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Dave Bonta
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My newest collection is a short cycle of poems in dialogue with photographs about an intercontinental love affair, and it's available for free or at cost in multiple formats: PDF, audio, video, iBook, and print-on-demand. You can find links to all versions at the dedicated page on my website.
[Update] You can now also download the PDF from the book entry here at Goodreads: Twelve Simple Songs Read more of this blog post »
[Update] You can now also download the PDF from the book entry here at Goodreads: Twelve Simple Songs Read more of this blog post »
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Odes to Tools
— published 2010 — 2 editions |
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The Book of Ystwyth: Six Poets on the Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins
by Dave Bonta (Goodreads Author), Callum James, Andrea Selch |
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Words on the Street - An Inaction Comic
— published 2012 |
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Twelve Simple Songs
— published 2013 |
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New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan
by Annie Evett (Goodreads Author) , Michelle Goode , Sylvia Petter (Goodreads Author) — published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Brilliant Coroners
by Rachel Barenblat , Maria Benet , Dave Bonta (Goodreads Author) — published 2007 |
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Words of Power
by Elizabeth Adams (Goodreads Author) , qarrtsiluni, Dave Bonta (Goodreads Author) — published 2010 |
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Journaling the Apocalypse
by Elizabeth Adams (Goodreads Author) , Dave Bonta (Goodreads Author) — published 2009 |
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In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon
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"I love books where the hunted digs a hole in the ground or hillside and hides there with his supplies.
Hmm. Have you read Gisli's Saga?" |
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"Thanks, Mark and Rachel. It's very helpful to get the perspectives of two such long-term users of both services."
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"Sounds very interesting (I love the excerpt) and — no surprise — I agree with your views on erasure poetry. Will you be posting this review to The Rai...more
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I enjoyed seeing Dave Bonta's Words On The Street comics again after their long hiatus from his blog.All of them use the same image—a homeless man in the street—only the words on his sign change. Some work as pure one-panel jokes, others are more...
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| Re-reading these poems now for the third time. They're as good as I remember them. Many more "wow" moments for me than I find in the average Charles Simic collection since the 1970s. Good is one of our best contemporary minimalist surrealists. Here's...more | |
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| Terrific so far. The chapter on herbal brewing (a special interest of mine) is one of the best things I've read on the subject. Overall, I'm impressed by the depth and breadth of the author's knowledge and the carefulness of his research, with myth-d...more | |
| "It was a slow week. My husband broke his arm. I struggled like an ox with a poem. At about 91F on Friday, we had the hottest day of the year, alleviated by rain. Germany's circumcision debate continued to brew, the Olympics started, and my daughte..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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