Vibrant New Poems Seek Social Change in Poetry for the Dead, Published by Outskirts Press
Kansas City, MO, January 24, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Poetry for the Dead: How to Care for People, Angels and The Human Soul by GD Granger. The author's most recent book to date is a 6 x 9 paperback in the inspirational and religious poetry category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/poetryforthedead was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
“The unclaimed dead lay waiting maybe in the same way you wait for a bus or I wait for an important phone call. ………….. Most of all they just wait to hear someone, anyone who will call out their names.”
In Poetry for the Dead GD Granger does indeed finally call out their names. In today’s world of death, political genocide, mass graves and human indifference, the poet asks: who’s watching all this human suffering? What can we do, individually, but also as a nation, to make a difference in a world full of hate and injustice?
There may be no easy answers, but through her poetry, GD Granger asks the questions that help us look more deeply for the solutions that can make the world a safer place for all of humanity. Her poetry is not abstract. It breathes with the personal and overwhelming anguish of victims in a world of war, unnecessary suffering and political corruption:
“Lovely are my beloved’s bones against the desert sand, barely visible to the naked eye, his bones shimmer and I can still taste his pomegranate lips.”
“Our world is full of contradictions and oppositions. In it, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the evil, the truth and the lie compete and coexist. Through the richly figurative language of poetry, gdgranger pursues justice in its aesthetic, historical and moral forms. Beyond art for art’s sake, it is social change that guides her creations.”
- Dr. Martha J. Rabbani, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of Humanities and Western Civilization, University of Kansas at Lawrence
57 pages in length, Poetry for the Dead: How to Care for People, Angels and The Human Soul is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the inspirational and religious category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Poetry for the Dead meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $17.95.
Additionally, Poetry for the Dead can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432756642
Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream
SRP: $17.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/poetryforthedead.
About the author:
GD Granger has been writing poetry since 1973 after taking her first creative writing class at Santa Rosa Junior College. She works as a Probation and Parole Supervisor and is also an adjunct instructor at Park University, Parkville, Missouri. Her home is in Kansas City along with her spouse, two grown children, one son-in-law, two cats and one really cute dog.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
“The unclaimed dead lay waiting maybe in the same way you wait for a bus or I wait for an important phone call. ………….. Most of all they just wait to hear someone, anyone who will call out their names.”
In Poetry for the Dead GD Granger does indeed finally call out their names. In today’s world of death, political genocide, mass graves and human indifference, the poet asks: who’s watching all this human suffering? What can we do, individually, but also as a nation, to make a difference in a world full of hate and injustice?
There may be no easy answers, but through her poetry, GD Granger asks the questions that help us look more deeply for the solutions that can make the world a safer place for all of humanity. Her poetry is not abstract. It breathes with the personal and overwhelming anguish of victims in a world of war, unnecessary suffering and political corruption:
“Lovely are my beloved’s bones against the desert sand, barely visible to the naked eye, his bones shimmer and I can still taste his pomegranate lips.”
“Our world is full of contradictions and oppositions. In it, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the evil, the truth and the lie compete and coexist. Through the richly figurative language of poetry, gdgranger pursues justice in its aesthetic, historical and moral forms. Beyond art for art’s sake, it is social change that guides her creations.”
- Dr. Martha J. Rabbani, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of Humanities and Western Civilization, University of Kansas at Lawrence
57 pages in length, Poetry for the Dead: How to Care for People, Angels and The Human Soul is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the inspirational and religious category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Poetry for the Dead meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $17.95.
Additionally, Poetry for the Dead can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432756642
Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream
SRP: $17.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/poetryforthedead.
About the author:
GD Granger has been writing poetry since 1973 after taking her first creative writing class at Santa Rosa Junior College. She works as a Probation and Parole Supervisor and is also an adjunct instructor at Park University, Parkville, Missouri. Her home is in Kansas City along with her spouse, two grown children, one son-in-law, two cats and one really cute dog.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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