Joshua Ware (Ph.D. 2012) publishes poetry collections

This month, Furniture Press Books is publishing two new collections of poetry by Joshua Ware, Unwanted Invention and Vargtimmen. Ware received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012, under the direction of Grace Bauer. He is the author of Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley, which won the Furniture Press Poetry Prize, and numerous other chapbooks and works of poetry.

The first of these collections, Unwanted Invention, draws from Ware's dissertation work and explores Wallace Stevens' idea of imagination in poetry, that "Imagination must not detach itself from reality." The second, Vargtimmen, is titled with the Swedish word for 'Hour of the Wolf' - "the time before dawn in which people sleep the deepest, nightmares are the most vivid, and ghosts are most powerful."

Unwanted Invention and Vargtimmen will be published as a single artifact and are now available for pre-order online from Furniture Press.