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Here for your reading consideration are four new poetry anthologies from poets with Maritime connections:
Sympathy Loophole (M)by
Jaime Forsythe![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLjGTXo0L4_yDQyY1enCuNAP6MN9GfHQ9Y8qWtljY2vceSD24rijo9cirkDMwQw9NDZVZT1if_LvlP-x6MDmGSx_HFCC6twQ3UPYIiDVtUpWF021hcx2uoduVPkeZgNrMq1CUhehSvuE/s200/sympathy+loophole.jpg)
"This lively first collection, often both creepy and hilarious, serves up an image-laden universe - the sideshow we call home - where contortionists, womanizing ventriloquist dummies, and pickled sharks compete with the everyday for the mark's hard-earned buck. Jaime Forsythe's poetry is loaded with wit, mystery, surprise, and breathtaking juxtapositions - it's a contemporary inventory of pop culture and human experience that proves the wacky and the poignant can share a seat in the same roller-coaster of a stanza." - publisher
Holler (M)by
Alice Burdick![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqxl4yShzDiAcan7yVFfqect9gKgzWDj1G8j1jPWcLZKDf-1FHIbtmyppnPOpgDc5ikW8RPuYCGZd8mXqt9ab-2iQyiWy9Bii3QfxxI_wduZQsgbg5fNDTB8zJVG42gbtN7xlLWNp_Lc/s200/Holler_Cover_Page_1-190x300.jpg)
"In her follow-up to 2008's Flutter, former big-city-dweller Alice Burdick explores nature and the small town, taking a cue from children learning their voices: "All I see are trucks, / trucks and ducks." With a blend of playful narrative and an Ashberyesque collage approach, Burdick paints a portrait of our world as one of continuous wonder, and full of relationships-between people, and between people and things-that never die but continually transform, even in death." - publisher
Hydrologos (M)by
Warren Heiti
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"Hydrologos is one long poem composed in five suites and a coda, and spoken through masks. It is a poem about a specific passion, the one that always follows love: sorrow. At the poem's centre is the original lyric elegy, the myth of Orpheus, but re-imagined from the perspective of Eurydike. What happens to a human being under the geologic pressure of passion? - One calls out, and the world's response is silence. The work of sorrowing, one learns, is the work - the endless work - of listening, by which the listener is changed." - publisher
Spinning Side Kick (M)by
Anita Lahey![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Bt288r7Z_Qyc3F4CDAgyI4h0DuypFu08hL6_3G-8jjpQpWtOfjxbDO6ZpE4f5QL5P2QkS-QYSifpXUXKTtvev76N3LF4AtVCXpuhRKTVg5gZvBRYG1R2u2Zk6rNLfs13Os2WaQZZu3k/s200/anita.jpg)
"Anita Lahey's second collection, Spinning Side Kick ,is a hard-knuckled look at the other half. These lively poems mix a girl-about-town cockiness with an all-too-rare emotional honesty about men, love, and relationships. Whether the subject is a one-man chimney demolition, the lifelong fidelity of seahorses, a lover at war in Afghanistan or a kickboxing match, Lahey confronts the enduring disconnect between the sexes in a language that is slangy and quick, punctuated with jabs. She eyes those moments--in a day, in a life--when the normal clues we rely on disappear, shifting the line between domesticity and danger. In Spinning Side Kick , a talented poet returns with sharper aim." - publisher
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