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Bane's work not only stands on the shoulders of giants, it shrinks them...He accomplishes an extraordinary task in balancing the past with the present, all the while communicating a sense of unison and heartfelt understanding between poet and reader. - The Huffington Post Charles Bane, Jr.'s language transforms human love into glory --Kimberly Johnson, author, Virgil's Georgics, A New Translation (Penguin Classics) Charles Bane, Jr.'s poems made me want to believe in love. To believe not only in the sublime, rhapsodic state, but in romantic expression. The urgency of his words and the freshness and surprise of his language provide an eloquent assertion that Romantic poetry and love poetry are not a historical past -Ariana Nash, winner of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for her collection, Instructions For Preparing Your Skin. America's finest lyric poet. - Buzzfeed We aren't used, in this ravaged era, to poems of happiness, and yet that rarity is what Charles Bane, Jr., offers us. An offering it is, nor can we doubt that this poet conceives poetry as a sacramental endeavor, with human love as our nearest approach to the divine. He takes Buber's 'I and Thou' a step further to form what he calls a monotheism of we. Judaism is supremely the religion of reinterpretation, and this poet's embodiment of it demonstrates that historical tragedy finds its best answer in the tender bonds we form in order to choose not death but life. - Alfred Corn, Poet and Essayist, winner of the Levinson, Blumenthal and Dillon Prizes.

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Charles Bane, Jr. is the American author of The Chapbook ( Curbside Splendor ), Love Poems ( Aldrich Press), and Three Seasons: Writing Donald Hall ( Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University ). He created and contributes to The Meaning Of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project, and is a current nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida.

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