Three Chapbooks / Three Poets
Three Chapbooks / Three Poets by Rodger Moody, Carol Durak, and John P Harn
This project is dedicated to the memory of Ralph J. Salisbury (1926-2017).
A celebrated professor, mentor, poet, and storyteller noted for kindness, Ralph left an indelible impression on thousands of early-career writers and dedicated his work, as he once said, “to the tribe of the world.”
Though I have lived and worked among the intelligentsia of many nations, my writing comes from being a questing, mixed-race, working-class individual…
My work is offered to the spirt of human goodness, which unites all people…
– Ralph Salisbury
Flowstone Press
ISBN: 978-1-945824-64-7
Paperback 96 pages $20
Publication date: March 2024
Copies available from: Left Fork Books
“Each of these diverse, superbly crafted chapbooks brim with intimacy. Moody’s work, written in sevenlings, offers probing, witty, and sometimes dark observations of rural America where the countryside belongs to the swallows. Durak’s work, intelligent and introspective, leads us to a fabled crossroads where she contemplates, what is more diligent than dust, and asks, what is more within you / than your path beyond compass? Harn’s poems, full of philosophical investigations, claim that sometimes we need to see the marrow splayed to understand our place in the universe, that we face our mortality lips parted, about to say something / to the wind. Like a jazz trio, each chapbook is a distinct instrument, unique but in sync with the others, and the beat is never lost.” – Michael Spring, author of dentro do som / into the sound and Kahlo’s Widow
