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Imagine a Town resonates with a strong sense of how hard work (and hard play) shapes the lives of those growing up in a blue-collar community. These poems sing with the earned authority of witness--sharp, clear details etched on the page. Memory casts its spell here not in simple nostalgia, but through a fierce examination and an urge toward preservation as a way of honoring this heritage. She mourns the losses while finding those small moments that sustain us through those losses. Relying on a strong sense of craft and form, Sabol wastes not a word here in these tight, emotionally packed poems. Jim Daniels, author of The Perp Walk What a deeply felt and richly inhabited place is the imagined town of Barbara Sabol's second full-length collection of poems! Through precise imagery, a range of poetic forms, and her wise and often humorous voice, Sabol gives us of the remembered towns of our own childhoods and the imagined homes of our heart. Here, the beautiful world becomes a vapor, thick as myrrh / a recurring dream. Maggie Anderson, author of DEAR ALL Imagine a Town calls upon its readers to rest, reconsider. To see again for the first time the industrial glory of the mills, the rivers and quarries, the all-night diners, the scratchily familiar cities and all their busy inhabitants, those still with us and those lost, the watchmen and swimmers, the misplaced women and their children, the dancers and lovers and neighbors, the birds and bucks, the dogs and passing cars, the come and gone knocked into and out of existence. In this lovely second book, Sabol offers a fresh account that holds us even longer out in the ordinary evening air, one that beckons us to share the perfect words roosting on her tongue. Craig Paulenich, author of Old Brown

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Barbara Sabol is the author of the poetry collection, Solitary Spin (Main Street Rag Publishing), and two chapbooks, The Distance Between Blues (Finishing Line Press) and Original Ruse (Accents Publishing) Her work has appeared widely in journals, most recently The Comstock Review, San Pedro River Review, Literary Accents, Akitsu, Presence, and in a number of anthologies. Barbara's awards include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and the Mary Jean Irion Poetry Prize. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Barbara received an MFA from Spalding University. She contributes poetry book reviews for the Poetry Matters blog. Barbara is a speech therapist who lives in Akron, OH with her husband and wonder dogs. Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her chapbook What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To appears from Finishing Line Press (2016), and poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Rattle, Slant, Spillway, Chiron Review, Verse Virtual and many other journals. Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light from Main Street Rag Publishing Company (2018) is her first full-length collection. She edits Sheila-Na-Gig online: https: //sheilanagigblog.com/ and Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. (105)

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