J.R. Solonche Selected Poems 2002-2021

<p>Although J.R. Solonche started placing poems in magazine journals and anthologies in the early 70s his first book of poetry <em>Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter</em> co-written with his wife did not appear until 2002 and his own first collection <em>Beautiful Day</em> not until 2015. Just this March Years Later his twenty-second book was published. That's a lot of books too many for most readers to buy. But they don't have to. They can buy just one. It's his twenty-third.  <em>Selected Poems: 2002 - 2021</em> is a generous offering of his favorite poems from most of those books including the two nominated for the Pulitzer Prize<em> Invisible</em> (2017) and <em>Piano Music</em> (2020) and the 2020 <em>Shelf Unbound</em> Notable Indie Book The Porch Poems. In her introduction to <em>Selected Poems: 2002-2021</em> Grace Cavalieri says The absolute best remark I can make about this book is that I would give it to non-readers of poems as a conversion to poetry for its language is as available as rain; hopeful as sunshine; and fresh as the wind. It's a perfect book to let the reading public know that this is America's poetry. This is a serious book disguised as playfulness and we are its lucky recipients.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>J.R. Solonche has published poetry in more than 400 magazines journals and anthologies since the early 70s.</p><p><br></p>