a Country Music</span> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_19">Churchyard</span> (For <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_20">Johnny Cash</span>)" and "Victory in Jesus: Meditations on an Old Hymn" Stoneback leads us down that old road of sin, illuminating moments that bind our souls in salvation through old hymns and country songs. In his epic "Hawai'i 1965" sequence and in poems for Sparrow, the reader learns how deep love and song are often the only ways of survival in life's <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_21">darkest hours</span>. And in the final section "Walking (with Pipes & Drum)," through the exactitude of line and form, after a long uphill wheelchair ramp, Stoneback carries us into the refining fires of renewed hope and faith. Through these poems and their voices, poems and songs that read and sing like prayers, we learn how to live each day<br />
in charity with small things, and how to find our way back after each dark night to that old redemption story.<br />
--Matthew Nickel, University of Louisiana—Lafayette<br />
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Recent Response from Hawaii:<br />
H. R. Stoneback is a really down to earth man. He is a down to earth man with a bohemian spirit. I told him I was from Florida. He thought I was a Polynesian because of the lei I was wearing. I got him to autograph my program book and to a photo with him. I wanted to purchase his book of poems titled “Amazing grace wheelchair jump start Jesus poems”. He was a singer in his beatnik days in Waikiki when the locals called it the jungle. He was a great speaker.<br />
--Hugeaux, Artist/Photographer (<a href="http://www.hugeaux.com/" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234671410_22">www.hugeaux.com</span></a>)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;"><br />***And now available from Codhill Press, H. R. Stoneback's Hurricane Hymn & Other Poems (www.codhill.com)</span></span></span></span></span></span>Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-17954389374007349482008-12-22T10:47:00.000-08:002008-12-22T11:00:03.653-08:00Des Hymnagistes in New Orleans<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgY0sLwQD8CbwG3YcLcXnAnfJ8Vpn0OWb2jfezfqt1x0M4sX1-8f5Mnk1JJ4Ta6yDwSTOw8grlRwzeIeo_D9cC6W6jWV1wpeiCwkVB2SgYizSlbXF5sZ85A-wqojM3eugktkRwkFjFEyM/s1600-h/Maple+Leaf+NO+Poster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgY0sLwQD8CbwG3YcLcXnAnfJ8Vpn0OWb2jfezfqt1x0M4sX1-8f5Mnk1JJ4Ta6yDwSTOw8grlRwzeIeo_D9cC6W6jWV1wpeiCwkVB2SgYizSlbXF5sZ85A-wqojM3eugktkRwkFjFEyM/s400/Maple+Leaf+NO+Poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282691047794841794" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Maple Leaf Poetry Reading Series</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">(oldest poetry reading series in the South)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Presents Featured Reader<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">H. R. Stoneback</span> </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Hurricane Hymn & Other Poems,</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Amazing-Grace-Wheelchair-Jumpshot-Jesus-Love-Poems</span><br />and numerous other volumes</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Opening readers<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">William Boyle & Matthew Nickel</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Introduction of H. R. Stoneback by William Boyle and Matthew Nickel</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SUNDAY</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />January 18, 2009</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />3 - 5 pm</span><br /><br />The Maple Leaf Bar<br />***8316 Oak Street***<br />New Orleans<br />504-866-9359<br /></div>Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-55096675880262020482008-10-14T19:32:00.000-07:002008-10-15T15:55:14.610-07:00Florida English and other updates<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flacea.org/Graphics/cover%2062.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.flacea.org/Graphics/cover%2062.