Author: The Timbre of Sand, Still Dandelions, A Ranch Bordering the Salty River. Alum: Palomar College, Columbia University, Bennington College. Follow on twitter @SmpageSteve on Instagram @smpagemoria on Facebook @steven.page.1481
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Hi Folks,
Hope your last day of spring brings in good weather for the summer. There is some news posted at my website if you would like to have a look https://gereutter.wordpress.com/about/ and if you haven’t seen it a video from Café Improv recorded in April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNnR0Snyj_E . My most recent release, Stale Bread and Coffee is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Stale-Bread-Coffee-Poems-reutter/dp/1093326018
Enjoy the summer solstice.
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g emil
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FINISHING LINE PRESS BOOK OF THE DAY:
The Salty River Bleeds by Stephen Page
$19.99, Full-length, paper
Stephen Page is part Native American. He was born in Detroit. He is the author of three other books of poetry – A Ranch Bordering the Salty River, The Timbre of Sand, and Still Dandelions. He holds two AA’s from Palomar College, a BA from Columbia University, and an MFA from Bennington College.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR The Salty River Bleeds by Stephen Page
The Salty River Bleeds is a juicy tale in verse that draws us into the teeming world of a large Argentinian ranch. This world is populated by herds of horses and cows, nefarious ranch hands, foxes, bees, bats, parrots, carnivorous ants, Andean flamingoes, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, to name but a few of its many denizens. The narrative reveals the complicated web of woes in the life of a land manager, the tyranny of weather patterns, and one man’s battle against the encroachment of pesticides. In this world, nature’s staggering beauty and naked brutality are constantly in evidence. A stallion “learns the phases of grass.” Trucks struggle through “the butter of mud.” Cows can explode with bloat, and rain that the narrator prays will be called down from the sky by the croaking of tree frogs can make or break you. As its title suggests, The Salty River Bleeds is packed with the drama of birth, death and eternal conflict.
–Amy Gerstler, author of Bitter Angel
The Salty River Bleeds is ambitious in its scope and its execution, with a relevance to contemporary environmental issues. Stephen Page deftly combines poetry, prose, and letters…and relies on highly refined, compressed imagistic language and strong character development to tell his tale.
–Jim Daniels, author of Places Everyone
The Salty River Bleeds is a continuation of the story of Jonathan and Teresa that Stephen Page began in A Ranch Bordering the Salty River. These poems speak of the visceral life of farming on a fictional ranch in Argentina. Page’s narrative is a journey of perseverance through a physical and psychological wilderness where loveliness and brutality abide together. Here, the likes of a raw and wet “afterbirth slopped into a steamy pile” leads to the mother straining to “stare at her calf until breath raised its ribs.” Page walks us through vulture-ravaged carcasses into pastures and wood and marsh; walks us into the solace of bees, mockingbirds and “a flock of black ibis” that “lift/and cloud away.” This is poetry told with an unflinching, yet reverent eye.
–Carolyn Welch, author of The Garden of Fragile Beings
The Salty River Bleeds is equal parts parable and fable, examining humankind’s destructive and self-defeating tendencies, particularly with regard to caring for the land human beings and animals rely on. Here where the Salty River bleeds, you will find that Myth swims, Old Man lingers on your peripheral vision only to disappear, and Black Dog follows you into the mythic Wood. On the ranch, you will encounter Tattler, Excuse Maker, and Bad Guy, archetypal figures standing in for all those whose motives are to be questioned. By turns imaginative and inventive, gritty and grisly, gorgeous and ephemeral, this is a book that will linger long after you have finished. There are inherent truths laid bare here that we would all do well to pay heed.
–Cati Porter, author of Seven Floors Up
In Stephen Page’s The Salty River Bleeds, the spiritual journey of Jonathan continues from A Ranch Bordering the Salty River. Looking for a story to explain his life, Jonathan meditates on nature, in particular Wood, a place of testing, a place of mysteries ripe to be discovered, and the people who work his land without reverence. With an observant eye for detail, Page brings together striking images of the elements of earth and human life that become both obstacles to and medium through which the speaker of these poems understands his world.
