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New Books - 2/09
Many new books have made their way into the bookstore -- and many are due soon. We look forward to writing about a number of those titles soon. In the meantime, we offer this description of one such volume...
World Ball Notebook by Sesshu Foster ($13.95 City Lights) The prose poems, poems, and hybrids here are fit in the frame of a notebook kept while Foster attends his daughter’s soccer games. That is a simple description of this deliriously varied, intelligent, and moving work. “The pain I feel from several directions presents me with the illusion of a deep soul.” The entries range from difficult urban and rural experiences to cubist-like series of images left to resonate without explanation -- “power lines ranging airplane banks of windows shining hazy streets this afternoon world.” The book crackles equally with furious witness and imagination. “Take the $100,000 they pay to be taken to the top of the highest mountain…instead, climb the highest mountain inside the self, inverse, inhospitable, bitter terrain, working with kids perhaps, as a teacher…How will you stay alive? What skills will you need? What gear, what actual difference can you make?”
And take a look our February/Early March calendar listings for write-ups of Andrew Joron's The Sound Mirror; Andrew Zawacki's Petals of Zero Petals of One; Richard Robbins's The Untested Hand; Gary Thompson's For the Archaeologist Who Finds Us; Dobby Gibson's Skirmish; and Matt Hart's Who's Who Vivid.
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