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How Therapists Dance follows the numinous thread described by Novalis: The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap. As in the first poem, in which snails scrawl the names of Buddhas with their silvery trails and ends with the poet kissing his wife's hands, taking out the garbage, and being confronted with an overwhelming moon. These poems stitch together psychiatric ward encounters with the musings of security guards in an art gallery; an urban dance floor provoking a breakthrough for a stranded therapist; his father's empty shotgun shells, his aunt's accordion finding its way inside the body, ribs expanding and contracting as though you are an instrument life is still learning how to play. ? How Therapists Dance is the meeting ground for the spiritual seeker, the therapist and the observant poet who negotiates this tricky terrain and writes poems for them all. There is humor and longing, tenderness and beauty. Each of these voices has its say. From them I learn how enlightenment is spoiled by wanting it too much. How the dance of therapists is into and out of the skin of others. How Superman's true heroism is revealed. These are poems worthy of a long-term friendship. -Len Anderson, author of Invented by the Night ? Dane Cervine explores with a keen poet's eye the borderlands where the doctor meets the mystic, the adult meets the child he once was, the beauty and pain of life become indistinguishable. Deliciously full of joy, insight, and awe, Cervine's poetry certainly shows you how therapists dance. - Ellen Bass, author of The Human Line ? Dane Cervine often lets a wry humor open the door to a deeper place. His light stroke sets the reader at ease, invites us into "the mischief in the young boy's fiddle," the "almost tangible, humming in the air between us" where, even through sadness and hardship "a blue dragonfly whirs" and we come to know we are "wide enough, finally, for every jagged thing." His finely-wrought poems are a comfort and a compass. -Patrice Vecchione, author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and a poetry collection, The Knot Untied ? While Dane Cervine's first book, The Jeweled Net of Indra, was woven with themes related to social justice and our larger connection with each other, this new book is flavored with the act of "attention" shared by the triune influences of his work: therapy, meditation, and poetry. Dane Cervine's poems are at once disciplined, sturdy, compassionate and wise. And there's an inspired playfulness, as in these lines from his poem "Enlightenment Is a Bitch": ...even fire hydrants with their red stubby arms become mandalas, and worse, the police siren revving its wail behind/my slow-moving car sounds like a mantra... -Robert Sward, author of New & Selected Poems, 1957-2012 ? Regarding the poem "Accordions & Shotguns," a finalist for the Wabash: The sheer volume of information in this poem is impressive-which is to say that all that story is fluently delivered to the reader-but it is really the passion and precision of the final stanza that earns my full attention. --Tony Hoagland

This charming tale lifts the heart and stretches the imagination. Michael Osborne uses mystery and magic to tell the story of the gentle People of the Sun as they defend their land against the People of the Cities. One can almost see the Valley of Memories and the Mountain of Hope. Children and those young at heart can explore a place where Childpersons are schooled by the Muses and Elderguides use The Way to restore peace and harmony to the land. With just one more leap of imagination, one can envision a world where everyone lives The Oneness.How would the world look if humans lived in harmony with nature? Michael Osborne has created a rich answer in Day of the Heart He''s combined mystery with fantasy and invented a compelling vision of the future where some communities truly do live in peace and where Love is the most powerful "weapon" of all - powerful enough to defeat armies and transform the world. Charlie Lovings drawings are a magical addition to a book that will be enjoyed by children and adults alike.

My grandmother’s samovar has been an abiding presence in my life. Carried to the United States as she and my great-grandparents escaped the Russian pogroms, it is a reminder of their determination to resist the forces that seek to destroy the human spirit, their courage in leaving behind all they had known. In losing their home, they made it possible for my parents and me to find ours. I have written these poems to tell my children what the samovar has told me: We cannot separate what we’ve lost from what remains. It is together that they take us home. ——— Marcia Katz Wolf’s fourth collection of poetry, Under the Sign of the Samovar, is a field of thought, a memoir, and a casual bedazzlement. Existing at the intersection of the personal and metaphysical, its distinctive vision finds unity among things diverse and present. Her aunt takes her after Sabbath School to the Emerald City of Woolworth’s to buy moddess. A chimp is taught sign language. Her mother rhapsodizes in her bath about the Russian Revolution and her hero Trotsky. Dresden and other horrors are entered into a theory of suffering, a baffling calculus, that can leave you, as it did me, at the brink. In the final poem, her husband Irving, a figure of gentle healing in this book, brings her tea. The simmering of the samovar must always have been there, a sturdy elegance, a place where a poet, a Marcia Katz Wolf, had no choice but to be a poet.—Charles Nauman, author of How It Goes Jumping Whether riffing on Gogol’s “Overcoat,” watching her little granddaughter tricycle down a suburban street, or meditating on questions of truth, identity, memory, grace, or aging, Marcia Katz Wolf takes us to the mystifying center of our human experience. Alternately wry and joyous, humorous and heartbreaking, her poems probe the mysteries and wonders of our lives. Wolf’s uncompromising diction, exquisite phrasing, and startling juxtapositions that find us chuckling and then thrust a knife into our hearts cast a lyrical spell that leaves the reader yearning for more. —Constance Solari, author of Sophie’s Fire

"...this new world fraught with enormous new challenges weighted down with inherited old world problems, needs new navigational tools, new tongues unafraid of truth, and new poets with hearts and words almost too big for the treasure chests they beat in. You can find all of that and a hint of raw sugarcane in these pages." Frank X Walker, Editor of PLUCK! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture; Author of Affrilachia, When Winter Come, Black Box and more. "In Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies, Ricardo Nazario y Colón connects the dots between Puerto Rico and Affrilachia, creating a route that is poetic narrative, grito, reflection and canción. The writing is muscular, intimately masculine, yet able to fully embrace a female essence-in poems that reference the Great Mother or in intimate connection with a woman the poet desires. The present legacy of racism, sexism, eco-exploitation, and colonialism, of psychic damage suffered in war-all are articulated here. In a favorite piece, Nazario y Colón crafts an ode/psalm to his spirit brother, Frank X Walker, where the ties that connect are lovingly etched." Lisa Alvarado, Author of Raw Silk Suture and Sister Chicas "Fierce and must read it slowly."   Rane Arroyo, Poet, recent titles include:  The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems,  and The Sky's Weight