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Synopsis
Tom Kraft's The Type a Thing makes the fractures between perception and revery explicit. A montage of words and phrases, Kraft's writing reflects the drift of random thoughts entangling the cartoonish in the sublime: "A manual cranking / above a silted river arm / lairs out a flock to think again," he writes in the poem's opening section. The Type a Thing, Kraft says, "is a coastal evacuation route, a clue to future words, or a treasure map Americans used to travel.
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About the Author
Born in 1973, Tom Kraft grew up outside Bridgeton, New Jersey. After receiving a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1996, Kraft moved to New York City, where he wrote The Type a Thing. He recently moved back to Charlottesville and enjoys its surrounding beauty.
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Single proclaim / sample / struts run new / drop / hold onto leg // leg around / and up to the blue / circle in porcelain / clean / to mark // check a gold / sign a diamond / think about // pine twinkle / stand or bark // arma virumque / Destin Desitin / faith ear // like imagined lack / a droop jetsam // jetsam stream sound / like big ocean // gulf nether / he flocks / the turn of bird day turns / morsed to that relative reason // familiar cloverleaf / functions as recognizable / symbol dairy / encompassing a trapezoid // Barney in a doctrine / type against familial / recognizance in that // self-region / long to enter zones built / dogs will enter / as mysteriously // a violet plastic nether / to consider ozone / triangle arrives to // discovery the brain // turn of magnitude to promise / because subs and lasagna are delicious"
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