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Marsh Hawk Press books often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of artwork alongside poems. Marsh Hawk Press also sponsors readings and exhibits, and hosts a Web site with a rotating exhibition space and several blogs focused on poetry and visual art. Its books, events, and Web presence all share the mission to act as a dissemination point for poetry and visual art. Marsh Hawk also offers a poetry prize judged by a different poet each year.
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Available this October: A final original collection of her poetry |
Ben Casey Days |
by Rochelle Ratner |
“Ben Casey Days is a landscape of moments in which headlines from news media are transformed into psychological snapshots with the power of lucid dreams. We watch a man
whose wife is about to have a mastectomy haunt a department store exhibiting a wall of silicon breasts; the growing anxiety of a clown attempting to entertain a child succumbing to anesthesia; a group of would-be brides battling cancer suspect their real groom might be the Angel of Death. The five sections of the book, MAN, WOMAN, BIRTH, DEATH and INFINITY, taken from the 1960's TV series, Ben Casey, suggest the tensions of opposites as a condition of life. The
author, battling terminal cancer, locates on Ebay a Ken doll in a Ben Casey suit. Conflating the healer, Ben, with her husband, Ken, she reaches out to both. Ben Casey Days is a parting gift. It is a work of quiet genius, a cocoon that contains Ben and Ken, you and me, and the author herself, who emerges from it like a rare butterfly, one of a kind; read it and glimpse the colors of a remarkable soul.”—Paul Pines, from the "Afterword" |
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EITHER SHE WAS by Karin Randolph
In Karin Randolph’s Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize-winning collection, David Shapiro finds “that it is always present tense as an empiricist casting a shadow and casting for shadows.” The language of Randolph’s prose poems is subtle, supple, and ever-inventive, and the speed and acuity of her perceptions will startle.
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A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO MOUNTAIN CLIMBING by Jane Augustine
On a journey through mountains both actual and symbolic, a woman meditates on selfhood, family interactions, yearning, pain, and death in the midst of the ongoing beauty of the finite world.
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CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS by Thomas Fink
Teeming with the fragments of ancestors’ whispers and mistranslated ad lingo, these poems are intricate and wildly disjunctive. We may be stuck in a world where “Casinos are in every cortex,” but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t also room for “aspiring Democracy” to burst forth. |
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Our Artistic Advisory Board
Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Allan Kornblum
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Alicia Ostriker
Marie Ponsot
David Shapiro
Nathaniel Tarn
Anne Waldman
John Yau
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Our Supporters
We wish to
acknowledge with thanks those individuals and institutions who have
supported the work of the press:
Anonymous, Barbara
Deming Memorial Award Foundation, Barry Magid, Boro, Inc., Council
of Literary Magazines and Presses, Joanna and Daniel Rose Foundation,
Monterey Fund, Oenophiles for Poetry, Christine Panas, Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial
Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, The MacDowell Colony,
Virginia, Waters & Associates, Frank Wolfarth Walsh, Xavier University. |
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