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It’s difficult to accept that shadows, too, are products of the natural world. Often we hold what’s beautiful next to what we fear. As much as we want to appeal to our better angels, cruelty hovers and haunts our hearts. In Heather Swan’s A Kinship with Ash, wisdom is hard won. Elegant, image rich, and full of birdsong, these poems question and delight. But what is poetry if not the mind’s silhouette? In the pastoral tradition we confront our reflection, and here, Swan uses nature to look inward. As if negotiating the cliff’s edge, or wading into open water, her speakers are at the mercy of currents. We are left with faith. Reading these poems is an act of surveying light. —Amaud Jamaul Johnson

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  • Forthcoming
    • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
    • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
    • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
    • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
    • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
    • The Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
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    • Poetry Books >
      • NEW--Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • NEW—A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • NEW—Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • NEW—Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • NEW—Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • NEW—A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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    • Guidelines
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    • Poetry Books
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