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Artifacts & Relics
Artifacts of old labors, relics left by long-ago monks, Mark J. Mitchell reveals them in troubador songs found written in “an unknown tongue,” in dreams, in movies, and in the scratching of old jazz records. From his morning aubade and high noon villanelle, ’till his free verse “Night Shift,” Mitchell shows the “water writing on skin,” the hidden messages of old worlds we carry invisibly through our own appointed hours.
38 pages, Paperback
Published March 27, 2015
About the author
Mark J. Mitchell
20 books4 followersAbout the Author:
Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California.
He was raised Catholic, and studied writing and Medieval Literature at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock, Robert
M. Durling and Barbara Hull.
His poetry has appeared in hundreds of periodicals over the last thirty-five years, as well as the anthologies Good Poems, American Places (edited by Garrison Keillor), Hunger Enough, Retail Woes, and Line Drives. It has also been nominated for both Pushcart Prizes and The Best of the Net. He is the author of two full-length collections, Lent 1999 (Leaf Garden Press) and Soren Kierkegaard Witnesses an Execution (Local Gems) as well as three chapbooks, Three Visitors (Negative Capability Press, Detective Movie (Fermata Publishing) and Artifacts and Relics, (Folded Word). His historical novel, Knight Prisoner, is available from Vagabondage Press.
He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the documentarian and activist Joan Juster. He makes a living showing people pretty
things in his city.
Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California.
He was raised Catholic, and studied writing and Medieval Literature at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock, Robert
M. Durling and Barbara Hull.
His poetry has appeared in hundreds of periodicals over the last thirty-five years, as well as the anthologies Good Poems, American Places (edited by Garrison Keillor), Hunger Enough, Retail Woes, and Line Drives. It has also been nominated for both Pushcart Prizes and The Best of the Net. He is the author of two full-length collections, Lent 1999 (Leaf Garden Press) and Soren Kierkegaard Witnesses an Execution (Local Gems) as well as three chapbooks, Three Visitors (Negative Capability Press, Detective Movie (Fermata Publishing) and Artifacts and Relics, (Folded Word). His historical novel, Knight Prisoner, is available from Vagabondage Press.
He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the documentarian and activist Joan Juster. He makes a living showing people pretty
things in his city.
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November 3, 2015
[full disclosure: I'm the publisher of this chapbook.]
November 3, 2016
A nice chapbook of poems.
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