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Mike Barnes' Braille Rainbow is about perception across the sensory spectrum and the arc of learning about the world and about oneself. These poems, organized in four sections, engage first with infant appetites, others, and social justice, before turning inward to traverse the perilous heights and depths of the mind, drawing on Barnes' own experience of mental illness and his years of caring for his mother in her dementia. The latter half of the...
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Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore Ala's new collection of poems -- his third. Lost luggage and the efforts to find the things of this world retrieved and redeemed are central to Ala's poems. In his new book he presents a unique group of poems about the world of soccer: "The Goalkeeper," "Pelé,"...
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"Accuracy without kindness is too unfeeling to be true. And kindness without accuracy is too unreal to be felt." In Be With, Mike Barnes writes letters to an anonymous long-term caregiver, drawing on his own years of caring for his mother through the ravages of Alzheimer's, from moderate through late stage. Written for harried caregivers who might have time to read two lines, or twenty, or perhaps the whole thing as a loved one naps, Be With balances...
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