New Release: "Slim Margin" by Alison Apotheker

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New Release:

Slim Margin (WordTech Communications), a book of poems from Alison Apotheker, is now available for purchase.

Description:

“Look how the world pleads to be contained/and everlasting,” writes Alison Apotheker in Slim Margin. The lines of her poems contain the world’s richness, entwining and tangling themselves with physical and everlasting truth.

“Poetry comes to minds (and hearts) exercised in it, not just from some muse who swoops down and kisses you on the forehead. Alison Apotheker’s work has ‘pattern made of passion’ that is a practice (a discipline and a devotion) of seeing and hearing that gives witness to the wonderment of the world. The emotional range is enormous. She can be tender, ferocious, incendiary, funny (in a heart-scalding way), heart-scalding (in an irreverent way), reverent, and disarming in her affections and attachments. She’s written a burning bush of a book.”—Bruce Smith

Sample poems from Slim Margin are available here.

About The Author:

Alison Apotheker was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and has lived in Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Arkansas. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Cream City Review. Her work has received the C. Hamilton Bailey fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts and twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches writing and literature at Portland Community College and lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

Image credit WordTech Communications.