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April 18, 2016

Eternity and Oranges Cover

This is a beautiful collection of poems: half-cryptic, half-open; half based on ancient myths, half on actual life. —Adam Zagajewski, author of Unseen Hand

NER would like to congratulate Christopher Bakken on the publication of his newest poetry collection, Eternity & Oranges (University of Pittsburgh Press).

From the publisher: The voices we encounter in this book speak from a place marked by disintegration and loss, and they speak on the verge of disappearance, out of desperation and terror. Bakken’s poems are acts of conjuring. They move from the real political landscapes of Greece, Italy, and Romania, into more surreal spaces where history comes alive and the summoned dead speak.

Eternity & Oranges is Bakken’s third collection of poems. Two of Bakken’s poems, “Elegy” and “Myth,” appeared in NER 36.2. He also co-translated The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios (Truman State University Press, 2016), and wrote Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table (University of California Press 2013).

Eternity & Oranges is available from University of Pittsburgh Press and independent booksellers.

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9780374230449In tones that shift effortlessly from journalistic to atmospheric to deeply, darkly funny, Berlinski evokes a very detailed sense of place. —Publishers Weekly

Mischa Berlinski will release his second novel, Peacekeeping, this month. Set in a small Haitian town, it tells the story of a American sent by the UN to help train the Haitian police. Soon, however, he becomes embroiled in the town’s politics and falls in love with a corrupt judge’s wife.

Berlinski’s first novel Fieldwork was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. His short story “In the Dark” appeared in NER 28.1.

Peacekeeping is available from Macmillan Publishers and other booksellers.

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51iHD7EPWoL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_Hernandez is a poet writing to us from poetry’s epicenter—where music invents itself, and the psyche and the sensory world are one. —Laura Kasischke, author of Space, in Chains, and The Raising

Dear, Sincerely (University of Pittsburgh Press), a new poetry collection by David Hernandez, has arrived.

From the publisher: an exploration into the relationship between the Self, the collective We, and the cosmos, as well as the murky division that separates one from the other.

Hernandez’s most recent book of poetry, Hoodwinked (Sarabande, 2011), won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. He has also published Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003), as well as two young adult novels. His poetry has appeared in NER 32.3 and 35.1.

Dear, Sincerely is available from University of Pittsburgh Press and independent booksellers.

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Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 10.55.42 AMJay Parini is one of those writers who can do anything. —Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review

A warm congratulations to NER founding editor Jay Parini on the release of his new poetry collection, New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015 (Beacon Press). His work appeared in NER 14.1. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur writes of Parini’s work: “Jay Parini’s poetry in keen-eyed, thoughtful, artful, yet unaffected.”

Parini is the author of over twenty books, including five books of poetry, eight novels, and several biographies. His recent work includes Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal (Doubleday Books, 2015), Jesus: The Face of God (New Harvest, 2013), and The Passages of H.M. (Anchor, 2011). He is the D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College. 

New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015 is available from Beacon Press and independent booksellers.  

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Groundspeed CoverIn her powerful new collection, Emilia Phillips gives us a world that refuses to be stilled. Exploring the blurred boundaries of a cartographer’s spinning globe, Groundspeed offers a dynamic exploration of the liminal physical and psychological landscapes in which our tentative and transient identities flicker. —Kathleen Graber, author of The Eternal City

Emilia Phillips‘s second poetry collection, Groundspeed, arrives this month from University of Akron Press.

Phillips’s poem, “Supine Body in Full-Length Mirror, Hotel Room, Upper West Side,” appeared in NER 36.1. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, US poets in Mexico, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the author of another poetry collection, Signaletics (University of Akron Press, 2013), as well as three chapbooks.

Groundspeed is available from University of Akron Press and independent booksellers.

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Shipers-FamilyResemblancesAs the narrator sets out “To see myself the size I really am,” we accompany her on this quest back and forth through time and the lives of her family as she uses all instruments available to learn what she must know. —Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

Carrie Shipers also has a new collection of poetry coming out, entitled Family Resemblances (University of New Mexico Press).

From the publisher: Throughout this beautiful volume, the multiple meanings of family—whether formed by biology or choice—are questioned through careful attention to the often conflicting notions of connection, inheritance, absence, and escape. The truths these poems find are much like life itself: complex, provisional, and rich.

Shipers published her “Anti-Anxiety Poem” in NER 32.4, as well as an essay in NER Digital. She is also the author of Ordinary Mourning and Cause for Concern. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals.

Family Resemblances is available from the University of New Mexico Press and independent booksellers.

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The Halo CoverYoung is a doctor as well as a poet, and [his poetry] demonstrates a skilled physician’s combination of empathy and formal precision. —David Orr, NPR

Congratulations to former NER poetry editor C. Dale Young on the publication of The Halo, a new collection of poetry that tells the story of a man born with wings who wants nothing more than to be simply human.

Young teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, while practicing medicine full-time. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He served as NER‘s poetry editor for 19 years.

