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MASTER POETS SERIES WWW.TUPELOPRESS.ORG Master Poets Series For more than a decade <strong>Tupelo</strong> <strong>Press</strong> has offered a home not only to vital authors early in their careers, but also to some of America’s most accomplished writers, who continue to create magnificent new work. In celebration of their staying power, and to highlight these titles for discerning librarians and readers, we have gathered this group of very special books in our Masters Poets Series. See also Long Division, by Alan Michael Parker, page 13. Human Nature Gary Soto “... a consummate storyteller... intelligent, funny, and bitingly honest…. Soto should be required reading in M.F.A. programs and migrant labor camps. He’s that good.” — Martín Espada Gary Soto has published thirty-six books including eleven poetry collections. He won the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and has been a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. $16.95, 9781932195842 Calendars Annie Finch Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year “Calendars is a marvelous book, filled with poems whose ... depths and delights appear to go on forever.” — Ron Silliman “Calendars is the work of a major poet.” — Charles Altieri Annie Finch is author of more than fifteen books of poetry and poetics, including Eve and The Body of Poetry. The comprehensive downloadable Readers Guide to Calendars includes detailed discussion of the poems for students and general readers. Educated at Yale and Stanford, Finch directs the Stonecoast M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine. $16.95 paper, 9781932195002 $22.95 cloth, 9781932195040 Audio book: page 19. Modern History: Prose Poems 1987–2007 Christopher Buckley These poems counterpoint scientific precepts with wacky details — forgotten movies, simonized Chryslers, and doo-wop refrains — for a spirited glide through twenty years of an eminent poet’s pursuit of the absolute. “Buckley’s ongoing wonder at the miracle of what happens in the world and how experience lodges under the skin, serves as a way home and a way forward.” — Killarney Clary Christopher Buckley has edited four contemporary anthologies and published sixteen collections of poems. He teaches at the University of California– Riverside. $16.95, 9781932195682 Keep This Forever Mark Halliday In the aftermath of his father’s death, Halliday skewers pretension with a jester’s speed, while revealing a heart still ardent despite grief. “Halliday seeks a style sad enough to describe those missed connections, and surprising enough to let us have fun with them.” — Publishers Weekly Mark Halliday is author of five poetry collections including Little Star (William Morrow, 1987), a National Poetry Series selection, as well as many essays on contemporary poets. He teaches at Ohio University. $16.95 paper, 9781932195729 $21.95 cloth, 9781932195804 Sincerest Flatteries Kurt Brown “Kurt Brown’s imitations are to parody what Robert Lowell’s imitations are to translation.... [A] kind of double-gift, a collection of virtual duos, though the two voices seem to be speaking — no, singing — as one.” — Phillip Dacey Kurt Brown is the founding Director of the Aspen Writer's Conference and serves on the board of Poet’s House. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. He has edited numerous anthologies and annuals, and has authored six chapbooks and four poetry collections. $9.95, 9781932195507
Michael Chitwood’s books include The Weave Room (Chicago, 1998) and Hitting Below the Bible Belt: Baptist Voodoo, Blood Kin, Grandma’s Teeth and Other Stories from the South (Down Home, 1998). A commentator on North Carolina’s WUNC public radio station, he teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Spill Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year “If you love the idea that poets are whacked-out crazies driven to drink, drugs and suicide by souls too sensitive for this brutal world, Spill … will break your heart....” — Andrew Hudgins $16.95 paper, 9781932195477 $22.95 cloth, 9781932195668 Poor-Mouth Jubilee Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year “At a time when ‘religion’ is too often misrepresented by literalists and scorekeepers … we’re reminded that genuine belief (and doubt) resists the sound bite…. This brilliant poet resists such facile ... recourses, paradoxically noting the poverty of his own expression ... a richness rare in current poetry.” — Sydney Lea $16.95, 9781932195897 Audio book: page 19. Patricia Fargnoli, former New Hampshire Poet Laureate and a retired psychotherapist, is the author of six poetry collections. She has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and was twice a semifinalist for the Discovery / The Nation Awards. She lives in Walpole, New Hampshire. Duties of the Spirit Winner, Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award Semifinalist, Glasgow Prize “Echoing Thornton Wilder who says ‘one of the duties of the spirit is joy, and another is serenity,’ Fargnoli adds ‘the third must be grief.’ These poems are … radiant revelations of a life well-lived.” – North American Review $16.95, 9781932195217 Then, Something Winner, ForeWord Magazine’s BOTYA Silver Medal Winner, Sheila Motton Book Award Winner, da Vinci Eye Award for outstanding design Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Award Ellen Doré Watson was hailed by Library Journal as one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century.” Poetry and Translation Editor for The Massachusetts Review and director of The Poetry Center at Smith College, she is author of four poetry collections and a chapbook, and translator of a dozen books by Brazilian and Arabic writers. This Sharpening “Watson's fiery third effort offers a rare combination: the propulsive rawness of performance poetry and the pathos of impending middle age.” — Publishers Weekly $16.95, 9781932195439 Dogged Hearts Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year “The poems are wild, delirious — they go every which way — yet the (smart) organizing principle is this mind, ever alert, choosing and sorting, saving and abandoning, given up to passion and knowledge. Dogged Hearts is a powerful and wise book.” — Gerald Stern “Fargnoli does not miss a stitch of beauty, neither does she avoid the darker aspects of our own human awareness of continual aging, to which she gives sharp and poignant attention.” — Mary Oliver $16.95, 9781932195859 Audio book: page 19. $16.95, 9781932195798 13 17
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