New chapbook from Finishing Line Press.
Preorder your copy here:
http://www.finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?cPath=0_2&products_id=170
“Mr. Stewart fulfills the true age-old occupation of the poet, that of taking our narrowed, mundane perceptions of the world and turning them upside down, allowing the beautiful, wacky off-beat wonder of the universe to come pouring in. It is no far stretch to claim that he is the trickster god of contemporary poetry, the Kokopelli of written rhythm. He has all the whimsy and talent of a poet such as Billy Collins, along with a hint of something slightly more sophisticated and metaphysical, leaving me to believe he is one of those rare poets that is dually capable and deserving of a very large reading audience, one from both inside and outside of academia and the poetry publishing world.”
—Seth Jani, Seven CirclePress
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 a review of my chapbook Vintage Gray
http://www.sevencirclepress.com/vintagegray.htm
Read my interview with Molly Gaudry for Keyhole Magazine:
Vintage Gray |
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$ 10.00 USD
Praise 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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Joshua Michael Stewart is the author of the chapbook, Vintage Gray. His poems have been published in Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Georgetown Review, William and Mary Review, Flint Hills Review, Pedestal Magazine, and Worcester Review.
To read some of my poems that can be found on line click the link below:
http://joshuamichaelstewart.yolasite.com/links.php
