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A Book of Poetry Reviews: In the world of poetry, there are those who paint intricate pictures with simple words-and those who hone their craft, serving a greater purpose with their pen. In Disabled Monsters, John C. Mannone does both, creating bold displays of imagery while depicting how the human race deals with physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities. The opening poem in the book, entitled "Empty Shells", starts off with a quote from John Donne. The quote reads, "All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated unto a better language." From there, Mannone opens the floodgates of imagery for the reader The tree sways its arms, crossing them, fingers moving in the weave of its hands, as if to sign. You can read the quaking of leaves telling us the quiet truth-we are not the children of a lesser God. ("The Dogwood") -Erin M. Kelly, Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Intense with emotional mystery. Mannone reveals a world of war, lost love, catastrophic illness, depression and regret-so many of the sorrows humans inherit during life. Yet, in the evolution of these poems, Mannone's honesty, his power of story, individual persona's love and kindness, and above all, the courage to seek a prayerful life, helps to disable these monsters. Every sun-filled dawn/I will steal its colors/and celebrate until/my throat is crimsoned/with joy, Mannone writes in "Lilies & Morning Matins." In "Light Blooms" this thought is echoed: No longer am I a child/of the dark. I have grown/into light and I now can see, /count each glimmer, touch each hope...I am not alone anymore. Readers of Disabled Monsters will celebrate a life's renascence at the end of these poems. -Bill Brown is the author of nine poetry collections, including "Elemental" (Taos Press, November 2014). He is a former Breadloaf scholar and distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University.

Reviews: In the world of poetry, there are those who paint intricate pictures with simple words-and those who hone their craft, serving a greater purpose with their pen. In Disabled Monsters, John C. Mannone does both, creating bold displays of imagery while depicting how the human race deals with physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities. The opening poem in the book, entitled "Empty Shells", starts off with a quote from John Donne. The quote reads, "All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated unto a better language." From there, Mannone opens the floodgates of imagery for the reader The tree sways its arms, crossing them, fingers moving in the weave of its hands, as if to sign. You can read the quaking of leaves telling us the quiet truth-we are not the children of a lesser God. ("The Dogwood") -Erin M. Kelly, Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Intense with emotional mystery. Mannone reveals a world of war, lost love, catastrophic illness, depression and regret-so many of the sorrows humans inherit during life. Yet, in the evolution of these poems, Mannone's honesty, his power of story, individual persona's love and kindness, and above all, the courage to seek a prayerful life, helps to disable these monsters. Every sun-filled dawn/I will steal its colors/and celebrate until/my throat is crimsoned/with joy, Mannone writes in "Lilies & Morning Matins." In "Light Blooms" this thought is echoed: No longer am I a child/of the dark. I have grown/into light and I now can see, /count each glimmer, touch each hope...I am not alone anymore. Readers of Disabled Monsters will celebrate a life's renascence at the end of these poems. -Bill Brown is the author of nine poetry collections, including "Elemental" (Taos Press, November 2014). He is a former Breadloaf scholar and distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University.

Sacred Flute is a collection of poems infused with and inspired by Native American Indian culture, history and legend, and are not necessarily redactions-these poems are transcendent of that.This collection focuses on Native American nations on the North American continent.An association to a particular Native American nation is made whenever possible. In many cases, the poems were directly influenced by those traditions of the represented Native American nations, but in other cases when it was less clear, the sentiment was recognized as American Indian and an appropriate connection was sought and found. Each major section is also introduced by the such. At times, the connection is made through an epigraph or in the body of the poem, at other times, it is through a postscript.Bibliographic and Internet sources that have influenced and/or informed these poems are cross-referenced with bracketed numbers in the body of work.Attempts have been made to at least capture the major Native American nations, either directly or through their language groups.

In January 1978, Suzette Haden Elgin founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, along with its two visible cornerposts: the association's newsletter, Star*Line, and the Rhysling Awards. Nominees for the 2013 Rhysling Award are selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: "Best Long Poem" and "Best Short Poem". All nominated works must have been published during 2012. The anthology allows the membership to easily review and consider all nominated works without the necessity of obtaining the diverse number of publications in which the nominated works first appeared and serves as a showcase of the best science fiction, fantasy and horror poetry of 2012. The Rhysling Anthology is available to anyone with an interest in this unique compilation of verse from some of the finest poets in the field of science fiction, fantasy and horror poetry.

This is the premium hardcover edition with a dust jacket and a bookmark ribbon. The vision of Sublimation is to promote speculative poetry and art. This book combines the best works from Volume 1 of Sublimation and the finalists of the Sublimation Annual Contest. The themes for 2024 were "trauma," "awe," "we are monsters all," "every party needs a bard," and "living in another world." This book features poetry and art by L. Ward Abel, Ken Anderson, F. J. Bergmann, Frank Coffman, Christopher Collingwood, Harris Coverley, a.d., Tony Daly, Megan Diedericks, Louis Faber, Diane Funston, Annette Gagliardi, Akua Lezli Hope, Barbara E. Hunt, Scott E. Green & Herb Kauderer, Ngô Bình Anh Khoa, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, John C. Mannone, Danielle McMahon, Jamie-May Minjie, Ophelia Monet, Kurt Newton, Juan Perez, Irina Tall, Jack Tricarico Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, Lynn White, AJ Wilcox, River Wilde, Trevor Wright, and Jacelyn Yap. Life deserves to be filled with poetry.