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Winner of the 2009 Firewheel Chapbook Award. This chapbook is signed and numbered and part of a limited edition of 150.

Marjorie Tesser's first book is a riot, a concept, a poem you can play and play with. Beginning from comments solicited at a Suggestion Box at the Bowery Poetry Club, using those metapoems to conceive both the book-as-card-game motif (roll over, Surrealism!) and the fill-in-the-blanks of the cards themselves, she slowly builds a breathing inner life through the cards' seemingly implacable random chance operations. How she does this is how a poem works: machinations of language funneling to sorrow and joy, thrills, offhanded and wacky happiness. Deal me in. Y'all play along. Shuffle and shuffle and read read read.

- Bob Holman

 

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Had Slaves is the winner of the inaugural Sentence Book Award, which goes annually to a manuscript consisting entirely or substantially of prose poems or other hard-to-define work situated in the grey areas between poetry and other genres - work that promotes the mission of Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics to extend the conception of what the prose poem is or can be.

"Sasanov demonstrates here, as she has in the past, that it is possible to tell a story in verse that takes advantage of what makes poetry so powerful, its magnificent potential for restraint, economy, and a kind of emotional precision that nearly defies comprehension."

- Sima Rabinowitz, reviewer for Newpages.com

"After research and soul search, Catherine Sasanov leaves us with a distillation of thought on the brink of extinction. Poems that breathe with the urgency of last resort, as though every other means of expression had been exhausted."

- Ruth Maleczech, Mabou Mines Theater Company

Sentence 7 is now available, including:

A special feature on Contemporary American Indian Prose Poetry curated and introduced by Dean Rader with work by Sherman Alexie, Scott Andrews, Lois Beardslee, Esther Belin, Kimberly Blaeser, Chezia Thompson Cager, Allison Hedge Coke, Susan Deer Cloud, Heid E. Erdrich, Laura M. Furlan, Eric Gansworth, Diane Glancy, Janice Gould, Gordon Henry, LeAnn Howe, Lara Mann, Janet McAdams, Molly McGlennen, Deborah A. Miranda, Phillip Carrol Morgan, dg nanouk okpik, Sara Marie Ortiz, Carter Revard, Kimberly Roppolo, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Mark Turcotte, Ron Welburn, and Orlando White.

Additional prose poems by Jen Bartman, Erin M. Bertram and Ryan Collins, Deborah Bogen, Christopher Buckley, Cindy Carlson, Robin Clarke, Peter Conners, Paola Corso, Scott Creley, Jim Daniels, Jamey Dunham, Peter Everwine, Elisabeth Frost, Chris Gallagher, Joseph Gastiger, Tara Goedjen, Ray Gonzalez, Douglass Guy, Bob Heman, Meghan Horton, Alta Ifland, David James, Louis Jenkins, Kirsten Kaschock, Laura Kasischke, Charles Kesler, Gerry Lafemina, Jean Lamberty, Keith Leonard, Li-Tsung-Yuan, Rachel Loden, Diana Magallon, Morton Marcus, Sandy McIntosh, Jonathan Monroe, Colm O'Shea, Linnea Ogden, John Olson, Cheryl Pallant, Carmen Palmer, Rachael Peckham, Chad Prevost, Doug Ramspeck, James Michael Robbins, Catherine Sasanov, Jeffrey Skinner, Dave Snyder, D. E. Steward, Jeni Stewart, Peter Streckfus, Erika Suni, Tracy Truels, Liz Waldner, G. C. Waldrep, Lawrence Wray, Gary Young, and Matt Zambito.

An interview with Gary Young (by Tony Leuzzi).

Reviews of/conversations about recent books by Ben Lerner, Cyrus Console, Michael Gizzi, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Mary Ruefle, Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Joe Bonomo, Cecilia Woloch, Susan M. Schultz, Meg Withers, and Allison Benis White

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