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LOST HORSE PRESS NEW POETS SERIES: NEW POETS, SHORT BOOKS | VOLUME IV

LOST HORSE PRESS NEW POETS SERIES: NEW POETS, SHORT BOOKS | VOLUME IV

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ISBN: 978-0-9844510-2-9

Pub Date: Mar. 2010

Pages: 84


Marvin Bell, series editor


Me & Coyote by Abby E. Murray

Last Night’s Fire & the Dwindling Embers of Evolution by Jesse S. Fourmy

Welcoming in the Starry Night of the Lightning Bees by Karen Holman


This fourth volume of the Lost Horse Press New Poets | Short Books series offers three strong voices, each with a personal brand of courage. Their lives are as different from one another as can be, and their sensibilities are very much their own, yet in practicing the art of poetry they share something too mysterious and vital ever to be replaced by a new technology. That is because poetry is a primary and, one might argue, primal manifestation of the life force itself. All of our brilliant inventions notwithstanding, what life feels like remains inside us. Here are three poets, each of whose personal language is part of that richness we cannot do without.

—Marvin Bell

    Me & Coyote


    We are sitting in the parking lot

    of the bakery on Main Street

    and we are hungry, so hungry

    all we have planned for the

    rest of the day is talking about food.

    I am wondering if paper is more

    nutritious than I know

    and whether or not I could eat

    a book slowly until payday.


    —Abby E. Murray



    Last Night’s Fire & the Dwindling Embers of Evolution


    If heaven was a verb and I told you,

    I heaven you,

    I would mean I embrace you, wholly,

    as if inside a shell.


    —Jesse S. Fourmy



    Welcoming in the Starry Night of the Lightning Bees


    No one to greet you

    on your side,


    no one beside you now


    your breath

    evaporating like alcohol.


    Come back

    to the dandelions.


    I blow into your ear

    to make you dream of wind.


    —Karen Holman


    Marvin Bell was born in New York City on August 3, 1937, and grew up in Center Moriches, on the south shore of eastern Long Island. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Alfred University, a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.


    Marvin Bell was born in New York City on August 3, 1937, and grew up in Center Moriches, on the south shore of eastern Long Island. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Alfred University, a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.


    Bell taught for forty years for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, retiring in 2005 as Flannery O’Connor Professor of Letters. For five years, he designed and led an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for America SCORES. Currently he serves on the faculty of Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program. He has also taught at Goddard College, the University of Hawaii, the University of Washington, and Portland State University. He and his wife, Dorothy, live in Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington.

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