explores the natural beauty in his birth-state of Georgia, where his poems bring the reader to the lush coastal landscapes of the Barrier Islands and the nurturing comforts of Southern living.
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—These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to a magical wish for those living on the streets of Saigon. Time lives differently in this work. Poems layer details of the human and natural world with the heart tugging awareness of the ephemeral nature of all things. Within that tender beauty, these poems offer the possibility of transformation. An unfathomable radiance moves through us/ we are more of this world than we know, and less.
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—Rushing in as a welcome surprise, these “new late poems” were composed both late in the year and late in the author’s years. In Jump Straight Up, Jarold Ramsey versifies and pokes at an odd knot of themes: encroaching age overtaking a long wonderful marriage; the delights of grandparenthood; awareness of our “interspecies” situation in the everyday natural order; the blessings and challenges of my ancestral “land of heart’s desire,” Central Oregon’s canyons, summits, and rangelands; and the intriguing ways the mostly horizontal left-to-right axis of our lives seems to shift in old age toward the vertical—“way down” (and out) but also “jump straight up” (in the imagination).
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The Hills Around Are Dust and Light—These poems sketch a portrait of the author’s growing-up years in Montana surrounded by her wheat-farming father, a busy at-home mother, two older siblings, and a lonely grandmother. Moments of strife and stress return, but here you will also find joy and a great deal of love and gratitude for each other, for hard work, for the mystery of faith, for the land, and for what the land has endured. Her poems become the embodiment of memories—from eating brown sugar sandwiches, to skipping rocks on a Glacier Park lake, to wandering through dreams and the afterlife—as they offer family stories, tragedies, speculation, and attempts to understand it all.
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Cover Design by Robert R. Sanders, featuring art “Prowling After Midnight” by artist Beverly Ash Gilbert of Gig Harbor, Washington.
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— “Compelling, elegant, and remarkably honest, Self-Dissection is filled with stark, realistic poems that paint an intimate portrait of love, loss, family, identity, and the ever-present need for empathy. In these vibrant poems of nature and biography, Ettinger showcases a true talent for imbuing the smallest human details with authenticity and layered meanings. Each poem maps out the human heart, in all its internal conflicts, with precision and grace. Overflowing with vivid and accessible language, Self-Dissection is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging.”
—John Sibley Williams
author of Skyscrape and The Drowning House
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This book is for any woman who has experienced domestic or sexual abuse, for the people that love them, and those who are still seeking a way to escape from an unhealthy relationship or abusive environment.
The anthology, Uprooting, contains the record of over 21 women who bear witness to the wretched destruction caused by emotional and physical abuse. But—most significantly—the collection also offers proven ways to escape and transcend such devastation. Daughter, mother, wife, these writers and visual artists—many published for the first time—reach out to other women, providing a tested path toward an abuse-free life. This sisterhood extends a lifeline to other sisters.
—Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poetry Laureate Emerita
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“Claudia Saleeby Savage’s provocative, transcendent poetry brilliantly captures the energy of live music, providing a perspective that can only come from inside the band onstage. This book is for those who find the systemless system of free jazz relaxing. Those who, like our fearless narrator, have had their hearts ‘savaged by grief’ and ‘hate boxes.’ Along with Pharoah Sanders, John and Alice Coltrane, and the author’s husband and musical partner John Savage, metal used for beauty alone ‘blows a horn to heaven.'”
—Christopher Luna, Inaugural Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA
and founder of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic
“metal used for beauty alone proposes and enacts a world where instruments prevail in production and resonance over guns. Through careful visual composition and an experimental spirit that even the legends of jazz would admire, this chapbook pops off with flushed language and jolting creativity. Lively scores (not deadly shots) fire as we read, led by Savage as our witch observer who can ‘stun the moon,’ ‘hush the sirens,’ and ‘refold our brains’ to sort out systemic violence. The poet is a proxy to musicians, together disarming a trigger-happy death grip in favor of the power of clapping sax keys, markings for breath, and collapsing wordplay. Society in metal used for beauty alone is populated by healing dissonance, spiritual jazzers, and live shows, all pistoling a post-military-industrial complex through poetry… inviting us to tarab instead of annihilate.”
—Katherine Factor, author of A Sybil Society: Poems
