New Poets | Short Books | Volume II
Poems by
Tim Krcmarik, Patricia Staton, and Victor Camillo
Series Editor Marvin Bell
About the Book
Poetry | ISBN 978-0-9800289-0-4
$16.95 US | $16.95 Canada
5.5 x 8.5 inches | 88 pages
This book, like the volume that initiated the series, is appearing during a terrible time in our country. Let it be remarked, therefore, that we who can see the reality, or can imagine something better, will not close up shop. In a time of hate radio and the cruelest forms of capitalism, during a period of unsurpassed government corruption and incompetence, poetry, like every art, remains a survival skill.
—Marvin Bell
Excerpts
What
I did was listen hard as the world fell. I sang,
“This must be music,” though by now my voice was
bricks exploding, pipes bursting, strangers crying out.
—Tim Krcmarik, “Things That Go On Around Us”
The woman who cuts my hair has angels
she asks for advice.
All I ask for is silence,
and to sleep like a dog.
—Patricia Staton, “Bowl of Pears and a Bicycle”
Look in the afternoon for the mothers who walk in Argentina
When the old wind of agony blows.
We should think of them when shopping malls are on our minds,
When our grass is cut low, and shining and smiling.
—Victor Camillo, “The Disappeared”