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Praise for Adam in the Garden
Transforms simple, everyday acts into tender and moving lyrics, offering surprising journeys and closing lines that continue to inspire. In this book, we find a poet willing to risk sentimentality without collapsing into sentiment. A seeker willing to risk blasphemy in his personal search for truth. ~ Dorianne Laux, Pulitizer finalist and author of Life on Earth
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Playful and adept in their workings, these poems are portals to hidden rooms, fields, galaxies. Even if they begin with pigeon, airplane, beloved, we find ourselves led to the Garden of All Things, the primordial place of loss and desire, taking our own bite of the apple. ~ Danusha Laméris, author of Bonfire Opera
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Hines has a gift for describing the natural world in this latter-day garden: the pigeon’s “steel / petticoat and gray patrician gown”; the tulip “boozy and voluptuous”; “a dawn congregation / of ravens” in snow. Adam in the Garden is a subtle, skillful collection. ~ Randall Mann, author of Deal
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Adam in the Garden Challenges Narratives, Reminds of Magic and Mystery in the Everyday, Southern Review of Books, March 2024
AE Hines’ Adam in the Garden, Reviewed by David E. Poston, Pedestal Magazine, Issue 93, March 2024
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New Poetry from AE Hines Finds Meaning in the Everyday, Charlotte Readers Podcast, February 2024
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An Interview with AE Hines, Palette Poetry, February 2023
Praise for Any Dumb Animal
"Ultimately shows us the beauty and knowledge made of experience." ~Richie Hofmann, author of
A Hundred Lovers
"I was amazed over and over at the bravery of these poems..." ~ James Crews, editor of How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
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"Finely crafted, it is a remarkable debut collection" ~ Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita
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Select Reviews & Interviews
For Those Who Cannot Yet Speak, a review by Melinda Thomsen of Any Dumb Animal, NCLR: Winter 2024
S5:E18 AE Hines chats with Dion O'Reilly, Hive Poetry Collective, June 2023
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Interview with AE Hines, Psaltery & Lyre, June 2023
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Rob Jacques Reviews AE Hines’s Any Dumb Animal, Raven Chronicles Press: October 2022
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Write the Book: Conversations on Craft with AE Hines, WBTV-LP 99.3 FM, December 2021
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Clear and Sincere, Any Dumb Animal Proves a Comfort, Gertrude Press, Fall 2021
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Book Review: Any Dumb Animal by AE Hines, Philadelphia Stories Magazine, June 2021