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Florida English</span> has recently published a special Imagist Issue now available on their <a href="http://www.flacea.org/FLENG/FloridaEnglish1.htm">website</a>. Much in this volume was presented at the First Imagist Conference held in Brunnenburg Castle, Dorf Tirol, 2007. Several Hymnagistes presented on the imagist poets, and several poems by hymnagistes are included within this great volume.<br /><br />There have also been recent reports of Hymnagistes in the north country around Lake Placid and throughout the Adirondacks. It seems they have already taken the Olympic Ski Jump, the Bob-Sled Run, and all of SUNY Plattsburg.<br /><br />New reports coming in daily claim that there will be Hymnagistes at this year's SAMLA conference in Louisville, KY. If you're in town, stop by November 7-9, 2008 (see <a href="http://samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm">SAMLA Convetion Website</a> for more information). I hear Des Hymnagistes are taking over the conference and there will be several poetry readings, presentations, and the normal festivities.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-83607184136736838012008-09-25T21:28:00.000-07:002008-09-25T21:30:54.466-07:00September 25, 2008Happy Birthday SparrowPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-1562594254175633602008-07-30T21:33:00.000-07:002013-02-28T19:43:26.951-08:00Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discovery and Recovery<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSFFBmJgNymlnJUe_MaG95LcE52ewIqHh8H39_kDisCyQV_EZWut8XLMIC5xl-yvxDwT_HKzM5kDmeEJpltVW6KV4BpSbZQq2eG4Y6idCQUEJvvbtMwjom_ssN_WM5A_QlqD0v1G-kUqZU/s1600-h/EMR+Book_Front.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229038671538048354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSFFBmJgNymlnJUe_MaG95LcE52ewIqHh8H39_kDisCyQV_EZWut8XLMIC5xl-yvxDwT_HKzM5kDmeEJpltVW6KV4BpSbZQq2eG4Y6idCQUEJvvbtMwjom_ssN_WM5A_QlqD0v1G-kUqZU/s320/EMR+Book_Front.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br />
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discovery and Recovery<br />
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Edited by H. R. Stoneback, Nicole Camastra, and Steven Florczyk<br />
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"This volume is the second of the two books devoted to Elizabeth Madox Roberts to be published in the same year--annus mirabilis! Before the appearance of these two volumes, more than four decades had elapsed since the last book-length critical study of Roberts was published. In many ways, this book serves as a companion piece to its immediate predecessor, Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment and Reclamation (edited by H. R. Stoneback and Steven Florczyk). We will not repeat what was said in the introduction to that volume regarding the history of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, from whose annual conferences most of the essays in the present study emanate. It will suffice here to note that the publication of both these landmark volumes signals the celebration, in 2008, of the tenth anniversary of the Roberts Society." (from the Introduction)<br />
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This new book of critical essays on Elizabeth Madox Roberts is available for sale at $20 (includes shipping and handling). Included in this book is new fiction by Roberts (fragments from Sallie May, "The Prophet" and notes On Poetry), and critical essays by H. R. Stoneback, William H. Slavick, Wade Hall, Vicki Barker, William Boyle, Nicole Camastra, Damian Carpenter, Steven Florczyk, Angela Green, Tina Iraca, Emily Kane, Brad McDuffie, Jennings Mace, Gregg Neikirk, Matthew Nickel, Erin Presley, Katy Shores, Nicole Boucher Spottke and Nicole Valentino, James Stamant, John Weatherford, and Gerald Preher.<br />
