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Update: Lose Them If You Can was featured at
Poetry Daily on March 14,
2004, Ms. Pickard’s third appearance in the online anthology of
contemporary poetry.
The Vincent Brothers Company is pleased to announce the
release of Lose Them If You Can, an evocative and graceful collection of poems by Deanna
Pickard.
In Lose Them If You Can, Ms. Pickard elevates the commonplace of supper
tables, summer nights, and spools of yarn into incandescent scenes painted with words arranged by the keenest of eyes and finely tuned
ears. Each word of her poems pulls its own powerful weight.
The second part of the collection,
“Postcards—Mad River, Green County,”
especially reveals how Ms. Pickard
is able to seamlessly shift her
poetic gaze from the superstitions of her Polish family to lost love,
death, weather, and the unhinging of a brilliant
mind.
The book is steeped with Ohio local color—Ceasar’s
Creek, Indian Lake, the Mad River, and the Monument Street Bridge—but it also serves as a
touchstone to the lives of Polish immigrants and what they carried with them to this new
world, and to the universal subjects of
child-rearing, the death of parents, and human loneliness. TVBC editors were awestruck
by the vast range of themes, emotions, and observations Ms. Pickard wove into a unified whole and packed into such a compact
book.
Ms. Pickard has forged these themes into the ironworks of unforgettable
poetry. Her characters, events, images, and turns of phrase will haunt you: Lose Them If You
Can.
Click here to read two
poems from Lose Them If You Can.
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