Books
Woman
How to Recognize God's Chosen
The Gospel of God Boy
Tainted
Boney-Fingered Reach for God
The Invisible Arm of Peace
Final Exam
Scotch Tape World
The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues
Etcetera's Mistress
Woman
Woman by Wendy Jett is the final book in the popular mixed-genre trilogy about a young woman's complicated relationships with her family, faith, friends and herself. "With its seamless blend of prose, poetry, and recipe, Jett weaves the story of a young woman who returns to her mountain roots to discover not only a sense of home, but the person she is meant to be. Woman stands alone as a testament to strength, resiliency, and acceptance, but read as a final chapter to Girl and Tainted, Woman provides a satisfying resolution to a story about change, retribution, forgiveness, and finding happiness where one is."—Marcia Thornton Jones, author/co-author of over 135 books for kids
How to Recognize God's Chosen
how to recognize god's chosen is a collection of poetic fragments that make up a long poem loosely structured like a gospel account. The principal character of the lyrical narrative is referred to with the non-gendered pronouns zhe/hir, or at times as god's chosen or at others as the beloved. Pulling from a variety of religious and sacred texts—the Prophets, the Gospels, the Desert Fathers, Medieval mystics, the Upanishads, Sufi poets, and others—and the scholarly, textual debates surrounding manuscript culture, how to recognize god's chosen imagines a search for the divine set our contemporary moment of refugee crises, climate catastrophe, political populism, and the various forms of violence that make up life in the 21st century.
The Gospel of God Boy
In his second full-length poetry collection, Christopher McCurry immerses the reader into the world of God Boy and his struggles and complicated relationships with engaging and well-crafted poems that cannot leave us indifferent to the character's evolution. "Christopher McCurry's The Gospel of God Boy is poetry for contemporary America. The poems use the genre designations Christian scriptures—Gospel, Apocrypha, Revelation, Parable, Prophecy—and the mythic structures of brother stories (Cain and Abel, the older brother and the younger brother) to tell domestic and mundane stories about what we owe each other and how we fail one another. Despite their constant nod to theological and religious narrative structures, the language is sparse, common, antitheological, and antipoetic, except to the extent that it is tied to the world of the bodily senses."—Jeremy Paden
Tainted
From the author of Girl comes the next instalment of the multigenre story of a girl growing up in difficult circumstances. Friendships, family relationships, domestic violence, health challenges come into focus in this beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking, relatable book. "Tainted picks up where Wendy Jett's first book, Girl, left off, wrestling cosmic questions posed by the family, creatures, and spirits accompanying Girl's journey. Tragic and tender, magical as God and real as beans and cornbread, Tainted is a triumph and true to the bone. If you liked Girl, you'll absolutely love Tainted."—Mike Wilson, author of Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic, political poetry for a post-truth world
Boney-Fingered Reach for God
"Boney-Fingered Reach for God is a remarkable debut, a testament to Mark Brown's striking imagination, energetic vocabulary, and devotion to intense love relationships. This three-part work is fueled as well by the poet's appreciation for the bizarre in historical situations, culminating in poems that literally radiate around the life of Marie Curie. Brown's vulnerable investigations of love and his wacky narratives are made all the more vibrant by the poet's metaphorical skill. It is bittersweet that the gracefully sequenced Boney-Fingered Reach for God is also Mark Brown's posthumous signature, the life of a poet cut short."—Molly Peacock, author of A Friend Sails in on a Poem
The Invisible Arm of Peace
Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you an English language collection by Jordanian-Bulgarian poet Khairi Hamdan, selected and translated by Katerina Stoykova. In these poems you will find the sand of the Sahara Desert, the Bedouin, the Dervish, and unmediated conversations with God. You will encounter destroyed temples, refugee camps, border patrol, children with nontraditional names. You will also find lyrical poetry of intimate tenderness and the unrelenting drive to be a better human being.
Final Exam
"The poems in Andrew Merton's Final Exam stake out an imaginative territory that's equitably shared by God, Elmer Fudd, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, tubas, pianos and a menagerie of animals. Merton's work is as spare and lethal as grenades, blowing up easy assumptions in favor of something much more incendiary—a truth-telling that's located in the ambiguous, shape-shifting that is this moment's reality."—Sarah Freligh "Something in the tone of this book reminds me of Szymborska and her gift for turning human delusion and bad behavior into a life that can be forgiven because it's simply human."—David Rivard;
Scotch Tape World
"Tom C. Hunley, on the evidence of these poems, is as in love with, as he is bewildered by, the world. And although that might seem a common way of being in the world, Hunley's ability to render his love and bewilderment precisely in his poems is unique and necessary. These poems manage to be funny without being cynical, and they manage to be honest without being cynical, and they manage to seem utterly contemporary without being cynical, and each of these achievements is a small miracle and almost an act of defiance. At one point, Hunley tells God, "I want you to fill my mouth / with water and prayer and maybe a jagged little song." I don't know how Hunley is set for water, and I don't know about his spiritual practices, but these poems read like answered prayers." - Shane McCrae
The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues
"Like Virgil's before him, Frederick Smock's eclogues give us the sense of an earned peacein the clear voice of a man at home in the world. These poems are richly allusive, elementalmoments of experience and insight. The Deer at Gethsemani is a well-made house of poetry,and it is a true pleasure to spend time in its rooms."- Greg Pape, Author of American Flamingo Limited availability. Please contact accents.publishing@gmail.com before ordering this book.
Etcetera's Mistress
Etcetera's Mistress is Accents Publishing's first full-length book of poetry, written by award-winning poet Thom Ward. "Reading Thom Ward is to enter a brilliant and restless imagination – sometimes poignant, sometimes crazy-with-a-purpose, but always with a deep lucidity in the logic of its illogic. His poems remind me how much we need language and how much the language needs us." - Thomas Lux, Author of God Particles