UPLAND, Calif. -- On November 12, 2013, Pelekinesis will release Caroline Beasley-Baker's For Lack of Diamond Years, an idiosyncratic collection of short poems - most under 20 lines - where questions lead the way.
The poems are a mixed set of free verse, unabashed counting forms like the Hay(na)ku and the Elfchen, and a very minimalist version of John Cage's mesostic form, along with a small number of poems based on colors, and a few that steal freely from traditional American songs.
But at its heart, For Lack of Diamond Years is a quixotic narration between realms of being - from the quotidian into the sometimes numinous, sometimes murky realm of the unknown/unknown, and on into a kind of revamped transcendental — the 'what if' and 'where am I' worlds. There is a thread of praise that runs throughout — an embrace of the joys and sorrows of thinking and feeling, of love and loss.
For Lack of Diamond Years by Caroline Beasley-Baker will be released November 12th, 2013 by Pelekinesis and will be available from major distributors including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and Bertrams, and directly from the publisher's website.
The page at Pelekinesis for supplemental material is here: http://pelekinesis.com/catalog/caroline_beasley-baker-for...
About the author:
CAROLINE BEASLEY-BAKER is a poet and visual artist. Her poems have appeared online and in print in Qarrtsiluni, MungBeing Magazine, MOBIUS /The Poetry Magazine, The MOM Egg, La Fovea, and volumes 5 thru 8 of the Brevitas Festival Review of the Short Poem. Meritage Press published two chain poems done with writer/poet Holly Anderson and singer/songwriter Lisa B. Burns in The Chained Hay(na)Ku Project anthology, 2010.
She frequently uses words/poems in her visual work for which she has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting and a National Endowment for the Arts in Collaborative Work. She lives in Fort Greene/Brooklyn, New York.
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