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First printing: 2, 000 copies. A Cluster of Noisy Planets is Charles Rafferty's second collection with BOA Editions and his fourteenth collection overall. His previous collection with BOA, The Smoke of Horses (2018), was a finalist for the 2018 Connecticut Book Award. One of the poems in this collection-"Inadvertent Mousetrap"-won the Third Place Award for the 2019 VERA Awards from Vestal Review. Rafferty's poems have appeared widely in su...

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The prose poems in Charles Rafferty's short collection The Problem with Abundance at times seem dream-like, full of vivid imagery and quick turns, yet they offer an unflinching gaze at the reality of our modern existence. Once begun, it's very hard to put down this entertaining, astute book of little poems that reveal so much about the way we live.

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Though it might not be yet apparent, what the world hungers for-not just the poetry world but all sentient beings-are the rapturous, precise, lyrical revelations in Charles Rafferty's Appetites, a startling collection full of poems that chart desire through an abandoned couch transformed into redeeming ecstasy, that channel the "popcorned and sawdusty air" of the circus tent where folks gather to turn away from themselves, that show us the sub...

Prose poems that turn conventional thought on its head, allowing magic to spring from mundane details of middle age life.

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In exploring the insane, heroic venturesomeness of the many incarnations of "the man, " Rafferty cuts to the heart of the difficulties of modern urban life.

Charles Rafferty works in masks, voices, and personae. Winner of the fifth annual Arkansas Poetry Award, The Man on the Tower consists of dramatic monologues and fables about "the man" - the many incarnations of our lives that are not allowed, cannot be lived, or are kept darkly hidden. Made believable in the lines of Rafferty's poems, his characters show us their desires, complaints, and obsessions, often revealing what they would want to kee...