World’s Original Online Poetry Bar, The Camel Saloon, Issues New Books on Blog™ for August

Aug. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- The world’s original online poetry bar, The Camel Saloon, announces the publication of two new Books on Blog™.  Love Poems for Michael, by Joan McNerney of New York, and Postcards from Iraq, by Sandy Benitez of California, have now been posted by the literary tavern.

Love Poems for Michael is “a celebration of individual and universal love,” says Sharon A. Ruetenik, Poet and Coordinator of Writing Center, State University of New York at Delhi.  “McNerney's carefully wrought poems move the reader from sand dunes to city apartments to forest cathedrals. McNerney's lyricism always delights and surprises as her lover and the natural world unite, "imitate long leaves weaving, undulating/and finally surrendering to silence.”
Love Poems for Michael is located at: http://booksonblog5.blogspot.com/

The fifteen poems of Postcards from Iraq were composed from July of 2007 to January of 2008 while Sandy Benitez was deployed by the United States Air Force to the American Embassy in  Baghdad.  Speaking from the poetic persona of the blue nude in the Green Zone, Benitez captures the bleak hues of a city in dust and siege as only one who has been there can:  the ivory of the Arabian moon on the Tigris River, the viridian feathers of the caged birds in the marketplace, and the dirty sand in the color of death.  Somehow through the heat and waste, Benitez keeps the heart alive.
Postcards from Iraq is located at: http://booksonblog6.blogspot.com/

These and prior volumes in the series can also be viewed at the newest province of the Camelphate, the Books on Blog™ home site at http://booksonblogtm.blogspot.com/, where submission guidelines and other information can be found.

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The Camel Saloon welcomes submissions of poetry, short fiction, photography and works of art from dromedaries, malcontents and jewels in the world. Submit to: editor.camelsaloon@gmail.com