October, 2022: Fall Pinyon Review, #22: Heart of the Shadow
Poetry and Prose in a Handmade Limited Edition
Contributions by: Geer Austin, Suzanne Kelm, Edward J. Rielly, and Luci Shaw
Fall, 2022: “Afterglow: An Appreciation of Robert B. Shaw’s What Remains to Be Said”
by A. E. Stallings in Literary Matters Issue 15.1
“From Shaw’s debut and throughout his work, longer blank verse narratives (sometimes haunted with the mirroring longueurs of age and childhood, other times simmering with darker suggestions of desperation or violence) are leavened with shorter lyrics on the passage of time, and still lifes, sometimes playfully in the voice of the object or concept itself—whether it be a gargoyle, a bookmark, or a contagious yawn.” Read the Review
June, 2022: “Homage to the Word”: On Robert B. Shaw’s What Remains to Be Said , in the Los Angeles Review of Books “He practices meter and storytelling with unaffected dexterity … intelligent and, at times, abstrusely original … Shaw writes, as do Dickinson and Robert Frost, in the faith that even nature’s humblest phenomena and organisms illuminate reality and merit investigation and contemplation.” Read the Review, written by Timothy Steele
June, 2022: Book Review of What Remains to Be Said, in the Daily Hampshire Gazette—“These poems cover a wide range of topics and also examine the span of the poet’s life … His voice is an engaging one, at times wry and plainspoken and sometimes more satiric and critical.” Read the Review, written by Steve Pferrer.
Spring, 2022: A Conversation with Robert B. Shaw, in Literary Matters—“I felt deeply compelled, not just to write, but to rewrite; to master expressive clarity and technical skills. … ” Read the Conversation, conducted by Ryan Wilson.
April, 2022: What Remains to Be Said New and Selected Poems by Robert B. Shaw
“Robert B. Shaw gives us the full human range of his verse as he charts his life from gains to losses, joy to grief, with irony, wit, and compassion.”—Mark Jarman
January, 2023: Ripples Poems by Ahrend Torrey
Ripples invites an awakening—“the sun lifting itself, over the fence, and the tree.” As we read, “a ripple wave appears … a pine nut falls into the dark, still pond …”
Dying monarchs, oily waters of the Mississippi, emaciated polar bears—the mindless rush of life is transformed through a meditation of the moment. Mindful observations allow us to see through our fears.
Ask the delicate holy basil leaves why we live; watch it grow; steep tulsi; and hear “There’s not just you, there’s us.”
April 2023: Trapped in Amber Poems by Nikia Leopold
Ekphrastic Poems—With paintings and sculpture by Marc Chagall, Piero della Francesca, Alberto Giacometti, Edward Hopper, Simone Martini, Tommaso Masaccio, Giorgio Morandi, Henri Rousseau, Johannes Vermeer, and unidentified early artists.
In Nikia Leopold’s poetry—responding to and creating great art anew—the theme of a woman feeling trapped creates a courageous sense of unease. Alongside is a a liberating tone of mystery, tenderness, and power.
Handmade Limited Edition: 100 numbered copies; 6”x9”, 68 pages, full color, 100-lb paper; Cover made with Thai Momi marbled and Bugra papers, sewn with stone beads.
May 2023: We Eclipse into the Other Side Twoness poems by Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert
Miller, Handmade Limited Edition
“Through ‘tender darkness’ and ‘the last bright light of day,’ these poets achieve creative balance. These poems smell the ocean waves, play piano chords, and translate touch. With lyricism and declarative power, two poetic forces momentarily conjoin during an eclipse of passing souls.”
—TIM CONROY, writer and poet
May 2023: Soft Serve Haiku Remains by Gary Hotham
Handmade Limited Edition
The ocean and the breath, the small and the immensity fit into each other. Time and space are brought into focus and then destroyed. Fireflies, as star-muses, dance through this internal-universal flux.
September 2023: Ghost Terrain Poems by Miles Waggener, with Art by Amy Haney, Handmade
Limited Edition
Seamless blending of natural images, movie-reel-like scenes, love and hurt, transience. Boy-father relations move the story and create an expanding sense of what is alive. A tender and raw composition of images, sounds, and rhythms. Amy Haney’s powerful art creates a penetrating counterpoint that taps into the unspoken messages in Waggener’s poems.
January 2024: Pinyon Review #23, Garden Chaotic Strings
Contributions by: Geer Austin, Diane Vreuls, Benjamin Green, Erika Moss Gordon, Linda Lerner, Eric Lunde, John Grey, Phil Flott, Nikia Leopold
January 2024: Spring Flowers, Autumn Moon
Poems of Li Yu, Translated by Jiann I. Lin and David Young
From prince to prisoner, Li Yu (937-978) came to know sorrow, homesickness, and the need to reconcile his melancholy with the passage of seasons and the fragility of life.
January 2024: If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant
The Jane Kenyon Erasure Poems by Ahrend Torrey
We find ourselves in a story of humid primal earth and man. A story of choice of perception. Drawing his respect for Kenyon’s work into his and our imaginations: dark red veins rich with memory and forgetting.
Ahrend Torrey invites readers to be participants in the play. He takes us into nature, inside and outside of the city; we emerge into fresh air. With humility, we’re conscious of destructive forces, from aging to gas-powered engines. We rebel against misery, choosing transfiguration into action. Through examining the nature of reality, consciousness, and the shared or no-time life experience, we walk away with a universal here-now. In THIS MOMENT, Now, is not a question:
To Wonder about Dandelion Seeds Is to Wonder about Ourselves
I watch brown puffs of sparrow. So many, so common. / In an instant this could be over. In an instant a nuke or storm could / hit, as it has, or worse. Now only, we feel air settle in our lungs, / we can preserve the earth, we can blow at the stalk of dandelion / seeds. This is not a question. Now, is not a question. / —The yellow-fanned dandelions are alive!—But what about their seeds / blown in today’s noon air—lifting off rooftops … how will they / survive?
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