Inside Out: A Gathering of Poets Poetry and Photographs
$10.00 Paperback
A 70-page anthology of poetry from the work of 16 poets hailing from Australia, Italy, and the US, featuring formal and informal verse, poems on serious topics, humorous and whimsical poetry, poems recounting the joys and difficulties of life, love poetry, poems about Vietnam, cities, getting old, children, friends, dancers, birds, insects, flowers, peaches, and a supermarket wraith, accompanied by the photography of Christine Klocek-Lim.
The books are available at $10.00 each plus postage.
Featured poets:
Cynthia Bagley * David Barnes * Jill Beck * M. Kathryn Black * Dan Cuddy
Dennis Greene * Paula Grenside * Jerry Jenkins * Nell S. Jenkins
Janet Kenny * Christine Klocek-Lim * Peter Moltoni * JB Mulligan
Warren Norwood * Whitney Vale * Anne Yohn
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"In this book, you will read the work of a group of people whose lives have taken them into many nooks and crannies of the human experience: corporate executives, novelists, photographers, singers and activists, historians of a vanishing frontier, people whose collective diversity would keep an army of biographers busy for years cataloging all the variety and subtle nuances of their experiences. These poets walk ahead into the dim, silent library of the unreported human universe, with the ectoplastic cartoon's balloon of words preceding them, announcing them, telling the numberless tales of their untold worlds, and as they advance into that darkness, they illuminate it and turn it inside out."
—from the Preface, Jerry Jenkins
"Photographs can illuminate, too, reminding us of what we know and what we wish we knew. Photographs also remind us that the roots of reality exist outside the senses, though we are in love with the mystery and possibilities created by this very human limitation."
—from the Preface, Anne Yohn
"While the poets included in INSIDE OUT come from all over the world, and write in very diverse styles about a wide range of subjects, what they have in common, and what makes this collection worth reading, is love for the written word. These poems are artfully crafted, each and every one."
—Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels' most recent books include SHOW AND TELL: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, University of Wisconsin Press, and DETROIT TALES, short fiction, Michigan State University Press, both published in 2003. He is the Thomas S. Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Time tests a good anthology, and this diverse group of poets has gifted us here with a collection that we will continue to return to, embracing the poems, phrases, lines and images that take up residence in memory. They illuminate their work with that tension characteristic of good poetry – the poem as both a ‘made thing’, a finely honed and crafted object, and an animate creation quickened to life by the breath of the poet. This allows for gem-like lyric moments that shimmer at the edge of mystery. . . You will find here both free verse and poems employing traditional form(being devoted to both but a partisan of neither, I find this particularly welcome) that move, startle, surprise and delight. Like all good poetry they should be read with the lips moving, under the breath or out loud, with the body engaged, and should be shared because they are generous of spirit. This collection is an invitation to the reader to spend time with a gathering of talented poets. I recommend that you accept the invitation. You will find yourself in excellent company.
—Mal McKimmie
Mal McKimmie is an Australian poet, performer, tutor, mentor and editor living in Melbourne. His poetry has appeared in Australian literary magazines and journals, and he has been a guest performer at many venues. He was founder and coordinator of Empowa (Emerging Poets WA) Inc., a publishing, performance and workshop collective and has worked in many fields outside of poetry, principally in disability. A small collection of poetry, The Judas Impulse, was published in 1994; and in April/May of 2005, the long awaited collection, Poetileptic, will be published by Five Islands Press of Melbourne.
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