Poetry. A is for Accessible. GIVE SOME WORD is a somewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in GIVE SOME WORD is no exception; equal parts distilled language, contrary, and pushing everyday language out of conformity. Humor lurks just below the surface in many of these shorter, condensed poems. Some apparent influences; Carver, Brautigan, Corman, Sakaki, Bukowski, Lax, the Jargon Society and a hundred others. The narrative wanders across three continents, and derives partially from publications over the past ten years by Coracle, Longhouse, Blue Press, and many generous magazine editors.

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Cralan Kelder was born in 1970 and grew up between California and The Netherlands. An anthropologist by training, he has edited numerous literary magazines, including Full Metal Poem and Retort. His books include: GIVE SOME WORD (Shearsman Books, 2010), Lemon Red (Coracle 2005), and City Boy (Longhouse 2007). He lives in Amsterdam with his wife the evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers and their children.

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