Altar by George Eklund

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The poems in George Eklund‘s ALTAR avoid screaming and distance themselves completely from the sense of righteousness which passes now for poetry. They work quietly presenting significant details of an often hidden inner life.  I enjoy the slow and careful clarity. Their charm is mysterious and long lasting.

–John McKernan

 

George Eklund‘s poems move from the individual to the cosmos, the speaker to the sky and back, the speaker to the core of living things, and back, with grace and conviction.  The path between the self and the core in the poems is familiar to us because we have daily lives and the speaker in the poems fashions his portraits of the sky, the people, the nucleus, from the things of daily life.  In Eklund’s poems the palpability of the immediate life of the speaker has its equal in the palpability of various kinds of organic matter and the palpability of the stars.
–Arthur Vogelsang

 

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Altar

by George Eklund

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-038-8

2019

George Eklund is professor emeritus at Morehead State University. His work has appeared in such journals as The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Epoch, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New Ohio Review, The North American Review, Rio Grande Review, Sycamore Review and Willow Springs.

His publications include the full length collections The Island Blade (ABZ Press 2011) and Each Breath I Cannot Hold (Wind Publications 2011), and a chapbook from Finishing Line Press in 2012, Wanting To Be an Element. He is currently publishing translations of contemporary Latin American poets into English.

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