Claudia Stanek’s latest poetry collection, Beneath Occluded Shine (Finishing Line Press), will be released on January 10, 2025, and is available for pre-order now through November 15, 2024 at a discounted rate.

About Beneath Occluded Shine

In her chapbook, Claudia responds to Pablo Neruda’s questions, exploring the landscape of life and death in poetic meditations. In the process of answering Neruda’s questions, she raises her own for the reader to ponder.

Praise for Beneath Occluded Shine

Claudia Stanek‘s Beneath Occluded Shine is filled with questions of life and death–what’s here, what’s gone. Nature with its clouds, land and sea mingle with the invisible as well as language. At the same time, a ribbon of the divine, like a reverent of seasons, winds itself through her lines, as she deals with what must be kept for the living. Her use of rhyme blends into the sounds of what comes before and what comes afterwards in this topography of disappearances and returns. Fireplaces, foundries, forest, foliage, full…”a standard of tender remains.” –Gail Hosking, author of the memoir Snake’s Daughter and poetry books, The Tug and Retrieval.

Beneath Occluded Shine (Finishing Line Press) is available for pre-order now through November 15, 2024. Learn more about Finishing Line Press.

About the Author

Claudia Stanek‘s work has been turned into a libretto, been part of an art exhibition, and been translated into Polish. Her poems exist online, in print, and in her chapbook, Language You Refuse to Learn. She holds an MFA from Bennington College. Her most recent chapbook, Beneath Occluded Shine, is now available for pre-sale.