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This collection of poems reflects Joe Spencer's impressions from various points in his life. Unlike photographs that capture a scene in two dimensions, these poems hope to stimulate a third dimension, emotion, and to remind readers of similar moments they have lived or imagined. If this seems a tall order for so few words, that's the work that brought the author to poetry-though Spencer is more likely to describe himself as a dreamer than as a poet. He spends (in his own words) "inordinate amounts of time" observing, listening, reading, reflecting, dreaming and writing-which occasionally takes form as a poem.

In this collection of new poems, Eric Sbarge presents an often yin- and-yang view of the world-humorous yet serious, uplifting yet demoralizing, ironic yet straightforward-influenced in part by his forty-five years of studying and teaching tai chi, Zen meditation and kung fu, and in part by his family's three wiener dogs who are long, yet short.

Thoughts at Crossings reflects the way Linda Vigen Phillips has always dealt with life's raw truths-through the language of poetry. Her debut novel-in-verse, Crazy, painted a picture of a mother's mental illness from a teenage point of view, while this new collection takes a firmly adult stance: a woman looking back with wise eyes on the scars and tragic lessons of childhood abuse.

Homelight is the 14th poetry collection from Lola Haskins, past winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two NEA fellowships, and other honors. As late work sometimes does, Homelight has a broad reach. In the first section, "On the Shoulders of Giants," Haskins remembers poets who preceded her, Sappho to Blake to Merwin. After lingering to consider a Michelangelo drawing, she moves on to birds in "Wings." Then, in "And They Are Gone" and "(In)humanity," she turns to the arrogance of the way we treat the planet and each other. A pause for "Corona," then on to love, both bad and good, in "The Slapped Girl." The final section, "Rehearsing," considers death, in the form of tributes to lost friends and her own preparations to follow them. There is humor here, lyricism and epic sweeps, and, almost at the end, these lines to a lover: "I wear you under my clothes the way a Sikh wears his cord, / in token of the ineffable beauty of the world," which - as Merwin, who praised her work, would have seen immediately - might as well have been addressed to poetry itself.

Into the Swirl is a representative collection of John Clark's work over a number of years. The collection contains both new and revised poems developed during Charlotte Lit's first Chapbook Lab. They are varied in subject matter and point of view and reflect both the writer's experiences and imagination. They are for the writer a way to play.

In this collection of somber poems written from the heart, Patricia Ann Joslin pays homage to her beloved husband of 41 years. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, Roy Joslin bravely lived with the disease until his death in the spring of 2018. These poems echo the grief of the cancer journey so many face today, yet they offer the promise of hope and healing to those who remain behind.

Subjects Suitable for Poetry is the latest collection from former Carrboro, North Carolina, poet laureate Gary Phillips. In these 20 poems, Phillips explores family, nature, and his rural upbringing, interwoven and inseparable.