-POET, ESSAYIST, PROFESSOR-
JERRY WEMPLE
Artemas & Ark
the Ridge and Valley poems
This series of linked, narrative poems, traces the lives of two generations of men who wander the streets and alleys of a disappearing small town, set among the hills and by a river, ciphering what sense they can make of their world.
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Available now from the publisher, by ordering from your local bookstore, or via online booksellers like Amazon.
There are a limited number of signed copies available from the author. Email jerry7085(at)iCloud.com.
Hard cover is $30, plus $2.99 shipping.
Paperback is $20, plus $2.99 shipping.
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Artemas & Ark transforms 'a plain place' into a mythic location with poems that will haunt readers long after they lay down the book.
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--Julia Spicher Kasdorf, author Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields