{"id":7148,"date":"2011-07-07T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?post_type=product&p=7148"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T11:33:12","slug":"new-poets-short-books-vol-v","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/books\/new-poets-short-books-vol-v","title":{"rendered":"New Poets | Short Books, Vol. V"},"content":{"rendered":"

“As always, the soul of a nation survives in the interstices of political and economic events. It survives, preeminently, in the arts. Art makes life better, even in the harshest of circumstances.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

-Marvin Bell, from the introduction<\/div>\n

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The Lost Horse Press<\/a> New Poets | Short Books Series<\/a>, edited by Marvin Bell<\/a>, brings together three short books of poetry under one cover. Human Shade<\/em> appears in Volume V, along with excellent poetry collections by up-and-coming American poets Jensea Storie<\/a> and Valentine Freeman<\/a>.
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Praise for Human Shade<\/em><\/h3>\n

“These are wonderful poems. Like dim sum, I unwrap the surprise inside each one and am delighted by the poet’s vision of koi, scorpion, bear, hand, shoes–Dear imagination of a boy<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

–Sandra Alcosser, author of Except by Nature<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“Human Shade<\/em> is a stunningly tender and perceptive collection, masterfully handled.”<\/p>\n

–Kate Buckley, author of Follow Me Down<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“…a sense of withering time, but never crass or over-obvious, always subtle and Debussyian… Powerful precisely because of its larger cultural context and veiled (until the end) message.”<\/p>\n

–Hugh Fox, Small Press Review<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“Robert Peake is a first-rate poet whose collection, Human Shade<\/em>, is a cycle of very tender and very finely crafted poems…”<\/p>\n

–Tim Krcmarik, author of The Heights<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“…a splendid new book.”<\/p>\n

–Joseph Millar, author of Fortune<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“…beautifully written, and moving, how the personal intersects with the world outside.”<\/p>\n

–Karol Nielsen, author of Black Elephants<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“Throughout, Peake manages the subject of his son\u2019s death both dextrously and eloquently… The lasting impression of the collection is … of strong work gathered intelligently and often beautifully around a poignant and well-executed set of core material.”<\/p>\n

–Martha Sprackland, Sabotage Reviews<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“…an amazing collection…stunning and vivid.”<\/p>\n

–Carolee Sherwood, poet and blogger<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“…delicacy, beauty, passion, hope, stream through the writers hands and lodge straight in your brain like cement.”<\/p>\n

–Stephen Byrne, The Ranting Beast<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The series features a generation of American poets with strong individual voices, including Robert Peake in his short collection Human Shade<\/em>, included in this volume.<\/p>\n

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