Poet Alan Catlin provides blurb for Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Volume 1!

Sheila-Na-Gig contributor & Misfit Magazine editor Alan Catlin recently contributed a blurb for Marc Swan’s today can take your breath away. Alan writes:

Marc Swan’s latest collection celebrates gifts of life in its many forms: conversation over dinner with friends, daily walks on a beach, Being in all its natural glory. In this he is like Ray Carver, a poet he references in a discussion with an older woman that ends in silence and confusion. Loved ones grow old, get Alzheimer’s, and are visited in nursing homes. The process of life slowly integrates, much is lost along the way but the celebration of life continues: today can take your breath away.

alcatlinphoto Read Alan’s work on Sheila-Na-Gig online: https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-1-4-summer-2017-the-poets/alan-catlin/

Buy Marc’s book:

Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Volume 1:

today can take your breath away

–Marc Swan

ISBN-10: 0692055134

ISBN-13: 978-0692055137

$15.00 Amazon (Amazon)

£10.75 Amazon UK (Amazon UK)

About Grimmgirl

I co-founded the small press poetry magazine Sheila-Na-Gig in California in 1990. I ran the press for 10 years, producing 14 print copies of the journal. I now hold a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. I am currently an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where I teach courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. My poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Brock Review, Proteus, Rattle, Spillway, and the critical anthologies, The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror.

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