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POETRY FROM PARADISE VALLEY
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Poetry From Paradise Valley
Pecan Grove Press has released an anthology of poems, a sampling of works published in Valparaiso Poetry Review during its first decade, from the original 1999-2000 volume to the 2009-2010 volume.
Poetry from Paradise Valley includes a stellar roster of 50 poets. Among the contributors are a former Poet Laureate of the United States, a winner of the Griffin International Prize, two Pulitzer Prize winners, two National Book Award winners, two National Book Critics Circle winners, six finalists for the National Book Award, four finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and a few dozen recipients of other honors, such as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, etc.
Readers are encouraged to visit the Poetry from Paradise Valley page at the publisher's web site, where ordering information about the book can be found.
Best Books of Indiana 2011: Finalist. Judges' Citation: "Poetry from Paradise Valley is an excellent anthology that features world-class poetry, including the work of many artists from the Midwest, such as Jared Carter, Annie Finch, David Baker, and Allison Joseph. It’s an eclectic and always interesting collection where poems on similar themes flow into each other. It showcases the highest caliber of U. S. poetry." —Indiana Center for the Book, Indiana State Library
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Face of William Shakespeare
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine . . .
SONNET LXII
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye And all my soul, and all my every part; And for this sin there is no remedy, It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine, No shape so true, no truth of such account; And for myself mine own worth do define, As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity, Mine own self-love quite contrary I read; Self so self-loving were iniquity.
'Tis thee (my self) that for myself I praise, Painting my age with beauty of thy days.
—William Shakespeare
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Interesting, though the report was vacuous from an evidential standpoint. And this isn't the first portrait to be claimed as a lost and found portrait. Another book, which I read and own, can be found here.
There is circumstantial evidence to support this attribution as well. And there is circumstantial evidence that supports the Chandos portrait, but the arguments begin to sound suspiciously like the arguments for Oxford, Bacon, etc... Sometimes it seems there is an overplus of circumstantial evidence to support just about any and every assertion concerning Shakespeare.
That said, it's a cool possibility. No doubt, there will soon be a book examining the pedigree of this painting.
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Dark Refuge (Whale Sound, 2011)
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Recent Release
DARK REFUGE
Dark Refuge, a sequence of poems in an audio chapbook and online text, is now available for free, as well as an mp3 recording, e-book copy, and pdf file of the poetry. A print edition of the book and a cd may also be ordered.
SEEDED LIGHT (Turning Point, 2010)
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Praise for SEEDED LIGHT:
Seeded Light by Edward Byrne (Turning Point Books, 2010)
Best Books of Indiana 2011: Finalist. Judges' Citation:"As the title implies, [Seeded Light] includes many poems where nature plays an important part. An emphasis on human relationships intertwines with natural description to give these poems philosophical and emotional depths. Byrne brings to life an old family farm gone fallow, a visit to an inn where the speaker spent his honeymoon, and Lester Young playing tenor sax." —Indiana Center for the Book, Indiana State Library
" ... is memorial and social, scenic and intimate ..." —David Baker
" ... offers abundant evidence of a mind’s alertness to the world of nature and to modern urban reality ..." —Alfred Corn
"... as mysterious and elusive as the permutations of light and shadow for which Byrne has such a canny eye ... subtly virtuosic displays of rhyme, alliteration, and assonance ..." —Frank Wilson The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Rich, shaded, and subtle in texture, with second lines often bleeding into the next couplet, these open couplets expand meaning, encouraging the reader to follow." —Zara Raab Poemeleon
"... there is always light, from the slimmest of glimmers to full moony illumination, and it is that light, seeded throughout, that we will remember, long after we close the pages and turn off the lamp." —Barbara Crooker Rattle
"The liveliness of any art, Byrne implicitly and convincingly argues, depends on union of emotion and intellect, design and accident." —Lesley Wheeler The Adirondack Review
“These poems take readers on very human journeys through translucent landscapes where the world is in some way in balance, or in touch, with what we are. They especially lend themselves to meditative reading, and their gift is a sense of deepened understanding of and participation in the natural world.” —Janet McCann Yanaguana Literary Review
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Seeded Light (Turning Point Books, 2010) is Edward Byrne's sixth collection of poetry. The refined poems of this volume invite the reader into a spacious world . . .
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Edward Byrne is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently a trilogy of volumes: TIDAL AIR (Pecan Grove Press, 2002), SEEDED LIGHT (Turning Point Books, 2010), and TINTED DISTANCES (Turning Point Books,2011). DARK REFUGE (2011), an audio chapbook offering a sequence of poems from AUTISM: A POEM, is available from Whale Sound. He has also edited two anthologies of poetry, including POETRY FROM PARADISE VALLEY (Pecan Grove Press, 2010). In addition, his essays of literary criticism have been published in various journals and book collections, including MARK STRAND (Chelsea House Publishers), edited by Harold Bloom; A CONDITION OF THE SPIRIT: THE LIFE AND WORK OF LARRY LEVIS (Eastern Washington University Press), edited by Christopher Buckley and Alexander Long; “Claudia Emerson: Literary Criticism” in POETRY FOR STUDENTS (Thomson Gale Publishing), edited by Ira Mark Milne; and DAVID BOTTOMS: CRITICAL ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS (McFarland & Co.), edited by William Walsh. He is a professor in the English Department at Valparaiso University, where he serves as editor of VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW and co-editor of VALPARAISO FICTION REVIEW.
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2 comments:
Interesting, though the report was vacuous from an evidential standpoint. And this isn't the first portrait to be claimed as a lost and found portrait. Another book, which I read and own, can be found here.
There is circumstantial evidence to support this attribution as well. And there is circumstantial evidence that supports the Chandos portrait, but the arguments begin to sound suspiciously like the arguments for Oxford, Bacon, etc... Sometimes it seems there is an overplus of circumstantial evidence to support just about any and every assertion concerning Shakespeare.
That said, it's a cool possibility. No doubt, there will soon be a book examining the pedigree of this painting.
I read about this on the cover of NYT in Starbucks today. It's fascinating. To look genius in the face!- when it's been claimed he didn't even exist.
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