New Book :
The Chapbook: Poems by Charles Bane Jr.

Published July 2011, we present a book of poems by Chicago native Charles Bane Jr. With the illustrations of Canadian artist Isabelle Pruneau, and the delicate design of Polish-born artist Karolina Faber, these poems of romance, happiness, and struggle will sing off the page.

"We aren’t used, in this ravaged era, to poems of happiness, and yet that rarity is what Charles Bane, Jr., offers us. An offering it is, nor can we doubt that this poet conceives poetry as a sacramental endeavor, with human love as our nearest approach to the divine. He takes Buber’s “I and Thou” a step further to form what he calls a “monotheism of we.” Judaism is supremely the religion of reinterpretation, and this poet’s embodiment of it demonstrates that historical tragedy finds its best answer in the tender bonds we form in order to choose not death but life." - Alfred Corn, a Guggenheim Foundation fellow and author of nine books of poetry.

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http://www.curbsidesplendor.com/index.php?id=144

RBSI feels privileged to have Charles Bane Jr. and Isabelle Pruneau as its members.