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Clemson
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"Lefty"
and Other Stories
by John Doble
"We
graduated from high school, both of us in the bottom half
of our class, and barely got into college together, the
state university, the only place two working class kids
with lousy grades even considered. We got in because of
our test scores and because any state resident who remotely
qualified was admitted. We commuted of course, no money
for a dorm. And our grades were lousy. At the end of freshman
year, we almost flunked out together: Doc did, and I would
have, except I cheated on our science final and got a D
instead of an F. He could have cheated too but didn’t.
And so, because of his honesty, because he played it ramrod
straight, Doc was bounced out of college and into the army."
--from "Two Letters from the Doctor,"
in "Lefty" and Other Stories |
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Saying
These Things
by Ron Moran
“Ron
Moran’s poetry immediately leaps from the page to
the feet and ankles of the reader’s experience.
You’re on the sidewalk with his characters, you’re
a flash dancer in his every scenario. He stole one of
your monologues right out of your own phone conversation
—how does he do that? Across the board, and no matter
the particular style of the Moran day, his poems are the
view across the street, the dinner beside you at the restaurant,
and they are, if you were a poet, too, the outrageously
creative language experience you wish you’d have
in you.”
--Jennifer
Bosveld, Pudding House Publications
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The Blurring of Time
by Ronald Moran
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"Ronald Moran has a remarkable sense of
belovedness and belongingness. The quiet intensity of
these poems pierced me like an old-fashioned red rose. . . .
What haunted me most, and served as my guide, as I traveled through this stormcloud of a book, was the tick of a ghostly watch"
--Karon Luddy, author of Spelldown and Wolf Heart
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Wolf Heart
by Karon Luddy
Karon Luddy is an exciting talent, the product of a vivid, conflicted experience of Upstate South Carolina by a quick, rebellious temperament. In this respect, these free-verse poems are highly original as a body yet not without precedent in American literature. For example, there is Stephen Crane’s rebellion against the Methodist religion of his mother in The Black Riders and Other Lines, a savagely compressed Whitman or extenuated Dickinson. The pleasure of Luddy’s “Family Reunion” derives from combining “Mama’s closing statement to God,” “big-hearted heathen” Aunt Margaret’s “chocolate silk pie,” and “my father’s dented flask.” In another poem, delirium tremens is pronounced a symptom of the father’s attempted escape from hospital “Naked as Adam.” But when discharged, his eyes shine “like black marbles he’d won from the Devil.” |
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