Watch for a new book coming from Mammoth
Publications in March, 2014--FATE LINES/
DESIRE LINES by Caleb Puckett. Fate Lines/ Desire Lines balances between choice and compulsion, nature and persuasion. Caryn
Mirriam-Goldberg writes: “Fate Lines/ Desire Lines, by Caleb Puckett, is a superb
collection from a poet with an original voice and a daring approach to
language. He speaks to all kinds of lines that define our lives, especially
storylines about what our lives are and are not. Puckett inhabits the landscape
of possibilities, designing his own poetic forms, re-inventing traditional
forms, and giving new life to prose poems and free verse. Puckett prompts us to think
through those lines we carry and carve across the earth. “ Cover art by Thomas Pecore Weso.
Originally
from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Caleb Puckett lives with his wife, sons, and dogs
in Ottawa, Kansas, where he works as an academic librarian. He has two
book-length collections from Otoliths, Tales from the Hinterland and
Market Street Exit. In addition to
writing, Puckett serves as editor-in-chief for a library science journal,
associate poetry editor for Nimrod
International Journal, and editor for the online literary journal Futures
Trading (futurestradinglit.weebly.com).
Pre-order at mammothpublications@gmail.com
$12.00 (discount from $15.00 retail price)Here is a sample poem:
Resurrection
assimilate to survive a new world.
So much furtive futuring
with the wrong eyes
blinking belief
about history’s patent veracity.
What culture remains from this culturing?
Salvation’s negated by the damnation of seeming.
Passenger Pigeons pass clouds in body, dissolve in being.
FATE LINES /DESIRE LINES © 2014 Caleb Puckett 978-1-939301-86-4 92 pages, 5 ½ by 8 ½ perfect bound.
