Unsolicited Press Announces Availability of The Rainflock Sings Again by L. Ward Abel

Unsolicited Press announced immediate availability of “The Rainflock Sings Again” by L. Ward Abel, a poetry collection of the earthbound who seek “peace in the absence or a clarity / cometh the eyewall.”

 Poet L. Ward Abel hears the light beating of wings in an otherwise silent landscape. These wings offer insight into our cacophonous world, “where dreams / ride summer breezes full of thunder / the sound of currents and birds, / a memory of inhaling rain.”   Here are the remnants of those who have been hard-wired, but who now stand at the treeline and consider a walk out into the open where “the green air remembers.”  Here is a drone's view of the smallest details “from towers around / wide clearing bounces / sounds bespeaking gardens / way off the grid,” reaching the conclusion that “it looks like this / whether I am here or not.”   The poems begin, “The Angels Rage Tonight / in overflowing amber chutes,” and they end when “their frequency goes quiet. Then showers follow.”  Trying to reconcile “the wing and the anti-wing,” Abel does what we all do, “Skim low the waters / just above a wake.”  Using a combination of dream-like imagery and colloquial diction, the poet's unique southern voice comes through the clutter of strange times to slow down the ongoing, to catalog the search, and to try to sing "something like / a sparrow that has fallen."

L. Ward Abel, poet, composer and performer of music, teacher, retired lawyer, has been published hundreds of times in print and online (The Reader, Pisgah Review, Versal, Ha!Art, Istanbul Review, Snow Jewel), and is the author one full collection and ten chapbooks of poetry, including Jonesing for Byzantium (UKA Press, 2006), American Bruise (Parallel Press, 2012), Little Town gods (Folded Word Press, 2016),  A Jerusalem of Ponds (erbacce  Press, 2016), and Digby Roundabout (Kelsay Books, 2017).  He presently lives in rural Georgia.

“The Rainflock Sings Again” by L. Ward Abel is available directly from the publisher (www.unsolicitedpress.com) and all major retailers. Ingram Book Group distributes the title to the market.  “The Rainflock Sings Again” by L. Ward Abel is available as a paperback and in an electronic form.

Unsolicited Press was founded in 2012 and is based in Portland, OR. The press strives to produce exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from award-winning authors. 

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