Out of
by Barbara Kremen

Description

Fresh and original, these tight poems take us in and out of small events and the smaller events inside larger things. The pieces here are as crisp and beautiful as the wonderful Italian binding of this 1996 paperback from Lucini libri, available in the US for the first time through Ravenna Press.

Comments:

“If the chief distinction of American literature lies with its small pantheon of unpredictably original writers, then it is time now to say of Barbara Kremen: she is among that rare and bracing company.” (Frank Lentricchia)

Excerpt:

A man is walking

A man is walking down a street blind with houses
a grey man in a worn grey fedora
with a fishing rod over his shoulder
and a newspaper in his hand
His shoulders hunched under his heavy coat
he heads into the sun
into the west where the sun’s long hand reaches for
him across the road
and the distance thunders after