Flying Horse is please to announce the release of a new collaborative book featuring the poetry of John Poch and artwork by Ryan Burkhart. Thirteen sonnets and a love poem explore northern New Mexico, its ghost towns, mines, culture, and people. The poems are joined with original photographs which explore the landscape through visual metaphors, creating a rich mood that transcends time.
Handmade and Hand bound, Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle is published in a limited edition of 35 books. It is made from the finest handmade papers, which invite the reader to explore as much with the sense of touch as with their eyes. The poems are printed in Jenson Light Font Letterpress.
Thanks to Texas Tech Special Collections, who have added Ghost Towns to their permanent collections.
About John Poch:
John Poch was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1966. He has an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Texas. He was the Colgate University Creative Writing Fellow from 2000-2001, and now directs the creative writing program at Texas Tech University. He was named the 2007 Thornton Writer-in-Residence at Lynchburg College.
His first book, Poems, was published in January 2004 from Orchises Press and was a finalist for the PEN/Osterweil prize. His chapbook of fifteen sonnets, In Defense of the Fall, was published by Trilobite Press in 2000. The Essential Hockey Haiku (a poetry/fiction collaboration with Chad Davidson) was published by St. Martin’s Press in Fall 2006. A limited edition letterpress/art book, Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle (Flying Horse Editions 2007) is his latest published work. Dolls, a full-length collection of poems, is forthcoming in December 2008 with Orchises Press.
Poch was a recipient of the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize in 1998 and has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Saltonstall Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center. He has published poems in Ploughshares, Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, Iowa Review, Agni, and many other literary magazines. He is the editor of the award-winning 32 Poems Magazine.
