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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

January 2008 in Dark Sky Magazine

January 2008, by Ben Mazer

Ben Mazer is a busy man. This spring alone he is celebrating the release of three new books:

* January 2008 (Dark Sky Books)

* POEMS (Pen & Anvil Press)

* Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press)

We applaud Mazer’s achievement and feel both honored and excited to work with him. He’s a tremendous poet.

For those of you interested in hearing Ben read from his new collections, the following readings are coming up in  NYC, St. Louis, and Harvard Square.

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Edgar Allan Poe in Dark Sky Magazine

Recognize that handsome mustache? He’s the man that made your nightmares. He made black birds spooky. He put you in the pit. He placed you beneath the pendulum. The evidence of his ingeniousness still swings back and forth above you. The anxiety of his insanity still haunts you in the heart. His works can be compared “to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into everyday life — the hideous dropping of the veil.” — Brian Allen Carr

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