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"""Beast angel/I present this psalm by hand."" Writes Jim Churchill-Dicks in his moving debut. Angels are terrifying, Rilke tells us, but Churchill-Dicks sees both the angelic and the terror in ourselves, our families, our passions. There is a real pain and real poise in these lines of a man who admits: ""I see the bruise roping/Cordelia's throat, as she rises/for her applause."" -Ilya Kaminsky Dancing in Odessa, Deaf Republic ""These poems are vivid and muscular and lit as if by lightning... Tender, furious, vulnerable, and sometimes hilarious, the book arcs toward a hard-won forgiveness: the unmaking of the chosen son, the birth of a good man."" -Katie Farris BoysGirls, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Tectonic violence jerks the ground under these poems. Recurring images of smoke, ash, volcanic eruptions, and what we see in the plumes create an ominous and contested beauty: ""Spirit, what do you want?/What do you want me to know/among these yellow leaves?"" Contrasts with hollow despair: ""That plume is a woman/who just couldn't take any more."" -Jessamyn Smyth The Inugami Mochi, Gilgamesh Wilderness"

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Jim Churchill-Dicks is the author of the full-length poetry and prose collection Wine-Dark Mother and the Trapper's Son (Musehick Press 2016, Illustrated Second Edition 2024). He is also the founding editor of Torches n' Pitchforks online literary journal, entering its sweet sixteenth year of existence. He holds an M.F.A. in Prose and Poetry from Goddard College (2005) and teaches both High School and College Level English Literature and Writing in Central Oregon. His individual works have appeared in The Good Men Project, The Other Journal, Fire Magazine, Vain Magazine, Press 1 Quarterly and others.

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