§§§ Hector de Saint-Aureole, the elusive—or shall we say simply unremembered?—author of When to Go into the Water, was born in 1900, the sole child of peasant farmers in the east of France. His mother and father were quiet persons who, like sunflowers, flourished in their daylong labors and drooped when indoors. Hector remembered how his mother recurrently hummed a tune that she could make sound happy or sad but to which she never sang the words. His father would
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—Lawrence Sutin, from When to Go into the Water

Open submissions season at Sarabande is right around the corner. All comers are welcome in the month of September, and you can find the details here.

RALPH declares Eleanor Lerman's Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds one of the best poetry books of the last fifteen years.

Eleanor Lerman's poetry is back on The Writer's Almanac! Check out "The City, Berobed in Blue" from The Sensual World Re-emerges.

11-21-2010
You Have Given Me a Country

4 p.m. With Dianne Aprile. 2720 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY 40206

502-896-6950
http://www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/

One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe
by Molly McQuade

In One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, Molly McQuade asks the question all writers love to answer: what one w ... [read more]

You Have Given Me a Country
by Neela Vaswani

You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoi ... [read more]

The Available World
by Ander Monson

In The Available World, poet Ander Monson parses, sings, and sifts his way through the abundant offerings of the modern, digital world. Th ... [read more]

Post Moxie
by Julia Story

Julia Story's Post Moxie documents the half-measures and approximations, the metaphorical conceits we use to tell the stories of our lives ... [read more]

The Sensual World Re-emerges
by Eleanor Lerman

In The Sensual World Re-emerges, Eleanor Lerman’s fifth collection of poetry, she circles back to the themes that began her career at ag ... [read more]

The Name of the Nearest River
by Alex Taylor

Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor's America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. The s ... [read more]

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