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"The Ramifications is a collection of five long, multi-part poems written over the last several years, the exception being ""Twenty-Four in Twenty-Four,"" which was written approximately ten years ago. With these poems, John Zedolik goes beyond the one-to-two-page length of the overwhelming majority of his poems. This great increase in length is a result of reading poets from a wide variety of eras and cultures and being intrigued about what he could accomplish if he extended the poems by dividing them into sections, thus being able to shift focus while still maintaining a unified theme. Additionally, in ""Heliosebas,"" ""Prestidigitation,"" and ""La Fiamma Invisibile,"" he incorporates bits of others' poetry and some Scripture. These inclusions further increase the number of directions the poems take while maintaining their own integrity. In terms of main ideas, ""Alternative Route"" deals with an ""alternative way"" of looking at self and family. ""Heliosebas"" deals with the desire for life, ""Prestidigitation"" with perception, and ""La Fiamma Invisibile"" with those forces that drive us in our everyday existence. The final poem, ""Twenty-Four in Twenty-Four,"" describes each conscious and unconscious hour of a day in twenty-four fourteen-line sections."

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"""These are serious poems by a poet who is enigmatic and playful, as in the first poem, 'Alternative Route'--'Saint John the Baptist Church sits, / modest and quieter than the Evangelist.' Consider the opening lines of 'Prestidigitation'--'My odor of naivety drew the pork-pie-hat man.' The odor of naivety pervades, and the reader is pulled beneath the surface of 'The sea wrack, ' 'skin, a rind thin, ' 'prophecy from fantasy, ' to the underworld. John Zedolik's often ponderous poems, when pondered, are wondrous."" --Tom Driscoll, managing editor and CEO, Shipwreckt Books Publishing"

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John Zedolik is an adjunct English professor at Chatham University and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In 2019, he published his first full-length collection, entitled Salient Points and Sharp Angles, and in 2021 published his second collection, entitled When the Spirit Moves Me (Resource Publications), which is spiritually themed. In 2023, he published his third collection, Mother Mourning (Resource Publications). Zedolik's iPhone is his primary poetry notebook, which is invaluable in preserving inspiration.

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