{"product_id":"every-angel-in-heaven-is-a-hopscotch-champion-9781958182833","title":"Every Angel in Heaven is a Hopscotch Champion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Victor Clevenger is a writer whose work I genuinely get excited to read. He has a unique voice that he seamlessly \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereinvents time and time again, that always remains Clevenger. \u003cem\u003eEvery Angel in Heaven is a Hopscotch Champion\u003c\/em\u003e is collection \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof over 300 selected poems from out-of-print releases spanning 2016 - 2020. Buy this book.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Tohm Bakelas, poet, editor of Between Shadows Press \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Victor Clevenger's \u003cem\u003eEvery Angel in Heaven is a Hopscotch Champion\u003c\/em\u003e I was forced to re-examine what I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethought I knew about his work. The words between these pages aren't weary, but speak to the staying power of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echildhood nostalgia and the growing pains we all go through well into middle age and beyond. This collection is \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClevenger at his most thoughtful, his most personal, just like life--you never know what's just around the corner or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe next page. Opening this book is like opening your mind to the possibilities you thought were behind you, drawing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe curtains of your mind, and letting a little sunshine wash over your heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- John Dorsey, author of \u003cem\u003ePocatello Wildflower\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The fresh voice of an old school poet cruising the soft light of an empty corner just before the crushing ace high \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eflush of first light blows thru the leaves of your one true love, this dawn explosion giving rise to the music of a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efearless young lion coming home again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- S.A. 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With great tenderness, but also (sometimes ruthlessly) without apology, this collection is Clevenger at his finest, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etruest, and most devastatingly real.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- James Benger, author of \u003cem\u003eFrom the Back, \u003c\/em\u003e and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e founder of the online workshop \u003cem\u003e365 Poems in \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e 365 Days\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As Michaelangelo saw the angel in the marble and carved until it was set free, Clevenger sculpts the hard jagged \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estuff of this world into cottony fabric and warm yielding flesh. He shapes a series of astonishing moments from an \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimmense block of stone the size of his lifetime, chipping away until the poetry wastes not a word. With the precision \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof a surgeon, Victor draws not only the blood from rock but brings out tears and breath.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Jonathan S Baker, author of \u003cem\u003eObituaries \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e co-author of \u003cem\u003eCentaur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With tough guy bravery, heart that will sweeten your brew, and uninhibited sexiness, \u003cem\u003eEvery Angel in Heaven is a Hopscotch \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChampion\u003c\/em\u003e is a full entree of poetry. The unpredictability of life shifts from something lonely to something beautiful \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith the additions of friends, children, and lovers. 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