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Lost & Found by Joann Deiudicibus maps a path back to the self through blood and chosen families and asks how can we survive becoming ourselves? These poems will speak to anyone who has endured childhood, adoption, grief, and relationships, deepening our understanding of what it means to be at home.

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The poems in Deiudicibus' Lost & Found function as lean-tos, offering temporary shelter to stories and narratives needing to be housed, even honored. Whether meditating on her own origins or on the lives of those she feels poetic kinship with, musical artifice and the mundane quotidian combine with a hard edge to salvage a space for what might be otherwise consigned to the dustbin of histories both personal and collective. Timothy Liu, author of thirteen books of poems, most recently Down Low and Lowdown: Timothy Liu's Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues The poems in Lost & Found by Joann Deiudicibus sparkle with insights and innuendoes. ""Salt and sand, star and seaweed, / seed and skeleton,"" the images in her poems reverberate and haunt. She reveals hidden, vibrant stories. She repeats ""unanswered questions,"" searches for the ""fingerprints of the invisible infinite."" A time of celebration, her poems leave the reader longing for a memoir. Her work transforms pain into song, forgiveness into laughter. Lucia Cherciu, author of six books of poetry, including Immigrant Prodigal Daughter and Train Ride to Bucharest, 2021-2022 Dutchess County, New York, poet laureate

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Joann Deiudicibus teaches writing in New York's Hudson Valley. Her poems and essays about poetry appear in WaterWrites; A Slant of Light; & Reflecting Pool (Codhill Press), Comstock Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands, Typishly, Stone Poetry Quarterly, as well as Affective Disorder and the Writing Life (Palgrave Macmillan). She is the poetry guest editor for The Shawangunk Review. Ask her about true crime, cats, and confessionalism.

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