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Jane Ellen Glasser's fifth poetry collection begins and ends on the metaphor of the title's image: "I will wear gratitude like a red coat, / forbearing the shifting/ seasons of hope and doubt." The book consists of six sections, beginning with an affirmation of a good life despite-or perhaps because of-the challenges and difficulties inescapable when one has lived a long time. Loss is the natural consequence of enduring, and Glasser does not shy away from exploring themes of loneliness, illness, and death, transmuting what is painful into art. Her words open a little door for the reader to enter and say, "Yes, I've been here." In one section, she addresses life's other big theme-love, its intoxication and heartache. In a hallmark grouping of ekphrastic poems, the lines are inspired by the works of artists as diverse as Ingres, Botero, Seurat, and Manet. Another series explores the weird deaths of famous writers. We also find signature Glasser stuff: lyrical poems suffused with imagery of birds, trees, mountains, rivers-nature as mirror into a deeper understanding of human nature. In circular design, the collection closes on affirmation. This is Glasser at her best

As a talented young poet and small press editor/publisher (Ali Baba Press), Diane Kistner was right in the thick of the 1970s creative ferment that became the Atlanta Little Five Points "scene." She performed her own work and published the work of other poets, writers, and artists of her day. These poems represent the best from her 1979 book (published under the name D. Kistner Katz by Bootlaig Press), long out of print.

"A Chevy up on blocks is only an eyesoreto the faithless."-from "Husks"In GOD'S BICYCLE, Joel Peckham's fifth collection of poetry, he offers a spiritual road mix for 21st-century America. In poems that travel from the heartland through Appalachia to New England, he sings a song crafted from his own strange brew of off-kilter, irreverent psalms, prayers, hymns, aubades, and elegies in praise and homage to a fragmented but beautiful landscape and people. Drawing as much from rockabilly as Whitman, these poems are always intense and often exuberant, even in their struggle for the kind of hope that can "rise green and leafy from a bitter soil."

A GOOD WORKS PROJECT: All proceeds benefit the Malala Fund.On the one-year anniversary of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai's shooting by the Taliban for speaking out for the right of girls to an education, FutureCycle Press published a poetry collection in her honor. Edited by poets Joseph Hutchison and Andrea L. Watson, men and women all over the world contributed work to this anthology as part of a global outpouring of support for Malala. FutureCycle Press donates all proceeds from sale of the paperback and Kindle editions to the Malala Fund. To help raise awareness of her cause, a PDF version is also available on the press website for free download and sharing.

Many of us fear our own death and many of us have seen funerals. Neither of these prepares us for death, or what to expect next. Death need not be the alpha and omega. We can look at funerals as a way to celebrate someone that had died. An African-American funeral called it "coming home" and "home" went joining God. These poems reflect on what it means to die and go to our Creator. We can die anticipating something amazing. These poems are intended to provide ease and exception. If death is a journey, then these poems explores that journey to discover there is more than one way to die. The person left behind must deal with their own reaction to someone that has died. Going to a funeral tends to make us evaluate our own life, and our own eventual journey.

"A collection of poetry about marriage and loss by Ruth Bavetta"--

Laurel S. Peterson's Daughter of Sky embraces the languages of flying and space exploration as metaphors to examine familial relationships and the questions of death and loss. Beginning with a father's death, the book then moves through the many mythologies we use to explain our brief tenure on Earth. Encompassing both the particular and the universal, this collection challenges us to look beyond-and face whatever is there.

"Poetry collection combining earlier chapbooks on the Camille theme plus new material"--