{"product_id":"_telllwa","title":"The Teller's Road, by L. Ward Abel","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eL. Ward Abel meditates on the connection between writing, mortality and landscape in his most recent poems. From small words to the universe itself, the poet searches for realizations, epiphanies, wonder, silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIn these poems, the veteran wordsmith exhibits his characteristic obsession with the natural world and the interior world, spirituality and humanity, the peaceful moment through his use of “half- sentences full of novels \/ or half-mornings full of lifetimes.” Abel declares, “…there is \/ No time \/ No present tense.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThese pieces ultimately reach no conclusions except to admit there can be none. The work shows both the vulnerability and the triumph of the individual, and the desire for the simple life, whatever form it might take. After all, “we’re car lights \/ on an evening wall.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eL. Ward Abel’s work has appeared in hundreds of journals (\u003cem\u003eRattle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVersal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGalway Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorcester Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRiverbed Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHonest Ulsterman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMain Street Rag\u003c\/em\u003e, others), including two recent nominations for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and he is the author of four full collections and ten chapbooks of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eAmerican Bruise\u003c\/em\u003e (Parallel Press, 2012), \u003cem\u003eLittle Town gods\u003c\/em\u003e (Folded Word Press, 2016), \u003cem\u003eA Jerusalem of Ponds\u003c\/em\u003e (Erbacce-Press, 2016), \u003cem\u003eThe Width of Here\u003c\/em\u003e (Silver Bow, 2021), and \u003cem\u003eGreen Shoulders: New and Selected Poems 2003–2023\u003c\/em\u003e (Silver Bow, 2023).  He is a retired lawyer and teacher of literature, and he composes and plays music (Abel and Rawls). Abel lives in rural Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"L. Ward Abel","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50207859081531,"sku":"_TELLLWA","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50207859114299,"sku":"_TELLLWAe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/tellerfront.png?v=1744486864","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/_telllwa","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}