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Paulenich's achievement in BLOOD WILL TELL is far more than a steely romanticism of labor itself. The collection moves, poem by poem, not only to explore the vanishing landscape of company houses and mill works in our nation's rust belt, but to remember those who made families there, made lives--and made steel. Put your hardhat on. Read these poems as you would James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Read them. Each poem, every word sputters aflame with iron truth. --Wendell Mayo Ablaze with searing and dramatic imagery, these acerbic reflections on the shadow man of resistance, brilliant and mad savior of abolition, the last Puritan, Paulenich's Old Brown, will not disappoint. The poet's deft and use of quotations, correspondence, and historical documents reminds me of the masters of such work, Paul Metcalf and Charles Reznikoff. This volume firmly places Paulenich in their esteemed company. Beyond historical reference, however, these poems reach into our own times with piercing relevance. Whether, despite the immensity of blood and gore, there will be a lantern in the house above the river, you'll have to decide for yourself. It's clear these poems steer us close to the answer. Marc Harshman, author of Woman in Red Anorak

Paulenich's achievement in BLOOD WILL TELL is far more than a steely romanticism of labor itself. The collection moves, poem by poem, not only to explore the vanishing landscape of company houses and mill works in our nation's rust belt, but to remember those who made families there, made lives--and made steel. Put your hardhat on. Read these poems as you would James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Read them. Each poem, every word sputters aflame with iron truth. --Wendell Mayo

Paulenich's achievement in BLOOD WILL TELL is far more than a steely romanticism of labor itself. The collection moves, poem by poem, not only to explore the vanishing landscape of company houses and mill works in our nation's rust belt, but to remember those who made families there, made lives--and made steel. Put your hardhat on. Read these poems as you would James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Read them. Each poem, every word sputters aflame with iron truth. --Wendell Mayo Ablaze with searing and dramatic imagery, these acerbic reflections on the shadow man of resistance, brilliant and mad savior of abolition, the last Puritan, Paulenich's OLD BROWN, will not disappoint. The poet's deft use of quotations, correspondence, and historical documents reminds me of the masters of such work, Paul Metcalf and Charles Reznikoff. This volume firmly places Paulenich in their esteemed company. Beyond historical reference, however, these poems reach into our own times with piercing relevance. Whether, despite the immensity of blood and gore, there will be a lantern in the house above the river, you'll have to decide for yourself. It's clear these poems steer us close to the answer. Marc Harshman, author of Woman in Red Anorak

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Craig Paulenich is a Professor of English at Kent State University. He is the author of three books of poetry, Drift of the Hunt (Nobodaddies Press, 2006), Blood Will Tell (BlazeVOX [books], 2009), and St. Vitus Dance (Cervena Barva Press, 2012), and editor, (with Kent Johnson) of Beneath A Single Moon: Buddhism and Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Press, 1991), a landmark anthology of poems and essays from forty-five American Buddhist poets. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, the South Carolina Review, Kansas Quarterly, the Southern Poetry Review, and many others. Paulenich holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in English from Bowling Green State University. He lives in Salem, Ohio.

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