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the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry 2004 Editor’s Selection Twenty First CENTURY BLUES Poems by Richard Cecil “Twenty First Century Blues speaks to all of us whose lives fall short of the triumphs we had planned. Yet the jaundice in Richard Cecil’s eye is offset by clear vision. This book tells bitter truths, redeemed by memory, by wit, by craft, by accurate and resonant details. These poems say ‘I came, I saw, I did not conquer, exactly, but I understood, I laughed, I celebrated by writing this down.’”—Charles Harper Webb Praise for Richard Cecil Series Editor, Jon Tribble “Richard Cecil’s most distinguished poems range persistently along, accumulating data until patterns and conclusions that have been latent become apparent. Again and again a faith in the lurking significance of things pays off, and the early particulars add up to revelation.”—William Stafford “Cecil’s poems are powerful, moving, and original. There is clarity, honesty, and delightful quirkiness. He captures—he recaptures—the human situation. He is just as shocking, radical, and aggravating, in his way, as language poets, for instance, are in theirs. He makes it almost possible—let me say possible—for a well-educated generalist to read poetry again.”—Gerald Stern Twenty First Century Blues 96 pages Copublished with Crab Orchard Review ISBN 0-8093-2597-7, $14.95 paper ISBN 0-8093-2596-9, $27.50 cloth Available at major retailers and independent bookstores, or from southern illinois university press ORDERS & INQUIRIES • TEL 800-621-2736 • FAX 800-621-8476 www.siu.edu/~siupress

Crab OrcharD Series In Poetry FIRST BOOK AWARD Soluble Fish Poems by Mary Jo Firth Gillett “Mary Jo Firth Gillett is an audacious writer who swerves between outrageous wit and linguistic abandon. Her insatiable imagination absorbs Pavlov, insect love, potatoes, Newtonian physics and a paper-thin hibiscus, and this symphony of odd relations existing within and between her poems serves to enlarge our vision, our capacity for sympathy, while producing a rather pleasant form of vertigo. Gillett’s juxtapositions delight the senses and intellect simultaneously, making a beeline for the heart of the matter through their vivid attentiveness to the materiality of everyday and not-soeveryday experience.”—Phillis Levin, author of Mercury 64 pages, ISBN 0-8093-2773-2 978-0-8093-2773-7 $14.95 paper 2006 Winner Copublished with Crab Orchard Review Available at major retailers and independent bookstores, or from southern illinois university press ORDERS & INQUIRIES • TEL 800-621-2736 • FAX 800-621-8476 www.siu.edu/~siupress

<strong>Crab</strong> OrcharD Series<br />

In Poetry<br />

FIRST BOOK AWARD<br />

Soluble<br />

Fish<br />

Poems by<br />

Mary Jo Firth Gillett<br />

“Mary Jo Firth Gillett is an audacious<br />

writer who swerves between<br />

outrageous wit and linguistic abandon.<br />

Her insatiable imagination absorbs<br />

Pavlov, insect love, potatoes, Newtonian<br />

physics and a paper-thin hibiscus, and<br />

this symphony of odd relations existing<br />

within and between her poems serves<br />

to enlarge <strong>our</strong> vision, <strong>our</strong> capacity for<br />

sympathy, while producing a rather<br />

pleasant form of vertigo. Gillett’s<br />

juxtapositions delight the senses and<br />

intellect simultaneously, making a<br />

beeline for the heart of the matter<br />

through their vivid attentiveness to the<br />

materiality of everyday and not-soeveryday<br />

experience.”—Phillis Levin,<br />

author of Mercury<br />

64 pages, ISBN 0-8093-2773-2<br />

978-0-8093-2773-7<br />

$14.95 paper<br />

2006 Winner<br />

Copublished with <strong>Crab</strong> <strong>Orchard</strong> <strong>Review</strong><br />

Available at major retailers and independent bookstores, or from<br />

southern illinois university press<br />

ORDERS & INQUIRIES • TEL 800-621-2736 • FAX 800-621-8476<br />

www.siu.edu/~siupress

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