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    Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems
    Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems
    Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems
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    Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems

    By Anne M. Doe Overstreet

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    Anne M. Doe Overstreet's poems will take you from deserts to constellations, pomegranates to milk & brandy, in language so flawless you won't want to let it go.

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    To love well is to offer one's full attention. To serve others is often a matter of drawing their attention to the beauties--broken, wounded, suggestive, profound--that visit us endlessly. Ann Overstreet loves well, and she serves well; she is the witness of the dawn, and of our desired awakening.

    -- Scott Cairns, author of Compass of Affection

    If you love poetry, you recognize the magic of words that sift the world into its particulates. Anne Overstreet employs the skilled chemistry that swells the words back into realities so startling and new that no object or person remains unchanged.

    --Luci Shaw, author of Harvesting Fog

    These poems shimmer with gossamer lightness but also possess the strength and sinews of hard-won wisdom and what Henry James called felt life.

    -- Gregory Wolfe, Editor at Image Journal and author of Beauty Will Save the World

    "I look up to take it in," Anne Overstreet writes, and so she does: Dead moths "go to dust / on the windowsill, a wing fading / to a translucent brown sail, prepared / around the absence of body." She takes it all in, and gives it back to us.

    -- John Wilson, Editor at Books and Culture

    These are reverent poems--elegantly carved, and careful; they are dedications to the interchangeable spirit of leaf, blood, mud, and bone. Each page is a sensual pleasure.

    --Nicole Hardy, author of This Blonde and the forthcoming memoir Fallen

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT.S. Poetry Press
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781943120079
    Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems
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    Anne M. Doe Overstreet

    Anne M. Doe Overstreet is a poet and editor. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Asheville Poetry Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, DMQ Review, and Cranky, among others. She and her husband, novelist and film critic Jeffrey Overstreet, reside in Shoreline, Washington.

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