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Slow Dissolve
by Steven Cordova
with an introduction by
Walter Holland
An
Interview with Steven Cordova
Praise for Slow Dissolve:
Quiet
and tender, urgent and knowing, worldly and wise, Steven Cordova’s
poems bear their burdens with grace, never slipping into self-pity,
or harshness. Shapely and dignified, they maintain their poise
and ask us to maintain ours too.
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—Rachel Hadas
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The poetry of Steven Cordova shimmers with
unexpected insight about the basic human thirsts and hungers.
He collects all those ordinary moments—a glimpse through
a window, a blue pill dropped in a tub, the weight of a dinner
fork—and celebrates them as the beautiful and sudden
opportunity when desire takes form, when need adopts language…
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Two Poems from Slow
Dissolve |
The
Next Generation
Across
the Table
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