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LOST HORSE PRESS NEW POETS SERIES:
NEW POETS | SHORT BOOKS
ACTS OF CONTRITION
Gwendolyn Cash
THE OWL'S EAR
Boyd W. Benson
LIMINAL: A LIFE OF CLEAVAGE
Lisa Galloway
Marvin Bell, Series Editor
Poetry ISBN 978-0-9762114-7-1 $18.00 US
5.5 x 8.5 96 pp
Lost Horse Press is delighted to announce a new annual series titled, LOST HORSE PRESS NEW POETS SERIES: NEW POETS | SHORT BOOKS, and its collaboration with poet Marvin Bell, who will serve as Series Editor for Life. Lost Horse Press will publish an annual volume of three new poets, each poet represented by twenty to thirty pages of poetry with a personal prose statement about his or her writing. Edited by Marvin Bell, the series will feature poets who are relatively unknown in literary circles, but have strong individual voices, and have shown a strong commitment to writing. It is not intended to become a contest or a market. Neither Lost Horse Press nor the editor wishes to receive uninvited inquiries or manuscripts.
The goal is to foster the unconventional and unknown. The series will introduce poetry of content that presses the language too, the sociopolitical, the surreal, the nutty, the extreme, good free verse, and good formalist verse. We prefer lively nonsense to earnest meaninglessness. We do not care for theory-based experiments.. Manuscripts will be made up of poems someone can hate and someone can love. Middle-of-the-road doesn't interest. Someone who reads the work, whether they love or hate it, should immediately say to herself, “Well, this is different.”
Poets for the first book in the series include Gwen (I May Be a Redhead But
I Haven't Looked Lately) Cash, Boyd (Call Me for the Barbecue) Benson,
and Lisa (Motto: “Ovaries Out”) Galloway.
These samplings, presented with as few trappings as possible, will reaffirm for readers the nature of the poetry in poetry. Serious poetry is not written to satisfy literary opinion. Poetry, like philosophy, is a survival skill.
—Marvin Bell
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