A Cluster of Noisy Planets - by Charles Rafferty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Masterful prose poems that reveal the strange and subtle echoes created by the space we put between ourselves, each other, and the natural world"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Charles Rafferty's latest collection of prose poems turns philosophical. In <i>A Cluster of Noisy Planets</i>, Rafferty captures the rhythms and patterns of life as a lover, father, and poet, distilling each moment to its essence and grounding them collectively in the wider perspective of a changing world, the constant turning of the stars and the changing seasons of the New England countryside. With a knowing nod to the passage of time--day to day, year to year, epoch to epoch--these lyrical poems form a record of the profound, ephemeral joys, losses, and echoes of commonplace moments.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>Praise for Charles Rafferty's <i>The Smoke of Horses</i></b><br> "There is a straightforwardness to Rafferty's narrative prose poems that is quite appealing. Existing somewhere between poetry and the very short story, the pieces in <i>The Smoke of Horses</i> are short and self-contained, composed as single-stanza meditations and observational poems on multiple aspects of the world as it is, as it might be, and even, possibly, as it should be."<br> <b>―Rob McLennan</b></p> <p>"[Rafferty] always imagines interesting scenarios we can read ourselves into, un-self-indulgently saying something keen about our world in language 'sharp as broken vodka bottles.'"<br> <b>―<i>Library Journal</i></b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Charles Rafferty is the author of 14 poetry books and chapbooks, most recently <i>The Smoke of Horses</i> (BOA Editions, 2017), <i>Something an Atheist Might Bring Up at a Cocktail Party</i> (Mayapple Press, 2018), and <i>The Problem With Abundance</i> (Grayson Books, 2019). His poems have appeared in <i>The New Yorker, O, Oprah Magazine, The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Rhino, Prairie Schooner, </i> and <i>Ploughshares</i>. His stories have been collected in <i>Saturday Night at Magellan's</i> (Fomite Press, 2013) and <i>Somebody Who Knows Somebody</i> (Gold Wake Press, 2021). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Currently, he co-directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College and teaches in the Westport Writers' Workshop. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT.
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