Puzzle: No Edges by Naomi Buck Palagi
Available for free pdf download through publisher Argotist Ebooks
Publish date Thursday April 27, 2023 on argotistebooksblogspot.com
Audio ambience samples from Puzzle: No Edges
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Stone by Naomi Buck Palagi
from BlazeVOX [books], order Here
Praise for Stone:
In Buck Palagi’s Stone, the words are pulled from the ground, vivid and durable—poetic stones of memory and contemplation. Her poetry shows a connection to the earthen, the bodily, while engaging in contemporary and playful poetic practice. The words in this first book signal a fully formed poet we surely need to follow.—William Allegrezza
Naomi Buck Palagi’s first book, Stone, reads as a series of glorious poetic projections, in which the boundaries between self and world are subtly called into question. Here the speaker’s inner life shapes her experience of the world around her, as every “stride through clouds” also functions as a meditation on love, loss, and longing. Buck Palagi deftly weaves landscape into dreamscape, the natural world revealing innumerable facets of the speaker’s inner life, all the while beckoning us “as if we should greet it.” This is a memorable debut from a gifted poet.
—Kristina Marie Darling, author of Dark Horse
Cover art by Janet Buck
Review of Stone at Galatea Resurrects by Eileen Tabios
Brief Synopsis:
Stone is a love story whose fabric is made of poems strung in ribbons circling always to rocks, real and imaginary, in a basin field of the author’s childhood home in central Kentucky. There are ribbons following a myriad of characters; a father figure hefting a giant rock, a mother figure represented by a solitary metal pole, sisters who are at times interchangeable both in childhood and as adults. There are ribbons of exploration of the land, exploration of love between parent and child, from sibling to sibling, and exploration of romantic love, loss of love, and love of self. Immediacy and connection tie the characters to place and time, to the natural world, and to each other. Language play and dreams provide both kaleidescope perspective of the specific world in which they exist and an acknowledgement of the deep contradictions found in a life fully lived. Stone is a study of the infinite possibilities to be found in the human psyche and in such a simple thing as a rock, encountered in an empty field.
from BlazeVOX [books], order Here
Praise for Stone:
In Buck Palagi’s Stone, the words are pulled from the ground, vivid and durable—poetic stones of memory and contemplation. Her poetry shows a connection to the earthen, the bodily, while engaging in contemporary and playful poetic practice. The words in this first book signal a fully formed poet we surely need to follow.—William Allegrezza
Naomi Buck Palagi’s first book, Stone, reads as a series of glorious poetic projections, in which the boundaries between self and world are subtly called into question. Here the speaker’s inner life shapes her experience of the world around her, as every “stride through clouds” also functions as a meditation on love, loss, and longing. Buck Palagi deftly weaves landscape into dreamscape, the natural world revealing innumerable facets of the speaker’s inner life, all the while beckoning us “as if we should greet it.” This is a memorable debut from a gifted poet.
—Kristina Marie Darling, author of Dark Horse
Cover art by Janet Buck
Review of Stone at Galatea Resurrects by Eileen Tabios
Brief Synopsis:
Stone is a love story whose fabric is made of poems strung in ribbons circling always to rocks, real and imaginary, in a basin field of the author’s childhood home in central Kentucky. There are ribbons following a myriad of characters; a father figure hefting a giant rock, a mother figure represented by a solitary metal pole, sisters who are at times interchangeable both in childhood and as adults. There are ribbons of exploration of the land, exploration of love between parent and child, from sibling to sibling, and exploration of romantic love, loss of love, and love of self. Immediacy and connection tie the characters to place and time, to the natural world, and to each other. Language play and dreams provide both kaleidescope perspective of the specific world in which they exist and an acknowledgement of the deep contradictions found in a life fully lived. Stone is a study of the infinite possibilities to be found in the human psyche and in such a simple thing as a rock, encountered in an empty field.
[photo by Matt Eldridge]