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Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers: Poems(The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series)

Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers: Poems(The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series)


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In questioning the boundaries between the world and oneself, Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers unflinchingly explores the dark eddies of coming of age and coming out. Kelly McQuain’s poems are far roaming in setting and far ranging in style, depicting the richness of a rural West Virginia upbringing as well as contemporary adulthood in the big city and abroad. Glints of humor and glimpses of pathos abound in the imaginative leaps these poems take as they tackle such subjects as LGBTQ sexuality, homophobia, domestic abuse, and racism. Unafraid to push the limits of contemporary sonics, McQuain’s work is rich in music and varied in form, with new riffs on the sonnet, the villanelle, and the persona poem. Accessible and lyrical, this debut collection deftly explores the homes we come from and the homes we create—all the while shining with wonder and resolve. Several of the poems won contests including the Bloom chapbook prize, the Glitter Bomb Award, Best New Poets 2000. ... From “No Trespassing” It’s me who worries about her mini-strokes and falls, the knot on her head from where she stumbled picking blackberries on the bank. She watches the bees come, stippling themselves with pollen, flowers bending in the breeze. This world is hers, for now—all she covets. Tonight it is a black bear and three cubs up against her window, spilling seeds from a bird feeder hung against the house. My mother stands in the dark by that window, her thin hand, the chill of ghostly glass.

About the Author :
KELLY MCQUAIN grew up in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia and is the author of two previous chapbooks, Velvet Rodeo (winner of the Bloom Award) and Antlers. His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Pinch, Kestrel, Appalachian Review, and in numerous anthologies. Also an artist, McQuain's paintings have appeared in books, journals, magazines and galleries. He currently works as a professor of English in Philadelphia.

Review :
"McQuain's verse is wonderfully precise even as it explores life's grim and gray areas. Lovely." --Philadelphia Magazine --Patrick Rapa and Laura Swartz "Philadelphia Magazine" (5/25/2023 12:00:00 AM) "The language in Kelly McQuain's Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers is layered, evocative, rich, and, at times, either velvet-soft or bone-hard. . . . I highly recommend you check the work of this lyrical, insightful, and clever poet out. Buy a copy for yourself, buy a copy for a friend. You will not regret the time spent in McQuain's company." --Sean Hanrahan in Mad Poets Society --Sean Hanrahan "Mad Poets Society" (11/15/2023 12:00:00 AM) ". . . McQuain's poems are thoughtful, tight--cleanly wrought and crafted with the conscious brilliance poets covet. He leans into couplets, makes considered use of blank space, and elevates the columnar form with careful enjambment." --Quincy Gray McMichael in Still: The Journal--Quincy Gray McMichael "Still: The Journal" "From Vampirella to villanelles, Dolly Parton to deconstruction, poet Kelly McQuain gleefully reaches across the imaginary borders between high and low culture [...] Rich in both wisdom and entertainment value, these sharp, sparkling pieces will engage even readers not normally disposed to poetry." --Jim Gladstone in Passport Magazine--Jim Gladwell "Passport Magazine" "With unabashed honesty, these poems contain humanity, wisdom, and glimmers of comedy." --Béa Urbanowski-Womer in Write Now Philly--Béa Urbanowski-Womer "Write Now Philly" (6/13/2023 12:00:00 AM) "McQuain writes the natural world with a tenderness and exactness of diction that shows the significance of the West Virginia landscape in the speaker's life." --Donna Vorreyer, in Limp Wrist Magazine--Donna Vorreyer "Limp Wrist Magazine"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781680033328
  • Publisher: Texas Review Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Texas Review Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Series Title: The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series
  • Sub Title: Poems
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1680033328
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 170 gr


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