FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
James Esch, Publisher
Spruce Alley Press
484-354-7729
West Chester, PA, July 8, 2016 – Spruce Alley Press today announced the release of In Remembrance of the Life, a chapbook by Jane Rosenberg LaForge.
The book consists of 25
elegiac and unflinching poems that harvest a transformative beauty from the
fields of memory and loss.
“Poetry at its best engages with the realities of life. Some
of the biggies are death, loss, and memory. Jane’s poetry meets these subjects
head-on, with refreshing honesty and insight,” said James Esch, publisher at
Spruce Alley Press.
Jane Rosenberg LaForge is a poet and writer living in New
York City. Her poetry, fiction, critical and personal essays have appeared in
numerous publications, including Poetry
Quarterly, Wilderness House Literary Review, Ottawa Arts Review, Boston
Literary Magazine, THRUSH, Ne'er-Do-Well Literary Magazine, and The Western Journal of Black Studies.
Her memoir-fantasy, An Unsuitable
Princess, is available from Jaded Ibis Press. Her full-length collection of
poetry, With Apologies to Mick Jagger,
Other Gods, and All Women was published in fall 2012 by The Aldrich Press.
She is also the author of the chapbooks After
Voices, published by Burning River of Cleveland in 2009, and Half-Life, from Big Table Publishing of
Boston in 2010. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Follow her on twitter at @JaneRLaForge.
Website: http://jane-rosenberg-laforge.com/
Some reviews of In Remembrance of the Life:
"Rosenberg LaForge points toward the beauty of
inevitability; death is less an end than a step toward 'the infinite, and you
can/ no longer resist the distance.' Reading these poems is often akin to ‘diving
into a rainbow of saffron and petrol,’ where the choices one makes may not be
choices at all."
—Leslie McGrath, poet and author of Out from the Pleiades: a Novella (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014)
—Leslie McGrath, poet and author of Out from the Pleiades: a Novella (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014)
"Reading In Remembrance of the Life is like reading
Virginia Woolf if she were writing poetry—one image triggers another appearing
to emerge from the unconscious...a book that the reader will return to again
and again."
—Chella Courington, author of The Somewhat Sad Tale of the Pitcher and the Crow and Love Letter to Biology 250.
—Chella Courington, author of The Somewhat Sad Tale of the Pitcher and the Crow and Love Letter to Biology 250.
Details:
In Remembrance of the
Life by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
44 pages, Paperback
25 poems
ISBN 9781365002564
Available for purchase at lulu.com:
Also distributed through Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and
independent bookstores worldwide.
NOTE: Review copies
are available (electronic PDF or print). The author is available for interview
requests.
ABOUT
Spruce Alley was founded in 2013 by James Esch in West
Chester, Pennsylvania. The press is a micropublisher of independent literature,
audio, and artwork in print-on-demand and digital formats. Contact James Esch (sprucealley@gmail.com) or go to www.sprucealley.com.
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