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Maurice Meirau publishes new poetry collection
October 1, 2008Maurice Mierau's second collection of poetry, Fear Not, was published in fall 2008 by Turnstone Press.
From the publisher's website:
Fear Not is lyrical, political, raunchy, blasphemous, and deeply engaged with ethical questions. Inspired by the Gideon Bible's list of self-help topics each poem is arranged to play off poetic and Biblical forms.
Ranging in subject from suicide to divorce, unemployment to gratitude, Afghanistan to Gethsemane, Fear Not attempts consolation, all the while mocking its own failure to lessen human pain.
Mierau also surveys contemporary culture, skewering our intense involvement with pop phenomena such as America's Next Top …