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"Rick Lupert's 27th poetry collection and latest humorous travelogue written in Savannah, Georgia (where ghosts inhabit the poems), Charleston, South Carolina (where the lady who gives out cookies is among the nicest people you'll ever meet), Asheville, North Carolina (the east coast's contribution to ""weird"" cities), and Charlotte, North Carolina, where ducks and frogs roam the streets without a single care. Join Rick and his mostly willing travel companion Addie as they explore all there is to do, see, and eat in the south. You'll eat biscuits. You'll be in the spot where the Civil War started. You'll wander through ""Chicken Alley."" Stow away on this hilarious, poetic vacation. It's much cheaper than buying plane tickets."

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"The Low Country Shvitz is a poetry travel diary with the Lupert clan, as they move through Southern towns filled with history; skeletons are literally hidden in the floorboards. But the present is also loaded; gun violence is ""the jazz of terrorism."" Lupert's acute observations and fierce wit are staples throughout, as is the constant delight he takes in making Addie, his primary travel companion smile. -Jeffrey McDanielAuthor of ""Holiday in the Islands of Grief"" Rick Lupert brings poetical justice to southern hospitality in these new juicy and rocking poems about Savannah, Charleston, Asheville, and Charlotte. He's sipping Sweet Tea, savoring biscuits, avoiding falling in the Savannah River while watching fireworks, learning all about pimento cheese, dungeons, dolphins, pecan pie, and navigating the Blue Ridge Parkway and its endless overlooks and more in places I've never been (and sometimes never heard of) and I'm from the south! Rick is the ultimate host of travelogue poetry and it shows in this book since he can now properly use ""y'all"" in a poem and discovered the best thing about touring Biltmore House is the wine tasting and cheese straws. If you're planning on visiting the not-so-deep south, pop this book in your suitcase for a humorous, hearty, and insightful poet's take with poetry on places you should go/eat/stay in these quintessential southern cities. This book is the perfect blend of poems from the low country to the high country and reading it is certainly more fun than herding cats or blessing anyone's heart! Rick brings the humidity not the heat to this new book of poems and you'll adore it. I sure did. -LB SedlacekAuthor of ""Welcome to AshVegas: Asheville Poems,"" ""This Space Available,"" and ""Swim"""

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"Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry in Los Angeles since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ted Slade Award, and the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award, a 3 time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Best of the Net nominee. He served as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years, and created Poetry Super Highway. Rick hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years which has lived on as a weekly Zoom series since early 2020. His spoken word album ""Rick Lupert Live and Dead"" featured 25 studio and live tracks. He's authored 27 collections of poetry, including ""I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii,"" ""The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express,"" and ""God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion"" (Ain't Got No Press) and edited the anthologies ""A Poet's Siddur"", ""Ekphrastia Gone Wild"", ""A Poet's Haggadah"" and the noir anthology ""The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic ""Cat and Banana"" and writes a Jewish poetry column for JewishJournal.com. He has been lucky enough to read his poetry all over the world. https: //poetrysuperhighway.com/ https: //www.jewishpoetry.net/ https: //facebook.com/rickpoet https: //www.catandbanana.com/"

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