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"In his lyrical and expansive debut, Jonathan Graham highlights the natural world, the rugged beauty and kinship with a coal-mining region in Appalachia, the loud thunder when relatives and townspeople die in a devastating mine explosion - the yin and yang of love and death, remorse and longing. These poems are hungry, filled with vivid imagery. A quest for beauty in a world of chaos, Everything Waits travels an arc, moves from Appalachia to search the greater natural world beyond: the mountains of Alaska, islands of Lake Erie, beaches of the Carolinas and Gulf Coast, then circles back to the foothills of Ohio's Appalachia. As the poetry moves from darkness to light and back again into darkness with the promise of light, there exists the divining comfort of ""words everywhere,"" where it is okay to move away from living."

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"""Jonathan Graham's attentiveness to the natural world is staggering: the imagery is so precise, so vivid it's like stepping into a landscape painting. Graham has written a book rich with grace and music."" -Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning and Guillotine: Poems ""Jonathan Graham is an American voice we need-right now, in this time. From the farm, to Wales, to church, to train tunnels with boys, these poems are the truth of life lived, life saved, life lost in front of us. This book captures what you thought language couldn't."" -Jeff Knorr, Sacramento Poet Laureate, Emeritus ""Survival, resilience, and ultimately, a quietly joyful wisdom shape the arc of these beautifully made, compelling poems."" -Carol D Guerrero-Murphy, author of Bright Path Dark River"

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Jonathan Graham was born along the Ohio River in Martins Ferry, breathed air that chugged from smokestacks at Wheeling Steel, and grew up not far from there in a small enclave of immigrant Slovak coal miners. He resides on a farm/sanctuary in the woodlands of East Central Ohio.

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