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Anyone interested in purchasing a copy can contact deshymnagistes@gmail.com.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-15944868040230339712008-05-29T08:06:00.000-07:002008-05-29T08:09:43.681-07:00<div align="center"> Requiescat in Pace </div><div align="center">Sparrow </div><div align="center">Jane Arden Stoneback</div><br />HIGHLAND, NY - Sparrow - Jane Arden Stoneback - singer/songwriter of international reputation, paragon of grit and grace, wit and will, during her long fight with lung cancer and all her life, passed away May 25 at Cumberland County Hospital in Kentucky. Born in Carter County, in the eastern Kentucky hill-country, daughter of Alice and Richard Hillman, she made her home in the Hudson Valley for the past four decades. Before moving to Highland in 1969, she lived in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, New Orleans, South Jersey, and Tennessee. She also lived and traveled extensively abroad, especially in France and China. She studied at Vanderbilt University, the University of Paris and Peking University. She taught and tutored English language students and lectured on folksong in France and China. Other work experience included a year in Hawaii as Executive Assistant to the President of one of the largest Pacific Rim firms, three years in Nashville as national troubleshooter for General Electric, and many years in the emergency room admissions department of Benedictine Hospital in Kingston. She was also a writer who published essays, poems, and songs. During a forty-five year singing career as the better half of the duo "Stoney & Sparrow", she achieved national and international renown as a singer through her powerful and nuanced performances of folk, country and gospel songs as well as her own compositions. She made concert tours and television and radio appearances throughout Asia, Europe, and North America under the auspices of the British Council, the Fulbright Program, USIA (the US State Department), and many other cultural organizations and institutions. She performed in Austria, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand and other countries, as well in most of the fifty states and throughout the Caribbean. In 1984, she sang all over China and several albums featuring her singing were major hit recordings there - said to be the first million-selling records by an American in China. In 2006 a 2CD album, "Stoney & Sparrow: Songs of Place 1962-2006", was released (recorded live in New Paltz). In 2007, another album, "Overcoming: Live in Alabama, China, and the Hudson Valley" was released, featuring earlier concert performances and dedicated to the Hope Lodge in Nashville, where cancer patients at the Vanderbilt Medical Center reside during treatment. Closer to home, Sparrow was wellknown for her performances in the Hudson Valley, especially at SUNY New Paltz, where she performed annually for many years. The world that she made in her singing was inseparable from her role as gracious host and adoptive mother to the extended family of generations of SUNY New Paltz students that she welcomed to her home, their home. This community, this communion of students and teachers, poets and writers, salutes her as muse: "Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her."(Proverbs 31:28) She is survived by her husband of forty-six years, H.R.("Stoney" - Distinguished Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz); her son, Rick (CEO of the Cumberland County Hospital in Kentucky) and his wife, Robin; her son, Gregg(Professor of English at Westfield State College in Massachusetts) and his wife, Nancy; and her four grandchildren, Adam and Lee(Westfield, MA) and Rachel and Richard(Marrowbone, KY). Visitation will be held Friday, May 30, 2008, 10-11:30am at the Michael Torsone Memorial Funeral Home, Inc., 38 Main St., Highland, NY. A funeral mass will be held 12:30pm following visitation at the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Rev. Peter J. Vianney celebrating the mass. Burial will follow in the Ascension Church Cemetery, West Park, NY. For directions, please visit www.torsonememorial.com.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-55041805744301160712008-04-23T09:58:00.001-07:002008-11-13T02:38:42.758-08:00Illumination & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjviWaT244cFZZdKePhkq5-7sn0MIAH0utVe_vd_3mOQKJf6b1Sce3tf-x24enpZUD52AnBiPU3LcOPDAM_mS25360Es_FYyL-HvVLTC8FM1FMrrvlOJ-ZIuAHYFXqJYwd7MY6OeYczx7iw/s1600-h/EMR+COVER.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjviWaT244cFZZdKePhkq5-7sn0MIAH0utVe_vd_3mOQKJf6b1Sce3tf-x24enpZUD52AnBiPU3LcOPDAM_mS25360Es_FYyL-HvVLTC8FM1FMrrvlOJ-ZIuAHYFXqJYwd7MY6OeYczx7iw/s320/EMR+COVER.