–Caroline Malone, author of Dark Roots
Stephen Page’s The Salty River Bleeds is a pastoral and violent account of ranch life. His poetic collection blends agricultural and rustic contention with eco-rural insight and directness. His delivery is candid and un-floral, thus bestowing the music of his perception an energy of seized quotidian acuity. These poems dare the readers to care about the animals, the daily activities of surviving rurally, and the grammar of the land exploited by genetic modified commerce and industrialization. The work invites the geography of natural breeding life to marry the perennial charm of ranch hardship. There, in his work, exists the sensual preservation of humanity, but also diurnal desires. Page’s bucolic poems “may take you to an unlit alley at night” or “sound like buckets of water being poured on the corrugated roof.” Regardless of the rustic tempo his work imbues you, through Page’s percipient, omniscient eyes, we see and hear everything he observes and feels and yearns. Like sheep hides “salted in the transit room” – Page’s work is designed to ambush us, not with the forcefulness or melancholy of existence, but, as seen here, with the authoritative authenticity of his persistent fervor.
–Vi Khi Nao, author of Fish in Exile
Stephen Page’s The Salty River Bleeds is a collection of connections. Page explores relationships, ethics, and economy through environmental images that ooze the intricacies of farm life. His thoughtful, sensory-rich prose and varied expressions of poetic form delve into the inner workings of losses and discoveries.
–Savannah Slone, Author of Hearing the Underwater
Stephen Page is a true poetic chronicler of the complex business of ranching, that mythic journey. The Salty River Bleeds is iconic storytelling; a hybrid of poems, letters, and prose. Filled with rich images, “wood walks” and myth finding. “Life takes you into some unplanned territory.” Follow Page and we are “wading into wheat” and “working all week to save the corn.” The tractor is broken, the fences need mending, but still we are watching and waiting for Old Man walking by the side of the road, the one who never stops. Follow Page into his dreamscape of visceral reality to satisfy a curiosity, an unspoken desire.
–Elaine Fletcher Chapman, author of Hunger for Salt
In The Salty River Bleeds, Stephen Page poetically and unapologetically reveals the real, harsh truths of running a ranch in Argentina. Johnathan’s daily stressors, created by unreliable employees, weather, and Teresa’s greedy son, Damien, find us anxiously watching him “run across pastures with my sword / Raised, looking for someone to decapitate.” Page softens Johnathan’s persona by peppering the pages with love, beauty, mate, and the whimsy of Wood and Myth as “A wooddove pops / its wings as it departs eucalypti mist auraed by / a vanilla sunrise.” The juxtaposition of the hard and the soft leaves us with a longing to know how Jonathan and Teresa’s story ends. The Fauna of this collection proves to be a mesmerizing sequel to the Flora of the initial introduction of Johnathan and Teresa in his earlier collection, A Ranch Bordering the Salty River.
–Laurie Higi, author of The Universe of Little Beaver Lake
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Hola. Algunos asociados, contactos, amigos y familiares han estado expresando sus reservas sobre el pedido de libros en línea, o que han tenido problemas para hacerlo. Construí este formulario fácil de usar (junto con la ayuda de Finishing Line Press) que puede imprimir, completar y enviar por correo al editor. Espero que eso ayude. Mejor, Stephen Page.
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We are pleased to share our top twelve most read poets between January 1st and June 1st of this year.
The Natural World by Judy Kronenfeld
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/the-natural-world-by-judy-kronenfeld/
Tell Them You Invited Me by Margaret A. Campbell
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/tell-them-you-invited-me-by-margaret-a-campbell/
2 Poems by Nasim Basiri
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-nasim-basiri/
2 Poems by J.C. Todd
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/2-poems-by-j-c-todd/
2 Poems by Akshaya Pawaskar
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-akshaya-pawaskar/
2 Poems by Byron Beynon
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/2-poems-by-byron-beynon/
Old Bones by Lou Gallo
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/old-bones-by-lou-gallo/
Alexander Pushkin Dies in a Duel by Charles Rammelkamp
Ally, aka Advisor Resigns by Stephen Page
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/ally-aka-advisor-resigns-by-stephen-page/
2 Poems by Arlyn LaBelle
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-arlyn-labelle/
A Man Like Her Father By David Boski
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/a-man-like-her-father-by-david-boski/
Reprise by Frank Wilson
https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/reprise-by-frank-wilson/
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Congratulations to North of Oxford contributor Stephen Page on the release of his new book, The Salty River Bleeds !
Praise for The Salty River Bleeds
The Salty River Bleeds is a juicy tale in verse that draws us into the teeming world of a large Argentinian ranch. This world is populated by herds of horses and cows, nefarious ranch hands, foxes, bees, bats, parrots, carnivorous ants, Andean flamingoes, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, to name but a few of its many denizens. The narrative reveals the complicated web of woes in the life of a land manager, the tyranny of weather patterns, and one man’s battle against the encroachment of pesticides. In this world, nature’s staggering beauty and naked brutality are constantly in evidence. A stallion “learns the phases of grass.” Trucks struggle through “the butter of mud.” Cows can explode with bloat…
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