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February 06, 2009 07:30 PM
ANDREW JORON & ANDREW ZAWACKI
“The system of a mystery / Threw this through that,” writes Andrew Joron in his new collection, The Sound Mirror ($13.95 Flood Editions), lines that exemplify the sonic shimmer found throughout the book and point to its own mysterious and meditative qualities. Challenging and lovely, the poems repeatedly trace the eternal and the mortal, language leading fearless as dream -- “Flickering licks at the lacks, then / At the locks.” The result is a book both quietly intimate and philosophically vast, its images often totemic and borne aloft by music -- “Moon the fullness of / rune, the form of / ruin, renewing.”
Andrew Zawacki’s just published collection, Petals of Zero Petals of One ($13.95 Talisman House), is smooth, syncopated, fractured song, edgy and elegiac. Comprised of three sequences, it begins with the bluesy “Georgia,” a noir-tinged, list-like piece that seems both address and equation -- “I’m a scarecrow Georgia / a voodoo doll / no for a left leg yes yes for my right it’s calamity Georgia.” Following is “Arrow’s Shadow,” a vivid stitching together of technology and the natural world with its “broadband rainfall” and “fiber optic net- / work of mouth / on mouth on / mouth.” The volume closes with “Storm, Lustral: Unevensong” -- “a single stroke of / sun :give and forgive us / our tagalonglight” -- a rich and touching series.
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