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192488134000825906" border="0" /></a><br />Des Hymnagistes Press is proud to announce its most recent publication of <span style="font-style: italic;">Illumination & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky</span>. This volume, edited by Matthew Nickel, contains poets: H. R. Stoneback, Charlie Hughes, Ron Whitehead, Charles Semones, Lynn Behrendt, Ed Butler, William Boyle, Alex Andriesse Shakespeare, Brad McDuffie, James Stamant, Gregg Neikirk, Michael Beilfuss, Damian Carpenter, Steven Florczyk, and Matthew Nickel. This past weekend at Penn's Store outside Gravel Switch, KY, the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society members included in the book read their poems in dedication to the writer and her native soil of Kentucky. There are still a few copies available for sale (1 book for $12 or 2 books for $20). Please contact deshymnagistes@gmail.com for further information.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-90688714892693614222008-03-27T15:12:00.001-07:002008-11-13T02:38:42.849-08:00Countries of the Heart for Stoney & Sparrow<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeaIL2s7x18FNkTJlpwFXNmxiHjeBYL21DRHle-LBjjLoDdmWoIjHvUJHgQLnfsiY_cV9orTHhQKPlWoE5b-yFglgZPQyxqWvuwbYy5XKiO_FlDzqIrNLNprAdOI1upl69ZYXTOy0vHxVR/s1600-h/A01_Center2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeaIL2s7x18FNkTJlpwFXNmxiHjeBYL21DRHle-LBjjLoDdmWoIjHvUJHgQLnfsiY_cV9orTHhQKPlWoE5b-yFglgZPQyxqWvuwbYy5XKiO_FlDzqIrNLNprAdOI1upl69ZYXTOy0vHxVR/s320/A01_Center2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183202542720059250" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Countries of the Heart for Stoney & Sparrow, edited by Matthew Nickel, was published in July 2007 by Mother-River-Flows-Two-Ways Press, a division of Des Hymnagistes Press. The book is a collection of poems in dedication to H. R. and Sparrow Stoneback, and several of the poets included in this volume presented the book and their poems to the Stonebacks on Bastille Day 2007. Poets included are Donald Junkins, Edward J. Renehan Jr., Catherine Aldington, Alex Andriesse, Goretti Vianney-Benca, Brad McDuffie, Edward Butler, Robert Lewis, Damian Carpenter, Jenica Lyons, Eric Forbeaux, Bob Waugh, Dan Kempton, Richard Davison, James Stamant, Allen Josephs, Steve Florczyk, Gregg Neikirk, Matthew Nickel, and William Boyle. If you have not gotten a copy of the book or you would like another copy, please send me an email at deshymnagistes@gmail.com. Price for 1 book is $12 or 2 books for $20 (prices include shipping).Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6302469839987559366.post-2288692192344235832008-03-22T21:08:00.000-07:002008-11-13T02:38:42.948-08:00What Thou Lovest Well Remains<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQux80h_6GQq0yF_7Wote4Q1noqxHmTMqi9QJbEeSjJI1WGLNkzkPvMBKa0RODu7gPBwsTn6Nf_TYllQSFg0MtFgYgTpyqv66fVe7akH8-7pw85vzZ0YE41CL1ITnpR9uucFXt1Ex7Iqkr/s1600-h/IMG_1051.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQux80h_6GQq0yF_7Wote4Q1noqxHmTMqi9QJbEeSjJI1WGLNkzkPvMBKa0RODu7gPBwsTn6Nf_TYllQSFg0MtFgYgTpyqv66fVe7akH8-7pw85vzZ0YE41CL1ITnpR9uucFXt1Ex7Iqkr/s320/IMG_1051.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183206957946439554" border="0" /></a><br />Des Hymnagistes Press published a volume of poetry for Ezra Pound and Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz in 2007: <span style="font-style: italic;">What Thou Lovest Well Remains: Poems c/o Brunnenburg Castle</span>, edited by H. R. Stoneback. Poets included in this volume are: Catherine Aldington, Richard Aldington, Lynn Behrendt, William Boyle, Michael Copp, James Finn Cotter, John R. O. Gery, Donald R. Johnson, Donald Junkins, Daniel Kempton, Ian McNiven, Brad McDuffie, Matthew Nickel, Biljana Obradovic, Alex Andriesse Shakespeare, John Patrick Travis, and Emily Mitchell Wallace. There are still copies available for sale at $12 (includes shipping). If you are interested in purchasing a copy, please send an email to deshymnagistes@gmail.com.Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206875343657834187noreply@blogger.com0