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New & Selected Poems
1989-2009
Anthony S. Abbott

Lorimer Press
978-0-9789342-7-9
$18.95 paperback
6 x 9 
132 pages
January 2010
Poetry

In his foreword to New & Selected Poems, Fred Chappell calls the book "so full of variety, so redolent with reminiscence, so urgent with love, so colorful with imagery, and so affirmative with statement." Robert Morgan offers, "The range and depth of Tony Abbott's work are now clear. He is a dramatic poet, a narrative poet, a poet of love and meditations on kinship, mortality, change and memory."

New & Selected Poems, 1989 - 2009 offers Anthony Abbott's newest work along with the best known and most beloved poems of the past three decades.

Excerpt

AFTER VESPERS

you were kneeling
on the stone floor
of the stone church

your elbows propped
on the wooden rail
your eyes closed

in prayer.  I came
to you and knelt.
You did not look up

but you knew I was there.
We did not need to speak.
I know the words

of your prayers and you
know mine.  Silence
held us.  Light shifted.

The smell of incense
and candles lingered
from vespers.

All the others had
departed.  Only the red
light of the sacrament

still burned and the streetlight
beyond the open door
where I waited yesterday

and the day before.

Reviews

"There is a vein of relish, human connection and joy coursing through Abbott's poems."
Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek

"Tony Abbott's New and Selected Poems is cause for celebration."
Kathryn Stripling Byer

"There is nothing drab or coy here; Abbott's world is alive, chirping and talking, singing and thinking."
Fred Chappell

Links

Visit Tony Abbott's Web site at www.anthonysabbott.com.

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