What people are saying about my full-length collection, Son of a Minor Key.
—Ellen Doré Watson
To read Joshua Michael Stewart’s Son of a Minor Key is to welcome a wonderfully quirky and trustworthy sensibility into your life. Here is the frank voice of a tender observer who finds things funny (both peculiar and ha-ha) even as they are heart-wrenching, then renders them just so. The figures and images in this collection recall Gregory Orr, Charles Simic, and the great Eastern European dark humorists, but Stewart makes them all his own: brains are beer bottles, faith is a baseball. The language is lush and surprising -- insects get “jiggy” – while still compressed and absolutely essential. Son of a Minor Key is a keen and accomplished first collection I will keep returning to for poetry that is self-possessed without being clever, wise without being wise-assed, and touching without being overstated. In all, Joshua Michael Stewart has gifted us with a book that is the complete package-- deeply felt, honestly told, skillfully crafted poems.
—Rachel Contreni Flynn
The conversations of Son of a Minor Key are of rhythm and song. Each with a lens into the human condition, Joshua Michael Stewart renders us images of soul. A charming book, with a unique angle on life.
—Kim Chinquee
Read my interview with Molly Gaudry for Keyhole Magazine:
http://greencitynews.blogspot.com/2009/09/writers-respond-conversation-with.html
Vintage Gray |
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$ 5.00 USDPraise for Vintage Gray: "Stewart's ability to be simultaneously playful and melancholy, profound and unsettling make him not only a capable poet, but another Pudding House poet the reading public should watch. If "Vintage Gray" is any indication, Stewart is and will continue to be an important figure in 21st Century American poetry." ---Joselle Vanderhooft, Pedestal Magazine. |
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Something To Do With Vulnerability |
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$ 5.00 USDNEW CHAPBOOK! "There is always a level of vulnerability in all forms of writing. Even in the wildest forms of fantasy fiction there are pieces of the writer contained in the smallest of details. When working within the genre of poetry those pieces become chunks of tender realities. The poet can use the poem to get through the most traumatic parts of life and the most romantic all within a few lines of verse. It's a gift and curse, and leaves the poet open and vulnerable. Yet, it is in the raw chucks of words that we find the meat and blood and truth in humanity.
The latest collection of poem from Joshua Michael Stewart deals with one of the most difficult parts of life, the lose of a loved one. What keeps the 37 pages of this collection fresh and interesting are the various perspectives that Stewart is able to focus on. He speaks from the vantage point of a brothers, a son, a spouse, and in one of the most pointed moments, a child. It's a book of memories, and all of the tangible ways our loved ones return in moments of stillness. It is a rummage through the closet, and it has much more than just something to do with vulnerability."
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Joshua Michael Stewart is the editor of the online journal Big Toe Review (www.bigtoereview.com), and the author of the chapbooks, Vintage Gray and Something to do with Vulnerability. His poems have been published in Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Georgetown Review, William and Mary Review, Flint Hills Review, Pedestal Magazine, and Worcester Review.
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