D H A R M A R A I N
by
Terry Lucas
Houston: Press Release – For immediate release October 1, 2016. Saint Julian
Press proudly presents a new collection of poems by Terry Lucas, which will be
available on October 28, 2016 through fine book distributors and retailers.
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"Watch your step," warns the speaker in
"Vortices," one of the gripping poems in Terry Lucas's Dharma
Rain. Good advice for approaching Lucas's second full-length collection,
for in these poems, "everything enters you." From the grim
realities of "The Arrival," "Horse Latitudes," and
"A Short History of Baby Incubators" to the wry humor of
"Science Fact or Fiction" (about the history of "Giving the
finger") and the delicious wit of "Psalm '66" to an amazing
series of poems placing John Calvin as a kid growing up in Texas in the '50s,
the poems of Lucas's new book confront the mysteries of science, faith, and
desire in exquisite forms, delicious language, and keen intelligence. — Wendy Barker |
In these
ambitious, far-reaching poems, Terry Lucas alternates between his own spiritual
agon, specifically his wrestling with Calvinistic
ghosts in the persona of a boy named Calvin, and his eclectic, lyrical investigations
of such subjects as wild dogs, the spirit, Tassajara,
the New Mexico desert, becoming a poet, survivors of barrel descents over
Niagara Falls, and a short history of baby incubators. In his fresh new visions
of the world stripped of its former fashions, ideologies, and mythologies,
Lucas writes as if he’s observing the world for the first time on his own
heuristic terms in both dexterously formal and free verse. The result is a
bold, often iconoclastic chronicle of a poet who “one day…just left / the
stains in the whorls of his fingertips, the taste / on his tongue, and went
home forever / to the work that had called him from birth.”
— Chard deNiord
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Terry Lucas is the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks (Altar Call and If They Have Ears to Hear), and the full-length poetry collection, In This
Room (CW Books, 2016). His work has received numerous awards, including the
2014 Crab Orchard Review Feature
Award in Poetry, the fifth annual Littoral Press Poetry Prize, and five
Pushcart Prize nominations. Terry’s poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in
dozens of literary journals, and he has taught in the Chicago Public School
System as a Master Poet in the Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center’s
Writing Center. He is a 2008 poetry MFA graduate of
New England College, and currently the Co-Executive Editor of Trio House Press,
as well as a freelance poetry coach.
More about Terry and his work can be found at www.terrylucas.com. |
Photo by Brian Busch
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DHARMA RAIN by Terry
Lucas
POETRY READING SCHEDULE
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APRIL 7: Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, East Central
University, Ada,
§ Oklahoma,
Estep Auditorium, 2:00-3:15 p.m.
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APRIL 9: Austin International Poetry Festival, Threadgill's North, 2:30 p.m.
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APRIL 12: The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio, TX,
5:00-7:00 p.m.
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APRIL 14: Brazos
Bookstore, Houston, TX, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
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APRIL 20: University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR,
5:00-6:00 p.m.
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APRIL 22: Alabama Book Festival, Montgomery, AL,
12:00-12:45 p.m.
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APRIL 23: First Congregational UCC, Fort Worth, TX, 7:00
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DHARMA RAIN by TERRY LUCAS * ISBN-13: 978-0-9965231-8-9 *
ISBN 10: 0-9965231-8-9
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