THE LINEUP: Poems on Crime 3 (2010)

With the poem "Victim's Kiss" by Reed F. Coleman

Edited by Gerald So

Publisher: Poetic Justice Press

edited by Gerald So with Sarah Cortez, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone

With poems by Patricia Abbott, Joe Barnes, Henry Chang, Sarah Cortez, Michael A. Flanagan, Anne Frasier, James W. Hall, David Hernandez, Amy MacLennan, Carrie McGath, James M. McGowan, Kristine Ong Muslim, David S. Pointer, James Sallis, Jackie Sheeler, Wallace Stroby, Larry D. Thomas, Francine Witte.

REVIEWS

Crime writers and poets have a deep understanding of what Lorien Niedecker called the condensery. They know how to burn through the fat and get to the heart (and guts) of things, cooking down until only the real, strong stuff remains. Writers who work in both genres are especially adept at this condensing process. We see the results in this issue of The Lineup - an almost painful clarity, and an uncanny understanding of darkness and light, "fragile fiber sailboats on a chintz black sea." -Owen Hill, poet, bookseller, and author of the Clay Blackburn P.I. series

Hardly representing the "roses are red" school of poetry, these poems smash into the dark heart of murder like a bullet into bone. - Betty Webb, Mystery Scene Magazine

WHERE TO BUY

Available from Lulu.com, Murder By the Book (Houston), Once Upon a Crime (Minneapolis), and The Mysterious Bookshop (New York).