Newsworthy

Winner of the Fourth Annual Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award as chosen by Steve Orlen, Newsworthy by Sally Albiso wades through the flood of what passes for news, from local to international sources, to find these nonfiction gems. She then polishes these stories into moving accounts of what humans do to themselves and each other. From a man obsessed with female mannequins to twins fighting for survival in an incubator, Albiso brings us a range of humanity — absurd, touching, and everything in between — and delivers them in tightly crafted poems.

"From simple facts, bare profiles garnered from newspapers, these quietly eloquent poems enter the essence of human frailty, transgression, and otherness. They are less about the individuals than about the correlations between their lives and ours — that is, the themes are what shine out, line after line."
      —Steve Orlen, Final Judge

"Newsworthy grants readers a cloud-lit mirror into the schizophrenic age we inhabit. From a woman swallowing a cell phone, to a child cremated in the aftermath of Nagasaki, to an Italian couple caught love-making in a confessional; Sally Albiso inhabits each moment of extremity with the gift of language. She listens to the world, the sweet and sour beat of all that blood, and compels us to listen right along with her. A fine debut."
      —Susan Rich, author of Cures Include Travel and The Alchemist’s Kitchen

A sample poem from this title is available here.

Newsworthy, by Sally Albiso

Chapbook, poetry.
Foreword by Steve Orlen.
Chosen by Steve Orlen as winner of the Fourth Annual Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award.
26 pages, 16 poems.
Saddle stitch binding.
Four-color cover, acid-free paper throughout.
ISBN 0-9727455-8-0

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