ANNE CASTON
THE BOOKS
PRODIGAL
ISBN- 13: 978-0615939872
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Now available from Aldrich Press and at Amazon.com
"From the deepest place in us, Anne Caston's work could turn stone to sound. Prodigal is richly-lyrical - so filled with love and legend that we ask, "What kind of soul does it take to write such poetry?" Maybe Gos speaks through Caston about humankind's self-inflicted wounds and misplaced humanity, for here are the characters left by Faulkner's deep south; here is the phraseology touched by Dylan Thomas' music. Our worst and our best parts are here. I will never stop reading this book."
- Grace Cavalieri, Producer, "The Poet & the Poem," from the Library of Congress and Chair of the Marfield National Book Award for Writing in the Arts
"Explosive, Anne Caston's poems of spiritual and bodily devastation - we the living risk the "grenade of any almost / ordinary day: pin pulled. . . ." These gritty poems of witness lead us again and again to attend the wounded and dying until both poet and reader must consider "suffering / and God's part in it." Love, like belief, is unreliable, painful - and ultimately all we have. These burnished poems tell harsh and necessary truths."
- Peggy Shumaker, Former State Writer of Alaska & author of more than nine books, including Toucan Nest and Just Breathe Normally
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JUDAH'S LION
ISBN: 978-0-915380-71-8
Available at Amazon.com and toadhallmedia.com
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Praise for Judah's Lion:
"Judah's Lion is a pleasure to read, intelligent, moving, grappling as it does, with reason and faith, daring to tell the stories of those of us at 'the frayed rope-end of hope.' These poems are not pretty, though the language used to make them sings with its own beauty; rather, they are real things, sharp stones wrenched up out of the lived life of the poet." - Dorianne Laux
"Anne Caston explains herself: she has loved both the beauty and the terror, has dared to look without flinching and to report what she has seen. Her work is some of the bravest poetry written today. It is not always pretty but it is always beautiful." - Lucille Clifton
FLYING OUT WITH THE WOUNDED
ISBN: 0-8147-1561-3 cloth
ISBN: 0-8147-1560-5 paper
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Avaliable at New York University Press and Amazon
Praise for Flying Out With The Wounded:
"This collection of poems by Anne Caston is a striking representation of humanity in this century....These poems consider the nature of death, suffering, brutality, friendship, love and longing, and our relationship to each." - NYU Press
"...when she compresses an anecdote into verse, her poetry is as sharp – and sometimes as revealing – as a scalpel." - Publisher's Weekly