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DEPARTING BY A BROKEN GATE Poems by David Axelrod ISBN: 978-1-877655-65-4 (65-WC) LCN: 2009938236 first trade paperback, 6 X 9, 92 pages, 2010 $14, plus s/h (U.S. only) Front & back Cover images: courtesy of MorgueFile.com Cover design: Kristin Summers, www.redbat.com |
DESCRIPTION
New collection of poems by the author of The Cartographer's Melancholy, winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Poetry and finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award in poetry
PRAISE FOR DEPARTING BY A BROKEN GATE
"[Axelrod's poems are] a moving journey into a landscape where we are all pilgrims making our way down dark roads in search of some transcendent moment that may never occur, yet the will to keep traveling impels us ever forward until we reach a kind of solace and release."
--Ai, author ofDread
"Thought provoking...often lyrically tender."
--Barbara McMichael, reviewer for The Olympian
"David Axelrod's fine, elegaic and lyrical poems express a sense of loss the contemporary mind must endure, Unaccommodated, on the edge of betrayed nature and nothing."
--Paul Nelson, author ofSea Level
--Ai, author ofDread
"Thought provoking...often lyrically tender."
--Barbara McMichael, reviewer for The Olympian
"David Axelrod's fine, elegaic and lyrical poems express a sense of loss the contemporary mind must endure, Unaccommodated, on the edge of betrayed nature and nothing."
--Paul Nelson, author ofSea Level
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Axelrod is the author of four previous collections of poems, including Wordcraft of Oregon titles, The Kingdom at Hand and Chronicles of a Withering State. His collection of cultural and environmental essays about the interior Northwest, Troubled Intimacies, appeared in 2004. His poems and essays have been published in New Letters, Boulevard, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, River Styx, Verse Daily, among others. He also edits basalt : a journal of fine & literary arts.