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Unfathoming, along with our other Spring 2017 titles, is now available from Four Way Books!

Read "Isn't True Love Wonderful?" from Andrea Cohen's Unfathoming over at Verse 

Praise for Andrea Cohen

"The title of Andrea Cohen's collection Unfathoming is brilliantly concise: these poems train their attention on the elusive, perhaps insoluble mysteries of the heart--feelings, behaviors, and stories which cannot be not reconciled in tidy narrative closures or snap-shut truths. Cohen's dominant theme is the elusiveness of intimacy, but the intimacy to which we are repeatedly returned is that problematic one of the self with the self. I love the bafflement as well as the tough, intelligent persistence of the speaker in these interrogations. Terse, linguistically distilled, Cohen's craft is meticulous, as with her flashlight she prowls and probes, reporting on the emotional transactions of our lives that can only partially be seen. The poetic results are fiercely distinctive and moving."

 — Tony Hoagland

"Andrea Cohen’s poems have always been rigorously crafted and deft in their insight. Along comes Unfathoming, which marks a new depth in her work. While these poems are engaged in our ancient struggle to find meaning in the wake of loss, they also nod to the foolishness that makes finding meaning itself the struggle. Cohen refutes the idea that rescue comes via intellect alone. As the poems in Unfathoming demonstrate, any deliverance comes when loss, explored, makes its way toward wonder."

 — Alice Sebold

Click here to buy your copy of Unfathoming!

Upcoming Readings for Andrea Cohen

Saturday, May 6, 11 AM - Mass Poetry Festival with Tom Sleigh at 161 Essex St, Salem, MA 01970

Friday, June 16, 2 PM - Assorted Cameos of the Mysterious at the Nantucket Book Festival at Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St, Nantucket, MA 02554

Sacrum, along with our other Spring 2017 titles, is now available from Four Way Books!

Read "Soliloquy of a Tornado in the Distance" from Bruce Bond's Sacrum over at Verse

Praise for Bruce Bond

“‘The poet writes the history of his body,’ Thoreau once noted, and nothing could be truer of the work undertaken by Bruce Bond in Sacrum. Exploring the tender vulnerabilities of the body and the complicated processes of consciousness, these poems keep arriving at elegy by meditating on the vivacities that make a life: love and pain, knowledge and time, wonder and reality. All the while, as one poem’s speaker intones, ‘be one part miracle, another / blunder.’ In what is now a considerable body of work, Bond has been exploring that terrain between miracle and blunder in poems that get richer with each book. Sacrum is a superb and necessary addition to our poetry.”

 — Rick Barot