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Poetry
Leah Keith has won the Allen Ginsberg Award for outstanding poetry through the VSA of RI three times, and she was chosen to represent them as their Poet Laureate for the past three years. As the Poet Laureate she has been given themes to write about and read her poems at certain events such as, the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act at the Pawtucket, Rhode Island Town Hall.
Leah has a voice and she wants you to know it. She wants you to hear her before you decide who she is. She wants you to see her and take the time to get to know her before you think you already do. She will surprise you with her unique wisdom and colorful sense of humor. She is not what you expect her to be. She is proud of who she Is and she makes no apologies for it. In this book Leah uses her voice in the form of poetry and art.
On a journey deep into myself
I never imagined that everything I sought or thought I needed
Was within me all along"
--from I Am Maria
On the fiery hot sun
Burned a mother solar flare
And her little flare, one.
"Sizzle," said the mother.
"I sizzle," said the one.
So they sizzled and they popped
On the fiery, hot sun. Based on the poem "Over in the Meadow," this galactic counting book guides readers from the sun all the way to the far reaches of our solar system with adorably anthropomorphized planets by illustrator Susanna Covelli. Parents or older readers will love the added fun facts on each page for even more information about the different celestial bodies, their moons, and their orbits.
Let's begin with the simplest facts: 'Dust & your body'--how the body must also revert to that from which it came. Such is the cosmic equation at the very heart of Karen Lepri's wonderful debut, INCIDENTS OF SCATTERING. Lepri takes the self as 'fig. I, ' subjectivity's iota that necessitates the existence of a world and others in it. As in myth, the erotic reveals itself as a cosmogonic principle, and the work of the poem is nothing less than to discover the laws of this world. In returning to Victorian science, Lepri attends to an ever-diminishing point in which a fact returns to the ether and makes itself available for something stranger than description: that cycle of poetic vitality in which our effort to categorize transforms into wonder's staggering forms of attention. I might call Lepri's discovery 'empirical intimacy.'--Dan Beachy-Quick







