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Willie James King reads from The House in the Heart

Feb 4, 2008
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The House In The Heart by Willie James King

Jan 2, 2008
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Willie James King's poems probe, dig, and tunnel. www.tebotbach.org/upcoming.html -

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Willie James King, a 2005 graduate, will publish his third collection of poetry, The House in the Heart, with Tebot Bach press.
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Willie James King has published Wooden Windows .
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Wooden Windows

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Willie James King, a 2005 graduate, will publish his third collection of poetry, The House in the Heart, with Tebot Bach press. ...
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The House In The Heart by Willie James King

Jan 2, 2008
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Published at last! The poetry soars. Maybe people will begin to substitute this fine work for hip-hop rap I am so sick of being forced to hear when this truly deserves R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

It is remarkable! I am so proud of it. It opens the ears of the reader to nuance.

The cover ( my work) , of course, represented something entirely different to me and it works.

And, to have two Vermont connections to this book is interesting, too.

ALL RIGHT! Thank you Montgomery Art Guild and Elizabeth Perry. Montgomery Art Guild Link

THE HOUSE IN THE HEART BY WILLIE JAMES KING

Oct 31, 2007
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Yes. Click here.

I saw my dreams and my heart ripped out in this shot. Willie saw something else . Willie selected my photo taken at Spanish Fort near Mobile Bay for the cover of this book which has just come out. (December 07) Publisher of Willie's book www.tebotbach.org This poetry ROCKS (pun intended) : )

Tebot Bach is honored to have been chosen to publish The House in the Heart , Willie's magnificent collection of poems and to have Cathie Smith Bowers write the introduction, and Major Jackson, Allan Michael Parker, and Robert Polito provide the cover blurbs. I have attached the designer's cover pdf so that you might also experience its beauty. Now, let me share with you, their praise for The House in the Heart:

Anyone who enters this house, so sturdily constructed by the poet's art and craft, his wisdom and childlike awe, will find himself at once both chilled and warmed by King's far-reaching vision, his deep passion, his immense and inspiring talent.

~Cathie Smith Bowers

Willie James King writes poems that seem to have been in our midst all along; his words "touch air." His unweaving and reassembling of the natural world and his black male southern life, in such a wondrous, meditative vernacular makes The House in the Heart more than a worthy read; it is as nourishing as a rainbow glimpsed briefly on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

~ Major Jackson

Willie James King's poems probe, dig, and tunnel. But The House in the Heart resists easy epiphanies even as King asks for -- insists on -- all the complexities and trials of insight, of self-knowledge. "I was the fractured one/double-visioned," he writes, "foaming/ like a beast, while it,/ the true beast, was calm/ as a hard-handed teacher. His lessons may be "hard-handed," yet they are also touching, arresting, perhaps even true.

~ Robert Polito

From an Alabama boyhood to an adulthood of serious soul-searching, the poems of Willie James King roam but never wander. These focused blasts of lyricism combine tones and dictions and hit the high Cs. Whether in the sweet-potato field, at the lectern, or gazing into the waters of the Cahawba river, King learns where he is most himself, "in this deep / lull of love."

~ Alan Michael Parker

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