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An Inventory of Lost Things
by Karla Huston
Maybe it’s your heart. Maybe it’s your eyeglasses. Maybe it’s an old, fading sepia-tone photograph of yourself standing with your first love, arms interlaced, backdrop indistinguishable. Or maybe, maybe it’s something you can’t tell anyone about. Something so sacramental, to admit it’s gone would be sacrilege. Whatever it is you’ve lost, you’ll find it in this new collection of poems by Karla Huston. Her words are treasure maps to places you never thought you’d find again. Hollows inside your heart believed gone forever. Whatever it is you’ve lost can be found here in this book. So many things … begging to be re-discovered.
SAMPLING OF POEMS
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36 pages,
5.5"x 8.5" – $8.00
26 limited, signed and lettered – $10.00
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PRAISE
FOR KARLA HUSTON
Karla huston’s poems in An Inventory of Lost Things are notably mature – not in the sense of x-rated, though there is plenty of healthy sensuality here in both language and theme. Rather, they are mature in the way they reflect life richly lived, all the while displaying a well seasoned poetic craft. Full of accurately observed, moving details, they talk of time, memory, nature, family, love, and loss as honestly and convincingly as an old friend.
— David Graham, author, Stutter Monk and coeditor, After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography
“Karla Huston is one of the best poets writing in the state of Wisconsin today.”
— Laurel Mills, poet and novelist
Karla Huston’s poetry has always been characterized by its rich use of language and metaphorical intensity. Each line resonates with an expansive, insightful understanding. These poems in An Inventory of Lost Things are not mere technical exercises that demonstrate the poet’s capacity to write proficient verse as so often happens to be the case with much contemporary poetry. Instead, these poems enrich and enlighten; they draw the reader back time and again to engage matters of consequence, experiences that define and illuminate, explorations that teach us how to live, her poems burning fervently within.
— Dale Ritterbusch, author, Lessons Learned and Far From the Temple of Heaven
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