Young has published three other collections: Torn (Four Way Books, 2011), The Second Person (Four Way Books, 2007), and The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern University Press, 2001).

The Halo is available from Four Way Books and independent booksellers.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: C. Dale Young, Carrie Shipers, Christopher Bakken, David Hernandez, Emilia Philips, Jay Parini, Mischa Berlinski

Healing with murder

June 7, 2012

Reading Ruth Rendell in a Time of Stress | By Carrie Shipers

Carrie Shipers

Several years ago my husband had his left kidney removed because of recurrent infections. The operation itself—though it took longer and required a larger incision than we’d expected—was successful. It also was followed by months of complications: an abscess in his abdomen, severe pneumonia, blood clots in his lungs, and concerns about his heart function.

When I think about that time, there are two things that characterize it clearly: 1) the stress made my hair fall out, and 2) I rarely went anywhere without at least one Ruth Rendell mystery novel shoved into my bag.

I don’t remember how I discovered Rendell’s work, but for months I rarely read anything else. In the worlds she creates, people kill because of mistaken identity, because minor annoyances lead to uncontrollable rage, or because they’re trying to protect secrets no one is interested in guessing. Murderous schemes seem to spring quite naturally to her characters’ minds. In One Across, Two Down, a man contemplates killing his mother-in-law so his wife will inherit her savings: “Not murder, of course, not actual murder…An accident was what he had in mind. Some sort of carelessness with the gas or a mix-up over all those pills and tablets Maud took. A scheme for gassing Maud taking shape in his mind, Stanley walked into the house whistling cheerfully.”

Many of Rendell’s novels stand alone, but some feature a middle-aged detective, Inspector Wexford, whose optimism about the human condition is tempered by experience: he knows most people are no better than they have to be, but he’s grateful when he finds someone who is. Wexford himself is very likable—even noble—but he’s definitely an exception. Most of Rendell’s characters, both perpetrators and victims, are deliciously grubby, and grubby—like squalid—is a word she often uses.

When my husband was sick, I was angry almost all the time, and knowing that my anger was really fear did nothing to diminish it. I was angry with my husband for not getting well fast enough, angry at doctors who patronized me or held me responsible for my husband’s health, angry at the upstairs neighbor who vacuumed at odd hours, angry at strangers and close friends alike. And when I felt most unfit for human company, when the only refuges I had were waiting rooms (where at least we were surrounded by professionals), or the ten or twenty minutes I could spend with a book before it was time for dinner, medication, or wiping blood off the bathroom floor, I liked knowing that in Rendell’s world, my feelings were actually quite normal.

I still read her new books as soon as they come out, grateful to be once again in her capable hands and to revisit the streets of Kingsmarkham, the Sussex market town in which many of her books are set. But I never read them without remembering: my husband could have died but didn’t.

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NER Digital is a creative writing series for the web. Carrie Shipers is the author of the poetry collection Ordinary Mourning (ABZ, 2010). She lives and teaches in central Wisconsin.

Filed Under: NER Digital Tagged With: Carrie Shipers, Healing with Murder, Ruth Rendell

Don’t worry

March 13, 2012

George Appo Pickpocket

From the current issue, Carrie Shipers’s “Anti-Anxiety Poem”:

Don’t worry. And when someone says Don’t worry,
don’t wonder if you’re worrying enough and about
the right things. Don’t worry that your headache
is really brain cancer and you’ll look terrible
without your hair. When your flight is canceled
or delayed, don’t assume that you aren’t meant
to travel, that where you are is where you’ll have
to stay. Don’t double- and triple-check your purse,
fingers feeling for your wallet as nimbly
as a pickpocket’s. Don’t worry about pickpockets,
their dying art.

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Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Anti-Anxiety Poem, Carrie Shipers

Announcing the New Issue of NER (Vol. 32, #4)

January 26, 2012

The new issue of New England Review has just shipped from the printer, and a preview is available here on our website. Order a copy or subscribe today to receive the full content of this beautifully printed issue of NER.

In these pages, you’ll find new stories by Peter LaSalle, Zana Previti, Katya Reno, Caedra Scott-Flaherty, Gregory Spatz, Megan Staffel, and David Yost, appearing alongside new poems by Larry Bradley, Adam Giannelli, Janice Greenwood, A. Van Jordan, Laura Kasischke, Matthew Olzmann, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Carrie Shipers.

In nonfiction, Eileen Pollack revisits the ranch house of her childhood, Theodore Leinwand contends with Charles Olson contending with Shakespeare, Robert B. Ray asks if movie stars are ultimately unskilled workers, and Jonathan Levy makes a case for the use of dialogues in learning. Plus a new translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 5 by Ian Ganassi, Samuel Butler‘s thoughts on memory, Norman Davies on “How States Die,” and cover art by Tim Fitts.

Filed Under: News & Notes Tagged With: Carrie Shipers, Matthew Olzmann, Megan Staffel, Robert B. Ray, Zana Previti


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