Words and Bones by LB Sedlacek
$13.99, paper
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LB Sedlacek is a poet, author, editor, poem critic and publisher. She
has had poetry and short fiction published in numerous journals and
zines. Her poetry and short fiction have won several awards. She
co-hosted ESC! Magazine’s podcast for the small press, “Coffee House to
Go” with Michael Potter. She also served as a Poetry Editor for “ESC!
Magazine.” She is the Publisher of “The Poetry Market Ezine” a poetry
resource newsletter just for poets. She holds a BA in Business from
Lenoir-Rhyne University and an MA in Communications and Theatre from
Wake Forest University. She lives in North Carolina with her family and
their hyperactive dog! In her free time, she enjoys reading, swimming,
and volunteering for her local humane society. Her website is www.lbsedlacek.com Find her on Facebook @lbsedlacekpoet or Instagram @poetryinla
”Words and Bones” is an apt title for LB Sedlacek‘s fine chapbook for
words are the scaffolding in these pages; words which both come from and
go to the marrow. The author’s craft here has a simplicity, an
elegance in clarity which makes even the complex, the scientific, not
only accessible but familiar as a memory shared by a particularly
American yet, ultimately, universally humane collective unconscious.
What a fine mineral of many facets she has brought from her depths into
the light of day.” –Stephen Mead, Visual Artist/Author
“You’d never think a skeleton is a complete person. I would have said the same thing about a poem until LB Sedlacek‘s “Words and Bones” came along. It’s a work which truly strips its poems down to their bare bones with all the un-necessary words nowhere to be found, leaving a manuscript of complete and wonderfully brief pieces. These poems expose the often overlooked remarkable details in the every day mundane which can only be seen when a poet’s eyes gaze upon them. The heartbreak, the wonder…you’ll begin to see it in your bones too.” –Rick Lupert, author of “God Wrestler”
#poetry
“You’d never think a skeleton is a complete person. I would have said the same thing about a poem until LB Sedlacek‘s “Words and Bones” came along. It’s a work which truly strips its poems down to their bare bones with all the un-necessary words nowhere to be found, leaving a manuscript of complete and wonderfully brief pieces. These poems expose the often overlooked remarkable details in the every day mundane which can only be seen when a poet’s eyes gaze upon them. The heartbreak, the wonder…you’ll begin to see it in your bones too.” –Rick Lupert, author of “God Wrestler”
#poetry
