April 2nd, 2015 | by caleb | published in Chris Ransick, New Releases, Poetry | Leave A Comment »
Click here to purchase. by Chris Ransick This collection from Denver’s former poet laureate pulses with surprising turns and playful language. The book’s complex weave of individual, highly readable pieces collected into suites presents an invitation to the reader to absorb the book as greater than the sum of its parts. Tom Ferril’s Mandolin From […]
May 5th, 2014 | by caleb | published in Blog, Chris Ransick, Poetry | Leave A Comment »
Click here to purchase. Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006, is the author of five books: Language for the Living and the Dead; Never Summer, Poems from Thin Air (Winner of the Colorado Book Award); A Return to Emptiness (Colorado Book Award finalist); Lost Songs & Last Chances; and Asleep Beneath the Hill […]
September 25th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Chris Ransick, Poetry | 1 Comment »
Click here to purchase. Never Summer speaks tenderly…layered so the perception of reality becomes almost super-real. This book is an everyday world where tragedy and bad news occasionally intrude. So does an ironic humor. Through all the ups and downs, there is a thread of confidence in the future, the belief that “we will build […]
September 24th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Chris Ransick, Poetry | 3 Comments »
Click here to purchase. Language for the Living and the Dead is a new collection of poetry by Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006 and winner of the Colorado Book Award. These hauntingly beautiful poems explore the tense, sometimes sloppy line between life and death, joy and despair, and how paying attention to the […]
September 20th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Chris Ransick, Fiction | Leave A Comment »
Click here to purchase. A Colorado Book Award finalist, A Return to Emptiness is a collection of short stories about life, loss, and love. In Ransick’s words, “Loss is common to us all, yet multifarious in individual experience. I wrote these stories not primarily to describe loss but to circumscribe it-which is to say that I drew […]
