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Welcome back, poetry lovers! I'm pleased to share a second installment of this month's mini book series here at SHINE -- today, with Jane Rosenberg LaForge's brand new collection, The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated, out this month from Broadstone Books. I was honored to have an early look at this poignant collection, and I hope you enjoy my review. You can purchase your copy of The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated by clicking on the cover image below my review. Have a pleasant day! The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated (Broadstone Books) by Jane Rosenberg LaForge is a masterful reflection on personal discernment gained through familial distresses. Rosenberg LaForge gives readers a look into her childhood and upbringing, and follows that arc through to her concerns for her own children and our collective future. I especially appreciated Rosenberg LaForge’s skill with opening lines, such as, open the throat to the parenthetical | the toasting of goals | to initiative and hindsight (“The Meaning of Echoes”), or In grade school fire was | A triangle. (“Fireproofing”), and so many more. Some of my favorites in this book are “Family Business,” “Second Life,” and “Run for Your Life.” A terrific collection. -SAMANTHA TERRELL, EIC SHINE international poetry series   Jane Rosenberg LaForge is a poet, fiction writer, and occasional essayist living in New York. Her 2021 novel, Sisterhood of the Infamous (New Meridian Arts Press), was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award in regional fiction (west); and her 2018 novel, The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War (Amberjack Publishing), was a finalist in two categories in the Eric Hoffer Awards. She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry; four chapbooks of poetry; and an experimental memoir, An Unsuitable Princess (Jaded Ibis Press 2014). Jane reads poetry submissions for COUNTERCLOCK literary magazine and reviews books for American Book Review. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry and fiction, and for the Best of the Net multiple times. She was most recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net for her 2022 poem, "For a Friend Going Deaf.”
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SHINE - International Poetry Series
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From the international poetry community, we have a "luxury of stars," as Sylvia Plath might say, and it is SHINE's honor to provide a home for their words with the online Spotlight series as well as SHINE Quarterly. Click on the logo above to learn more. And...keep writing, keep shining!
In poetry, Samantha Terrell, EIC SYLVIA PLATH
Stars Over the Dordogne Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
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