Bøger af Shelby Stephenson

It's more than poetry, these are historical recipes that are viable, and from his mother's recipe box. Poems do not need forms, they need recipes, and Shelby Stephenson's poems cook. They inter-weave ingredients with metaphors to create delicious poems that entice our palates and our imaginations. Stephenson uses ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter, and eggs to bake enormous poetry cakes, cakes packed with memories and sensual flavors for all. Andrew Jarvis, editor, poet, and author of Choreography, Sound Points, The Ascent, and The Strait

The Hunger of Freedom sings history, 19th century and 20th century, with distinct cadence. The author, Shelby Stephenson explores family, ancestors, ghosts and landscape with razor-sharp clarity. This detailed collection of affecting poems depicts a sense of place and the slaves who toiled there.

Amor vincit omnia: So the proverb goes. In Nin's Poem Shelby Stephenson dramatizes the truth that love conquers all in a compelling cascade of monologues, dialogues, and appeals to the powers of nature. The trials of illness-"I am oppressed by the weight of affliction rooted in the air"-can strengthen the hope for hope. "Someday, / our world shall fall into place." The lyrical pages demonstrate the triumph of tenacity. -Fred Chappell, winner of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry

Our World, by North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, is a love letter to his wife, Nin, and to the homestead where he was born and on which he still lives. Poet Dannye Romine Powell, says, "Shelby Stephenson drags the river of love and memory in this new collection, from sassy-sweet songs to his beloved wife Nin, to the "deep and wide gladness" of being alive, to thoughts of his father's Stetson hats and White Owl cigars, of his mother humming as she cuts cloth for a dress. . . . If poetry gets more visceral than this, quick, show me where."