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ISBN 978-0-938999-53-9
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I don't know of another collection as interrogative as Duane
Esposito's Declaration For Your Bones, but his questions are
posed within a poetics of discovery that keeps us with him all
the way to and through "Where might we find love?" He senses
himself as "the single, black cloud/hovering inside our home," a
home of traumatic memory forking both ways within a marriage,
a love that is "a knotted, purple,/nameless, strange
affliction," and one that is also necessary and sustaining. This
fine book is Esposito's starkest, its affirmation coming, if
it does at all, in its uncompromised and earned austerity which,
in the end, must, and does, serve both him and us.
William Heyen
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Deeply intimate, these meditations illuminate the shared
skin of our common fears, celebrate our courage and frailty, as
we labor to understand how and why we go on. This work is the
act of soul-making, of intense spiritual exploration. The
language jolts and smolders, singes with truth. Duane Esposito
is a gifted poet.
Gladys Henderson
About the Author
Duane Esposito is an Associate Professor of English at Nassau
Community College in Garden City, New York. He has an M.A. from
SUNY Brockport and an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. In
1994, Diane Glancy selected his work for an Academy of American
Poets Award. In 2003 & 2010, he was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. His poems have appeared in dozens of publications.
Declaration For Your Bones (Yuganta Press, 2012) is his third
book. Previously, he has published two books of poetry: Cadillac
Battleship (brokenTribe Press, 2005), & The Book of Bubba (Brown
Dog Press, 1998). He lives on Long Island with his wife &
children.
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