2 Books Published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center on AALBC — Book Cover Collage
Buffalo Head Solos (Imagination)
by Tim SeiblesCleveland State University Poetry Center (Jan 24, 2004)
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Poetry. "Reading Tim Seibles reminds me of the Buddhist parable of the burning house: everyone ignores the flames, pretends there is no smoke, no pain, no prospect of death. Or, if there is, it will only happen to someone else, someone in another world. According to these teachings, aversion and attachment are not the greatest barriers to fulfillment; it is indifference that endangers a soul. Not to embrace or confront what is undeniably there but to detach ourselves and retreat. It is precisely this indifference that these poems challenge with lyric insistence - begging, assailing, teasing, affirming. In this mystical, romantic and political collection, Seibles is willing to take a chance, any chance to engage the general malaise of our times. He is a musician of the spirit and of the body, and it is that quality which carries us forward breath by breath, line by line. The journey is oddly enchanting, even transformative"—Nin Andrews.
Nothing In Nature Is Private (Csu Poetry Series) (Cleveland State Poetry Series)
by Claudia RankineCleveland State University Poetry Center (May 01, 1994)
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Claudia Rankine’s Nothing in Nature is Private is the 1993 First Place winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s International Poetry Competition. This is Claudia Rankine’s first book of poetry.