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Like Jon Anderson and Larry Levis before him, Zola's domestic landscapes and haunted meditations are both comic and surreal. And yet his overall project, his autobiographical, no-bullshit work, is a luminously beautiful acknowledgment of the human struggle toward the inevitable end of things. It's also, however, a testament that the lived life is more than just worthwhile From the foreword by David Dodd Lee When a woman carries a bag of groceries like a grudge into a room wallpapered with the cries of birds, imagination writes the world. Again and again in What Glorious Possibilities, the reader will be both startled and in awe of Jim Zola's provocative and artful imagery. Amid the celebration of these poems, there is a profound resignation: I hear you/sing a song that says/this is the weather I was born into. No matter the situation what can we do but sing and Jim Zola does this extravagantly with a compelling, undeniable beauty that shakes us gloriously alive. Walter Bargen, first Poet Laureate of Missouri, author of Trouble Behind Glass Doors The domestic interior will never quite be the same. Zola's poems challenge our notions of what we take for granted, lifting up the details of what might be forgotten and making meaning-all the while gripping our shirt-collars and urgently goading us to really see. Julianna Baggott, award-winning author of 19 books including the Pure Trilogy

The haunting prose poems of Michelle Reale's The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance form a rare and intimate portrait of a complex, resilient, and essentially powerful woman betrayed by the politics of family and culture. Burned free of sentimentality, this collection pushes against the mindless stereotypes that stunt the mainstream image of Italian American women, and instead offers a fresh, honest portrayal of a life forged by oppression and survival. -Olivia Kate Cerrone, Italian-American novelist; recipient of Distinguished Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Michelle Reale does not write with a pen, but with a crochet needle. Her words create a quilt laced with blood. The past is haunting, but there is no shame in excavating it for us to behold. All that is Italian swells with retrograde taste and melodramatic feel. The cadavers of yesteryear rise as Lazarus while Reale skillfully and painfully unearths her heavy legacy. These poems shine as polished fossils. -Alessandra Bava, author of Guerilla Blues, Edizioni Ensemble, 2012 Reale sweeps us up into the velocity of her headlong wind tunnel. In her prose poems we encounter striking images as truths spinning around us. We are taken in so close to the place where legacy and myth meet, but we never quite land. We breathe in her vortex. We lose sight of any sharp triangular edges, as the beginning and end points swirl away and we spiral among words. -Sonia Elisabetta di Placido, author of Exaltation in Cadmium Red, Guernica Editions

If there was an official poet laureate of the West, Don Thompson would be my choice. For four decades he has reminded us what it means to be alive out here, coping with a world we do not fully understand. In Local Color, he employs an original format to present, as usual, wonderful word-pictures. Also as usual, "place" is a character in his work, but not just any place: the south San Joaquin with all its peculiarities and wonders. No writer has seen more there or told more telling tales as a result. This is narrative poetry that really narrates! -Gerald Haslam, author of Straight White Male and Leon Patterson: a California Story