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Janet's new print collection of poetry, Tickets to a Closing Play, recently won the Gival Press Poetry Award and it's hitting the bookstore shelves. If you're interested in purchasing a copy, the book is $15.00, plus shipping & handling. This collection, 78 pages long, centers around the themes and issues of 9/11, our ensuing wars, coping with grief, the ups and downs of love, and the rigors and jewels of family life.
Tickets to a Closing Play is currently available at four outlets:
4. Tickets to a Closing Play can also be ordered using credit cards or personal checks
by calling the following toll-free number: 1-800-247-6553.
This is the Gival Press Order Fulfillment Center in Ohio.
Here's a quick peek at the back cover
Rave Reviews:
"…Janet Buck takes our most defining and often bleakest of experiences, sprinkles them with her special brand of word whimsy, to produce this rich and vibrant collection of poetry that's not only serious and insightful, but a sheer delight to read…"
--Jane Butkin Roth, editor, We Used to Be Wives: Divorce Unveiled Through Poetry
"…don't expect [Buck] to allow complacency of any sort in these powerful slices of reality."
--Christine L. Reed, Editor, Maelstrom
"…Whether she is speaking of a war scene, a waiting room in a hospital, the elderly, or homelessness, she spotlights the deep wounds of our world ... Janet Buck is one of the best among us. I celebrate the release of this important collection."
--John Amen, author of Christening the Dancer
"… [Buck] uses whole sections of her poems to build to passionate climaxes that will leave readers gasping when catharsis settles in. The poetry uses language so beautifully that readers will catch themselves memorizing line after line."
--George Klawitter, author of Let Orpheus Take Your Hand
"…This is a book to read slowly and to savor."
--Susan Terris, author of Fire Is Favorable to the Dreamer
Janet I. Buck lives and writes in Southern Oregon. Her poetry has recently appeared in Three Candles, Red River Review, PoetryBay, The Pedestal Magazine, Stirring, Facets, The American Muse, Southern Ocean Review, Octavo, CrossConnect, Offcourse, and hundreds of journals worldwide. In the year 2000, Buck's poem "Acrylic Thighs" was featured at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City. She is a six-time Pushcart Nominee and Tickets to a Closing Play is her second print collection of poetry.
ISBN 1-928589-25-1
U.S.A. $15.00 / Gival Press / PO Box 3812 / Arlington, VA 22203 / www.givalpress.com
More reviews are forthcoming in a number of internet journals, including The Pedestal Magazine, Small Spiral Notebook, The Rose & Thorn, Facets Magazine, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly.
Curbs to Climb
Your face is white soap pale.
This pocket change of suffering --
I've scooted down
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78 pg
Excerpt: Courtesy of Gival Press
A thousand mirrors record the sag.
Who painted your flesh this oatmeal fix?
Ghost in a drape.
Even a straw is testing
the wheeze of your lungs.
The bed owns the room
like a tumor that swells.
Nurses come and doctors go --
quietly as passing fish.
church bells calling for a god
who seems absorbed
with bigger things than human ears.
When blankets of drugs peel back,
you'll need the cane of a friend
who isn't afraid of curbs to climb --
who won't avert her open eyes
from show and tell of spreading scars,
potage of time rubbing the heel.
the basement stairs of losing it.
I've seen the termites
under floorboards
chewing at the planks of arks.
I knew when we met,
some painful hour would snap
our frames like dry saltines.
Agape is never a monk --
it's a choir that garners its voice
from the rush of a brutal wind.
Stand up and spend the last pink rose.
I do not want you resting here.
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Saturday, November 1st, 2003
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